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gap · 08-24-17, 10:24 AM

Looking very nice.

My remarks in detail:

Port and oil refinery structures look a bit uncolorful. Not really your fault, since stock textures used on them are quite boring
Would if be possible moving/rotating the Aruba location, so that its outline matches better the local coast outline?
Some of the oil storage tanks located farther from the shoreline look like they are standing directly from the grass; could you raise a bit the whole location so that the concrete pavement will stand higher than the underllying terrain in every portion of the refinery area?
The smoke effect looks amazing, but maybe such a big dark plume is a bit out of place. I don't know what 40's US regulations on industrial emissions were (probably there wasn't any regulation), nor I know the technical details of oil refining of the time, but I know that black smoke is the result of incomplete hydrocarbon combustion, and I would expect a refinery to emit large quantities of it, only if it was set on fire, or if, due to poor offciency, there was a big quantity of side-products that had to be burned. In modern oil refineries, smoke coils getting out from cooling towers and furnace stacks are mostly composed of carbon dioxide and water vapour, and they are mostly white or white-gray:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4273041695
http://www.gettyimages.it/detail/fot...stock/85903068

I think the only time you will see huge quantities of black smoke getting out from a refinery, it is when the plant has to be shutdowns/restarted, smoke getting out from the top of gas flares (the thin stacks used for burning-off the excess of natural gases, often surmounted by a pilot flame, other link):

http://www.gettyimages.it/detail/fot...stock/85903068 (top picture)
https://www.google.it/search?biw=153....0.VHimtYXT6KA

08-24-17, 10:24 AM	#22
gap Navy Seal Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: CJ8937 Posts: 8,214 Downloads: 793 Uploads: 10	Looking very nice. My remarks in detail: Port and oil refinery structures look a bit uncolorful. Not really your fault, since stock textures used on them are quite boring Would if be possible moving/rotating the Aruba location, so that its outline matches better the local coast outline? Some of the oil storage tanks located farther from the shoreline look like they are standing directly from the grass; could you raise a bit the whole location so that the concrete pavement will stand higher than the underllying terrain in every portion of the refinery area? The smoke effect looks amazing, but maybe such a big dark plume is a bit out of place. I don't know what 40's US regulations on industrial emissions were (probably there wasn't any regulation), nor I know the technical details of oil refining of the time, but I know that black smoke is the result of incomplete hydrocarbon combustion, and I would expect a refinery to emit large quantities of it, only if it was set on fire, or if, due to poor offciency, there was a big quantity of side-products that had to be burned. In modern oil refineries, smoke coils getting out from cooling towers and furnace stacks are mostly composed of carbon dioxide and water vapour, and they are mostly white or white-gray: https://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4273041695 http://www.gettyimages.it/detail/fot...stock/85903068 I think the only time you will see huge quantities of black smoke getting out from a refinery, it is when the plant has to be shutdowns/restarted, smoke getting out from the top of gas flares (the thin stacks used for burning-off the excess of natural gases, often surmounted by a pilot flame, other link): http://www.gettyimages.it/detail/fot...stock/85903068 (top picture) https://www.google.it/search?biw=153....0.VHimtYXT6KA __________________ _____________________ \|May the Force be with you!\| ...\/