Topic: FTX New Zealand South Island (NZSI) - First Alpha Screenshots! (Read 6347 times)

John Venema · « **on:** July 05, 2010, 06:55:12 PM »

Hello all,

FTX New Zealand South Island (NZSI) has now entered alpha development and we are enjoying our first flights in this glorious part of the world. Right now we have a sublime 10m HolgerMesh in place, all coastlines, roads, rivers, lakes, streams, transportation network including highways, roads, trails, railroads and powerlines. We also have a first-pass landclass which places all urban areas, towns, villages and all the geographical featues including glaciers and mudflats, plains and forest. The huge task of enhancing some of the 1135 airstrips and airports for Southland has also begun.

I wanted to share some very early screenshots, and please note these are placeholder textures only, and bears no resemblance to the final product which will be based on Matt's textures made from aerial photographs over NZ.

I wanted to give you all a taste for what is to come in the first part of 2011. Of course, we'll be posting more development shots as we enter the beta stages.

John M · « **Reply #1 on:** July 05, 2010, 07:09:36 PM »

Looking good mate our brothers from across the pond must be chuffed.........

nzeddy · « **Reply #2 on:** July 05, 2010, 07:17:32 PM »

WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!

YAS YAS YAS YAS YAS YAS!!!!

Im soooo very excited for NZ South Island!!!

Amazing!!!!!!!!

EDIT: please note these are placeholder textures only
Ohh haha ok, well cant wait for the real textures.

RedLine · « **Reply #3 on:** July 05, 2010, 07:30:52 PM »

Looks spectacular, even at this very early stage - will look forward to seeing this develop over the coming months.

TheAviator · « **Reply #4 on:** July 05, 2010, 08:05:19 PM »

OH MY GOD THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!

That Picture 5 of Milford Sound really brings back memories of my trip there in '06.

I'm guessing that this will be more like the PNW release in terms of size rather than the Aussie ones, considering you are enhancing the airports?

Tigerclaw · « **Reply #5 on:** July 05, 2010, 08:26:45 PM »

Oh yeah, lots of valleys to fly through, mountains to fly around, and lakes to land on. I've seen nature type programs on the TV, and New Zealand looks a beautiful place to fly around. Parts of China are the same too, valleys, mountains, lakes etc. Love it already, so you can count me in the sales figures

Wildbird · « **Reply #6 on:** July 05, 2010, 08:56:15 PM »

And here I was thinking the textures were looking good.

South Island is looking great so far already!

nzeddy · « **Reply #7 on:** July 05, 2010, 09:12:07 PM »

Quote from: TheAviator on July 05, 2010, 08:05:19 PM

I'm guessing that this will be more like the PNW release in terms of size rather than the Aussie ones, considering you are enhancing the airports?

Yup.

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The huge task of enhancing some of the 1135 airstrips and airports for Southland has also begun.

amentiba · « **Reply #8 on:** July 05, 2010, 09:20:17 PM »

Hi John,

Excellent news !

Keep the very good work, it's hard for us to wait for 2011...

Very nice shots here ! Good luck and see you for new screens on this post ! And many thx to ORBX Team

deccas1391 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 05, 2010, 09:24:46 PM »

I literally just got back from Queenstown like 4 hours ago. Looking very very good. Definitely on my list

I may have some photos of the mountains/ski mountains that could be of use to the dev team (haven't had a chance to go through them yet to see what photos are good and what aren't

)

greybeard · « **Reply #10 on:** July 05, 2010, 09:59:37 PM »

As you well know John it is a tad cold over our way at the moment, and then you go and rub salt into the wound by putting a spine tingling shot of Mount Cook up like that!
Very impressed and look forward to a post Christmas release

Martin Henare · « **Reply #11 on:** July 05, 2010, 10:21:31 PM »

Just need to add "PURE" to the screenies and Crowded House tune playing over the top and they could be used by Tourism NZ.

