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Indeed, with this add-on, both when you prepare to
leave from your chosen location to when you arrive at
your destination, it will look to you in the virtual world
very much as it would in the real one. It is the overall
clarity that the add-on provides that makes this a
necessity for those who wish to wrangle out every last
drop of realism from their virtual flying experience.
“Wait for me, Daddy” is one of the most recognized
View/download in the file library here. photographs in the world and has become iconic for New
Westminster.
Photoreal Scenery
Depending on what type of plane you are flying and, in
turn, at what altitude you are operating at, determines
how much of the terrain below you can see. What is for
sure, however, with the various photoreal scenery add-
ons – many of which are completely free, for example
– it will be detailed and authentic in the extreme.
The photograph, which became integral to Canada’s effort in
WWII, was captured on Oct. 1, 1940, in New Westminster,
B.C., by Vancouver Daily Province photographer Claude
Dettloff and became one of the most famous photographs in
Canadian history.
The little blond boy in the photograph was the five-year-old
Bernard, who broke free from his mother Bernice's grasp as
his father, Pte. Jack Bernard, marched down Eighth Street,
heading off to war with the B.C. Regiment.
So whether you are ferrying commercial civilian airlines The photo made the next day's morning paper, but not long
across the metropolis-splashed landscapes of the after it was featured across North America, including an
United States or most of “modern” Europe, or whether October issue of Life magazine. It was eventually hung in every
you taking smaller, single-engine planes to look at the school in B.C. during the war.
wonders of the ancient worlds in modern-day Asia or
The Sculpture
the Middle East, it perhaps goes without saying that
whatever you are looking down upon from your virtual
cockpit, needs to be as realistic as possible.
Needless to say, the Photoreal Scenery add-ons is
perhaps as good a place as any to start once you wish
to start fleshing out your environments, and will
without a doubt, make the world you are about to
explore from the comfort of your computer chair as
close to the real thing as is currently possible
The City of New Westminster commissioned internationally
acclaimed sculptors Veronica and Edwin Dam De Nogales to
creat the war memorial sculpture.