FMB screenshots - object placement ideas | Forums

[Extreme_One]

Originally posted by Beirut:

How about a place where we can post screenshots of new and interesting ways of building scenery? This being the mission builder forum and all.

This sim has several hundred ground objects and it would be great to have place where mission builders could post screens of their construction ideas for others to see.

Thanks.

[Chuck_Older]

This screenshot:


Shows combat engineers trying to by-pass a knocked out bridge in the jungles of Burma

Many different objects, including concrete slabs, several bunkers from PF, and fencing were used, as well as V-1 launch rails

[SeaNorris]

Thats cool Chuck

[Beirut]

That's excellent! I never even considered that.

And thanks again to Extreme_One for making this a "sticky".

[Chuck_Older]

It's just a small taste compared to what some other builders can do.

Laying objects on top of each other so that they 'meld' is a trick I picked up from making OFP missions.

One thing that I get comments on recently is airfields

I think maybe that some builders don't know how to do it because they just don't know what they looked like. An airfield is a workplace as much as a military base- people are careless and sloppy when they can get away with it

Take this photo for example:



That's a real WWII airbase, Martlesham Heath, UK. The planes aren't picture-perfect deployed, things look a bit messy, and the planes aren't always grouped together, and not always far apart

I corresponded via e-mail with a real WWII bomber pilot (B-24s) who said that his squadron dispersed miles from the airfield I had never dreamed! I don't go to quite that extreme, myself, but tips like that help

Will post some airbase pics of aerodromes I've built

[Beirut]

This is an example of a volcano that took less than two minutes to build using (cliffs) Object #10 and Fire #2 and Smoke #2. If you took more time I'm sure it could be much nicer.

It's not my idea though. I read in another thread here that Monty66 came up with the idea.

[Chuck_Older]

This:


Is what I do when I don't like the looks of an airbase- I drop another hangar on top of another. This was supposed to be IndoChina, so the 'crude' hangar looks more pleasing to me

Some aircraft that look as if they are about to taxi to the runway:


Can be a good trick, but it may look odd if the same a/c that were there when you took off are still patiently waiting when you get back

Also remember that airplanes require maintenance

[Chuck_Older]

This is a heavy bomber dispersal area:



A small radar site a kilometer or so away from a Luftwaffe airfield:

[lowfighter]

Very nice stuff Chuck Older!

Here I come with the 'unproper' usage of small objects to make the scenery of a camp looking more populated.

A bunch of candidates which can look from far as piles of objects, debris, you know all kind of little stuff which is inevitable in a camp:



Now here's how i dispersed them in the camp:




One can use them also to add to a battlefield, if I use just tanks artillery etc it simply looks to clean and boring.

[RxMan]

Kind of old, but my Japanese POW camp on Pacific Island