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Hi all,To add some realism, i want to add a terminal and all ground equipments for my VA to our hub airport.We are using an addon aiport as scenery. I have used RW12 to add object to the scenery and its working well(Very nice product)i even change sign texture to my VA logo.Then i just wanted to add a fictional cargo area for my VA. So i try to use AFCAD to add apron, taxiway, etc ... I have made the change and save the AF2 file but I don't see the apron when reloading FS.I have desactivated the addon scenery and in that case i see my new apron and taxiway.I want to keep the addon scenery because the default one is very basic.What can I do ? what's the problem ?thanks for…

Hi there,I use the FS2004 Resample Extents from Photocalc.My original file BMP is a RGB color, 8 Bits/Channel.I run PSMaker, I got the scenery and texture (BMP and TGA files).I add this in my addon scenery, restart FS9...but I don't see nothing...What's wrong?Thanks for your helps.Rakouth

Do someone here have experience with FS Architect. I have bought it for about a month ago. I bought it, as it looked a little more simple than other complex programs to build airports in. Maybe it is my skills, but I have problems with simple things as fx appron, texture and so. And there is no manual following the program, and a very awfull support. Something I didn't know, then i bought the program.Have someone here build an airport from scratch with FS Architect. I't don't have to be a very detailed one. Just a person with experience in FS Architect,which I could ask some questions.RegardsHenrik Viking

Hello Guys,I wondering how I can do an visibility tweak, as done in MDLTweaker, directly in the ASM file. Is there a description about this somewhere?I'm still having problems with MDL Tweaker II Alpha on my two systems together large MDL files, that's why I want to find a solution to get around this.Sasa

Hi guys, couple of questions. One, on animation I am able to get a single object to animate in the sim, but not a 'group", is there a workaround/solution? I would combine the objects into one, but can't find a command that does that other than "group". Is there a way to make it one single object?Regards, MichaelKDFWhttp://www.calvirair.com/mcpics/mcdcvabanner.jpgCalVirAir International

Would someone please assist me with getting a transparent texture to work?I have used EOD to build a ship. With Airport 2.60, I can then put this ship atany arbitrary ocean location, and then with FS2002 can fly over it. That part works really, really well.I have now used ordinary Paintbrush to create a very simple bow wave and a wake. So it's a 512 X 512 bitmap, mainly black, with some white, grey and blue water.Then I used DXTBmp to process the bitmap. I select the black Alpha channel (to make the black parts transparent), and in the alpha channel preview I see that that works. That is, the black stays black in the preview channel, and all other colours show white. I sa…

Whether I try S32, -32 or S-32 (for degrees latitude) in my SCA file (as per scadoc.doc) , Airport imports everything into the northern hemisphere. In fact almost everything about Airport seems oriented to the northern hemisphere.How do I specify southern latitude degrees in my SCA file AND keep them that way all the way to a BGL file? I see lots of southern hemisphere scenery built by Airport, so there must be a way. Wot am I doing wrong?This is only my second week of using Airport - I'm a total newbie.

There are a few areas in Bavaia that I know, and I want to model the a bit in FS2004. This means adding buildings, mainly to lakesides, but also in towns.I have Ultimate terrain and Ground envirnment installed (if that makes any difference).I remember seeing in my travels that there was a tool for placing buildings in slew mode, which seems like a great way of doing things, but I want to be able to place them exactly, again, along lakesides, riversides etc), and I have a feeling this tool might be a bit hit and miss. I wonder if someone can Point me to the slew mode tool and instructions on its use.Also, are there any libraries of more old fashioned/Germanic buildings.Oh,…

Hi Anyone who has a F-27 and Caravelle FSDS source file they are willing to share. I need those to planes so I can add them to my freeware scenery, but I have to remove some parts of the planes, they are placed at a place for scrapped planes.RegardsClaus

Hello designers,First time I try to install addon scenery in FS9. According to FS-manual I'd have to access the Scenery Library via "Settings" on the Flight Simulator main screen. Well, there is no "Settings" on my main screen ... there was one in the previous FS2002. I'm familiar with installation of new scenery otherwise.There is no submenu either in -what I expected the alternative- "Options" and "Settings" that leads to the library.After I extracted my new scenery to the Addon Scenery - Scenery folder, even trying to find the new airport via "Go to Airport" and "Search add-on Scenery" just offerd me emptiness... HELP !HarryS

As many of you know, there is a new runway under construction at Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. It is a 9000' runway that has been being built for the past few years. It even spans part of Interstate 285 and located on the south side of the airport.The runway will be open for aircraft traffic starting May 27th.I don't have any idea on the designation of the runway, let alone the ILS frequecies.Read all about it below from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Could someone let the folks know at SimFlyers about this? Maybe they can put in a new patch.ihorizon---------------------Article Below------------------------------On-time arrival for fifth runwayDebut in late May will ea…

Thanks Holger Sandmanns tips I've made a test scenery using free available Landsat-7(BTW check Holger's Freeware Forum here http://forums.simflight.com/viewforum.php?f=231 )My concern is: is it worthy continuing as Landsat-7 data is generally 30m/pixel for color and 15m/pixel for B&W photos ...OK, here is the puzzle - who will be the first to tell where these shots were taken?: and the neighbour:Well, the Landsat-7 data is not what you should expect when utilize US USGS - it is 30m/pixel for color and 15m/pixel for black & white image but ... I like it and how do you? PS. I posted originally that info at http://forums.simflight.com/viewtopic.php?t=49601Cheers, Ry…

Is there any sneaky way round the stupid hold-short-node-distance problem?The airport I'm making needs a hold short position quite a bit further back than the maximum distance. The AI holds in totally the wrong place if I have it even just on the maximum.

