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Hi,I am new here and have (nearly) no experience with desings. I just know how to use AFCAD.I have found in different airports designed with AFCAD by other people that the taxi ways signs are sometimes misplaced.How can I correct this? And where can I find info or ducumentation about this ?

hi guys,i'm planning to start out on doing an entire airport. A small airfield hopefully. I can't really get access to my local ones are they are usually military and i wouldn't want to try the large international airport. Can you guys recommend a small simple airfield where there are some amount of photos/data avaliable? hopefully i can try out do some of your local airfields first. Thanks.

I apologize if this has been brought up before, but I am wondering if Google Sketchup models can somehow be imported into FS. Would BGLComp work?Check it out at:http://sketchup.google.com/Thank You,Patrick

I have an afcad for Scampton, EGPX, with a tower defined in the correct position (the default FS9 AP does not have a tower). In FS9, the tower view seems to be miles from the position defined in the afcad.Any ideas?George

Hi I have a problem since a power failure when working in Ground2k4.I am no longer able to make the Wc or Lc_xxx_xxx.bgl file from Groung2k4. The data shows up in Ground2k4 ok and I have checked in the LMW files and the data is in there okthe other bgl files are being compiled ok.Cheers Norman

Hi everyone,Wonder if someone can help. I downloaded and installed this great scenery and for some reason I now have two CN Towers in Toronto. Anyone know how to get rid of the other. I believe I followed the installation instructions to a T but when I fly into Toronto I have the two towers almost on top of each other. One appears to be the default MSFS model and the other the new scenery. I tried emailing the developers at their website but I'm not sure if it's still monitored.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!Thanks,Andy

Gurus,Quick question: Does it make it more efficient code-wise if one groups objects together when constructing complex objects in GMAX (i.e.jetways)?RegardsShez

Here is part of the code from a FSSC generated bgl. Excluding STANDARD fs9 GENERIC BUILDINGS CREATES A MORMAL SERIES OF EXCLUDES AND A GENERAL OVERALL EXCLUDE WHICH WIPES OUT MY AFCAD REDESIGNED AIRPORT. THE WORKAROUND IS EASY....SIMPLY DELETE THIS PARTICULAR BGL.HOWEVER I AM STILL CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT THIS CODE DOESHERE IS THE TEXT OF THE FIRST PART OF THE BGL; ************************************************************; Scenery compiled by FS Scenery Creator 1.5.11 by Derek Leung; Scenery compiled on 6/15/2006 7:00:01 PM; ************************************************************Set( buf 100 )Set( areamx 64 )Set( linbuf 64 )Set( ppperr 2000 )UVar( $FSSCTEMP1 5 )Header…

To update the scenery of the Barcelona El Prat airport (LEBL) I have installed an AFCAD file, dowloaded from Avsim. Everything seems to be OK except that there is a VOR in the middle of the new South runway.I checked with AFCAD2 and there were duplicated navaids showing up: the PRA and BCN VORs. With AFCAD2 I deleted the new ones and moved the old ones to their correct positions. I saved the file and restarted FS9. The VOR could still be seen in the middle of the runway. However in the FS9 Map view, FSNavigator and, of course AFCAD2, the VOR is in the correct position.What have I missed? The unpleasant point is that the runway cannot be used, as it results in a building c…

I USE TOPOZONE TO FIND LAT/LONG COORDINATES AND I WONDER IF ANYONE HAS USED ANOTHER SOURCE WHICH MIGHT GIVE READINGS WITH MORE ACCURACY?

Hello Scenery DesignersI have been using Mr Pouk's FS Architect2004 for scenery design. About a month ago I had a computer crash and I finally got everything fixed, except FS Architect, by reinstaling WindowsXP It seems as thought Mr Pouk has gone AWOL. He does not answer my email.I am haveing about four problemw with Architect.1. When I boot it up I get a message that says "Cannot Create Library Manager Form. If I dont click ok the program crashes to desktop. If I click on OK as soon as the message appears I go right on in to the program and I am able to add scenery an compile it. I just cannot add and of the FS9 objects but instead I use my own created macros.2. The sec…

I am impressed with the knowledge and expertise displayed by the members of this forum. I am not at that level.My problem,I installed someone's alledged airport upgrade for MGGT (Aroura intl. airport in Guatamala) from one of the forums. It has since been removed, but not before screwing up my airport. The airport now is totally messed up with the AI aircraft parked and taxiing off of the runways as well a the user aircraft. I know there is corruption here of either the AFCAD files or the airport scenery placement files (bgl). I have tried a few things such as deactivating the suspect scenery file and deleting it. I have tried reinstalling the simulator but short of a com…

If you are debugging new scenery and (ad nauseam) rerunning FS9 over and over (I do this a lot)to look at changes, don't forget to UNCHECK the box labelled Empty CD-ROM scenery cache on exit. FS9 loads much faster this way.

