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Hello all, I have been working off and on with a scenery project realistically detailing Salina Municipal Airport (KSLN). This airport is home to 2 FBO's, B1900D airservice, and is "Home of the GlobalFlyer". I have pretty much completed a new AFCAD but the airport is severely missing accurate buildings. I am looking for a designer who could help develop some buildings to make the airport look more realistic. As I live in Salina, and conveniately work at both the Salina Airport Authority and one of the FBO's, can get measurements, official drawings, and pictures of the entire airport. I am a pilot and can get aerial photo's as well. I can even work on getting officia…

Hi all-I've been reading and reading, and looking at different programs. Frankly, it's amazing that there is such variety but also such seeming chaos..Since I haven't been doing scenery, I thought (for sure) I'd find a program in which I could open an existing FS airport, change things around - move / replace buildings, add objects, etc. - but it seems like only a combination of things will do that.I'm considering using EZ-Scenery (which is not mentioned in the top post) and my "main mission" at this beginning point is to add trees around my local airport.However, several of the areas that need trees would require a LOT of clicking ;) and there are several long rows of t…

So, I installed everything, and it seemed to be working - Until I tried creating scenery with it, at which point my computer simply seemed to shut itself off.After restarting, and trying again, I found that trying to select an airport in FS did the same thing. Nice.System restores did nothing, and now, trying to reinstall XP causes an error which says something about shutting down Windows to prevent damage.What?I don't know what could cause this, but as I'm running nothing but the installed WinXP software (commercial product), Flight Simulator, and Jewel Quest, going through the RWY12 process is undoubtedly what did Flight Simulator in.I'm able to get Windows started, but…

Been looking through it...GMAX is dead. Just an example. EZ-Scenery at least deserves a mention.For a beginner, while generally valuable, I can say it could probably use a little housekeeping.Just saying-Andrew

Hello!After finding the reason why my scenery slows down FS so much (several high detailed terminal buildings...) I give Gmax a second try (what a hard ride, still don't find any manual) and start to make my own terminal buildings.When I come to the point to give this building a texture the trouble goes on. The Gmax material editor can't read most of the default Fs9 textures, and I am also a little bit in doubt if someone may use those textures, even for freeware projects.So here are my questions:1. Is there any free program with which you can preview textures?2. Are there somewhere out some free texture libraries to download?Thank's for your help in advanceMick!

Hi thereJust a few days ago I started making my own APIs with EOD. Yesterday I made some APIs with transparent DXT1-textures (extended fs70 16bit) and everything worked fine, but today EOD was not able to show the same textures in the textures dialog. I'm very confused? How could this happen. Yesterday I made trees with the stock-FS-bitmaps and today EOD only shows a questionmark instead of the texture-preview. I don't get it.Maybe there was kind of a dll-loaded by another program that made it possible. but i really have no clue.how will I get EOD showing these textures again? Re-install didn't work.cheers & thanks

How can I add trees to me scenery that looks exactly like autogen trees? There are plenty off good looking trees out there to add to scenery but they all look out of place alongside of FS's autogen. I'm looking for something that will blend in with the rest of the landscape in FS.Thanks,Dave

I use FSSC version 1.5.11 and FS2004. When I originally got the product 3 years ago, I was on FS2002. I made a scenery which worked perfectly with FS2002. With FS2004, the scenery makes its way to the sim but the airport/navaid data section does not recognize that my scenery is there. What did I do wrong. In the map section of FS2004, my scenery registers. Does any one know how to remedy this short of me having to start over. Thank you in advance. Frank

Gurus,Am not getting night lighting to work with 3d objects MDLs developed in GMAX. What are the steps to take here with the ambient lighting?ThanksShez

Hi,I just downloaded the demo of EZ-Scenery and placed a truck and a fast food joint with not trouble. Nice.However, I can't find trees! So, basically, does anyone know where I can find trees -specifically- for EZ-Scenery?thxAndrew

Good old Google.....they've given us a new toy.http://sketchup.google.com/index.htmlCK

Could someone please tell me where I find the stock airport files in my main FS9 folder?I have tried looking in a bunch of files but without any success.Many thanks :-) Mark.

Good day all!I'm not new to scenery design but it semms i have a serious problem now, since i couldnt find any map for LHSM airport, im using the AIS GMC map as a map for my scenery to paint things in g2k4, however i only know the center pixel coordinate of my map : That is N46:41:10.85 E017:09:32.56.and my pixel per meter is 2,4. However its the first time that im using this function, and i got a serious problem, it accepts the first coordianet but not the E one, i think i typed everything correct, and i think its a prram bug , but if anyone knows the solution please help me, it gives erreour (501) when trying to accept that coordinate, here is a screenshot of what he do…

Hello There!Can some one help me? I would like to place an object in FS9, from which I have made by FSDS3. I slew to the point in FS9, there I want my object to be. Write the coordinates down. Then in FSDS3, I write the same coordinates in: project properties, and create FS object file. But the object is about 2-3 miles away, from the point, I desided it should be.My centerpoint in my project object, is in the middle of the object, so it can't be because my reference point is so far away from my object. Do any one have a solution?Best regardsViking

