I have recently learned a technique from @Captain_Zen about how to fake a “fill the airport” shot. I think the guide I have provided below will give users of IF the chance to make creative and fun combinations of aircraft at airports that don’t usually get much attention on Live.
Step 1: Download “Procreate”
Procreate is a professional digital art app for iOS. Just search for in on the AppStore. (Yes I’m sorry, but you’ll have to pay up).
Step 2: Go to an airport of your choice. For this tutorial, I will be using LXGB (Gibraltar).
Step 3: Find a “Point of reference”. This will be the point in which you should be directly above for each shot, and will help you get a better looking shot.
Step 6: Take more shots, with the free cam in the same spot (it may help you to have cam location on the bottom bar). Once done, crop these images so the photo borders wrap round the plane tightly.
All these images should be in the next parking space along from the last picture taken.
Bish, bash bosh! Your photo will be constructed in no time. Just remember to be careful when placing down the cropped photos over the parking spaces as even the slightest wrong adjustment can ruin the image.
Tell me what you guys all think of my 1st tutorial!
I’d just like to add a bit to the post.
You really need to check the position with the camera position coordinates down in the info bar. If not, when you’re photoshoping it will take you a lot longer.
This technique I came up with yesterday (people already probably used it, but I didn’t know that and still don’t know for sure) is especially handy, because you don’t need to spend time eliminating a pixel at a time. All you need to do is make a rectangle around the plane and make sure that if there is a plane behind you need to see, that you eliminate every pixel that would cover the plane behind.
Also you don’t need to get a really sophisticated app. I used adobe photoshop and it’s free.
This is what I made and it took me 10 minutes. (Wich is nothing, considering that I’m still learning how to photoshop simple things…)
The first one I sent was in Geneva. Although filing the whole airport would probably be really hard. It isn’t really the photoshoping part, but where would you take the pictures from? How will you manage to see all airport at once? And also lots of planes will look so small it’s useless putting them…
If you find a good camera position and angle I can try. (I like Geneva Airport as I live there😉)
I put this in #tutorials… seems like this should go there.
It’s also an incredibly helpful post. In fact, a few days ago I was wondering “Gee, I wish I could fill an airport without having a million people there…” With this tutorial, I’m sure it will be easier for me to do that. Thanks a lot! 😊
We should have 1 person on freecam, one person who repeatedly spawns in different parking slots with different aircraft. That way the camera will always be in the same place.