Can anyone tell me how I can make an afcad2 for a carrier already installed in FS9? My further intention is to place AI Traffic on the carrier, but how to do it is the problem. I have made many afcad2's for land airports and have even filled them with AI Traffic of my own choice using TTools. But how does one go about finding the files connected with the carrier with afcad2, I have no idea.Any tutorials on this matter?

Does anyobody know how to force G2K4 to use a particular road bridge type?There are two types: covered, (as in Madison County) and open, (like everywhere else).But I always get the one I don't want (Madison county)...Geoff

Is there an XML for a ground scenery object that will cause the XML to face the pilots viewpoint in FS?Many thanks,BillLHC

I am attempting to use Ground2K V4 to make railroads for CFS2 by substituting a custom texture. The texture shows up but does not look correct unless the VTP1 line is straight north/south. If the line runs east/west it appears that the image used is a horizontal strip across the texture. If I use the stock texture, all is well. What is the method for creating a texture that CFS2 will treat like its road texture? I used an 8 b8t mipped texture with alpha channel. Any help is appreciated.

The airport beacon at my home airport (A09 Eagle)was misplaced in the default scenery. I excluded it and have been trying to install a replacement tower and animated beacon. I have tried Ez-Scenery, RWY12 and Library Object Manager. I've been able to install a tower and installed the green and white beacon on top from the generic library, but I can't get it to rotate at night. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ED Weber

Hello, I would like some advice please, i am going to try building with Abacus FS Design Studio V3, one thing i would like to know is when you place an object in Flight Simulator, say a Oil Rig for instance, is it a case of putting in the coordinates of Long/Lat to where you want it, it may of course tell me this in the read me files but i have not purchased it yet and would just like to know if this is how its done. Any help would be appreciated , Thanks . Roger.

Hey guys,I am trying to get smoke to appear from two small chimneys. I tried using the 'fx_stack' effect, as well as 'fx_stack2' which both didnt work.I also didnt use any input of the smoke effect 'in' the XML, which wasnt called for according to the SDK for Attach Point in Gmax.Just wondering if anyone might have some suggestions for getting this working? I am creating a small village and would like about 3 little fire chimney's going.Kind regards,BillLHC

Hi,Is there a way to create new buildings in FS (ie. create a terminal) using the default fs buildings?Thanks,Andreas

Hi guys, quick question (I have searched the forum, but no luck). Is it possible to use a "separation plane" ala GMAX with regular FS9 effects? I need a strobe that cannot be seen from below, but want to use a controller effect to create a complex sequence of strobes...Thanks in advance!

Hi all.Got a wee problem with a scenery. I've tried to change some ground polys to a LWM water class poly. I also tried adding a new LWM water class poly. None show up in FS9. The polys are set at -9999, so they should sit on top of the mesh, and compiling the scenery produces the number 3 files okay. G2K4 works fine otherwise. I can get the LWMs to show in other sceneries. Is there something in the LWM working file for the scenery I should be looking at to solve the problem?All contributions appreciated.Cheers,Matthew.

I just put together a small AF2 for an aircraft carrier with 1 runway and a few catapult start points. However, whenever I load my airport and Active Runway is selected in FS2004, my plane starts at what some point near the reference point. How can I change that?When I select 1L or 1 or 1R from the pop-up menu, it's in the right spot. It's just that the "active runway" isn't. It's seems a bit troublesome. Any fixes?Thanks in advance.

Is there any way of getting smoke effects (from chimneys and so on) to appear in front of clouds instead of behind them, as happens in a number of sceneries I have downloaded (e.g. VOZ 1.2)? Or is there nothing I an do about this, as an 'end-user'?Thanks.Martin