Northern Norway scenery in development

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Re: Northern Norway scenery in development

Post by natthi » Thu May 12, 2011 4:53 am

Absolutely gorgeous :shock: You've already done a great job.
I look forward to fly soon on this beautiful scenery.
Good luck for the development
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Re: Northern Norway scenery in development

Post by CBER » Wed May 25, 2011 7:54 pm

Cant wait :)

As previously mentioned the ENNO area would be great if you are not fed upp after this scenery :)
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Re: Northern Norway scenery in development

Post by arneh » Sat May 28, 2011 3:18 pm

I'm happy to announce that all land tiles in the northern half of the scenery have been completed (the sea tiles will be very fast to make when I eventually make them). That said, there are more land tiles in the southern half than the northern, so I'm probably closer to 1/3 complete than 1/2. 89 out of a total of 272 tiles have been completed, and 5 out of of 15 airports.

Here are some new screenshots from the north eastern part of the scenery.
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This is the northernmost airport of the scenery, Sørkjosen. It's a more typical Northern Norwegian airport than the previous ones; with a 1 km runway, and usually no more than a couple commercial flights per day. I'm confident this is going to be a great airport to fly tasks from :)
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The Reisa river and valley which flows inwards from Sørkjosen, eventually ending up in the highlands about 150 km further on.
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In the highlands of northern Sweden and Finland, in the land of the Sami people, the scenery has changed substantially, it's now very flat and remote:
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Back in Norway, this is one of the northernmost islands of the scenery, Arnøya (not to be confused with Andørja or Andøya!):
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The biggest glacier of the scenery (at least so far), Øksfjordjøkelen:
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A couple of screenshots from a flight I did with K3:
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Over Lyngsalpan with K3:
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Re: Northern Norway scenery in development

Post by OXO » Sat May 28, 2011 3:20 pm

the sea tiles
Will there be Icebergs and Whales?
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Re: Northern Norway scenery in development

Post by arneh » Sat May 28, 2011 7:14 pm

OXO wrote:Will there be Icebergs and Whales?
I suggest you fly far out to sea, maybe you'll find some ;)

There's never any icebergs anywhere near Norwegian mainland, even in winter, much less in summer which this scenery models.

But I guess there's whales there. At least they arrange whale safaris at Andøya, so I hope it's just not a scam for the tourists! :D

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Re: Northern Norway scenery in development

Post by Termikk » Sun May 29, 2011 10:33 pm

This looks to be a very nice scenery, and one that I hope there will be flown many tasks in! Great work!

Btw, nice call sign! :lol:


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Re: Northern Norway scenery in development

Post by Simicro » Mon May 30, 2011 8:28 pm

You have all my encouragements arneh!

Among other things, I like the attention to details, for example for the water (different colour near the shore).

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Re: Northern Norway scenery in development

Post by arneh » Sun Jul 03, 2011 3:06 pm

Time for another update, working my way south now. I've also tweaked some of the textures some, so it will look a little differently from the earlier screenshots. I'll take you on a little trip from east to west in the newly completed part of the scenery so that you can see how the terrain varies and changes.

Starting off in the easternmost part of the scenery, this is in Northern Sweden. Mostly forests, bogs and lakes here, and quite flat:
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Here is the biggest city in the Swedish side of the map, Kiruna. Population around 20 000:
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And here is the reason the city exists, this gigantic iron ore mine. In fact this is the larges such mine in the world! The iron ore is transported by train to the port city of Narvik in Norway.
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About 50 km west of Kiruna starts a mountain range with the tallest mountains in Sweden (and in this scenery):
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This is Sweden's tallest mountain, Kebnekaise at 2109 meters. The Kiruna gliding club has a camp each year where they go flying in the wave around Kebnekaise, and that's where all the swedish altitude records are set:
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A bit north of Kebnekaise lies Torneträsk, the largest lake of the scenery. It's not very wide, but more than 70 km long.
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Right at the border to Norway lies this big Swedish skiing resort, Riksgränsen. Although skiing conditions obviously aren't very good at this time of year :) This is also the point where Norway is at its narrowest, less than 7 km separates Sweden from the sea (represented by the innermost point of the Ofotfjord) at this point. Narvik lies by the mountain out by the sea.
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Here is Narvik, the port city where the railway line ends (I haven't finished the small city airport in Narvik yet):
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Continuing west from Narvik:
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About 30 km west of Narvik lies the bigger airport of Evenes (not to be confused with the small glider airfield Elvenes, which lies about 50 km north of Narvik):
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The Skjomen fjord, west of Narvik:
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Some nice ridges here!:
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Further west, out towards the sea:
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Norway's national mountain (the steep peak in the center), Stetinden:
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And this is where I'll end this update, above Tysfjord:
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Progress may be a little slow for the next weeks, as I'm going on vacation. But I'll be visiting part of this scenery, so let's call it research :) Hopefully I'll be able to do some flying too, and I'll take some pictures.

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Re: Northern Norway scenery in development

Post by CBER » Sun Jul 03, 2011 11:08 pm

Amazing arneh!! Can't wait!
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Re: Northern Norway scenery in development

Post by Simicro » Sun Jul 03, 2011 11:29 pm

Thanks for those new screenshots and comments arneh :D

Well deserved vacations :mrgreen:

Please keep us updated when you return!

Thanks.

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Re: Northern Norway scenery in development

Post by arneh » Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:29 am

A real life picture of Stetind:
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This should give a good impression of just how steep it is:
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Re: Northern Norway scenery in development

Post by LS 10 » Wed Jul 20, 2011 9:09 am

Wow - this is looking very promising"

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Re: Northern Norway scenery in development

Post by Strider69 » Wed Jul 20, 2011 12:38 pm

It just has to be possible to land at the top of that. :D
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Re: Northern Norway scenery in development

Post by SteveK » Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:49 pm

Amazing graphics...

You just HAVE to sign one of the Fjords "Slartibartfast" :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Northern Norway scenery in development

Post by arneh » Sun Aug 07, 2011 5:34 pm

I'm back!

Here are some photos from the real place, and some comparison screenshots from my scenery.
On the way there (this is from a 737, not a glider :). This is close to Bodø:
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Southern tip of Senja:
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Here is the view from the airport in Bardufoss:
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Senja coast:
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Same place in Condor:
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Skaland (in Senja);
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Road down to Skaland:
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Senja's most distinguished cliffs Okshornan:
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Ersfjord:
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Husøy:
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I got to do some flying too!
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Here is the airfield (Elvenes in Salangen) from the air:
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And in Condor:
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The local cliff close to the airfield:
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The mountains on Andørja enshrouded in mist:
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No mist in Condor :(
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Lavangen:
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Oh, and if you want to see some photos from what may be my next scenery, have a look at http://forum.condorsoaring.com/viewtopi ... =8&t=12760

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