Kansai Intl. Airport (RJBB)

[legoboyvdlp]

Stage 6. Locate EVERY parking position marker existing in the tarmacs of the airport. EVERY. If you had to draw the parking marks on 5, you will find those lines great help to assist you on 6. Make sure you researched the correct number/name of the parking spot and fill in. Also fill in the class/kind of gate/aircraft that goes in. Failure here results in corrupted layouts. (use the validate function frequently to check this work)

Stage 7: At last, work your way down with the taxiway signs. Be very methodic working small areas and make sure to complete the small area before rastering orderly the whole airport. This work is other slow part of the job. It feels like it takes forever to place the many taxiway signs a big airport can have. Rotation matters. Location of the sign matter. But overall, the most important thing is the Text. Use Validate frequently to verify the text is valid, or it will result in a corrupted layout

Stage 8. When done, update the gateway and any pertinent repo/repos.

An small airport can be built in a week or so, at this level of detail. Kansai is KRAZY!. It has been 3 weeks of tracing and working on it, to get it to this level of detail. Hopefully the outcome is a pay-off.

Forget a week.
Stage 1 to 5 done in 8 hours work.
Adding parkings now; considering ATC flow.

[IAHM-COL]

[elgaton]

Just a note on taxiway ground markings - the FAA has published CAD drawings of the signs along with the latest revision of the airport markings advisory circular. I haven't had a look at them, but I think you should be able to extract a more realistic font from them, should you wish so.

[legoboyvdlp]

Very nice IAHM, although I don't know --exactly-- what the thing in the top is. (out in the sea)

[IAHM-COL]

Check D-LAser video for a very clear explanation (besides the video is really awesome too)

[IAHM-COL]

Just a note on taxiway ground markings - the FAA has published CAD drawings of the signs along with the latest revision of the airport markings advisory circular. I haven't had a look at them, but I think you should be able to extract a more realistic font from them, should you wish so.

Do you have a way to convert this to an open format? like SVG? Cant seem to be able to open these :S

By the way, I heard that the conversation should be, instead, how to make these groundsigns part of the WED specification, instead of added 3d models. That made all the sense of the world to me, at least when I heard this, like 2 y.ago.

[elgaton]

On Linux, Teigha Viewer should be able to do the job; on Windows, you can use the free AutoCAD viewer or Visio.

As for the ground signs: a Gateway scenery author did, in fact, propose to make ground signs part of the apt.dat file format. I only know Ben Supnik (one of the main X-Plane developers working on WED/scenery) is planning a file format change to include more information regarding parking positions (you can find his post on the -devel mailing list); I'm not aware of other proposed modifications for now (especially because the X-Plane guys lack manpower as well as FG). That said, I agree with that proposal - given that the FAA files (as any other U.S. Government work) are in the public domain, half of the work (modeling) is already there.

[legoboyvdlp]

Learnt how to do simple UV mapping. Couldn't do it to really complex 787-type models, but I textured the family mart sign...

[legoboyvdlp]

Hurrah!
I did it!
I textured a model!

But I still need to texture the building. It's something... I guess.

[IAHM-COL]

that looks good progress lego.


@ALL
BTW, great news.
Firefly joins the dev-team

IH-COL