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In a small scenery I have made, a LC-file was inadvertently placed in the my_scenery/scenery folder. The LC-file belonged to another scenery. This caused the memory to be consumed rapidly, resulting in a total crash after a while (ca 1 hr). Why is the memory consumed by this? In its normal place this LC-file works perfectly well./ JanH

Hi all,I suppose that most of us are aware of "memory leaks" (that can lead to out of memory crashes) with generic land class files that have an associated texture subfolder. However, what was news to me is that the same problem can happen with VTP2 textures.Design software like Ground2K4 and SBuilder allows us to pick textures for our VTP2 polygons or lines from any FS folder without complaint. In my case, I wanted to use specific textures from some of the default sets in SceneryWorldtexture without having to install duplicates in my local texture subfolder.Wrong move! The compiled bgl file *does not* retain the path that you provide in G2K4. Thus, the first place FS wil…

Howdy Y'all, I am hoping that some one out there can give this "dummy" some advice/information. I have dl'ed several scenery files that turned out to be text based. In the read me it states that "Lee Swordy's AFCAD is required to install said scenery. I have yet to find a way to have AFCAD recogize these files or to convert them to a format that AFCAD CAN recognize. The header states that it was written with AFCAD 1.4. I have 2.21, is there any hope for these files???I am neither for nor against apathy

Hello again fellow simmers,I am creating some interesting addons for an Airport that I like to use for testing aircraft out.The problem is the Addon I created with AFCAD 2.21 is located right on top of some trees and Autogen Buildings (one of them a NDB Building).Can someone tell me a very Easy to use (like AFCAD) program I can use to remove those trees and buildings from that Apron.Thanks>>> I have also included a Picture to Show the problem. <<

Hi, I have Mike Megner's DTW scenery, and there is some kind of conflict with the default scenery. Both the add-on and his buildings appear, and I can't get the default one's to go away. I made sure the add-on is at a higher level than the default DTW, I even went into scenery.cfg and made sure it was above it. Anyone have any ideas to help me out? Thanks

Hello,I am using AFCAD to change around a gate at a couple of airports to allow reserved parking for my aircraft.First I have added my airline to the airline specs so color shows up on AFCAD. second I have put a unique parking code so no other AI will touch it, third, I have ajusted the Radius so it is biggedr then my aircraft, yet smaller then the other gatesso I would recieve clearance to that gate the most.This process worked perfectly at CYYZ, and CYHM. Once I started applying this method to United States Airports like KBUF, KPIT I get a CTD at around 53 to 56% loadup point..... but ONLY when I go there in the day time. Apparently, I can go to these airports no sweat …

High-G Studios is looking to a couple more talented designers to join our small team of 4. We are looking for 1 more modeler and 1 Scenery Designer. If you think you are up to the challenge than please submit your resume to us: [email protected] Only those with samples need only apply.Our primary design tool is GeMax.

Hi Gang.I have the afcad program, and wanted to alter some of the apron lighting at an airport made by someone else, but, I see the file as apronlights, which is listed as a BGL file below the airport AFCAD file, I tried using this, but the alterations did not show up.is there a way for me to alter these lights in another program that will let me do this.Thanks,

Hi Guy'sCan someone please give me a rough difference between these file types pleaseDXT1 and DXT3also, what would happen if someone created a scenery item in 16 bit, and I changed it to DXT3Thanks.

Hello everyone- I am in the prosses of creating a car in gmax and i want to combine 4 seperate tires to my car_LOD_50 model. I'm fairly new to gmax and this seems like a simple task but i cannot figure out how to combine objects. Perhaps somone can quickly explane. Thankyou :-)

Hi all. In the included image you will see I've added an unfinished building (Astrolab - Mnt Megantic, Qc) to FSX (Demo) - Princess Juliana Intl (TMCP)- rwy 09's end. DXT1 texturesThis object was created for FS9 with FSDS v2 as a stand alone bgl object. Thus it is scasms compiled!! Yet it shows correctly in FSX!!!Also, a small quebec airport scenery I did during spring 2004, using EOD and FSDS2 and Airport for Windows, appears quite correctly (in tems of object representation) although it sits in a sea of nothingness in this FSX demo's area.Mind you, I'm not advocating for a return to the old scams era. But it looks old api macros may find a prolongued life, maybe using S…