Hi all!I'm working on a complex scenery with thousand of High Voltage towers and telephone poles. First I used objects from FS2004 Library Objects, but the fps was too low. Now I use self gmax designed objects. I get better fps, but anyway there are too low. My objects are designed with gmax using LOD method. I also tested a sample object (a gmax cube) without LOD definitions tweaked by MDLTweaker using a low view distance. But the fps is always too low!!!I verified that the low fps are caused by the number of objects placed in the scenery, independently if they are visible or not. The best example is this: if I use 1000 gmax cubes with a very low visible distance, the fp…

Today on the FlightSim forum I was informed of a program called LWMViewer which could help me rid my self of squared off coastlines in many of the Carribean Islands. I downloaded version 1.3 and tried to familiarize myself with all this new terminology re: scenery and the use of the application. Thought I would start with Puerto Rico. Loaded the coordinates and found the island and noticed that land stretches past the shoreline in most instances and skirted it in others. I could see where the squares intercepted the intended shoreline, just like when Im flying there.My question is how to fix this problem. I thought that I could chose to invert (??? terminology) some H…

Hi,For the past week I have been trying to get true dynamic scenery working in FS2004, by using the method of recording a flight with fltrec and loading this into Fsdyn!, rather than using the afcad taxiway method.I have recorded a flight and compiled a bgl with dynkit with the default objects, but can't find a way of loading my models.It appears that a dynkit DKI library is required, but I cant get this to recognise gmax created files, I even setup gmax to use fs2002 files, but still no luck.Has anybody managed to do this?David.

Hi Folks- I'm trying to make my own textures, using Photoshop 7, so I can use them in EOD, but I'm running into a problem. I'll describe what I'm doing and maybe somebody can see what I'm doing wrong. In Photoshop,I create a new file and in the window that opens I set the pixel width to 512, length to 512 and resolution to 72 and click OK. I then open the Jpg. I'm using and copy and paste it to the new 512 x 512 pixel image. I set the Image mode to RGB color and 8 bit/channel and save as a Bmp. The Bitmap Options window that appears shows several choices three of which that are not active[1,4,8] and 16, 24, 32 with 24 being the default[i selected 16]. I saved the BMP a…

I am working on some small 3D Islands to place as scenery. It seemsthat the maxim default (MakeMDL) viewing distance is around20 miles. I would like to get the distance to 30 miles. Any suggestions?Thanks

Hi all. This is for all you scenery designers out there.I've been flying around the world for over 3 years now and stopping in every country along the way. It's an ambitious project, and a LOT of fun.My current location is Brunei headed for the Phillipines. When I did this trip in FS2002, there was scenery out for Corregidor Island. I don't see any for FS9/2004.So, I'm putting out a request for scenery of Corregidor Island. Anybody up for this?I want to say thanks to everybody who has put together scenery for Guadalcanal, the Solomons, Kiribati/Gilberts, Tinian, Saipan, and all the other WWII Pacific Islands. It's been an inspiration on my trip and I've greatly enjo…

Is there custom scenery of Brize Norton that is free or pay-ware out there?

I have a piece of add-on scenery that is listed in Afcad as a bgl. i can pull it up in that and alter parking spots and so forth. It appears in the FS map and in the route planner. My question is this:Can i add AI traffic to this airport? I know the Ttools program but didnt know if it will read a bgl , if "read" is the correct word. No prblem writing the flightplans and operating Ttools, just have been used to seeing an afcad file for the airport that I was arranging AI traffic too. I dont see the airport listed in the Ttools airport list. Would i have to add it there? Any help, thanks.Stella

Hi,How can I use/install the default FS VASI/PAPI (FS2002) in my own made scenery ?I configurated them now with Airport for Windows 2.6, but they seem rather too small (bars) than those in reality.Greetz. Jos

HiThis may have been covered already but here goes.Some time ago I totally lost the ability to create lines in 5.4.I redirected to my FS9 directory and no change.Later I reformatted my pc for other reasons and than re installed G2k up to 5.4.After 2 days I lost the ability to draw lines again.Totally fustrated and fed up I started creating my roads and rivers in SBuilder. Today I have my lines back after did one thing. This is it.I created the ability to use my own line texture in Ownlines 4 thanks to the help of John Gooch Flight Ontario.I copied texture bitmap sets #128 , #129 and the railroad into my main FS9 texture folder.My lines ability came back in full view. I be…

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Hi!I placed some landclasses in Ground2k4 and now I'm wondering why the snow/ice areas have some "funny" lines running through them when as long as you are not close.I can remember that I read about this bug one or two years ago and now I'm wondering if someone found a sollution in the meantime?Sasa