Jigsaw · « **Reply #12 on:** July 05, 2010, 10:56:12 PM »

Beautiful shots!

And poor Neil! 1135 airstrips!!

WarpSpider74 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 05, 2010, 10:57:08 PM »

W00t!!! Looking Good JV

Time to fire up the Discus X and move to Omarama!! Looking forward to seeing NZ given the FTX treatment.

rohan · « **Reply #14 on:** July 05, 2010, 11:00:08 PM »

I visited this forum for the first time last month after buying PNW. One of the first things I noticed was that FTX NZ was under way. The progress above shows what a fantastic product it's going to be, but aaaaaagghhh ! We have to wait until 2011, and that water at Milford Sound is nowhere near as rough as it was when I was on holiday there a few years ago ...

Oh well, will just have to wait,
regs
Ro

bnepethomas · « **Reply #15 on:** July 05, 2010, 11:14:15 PM »

Yummy!

Dwho · « **Reply #16 on:** July 05, 2010, 11:22:28 PM »

Absolutely 100% Stunning!!!!

groundwolf · « **Reply #17 on:** July 05, 2010, 11:33:37 PM »

Im going to be sooooo damned broke after buying all these releases.... It looks AMAZING cant wait to fly to our kiwi friends country will be worth the wait

maxter · « **Reply #18 on:** July 05, 2010, 11:40:23 PM »

Wow, another part of our virtual world that we will be able to visit soon.

Fantastic stuff, well done JV and thanks to the team for their wonderful efforts.

Cheers and all the best with it.

Laurie Doering · « **Reply #19 on:** July 06, 2010, 12:36:31 AM »

Some very nice stuff indeed!

PerthFlyer · « **Reply #20 on:** July 06, 2010, 12:48:11 AM »

Great stuff
Cant wait for this one, thanks team.

fiftysix · « **Reply #21 on:** July 06, 2010, 02:15:47 AM »

You guys are great! you just seem to deliver great product after great product... never known anything like it in any company.. have to say, ORBX is number one in FSX add ons period...

Well, I just cant wait for 2011.... how can that time come quicker for us.... maybe cryogenics and thaw out in time for new (Zeland) release!

Ramonesg · « **Reply #22 on:** July 06, 2010, 03:23:40 AM »

Looking great! you guys will be developing south america?

Iain Emms · « **Reply #23 on:** July 06, 2010, 03:31:46 AM »

Looking very nice indeed well done chaps.
cheers
Iain

teecee · « **Reply #24 on:** July 06, 2010, 04:38:14 AM »

Amazing! I did not expect to see you start on The land of the long white cloud for ages yet.. An here you are, well in to it already, and looking magical. Thank you all. Teecee.

Bill Womack · « **Reply #25 on:** July 06, 2010, 08:09:39 AM »

Talk about high drama! The NZ landscape definitely has it. This will be an incredible addition to the FS world.

GrahamP · « **Reply #26 on:** July 06, 2010, 08:20:02 AM »

What a pleasant surprise to find out this has been started already. Looking good even at this early stage.

ricky76 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 06, 2010, 08:51:40 AM »

Wow, I will be adding this to my collection for sure!!!!

Dexter Dog · « **Reply #28 on:** July 06, 2010, 09:15:46 AM »

Really looking forward to this beautiful scenery!

Naki · « **Reply #29 on:** July 06, 2010, 09:36:46 AM »

Quote from: John Venema on July 05, 2010, 06:55:12 PM

The huge task of enhancing some of the 1135 airstrips and airports for Southland has also begun.

Hi John...you say 1135 strips/airports for Southland. I very much doubt Southland has 1135 strips/airports ..presumably you mean South Island. Southland is a small province of the South Island located at the bottom of the South Island. The banner at the bottom of this page also mentions "Southland" ..are you releasing just Southland first or do you mean South Island as the pictures show locations all over the South Island and not Southland? Sorry if this sounds a bit confusing but "Southland" and "South Island" mean two different things in NZ.

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