I have designed airport scenery to replace the FS default; I use Gmax for all 3D buildings (objects). I come to realize this after someone emails me regarding this phenomenon that happened in my creations.My FS is always set to

I have been trying to clean my FS9 setup of unnecessary duplicate files and have some questions, if the experts wouldn't mind helping out.Firstly, there are a surprising number of 3rd. party scenery add-ons which have installed bgl files in the texture folders. I am right in believing that they are completely useless there, aren't I?Secondly, if I have texture bitmaps installed in the main FS2004/scenery folder (e.g. scenery/generic/texture), are exact duplicates of these same files necessary in individual scenery software folders in my Addon scenery folders? I remember reading re. Gerrish Grey's tree library that duplicates can cause unnecessary memory use in FS and shou…

I've finally got fed up with running these down! What's the easiest way of removing them or moving them to one side?John B

Hello all,my names Paul and have been flight sim'ing for a while now, i have been looking for race track scenery (either motorsport or horse racing) to download for FS9. ive found a silverstone D/L that hase the building but the track is not there. hope someone has or knows were i could find such scenery for UK. cheers! V(Northern Ireland)

How!!!!!"Do I make them....I am working on my local field and believe I have some images that will work well as textures for such a project...how do I convert them into textures for FS2004/FSX.I have Image tool and PS CS8 and PSP 9.1....is there an online tutorial on this process??.Thanks

Saw this listed on Slashdot today. I wonder if the technique could be used to generate nice scenery for city areas for FS.http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10126--2002cbr600f4i

I've recently started a project in FS Architect trying to recreate my home airport in Port Lincoln, Sth Australia in Flight Simulator 2004. I have layed down the runway and the apron and tried using the Photo Texture Grid to lay down some satellite images that I got from Google Earth.I converted the images into 16 256x256 pixel DXT-1 bitmaps using the Image Tool that comes with the FS2K4 SDK. But no matter how hard I try this textures will NOT show up in Flight Sim!I've tried all the image formats that the SDK offers with no luck, also tried copying the textures to all the texture folders in the FlightSim folder.I have included some screenshots of FS Architect and in game…

using(DISPLAY) RUNWAY_LIGHTS_SURFACE_SCALAR=0.5RUNWAY_LIGHTS_VASI_SCALAR=0.5RUNWAY_LIGHTS_APPROACH_SCALAR=0.5RUNWAY_LIGHTS_STROBE_SCALAR=0.5I get little runway lights that look great to me anyway to change the size of the blue and green taxiway lights toothanks in advance

Hi,I'm trying to use FstFlatten, but I'm getting the following errors:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/143737.gifhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/143738.txtRegards,Val

I have just installed a new FS2004 scenery that the author claims depicts a bush camp shore scene near Ottawa in Canada complete with shoreside buildings and dock, and sure enough, the buildings are there and my float plane sits gently rocking to water swells next to a nice wooden dock object. The only problem is that the undulating "water" is a grassy field which doesn't look particularly realistic. To date I have tried incrementally disabling various nearby sceneries including mesh but so far to no avail. The author assures me that everything looks fine on his system as well as on the system of a co-author so I am convinced the problem lies with my system but I have n…

Hey Guys,Not sure if this is the right place, but im sure someone will point me in the right direction.I downloded some exellent Mumbai scenery for FS, form here : http://www.simviation.com/fs2004scenery79.htm . Problem is, the defualt buildings show through, and ruin the effect of some. I would really like to fly here and im sure many other would like to too, especially as Air India's sceme is so nice. There is also a distinct lack of airports in this region of the world.So, as a request (as im useless with this kind of thing), could someone create an exclude for the scenery. It would have to be fairly tight around the boundry, otherwise you will loose many of the nearby…

Just wondering if anyone would know why the lower part of two of the terminals for Calgary are missing when I install EZ CYYC. I followed all the appropriate steps and can't figure what is the problem. I use UT terrian but that is it for the Calgary area, no other afcads..etc.Thoughts anyone?

Is there a way one can find the default afcad for a stock FS9 Airport and then delete it?I want to find EGCV Sleap in the Uinted Kingdom, in Shropshire.Afcad2 finds it, but I cannot locate in the FS9 directory.

HiI am a Matrox TripleHead2Go user and must change the size/intensity of the taxiway lights (blue and green).Any help for me?ThanksPeter / LSZH / Switzerland