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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2019 3:22:53 GMT -5
Tom is correct Aharon. If you would like to know what worked for me and others in FSX go to the thread in FSX/P3D forum : List of CalClassic Scenery compatibilities with FSX.
I have to say that about 90% of all the packages worked fine in FSX for me and in particular the specialised airports done by everyone here at Cal Classic have all worked fine in FSX bar one - and that was Karachi in Pakistan. The Iceland airports are particularly well done (well I use them a lot) and the little touches are just wonderful. Same goes for other places too, always a little surprise here and there.
Cal Classic transformed my sim experience and all the work including AI has been worth it. I wish I could do more to do my bit but I am working on it - but airport construction and scenery development for me is still in the early days. I am a great supporter of this site, Tom and all the others who have worked long and hard to make this place unique. It is very special.
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Jul 9, 2019 10:34:41 GMT -5
Thanks for the kind words. I’m always impressed by Mike’s imaginative touches - I would never think of them.
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Post by Dennis the menace on Jul 9, 2019 14:57:53 GMT -5
I believe in the "Disney" approach to creating something: If you give people what they think or believe something should look like, and not necessarily what it actually looks like, then they will always be happy!
In 1952 Walt Disney was planning Disneyland and he knew he didn't want just another carnival type place. He wanted to create themed "lands" where he could allow people to fantasize that they were actually in that particular place. He wasn't sure how to go about this.
One day, his friend, Henry Kaiser asked Walt if he and his wife and kids wanted to come to Honolulu and be there at the opening of Kaiser's new Hawaiian Village hotel. They agreed.
When they arrived at the hotel, Walt said it was the most amazing thing he'd ever seen. It had lush gardens, waterfalls, everything was over-styled in the Polynesian manner to the extreme, and there was even a volcano and and area where performers walked over hot coals for the nightly luau shows. Walt said "this is a little far fetched. Nothing like this actually exists in Hawaii. I'm not sure what this is, it reminds me of Tahiti, some of it is California modern, and some of it looks like Japan. I'm not quite sure just what I'm looking at, but I sure do like it." That's when Henry Kaiser told him how to market a dream to people.
Kaiser said "I've been coming here to Honolulu with my wife for decades. People are so excited about flying here when the board the plane. Once they get off at the airport, they get this luau music with the hula dancers, a lei, and see all the palm trees and orchids. And once they step out front to the curb, well that's where it all stops. By the time they get to their hotel, many of them say, "Oh, this isn't what I imagined Hawaii would look like. This looks sort of like back home." They were let down, because what they had imagined Hawaii to look like, did not reflect how it really was and some are just plain disappointed. So what I did, is to take the very best of New Guinea, Tahiti, Fiji, Samoa, and all those other little islands and sort of blend them into a Hollywood movie style mix. I had a local company carve miniature Easter Island heads out of black lava rock and I stuck them here and there. I strung Japanese lanterns over the eating areas, and then there's that volcano I had built. I had an electric eye put on it real low, so that when somebody walks by it sends a signal and then thing rumbles and shoots up some smoke and red lights flash. There's actually a hidden door behind it and that's where we store extra liquor for the outside bar. And all this stuff from this and that at this hotel is the result of that concept. And when people arrive at the hotel, the first thing they see are waterfalls, coconut palms, and this "A frame" tiki style lobby building with a faux thatched roof, surrounded by an orchid garden. I have soft drum beats and tropical bird call sound effects playing on hidden speakers all throughout the hotel's garden area. Hell, most of the birds on that record never even lived in Hawaii. But the result is always the same, people say "Oh, this is how I always dreamed it would be", or "now this is how Hawaii is supposed to look" and as a result we are fully booked up six months in advance.
Most people already have a per-conceived idea of what something should be or look like. All you have to do is give them a physical representation of what's already in their mind. If your successful, they will come back over and over again. It sort of reinforces a stereotype, and they like that, they feel comfortable with that because its already familiar to them."
After that trip, Disney then knew exactly how to approach the building of Disneyland. Don't recreate actual reality, instead build a romanticized dream of reality.
Works the same for FS scenery, too.
Mike
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Post by Dan on Jul 9, 2019 16:05:52 GMT -5
Mike, many thanks for this interesting and enlightening story! Didn't know that Disney and Henry J were a friends.
Regards, Dan
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