Estonia - Scenery developement

[Alral]

Custom Scenery for Estonia.
Developing major Estonian towns and airports since 2010.
Includes some of the nearby airports (Turku, St.Petersburg) as well.

Can be downloaded at:
https://www.online.ee/sharefile.php?shareid=060e0898-0557-41ca-8f76-b1482cca97b4
(Click the link above, find the button "Laadi kõik alla" on the web-page, which means "Download all" and click it. Your download should start immediately).
Last update: 4.04.2016
Make sure to download the archive because TerraSync only has some basic buildings.


Includes:
*Tallinn:
-Most major landmarks (Oleviste church, Viru, Olympia, Radisson hotels, Linnahall, Iru power plant, etc.)
-Airport buildings (main terminal, old terminal, ATC tower).
-Corrected coastline, terrain apron and taxiway layout
-Road net, which includes most major real-life roads. Driveable.
-Blocks of flats.

*Tartu:
-Some landmarks (several bridges over Emajõgi river, Tartu Market building "Emajõe ärikeskus"(business centre), Town hall, Tartu power plant, etc), some flats.
-EETU terminal/ATC building
-Corrected apron/taxiway layout.
-Road net, which includes most major real-life roads. Driveable.

*Pärnu:
-EEPU ATC/terminal building
-Corrected apron/taxiway layout

*Kuressaare::
-EEKE ATC/Terminal building, airfield maintenance machinery hangar
-Kuressaare castle and a couple of town's objects.
-Airport layout, terrain by henrikp.

*Ruhnu:
-Several major landmarks (Lighthouse, New church), terminal building and hangar at airfield.
-Harbour
-Airfield, terrain, OSM-buildings by henrikp

*Kärdla, Turku:
-Airport ATC/terminal building

*Saint Petersburg:
-Some objects of Pulkovo airport (Pulkovo-1 terminal and boarding ramps)
-Pulkovo tower created by wrg

Some objects are present in TerraSync, but not all. And terrain work is present only in the downloadable archive. So, I suggest downloading and installing the whole package.

Screeenshots:
*Tallinn







*Tartu:



*Pärnu airport (EEPU):


*Kuressaare airport (EEKE):


*Kärdla airport (EEKA)


*Ruhnu (EERU)



the last screenshot (c)henrikp

[Gijs]

Excellent! You're creating a nice and interesting city. Thanks for sharing your work with us.
Applying some textures will make it look even better, but for plain-colored models they are really good!

[Alral]

Thank you.
I didn't want to use textures in order not to make it too heavy. However, I did use texture for some buildings (Town hall - walls and roof, Pärnu airport - EU flag).
This is the first time I faced 3d-modelling. I am to continue this work and I will post here as soon as I finish other buildings. These are just the most important landmarks.
There is some problem with scenery (airport shouldn't be floating in the lake - the lake is placed a bit incorrectly, and normal taxiways are missing - didn't manage to solve some problems with TerraGear), but I tried to model buildings correctly (some insignificant, in my opinion, details , as window configuration, may differ from original).

[statto]

If your models qualify, please submit them to the scenery model database at http://scenemodels.flightgear.org - that way, we can incorporate them into the default scenery and everyone can see them if they fly into Tallinn!

[SkyWlf77]

I have created some textures for this model after looking at it in detail. I think these could really help the realism level of your construction.

Image #1: This is a metal texture that I created by hand to simulate the aluminum texture on the vertical edge of the roof:



Image #2: This is a glass texture that I created for your windows (although you may need/want to decrease the opacity [see-throughness] of the texture so that you can see through the glass):



Image #3: This is a metal texture that I created for your roof:



These are already in PNG format and sized in powers of 2 to make them FlightGear-compatible. If you are interested, I can e-mail them to you

-Jason

[Alral]

->SkyWlf77

For which building do you mean using this textures? Airport main building?
They seem nice, I will test them. It will be nice if you e-mail them to me. Thanks for participating.

->Statto

It is not really finished at the moment (though fully usable)...I am planning to do some work on the existing buildings and add some more. Then, I think, it could be added.

[SkyWlf77]

->SkyWlf77

For which building do you mean using this textures? Airport main building?
They seem nice, I will test them. It will be nice if you e-mail them to me. Thanks for participating.

Yes, these are for the main building. Please let me know what you think and if you end up needing any changes. I will get these e-mailed off to you in just a moment

You're quite welcome. Textures is what I do

-Jason

[Alral]

That would be nice...I cannot promise that I will test this right now, but sooner or later I will test it.
You may see how it looks in real life:
http://www.tallinn-airport.ee/aboutcompany/fotogalerii/?pictureID=796
http://www.tallinn-airport.ee/aboutcompany/fotogalerii/?pictureID=793

[SkyWlf77]

Also, see here: http://www.airliners.net/photo/-/-/1098 ... id=1098484

This is a much closer-up shot giving a good view of how the details of the building can be made.

Thank you for the other links. I'll see what else I can generate in the next couple of days

-Jason

[fredb]

... (although you may need/want to decrease the opacity [see-throughness] of the texture so that you can see through the glass):

This is useless if you didn't model the interior, cause performance degradation, and cause the "model-seen-thru-clouds" bug.

[Alral]

In fact I wasn't planning to make the windows transparent. Maybe some effect can be added in this way (transparent window - and non-transparent behind, as I did for Radisson), it could make the model look more realistic, but I am not sure it is worth of doing. Not hard technically, but not sure how it affects performance and whether it causes bugs - I used transparency only for 2 objects, and only in minor details so far.

[scighera]

Excellent job

[Alral]

Thank you.
I sent the files to scenemodels. Did not receive an answer yet, but I think they should sooner or later appear in TerraSync. But the download link is also working.
Tartu is in developement now - a town in Central Estonia.

[Alral]

1)Some buildings for Tartu added, including the terminal
Not much, but at least anything...for me it's quite hard to model the city where I was last time half a year ago.
2)Olümpia hotel in Tallinn pack updated - visually it is the same, but is now about 800 kB instead of 2+ MB. Is located in the same package as the first version.

P.S. I sent Tallinn to Scenemodels several days ago, but still didn't receive a reply. Didn't find the models in object list as well. Does the data base work at the moment?
Thank you.

[statto]

Scenemodels is having some database problems at the moment. If you emailed Martin, you may want to send a (polite!) email reminding him about your models.

Cheers