I made this for
Tiger, a fellow Brycer and
an inexplicably avid fan of my aviation art.
The terrain is modeled using a DEM (Digital Elevation Model) obtained from the
USGS. I expanded
the dimensions 3 thousand times along the X and Z axes, and 3 hundred times along the Y axis.
The F/A-18D was completely disassembled to individual meshes and mapped to 1024 x 1024 using
UVMapper. Of course, the plane had to be reassembled using the new meshes. Was that a long
term task! I think there were about 120 of 'em.
The textures were then painted using Photo Paint. Applying the textures was a tedious process
as each mesh had its own and had to have all its properties set individually. I think the
results were worth the effort, though. |
