London Architecture

[Mington]

they are "continental" and nothing like the Victorian Cubit Terrace styles or Georgian terace styles that dominate central London.

Oleg organised a team led by Ian Boys to take high-resolution photographs of Central London buildings (and lots of places outside London) for his texture artist, in 2003

An alert Security detail watched this guy with an Irish surname creeping around the Houses of Parliament taking photgraphs of the building (and Westminster Cathedral, Tower of London etc) from all angles. Heckler and Koch weapons were the Palace security's favourite. This guy with an SLR must have been at least a little bonkers to do that but he never talks about it

Special attention was given to those Georgian terraces, so they are at least something like the real thing

I blame their fluorescent palette but let's not go there lol

Ming

[Vengeanze]

It's a sign of a great flight sim when people argue over stuff like this.

[Talisman]

Yes, London is not the same without St Pauls cathedral; it was damaged by bombing and the photograph of the smoking catheral after a German raid is very well known.This is a very small thing in a sim I am enjoying very much, so please do not get over exited, but I miss Salisbury cathedral too. It is this sort of landmark in the English cities that I miss. England has lots of churches (more that windmills) and cathedrals with spires and towers. Salisbury without it's cathedral is like Paris without the Eiffel Tower. There are some chuches in towns and villages on the map but they do not look much like English churches.

Happy landings all

Talisman

[Osprey]

Forget St Pauls, where the hell is Selhurst Park???????

Can we at least put The Den and The Valley in so we can bomb them?

[major_setback]

I agree totally.
Larger buildings are all that are needed in the centre of the city. They wouldn't need to be bigger in terms of resources, just bigger blocks:

[:FI:Sneaky]

Croydon Airports iconic tower missing



also Heathrow should be called Great West Aerodrome as it was owned by Fairey in 1940. Plans for Heathrow did not come about until 1944 when the government compulsory purchased the land (at agricultural rates) on the premise of building a long range bomber base.

typo...Southnend?

[SsSsSsSsSnake]

Originally Posted by osprey

forget st pauls, where the hell is selhurst park???????

Can we at least put the den and the valley in so we can bomb them?

lol

[JVM]

AFAIK these iconic buildings were supposed to be indestructible to avoid these very issues.

So the real issue is I believe the map was just not finished, extremely far from it...You complain about England, you should look at the French side then...there it is wrong almost from A to Z: between the coastal line showing nuclear power plants locations or 1975 harbors to trees growing on the edges of wharves, from nondescript airfields without their proper shape and surface and with marked runways (!!) to absolute lack of any landmark (look at the industrial part of Le Havre harbor: this a repeat of the same buildings and chimneys over and over... this makes 10 times more chimneys than needed!), and I will not even talk about railways, steam depots, railway artillery, rivers, missing towns, strange elevations (not many German selected airfields were flat...)...

I understand all that is missing was not intentional but linked to the apocalyptic conditions of the release of the game, so I just wait confidently for the time it will be possible for a team I wish to be part of to make the needed adjustments, with 1C/MG authorization (as it is about modifying the main map, which is supposed to be a no-go)...

JVM

[Buster_Dee]

...and Westminster Cathedral, within sight of the Palace. Completed in early 1900s, every effort having been made to make it look like a candy cane.

I imagine the poly count would have been painful.

Still, there is much to like is the present sim. I can't wait to see what SDKs open up.