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General Forums => Terrain Editor => Topic started by: danny37 on September 15, 2009, 06:12:50 AM

Title: CUSTOM RUNWAY
Post by: danny37 on September 15, 2009, 06:12:50 AM
i used this
(http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww293/danny37/CSTRWY.jpg)
to give the runway a steel plank look
(http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww293/danny37/runway.jpg)
i think these were used more by the japanese than the US but i like the look of it,its different
Title: Re: CUSTOM RUNWAY
Post by: Strip on September 15, 2009, 06:38:27 AM
The U.S. had entire airfields made of the steel mesh, some of them were for heavy bombers too.
Title: Re: CUSTOM RUNWAY
Post by: Denholm on September 18, 2009, 10:25:05 PM
Oh come on! Everyone knows Americans were more professional.

(http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/2924/airport1sz5.jpg)

 :D
Title: Re: CUSTOM RUNWAY
Post by: DarkHawk on September 19, 2009, 11:53:32 AM
PSP or perforated steel planking was used alot in the building of runways in the pacific due to all of the wet weather, one advantage is that once you no longer needed the runway you could take it up and move it to another location, it was cheaper and easier to build than using concrete.
it was first know as Marsden Matting or Mat, perpose was to build temporary runways developed prior to ww2 and used through out the war, also used in Korean and Vietnam.
Title: Re: CUSTOM RUNWAY
Post by: danny37 on October 07, 2009, 01:17:08 PM
Oh come on! Everyone knows Americans were more professional.

(http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/2924/airport1sz5.jpg)

 :D
that looks good but looks more like an airfield an f16 or f18 would be landing at lol. :salute
Title: Re: CUSTOM RUNWAY
Post by: allaire on October 15, 2009, 05:16:20 PM
Didn't PSP run across the runway not with it?
Title: Re: CUSTOM RUNWAY
Post by: Denholm on October 20, 2009, 10:54:48 AM
that looks good but looks more like an airfield an f16 or f18 would be landing at lol. :salute
You didn't see anything......
Title: Re: CUSTOM RUNWAY
Post by: ebfd11 on November 05, 2009, 12:10:43 AM
Oh come on! Everyone knows Americans were more professional.

(http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/2924/airport1sz5.jpg)

 :D

Ahh delta heavy 172 cleared for landing. Taxi runway ...... oops wrong game :x :x :x
Title: Re: CUSTOM RUNWAY
Post by: Krusty on November 18, 2009, 02:37:14 PM
Style-wise, it might be interesting. Graphics-wise, it's all wrong. The size of these planks, and the size of the holes, were so small than when you scaled them down to fit an entire runway, you would barely be able to see it from a plane sitting on top of it, let alone from the air.

Meaning, the "black" parts on your tile, the "holes" in the PSP, would be about 5 to 10 feet in diameter, rendering the runway useless.
Title: Re: CUSTOM RUNWAY
Post by: Krusty on November 18, 2009, 02:40:22 PM
As a follow-up:

If you can replicate the shades, rather than the actual holes, that is probably the best you can expect with the limited number of pixels the runway gives you to work with.

Examples:

(http://www.myshamrockhill.com/Quickstart/ImageLib/plane.jpg)

(http://www.hlswilliwaw.com/aleutians/Attu/images/Smith-George/shemya_wwii_me_porky_bill.jpg)

Title: Re: CUSTOM RUNWAY
Post by: danny37 on November 23, 2009, 07:00:15 AM
Style-wise, it might be interesting. Graphics-wise, it's all wrong. The size of these planks, and the size of the holes, were so small than when you scaled them down to fit an entire runway, you would barely be able to see it from a plane sitting on top of it, let alone from the air.

Meaning, the "black" parts on your tile, the "holes" in the PSP, would be about 5 to 10 feet in diameter, rendering the runway useless.
way to technical,its a game,not real life
As a follow-up:

If you can replicate the shades, rather than the actual holes, that is probably the best you can expect with the limited number of pixels the runway gives you to work with.

Examples:

(http://www.myshamrockhill.com/Quickstart/ImageLib/plane.jpg)

(http://www.hlswilliwaw.com/aleutians/Attu/images/Smith-George/shemya_wwii_me_porky_bill.jpg)


i can still see the holes even in those pics,other than the PSP being shiney in my texture,theres not much difference in the look imo :salute