Interesting questions.

[Parnikkapore]

Cool, then!

[IceBreaker]

Cool, then!

Thanks, but the screenshots show only a little quick experiment. The final models will be much more beautiful and optimized, they will better reflect the lights in night flights, and will have a more varied effect in the scenery making cities, countries and airports much more spectacular and realistic without compromising the performance of the graphics engine.

I am currently working on the first models, and I am making the new Piper J3 Cub aircraft, so I will do my best to show the results as soon as possible.

[wkitty42]

Thorsten I use only images as references. Same for 3D modeling of objects. I make everything from scratch, but I use blueprints to get visual references.

Googlemaps is useful to understand how to create textures and give a more realistic effect to objects, even if some of them are made with minimal textures and clean to give a good effect at distance in VFR flight.

For habit I never use material created by others, or textures of other free projects / services, because the licensing speech is very obscure so it is better to waste time but have the security of having 100% free material.

perhaps i misread this below earlier quote of yours?

I take pieces of images on googlemaps (airports, cities, and more) then amount on Gimp and through very simple editing

that certainly reads like you snip'n'clip google maps images to use as textures... that line is the sole reason why i made the statement i did about google licensing...

[IceBreaker]

My knowledge of English is mediocre, so it's my fault (I can not clearly express my ideas I recognize it).

googlemaps I do not use it, I'm not going to use it because with gimp I can create textures of excellent quality, even for the terrain, taxiways, runways, and more I can use gimp and some addons that help me generate really beautiful and realistic textures.

Do not worry, I beg your pardon if in some way I have created misunderstandings.

With blender I use materials generated with the node editor, then I convert materials into textures (uv map) so I only use open source software (for many years now).

Thank you for your kind reply, I appreciate it very much

[wkitty42]

it is ok... i apologize if i misread and/or misunderstood what you were trying to say... i just wanted to ensure that the rules were understood... we're good as far as i'm concerned