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Design philosophy

by admin last modified 2006-04-15 22:53

The design philosophy behind Scotflight Scenery

Balance of features

Unlike many other add-on scenery products, Scotflight Scenery attempts to get a balance of features in the general landscape as well as providing the airport detail that other products provide. It is essential to recognise the wealth of features provided away from the airports as well as that provided by the airports themselves. You can get an idea how extensive the list of features is on the Features page (and bear in mind, more features are being added all the time).

In addition, Scotflight Scenery designer Iain Murray's award-winning Coastline-Maker tool has been used to make detailed improvements to the coastline, and in conjunction with the customised landclass scenery also provided, this does much to improve the local detail of the terrain.

Reflecting reality

Please recognise that there is very little detail at some of the outlying airports simply because there is very little to be seen at those airports in real life!  If you're looking for more significant examples of the airport detail you need to visit key airports such as Inverness and Perth.

Design objectives

Scotflight Scenery's design objective is to produce scenery that will be instantly recognisable to people who are familiar with the scenery in real life, rather than attempting to recreate the sort of architectural detail that could be used as a backup if the real life architects ever lost the blueprints.

Integration with Iain Gallacher freeware airports

Scotflight Scenery is intended to be experienced as part of an overall solution including Iain Gallacher's freeware for Glasgow, Edinburgh and Prestwick airports. Iain Gallacher is Scotflight Scenery's chief designer, and to include his freeware  airports in Scotflight Scenery itself would introduce unnecessary duplication and complication, hence Scotflight Scenery does not include these items.


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