Hello,The SFS Airpark on the Olympic Peninsula is located about 50 miles too far west in flight simulator. I relocated the runway to its proper position in AFCAD by dragging the runway and starting points to the correct location and saving the file. The airport reference point was also moved with the runway. The new runway in its proper location works fine with a small flatten area around it.My problem is that the old runway is not gone. Furthermore, creating a flight in the FS menu that is supposed to start at the airport results in the aircraft loading at the old location, not the new one.I have moved runways up to a thousand feet in the past, but never as far as this m…

Sbuilder WGS84 Conversion Help PleaseI'm trying to make photo scenery for an area of about 400 LOD13s in standard resolution using Sbuilder.I need to break up this area into 15 smaller ones to compile separately. The resulting tiles of the areas don't align well with one another and the location of places within the areas are also off even though the corners of the areas are placed correctly in FS.After reading several posts about Sbuilder photoscenery making on AVSIM, it seems I may need to use Sbuilder conversion to convert a bitmap to WGS84 format. My source data is Terraserver which I think is UTM format.In one of Luis's posts he indicates the need for datum informat…

Hello there!I have just upgraded my FSDS2 to FSDS3. I have a project from the old version, I would like to import to FSDS3. Well, I have done that, but it give me an error.Then I want to create FS object file to an *.bgl file, it says: failed to create an mdl file. And an error log says: Running modelStart! (_temp.x)Loading X _temp.x...Non Normalized normal encountered in part Box_3Non Normalized normal encountered in part Box_3Non Normalized normal encountered in part Box_3Non Normalized normal encountered in part Box_3Non Normalized normal encountered in part Box_3Non Normalized normal encountered in part Box_3Non Normalized normal encountered in part Box_3Non Normalize…

Hi,This concerns the new KaiTak scenery from Jim Vile and Tom Gibson.I had all the textures in place and am now missing 2 which show up as light and dark gray shapes. Tom has posted that I have a video driver problem, which may well be the case, although it has only been in place for 6 months.If the drivers are not the problem I would like to try to discover why the card won't see just these two particular *.bmps, especially as initially it did see them! Here is an example:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/148039.jpgThe checkerboard texture and green background are now missingand this one shows a similar set of textures which is still there-I don't know if these came …

Can anybody tell me where the polytex folder is located in sbuilder. It keeps telling me to copy my bmp there. I ahe no help files for sbuilder and I can find nothing on this anywhere.

I've been using the SRTM water body shapefiles for coastlines. It appears these were developed from the 30m data. It looks like there is good accuracy, the problem is that when you look at it in the sim it looks bad -- all the coastline is 90 degree turns.My question is, is there some tool that I could use to process the vector data to get rid of this artificialness? What I was thinking was some way to smooth the data, and then maybe add some random noise.scott s..

Hello,Since I'm learning GMAX now, I was thinking of modeling a small airport in Belgium. But I need building pictures, if you have some pictures of EBCI (Brussels South Airport) could you please mail them to [email protected] in advance,

Could anyone kindly help me re. decompliling & recompiling bgl files? With the old, 'FS8' type files I am pretty OK with disassembling, editing the .sca file and recompiling with SCASM - nothing to it really. But I am at a loss with the new FS9 XML type files. My current 'project' is a case in point: I have a hefty scenery library bgl file, some 1000kb, which I can see is the cause of my having buildings on one of my runways. I have BGLAnalyze (FS9), MSXML4 & BGLCOMP_SDK. I've tried going through the FS2004BGLCompSDK.doc, but I don't understand too much of it, I'm afraid .....What I've done thus far is use BGLAnalyze to disassemble the bgl: if I do so to XML I get…

Hi Everyone,I am now getting seriously into tinkering with Scenery and AFCAD2 - however, not overly impressed with the default textures.Does any clever person out there know what the actually textures are for the following AFCAD2 textures assignments.ConcreteGrassWaterUnknownAsphaltGrass2Grass3TurfSnowIceUnknown2Unknown3DirtCoralGravelOil TreadedSteelBitumusBrickMacadamPlanksSandShaleTamacI am aware that these are supposed to be default textures and the implications of changing them - however, I would really like to know which texture file is associated to the attributes above so that I can at least experiment with them.Thank you in advance.

I thought it's time to do another preview of my project, so here it is. Im only hosting some of the images (I made 25 shots in total for the preview) so that I don't clogg-up the thread, you can find the rest of these shots at my website:http://www.freewebs.com/eglc/preview2images.htmPlease visit :D!I've changed the following:- I have a promotional paint of the BSMP Saab 2000 for LCY '06- greened up the airport and the surrounding ground textures- elevated the airport -> AI, User aircraft, and scenery (and shadows) all elevated like in real life- added a few buildings, and textures a lot- LEA (GA apron) is updated with help from BSMP- Metro is updated, also with help f…

Hi,Can someone give me an overview over which US and Canadian airports have been done in (near-)payware quality? I can think of the following:- LGA- BUR- SNA- CLE- CVG- SLC (?)- All Hawaiian airports... which else?