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Great work, Arne - i was never in Norway and had no idea about this area - until your landscape apears...

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Keep up the good work Arne!
Cant wait to fly from my home airfield in condor (ENNO)

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Scenery is now about 60% complete. Here's some screenshots from the awesome western part of the scenery, and for comparison some of my own pictures from when I was flying there last year.

The airport I flew from, Bømoen (and one of the coolest places to fly from in Norway!):


This is how it looks from a bit higher up:





















The awesome Nærøyfjord:









This is how it looks like down at ground level:

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Fantastic...
Better than high resolution photosceneneres!

I also wait.
Br

Janos

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Veeery nice texturing job. Looking fw.

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Nice comparison with the real life pictures.
Do you see (in RL) when the sun shines, it gives a much brighter landscape, with more contrast?
The scenery is now looking very grayish... it's all about shading!

However, nice scenery!
Must be hard to find a nice outlanding place!?

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I wouldn't use those photos for reference for how the colors look in real life, it's just my crappy compatct camera which can't do colors well at all, and I've increased the contrast to make them more dramatic




Can't you see, there are excelent fields in several of the valleys!
But we always know where we can land when flying there, all the landable fields are plotted on the map and on the PDA (and so they will be in Condor too). It's too late to start looking for a field when you need it!

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Everything below 65° latitude..?
All coördinates are on there real positions..? Opposite to the Northern Norway Scenerie..?

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Yes, this scenery is far enough south that I can use the actual coordinates

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Simply,. fantastico..
Far enough south, lolz? With your apparently good touch for coastline sculpturing, you might consider the future project to be based in the most beautiful shore of Europe, that being the Adriatic. Even one smallish island made for soaring be it in Kvarner region, Northern, Central, or Southern Dalmatia (Adriatic) would be excellent, the material is there: hd pictures, detailed mil. maps, etc.

Btw. by any chance aren't you that same famous dev named "arneh" from the EECH chopper sim universe?

There's tons of interesting places to make if I had infinite time. But doubtful any will be as interesting for me as Norway, as it's here I fly in real life (but if someone wants to fund research flights for me in other locales I will take donations ). So we'll just have to see if I can get enough interest for some area to put in the massive amount of work it is to create another scenery.



Yes.

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The world is small after all, especially for the breed of DX7 sim lovers, hah, great to have you here..
In terms of the Adriatic, I assumed such, it's not even regularly flown there in most place because
of the occasionally psycho weather, but it's stunning area.

PS there has been quite a spur of activity over the EECH dev/forum recently - I'm sure you noticed..

PS2 is the water tint still "negotiable" ? - I know it changes daily with the light and season, but a very tiny greenish tint would be perhaps more attractive as it now blends with the color tone of the rocks too much.

It's huge when you're trying to model it for Condor




Yes, I still visit the forum, even if I don't post as much anymore




No, it will be too much work to change the textures again now. Maybe if there is a next version
That said, the water is significantly more green then in my previous scenery. And it's not the same everywhere, some areas it's almost too green, as it looks almost similar to the green fields...
but water is something which is really hard to get to look right with just textures. You really need to have proper reflections and such, but Condor doesn't support that.

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Another update now as the scenery is about 80% complete.

This is Vågå, where the Vågå Wave camp is held, and where all the norwegian height records of late have been set:


The waves in Vågå comes from this place, Jotunheimen. This mountain range is where all the 30 or so highest mountains in Northern Europe are located:


Here are the two highest mountains:


While the third highest mountain is steeper and more spectacular, and lies just a few kilometers inland from the sea (represented in this case by the innermost point of the Sognefjord):


Over the sea here:


This valley I know intimately...


As this is where I made my first (and so far only) real life outlanding:


In the background here you can see continental Europe's biggest glacier, Jostedalsbreen:


Over the glacier. Don't expect to find many thermals over the glacier. But along the edges some very strong thermals are often generated as warm air rising along the valley sides meet the cold air above the glacier.




Western Norwegian farm area among the mountains:

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