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I know that John Woodward an FS2004 scenery for Lake Hood seaplane base in Anchorage, Alaska. So this effort was specifically to help him in any future efforts to expand that scenery. I also make it available to any other scenery developers who are presently attempting or contemplating Lake Hood as a scenery project.WARNING: the webpage at the other end of this link contains 60 800x600px photographs at +/- 100Kb each.You may view all of my Lake Hood pictures at [link:www.jimandheather.net/lakehood]my Lake Hood Photo Collection.http://www.jimandheather.net/lakehood/lakehood.jpgEnjoy!Jimmy

I need some help with a small problem with some revised LWM/VTP scenery for my Tacoma Narrows Bridge project.I was just about to package the project for some beta testing when I decided I was going to test it in a default install of Flight Simulator. I have two installs on my PC, one is a default one for screenshot comparison purposes, and the other is the one I use. Each install is on a separate harddrive.When I went to test it, I had noticed that the modified LWM polygons and VTP shoreline scenery was being "eclipsed" by the default shorelines, and that the terrain mesh I included in my package was being flattened by the default LWM/VTP data.I modified my LWM/VTP scener…

Hi!since i installed canarysim GCLP, my whole scenery cfg is ruined. i uninstalled it , but everything is broken. i tried to restore the cfg by myself, but now (FS9 does not crash anymore) its strange, while loading a flight it says something like "scenery reading error" but it loads the flight and my scenery looks like this!please help me!http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/132967.jpghttp://www.igfly.com/images/betateam.jpg

What is the easiest way to completely delete an airport that no longer exists in real life? Fairholt Airport in Vermont (VT48), for example, is now the back nine of a golf course. Brad2 miles from KELP/KBIFhttp://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_proud_supporter.jpg

Aside from my LWM/VTP scenery issues, there's another issue that has been mothering me from almost the very beginning of development on Sanderson Field.From the standpoint of default, Microsoft did such a poor job at depicting Sanderson I was almost ashamed of buying FS2004 when I first made the purchase a year ago, given the stunnig level of realism they put into Seattle-Tacoma International and Boeing Field, the two biggest airports in their backyard.When I began having success with gmax, I decided my first overhaul would be Sanderson Field, since it is a frequently used GA airport in the south Puget Sound region of Wasington State.At Sanderson, there's a series of old…

Hello all, forgive me if this seems rather basic but the beginners faq in this forum didnt leave me feeling so sure in doing the type of design I want to do. I am looking to make Lunken Airport (KLUK) more realistic in terms of parking and building placement, but I'm not real sure what to do with out possibility of completely screwing up my computer. I am familiar with afcad2, and have d/l sever scenery updates but in terms of taking the default field and creating a new one in its place I am feeling a bit clueless. If anyone can direct me to a tutorial for dealing with existing objects I would appreciate it , thanks.John

I know there are several versions out there (freeware and payware)...but to be honest none of the freeware ones are usable on my computer. The two big ones...no matter how I tried to optimize them, just brought my considerable computer to a crawl. I've got a Pentium 2.2mhz with a 256meg Radeon 9800pro, 786megs ram, full install. I run other fairly detailed scenery just fine...but both versions of Kai Tak that are out there just give me 8 to even less than 2 fps. I dunno why.As a result, I've reverted to using just a VERY simple version just for the landing lights, added the HongKong Autogen Version2 addon, and stole the ILS info from the more detailed scenery. It may not …

I'm developing an application that will run BGLCOMP using the ShellExecuteEx() function.I can do this but it appears not to find the files if the paths to BGLCOMP and/or the .xml files have a space in them EG if the paths include "Program Files". Could this be a DOS hangover?Is anyone else aware of this or am I doing something wrong?

Hello,I'm trying to create a custom terrain using resample.exe with the following season textures:Summer for Summer, Fall and SpringWinter for Winter and HardWinterLightMap for NightBut everytime I run resample.exe with my ini file, it creates textures for summer, fall, spring, hardwinter, winter and night. This takes twice as much space as actually required. Is there any way to get around that?Sasa

Admittedly I have never used this feature but wanted to try the new STRM coastline data(version-2). The import process calls for setting some params and clicking on the Set Bounds button. When I do, the process begins to Read Points to determine the boundaries of the map. However, it stops after some are displayed and goes into a loop. The file is in polish format (MP)from MapEdit. I tried a ".BLN" file and it worked ok.Dick Boley @KLBE

I am working on a project evolving Mt Rainier Natl Park. I am significantly rebuilding the area, remapping every creek, alpine lake,waerfalls, hiking trails, every face of the mountain is getting a facelift for rock, glaciers, moraine rock and mudflow deposits, alpine meadow, swamps etc. you get the drift.To make an exacting replica I have secured commercial topographic mapping of the entire area, and actually the entire state of Washington.I have extracted a bitmap that covers the entire Mt. Rainier Nat'l Pk area, and since its a large area with considerable detail.In G2K4, I am using the zoom in and out buttons on the top menu bar and am using the scroll up and down le…

I am working on a scenery project that has a lot of APIs in the SCASM format. I would like to reformat the APIs to MDLs. Is this possible, and where can I find the program to do it?_Steve

Hi guys,Is there a program with which one can make effects like burning oil, in FS9? Or a good tutorial to adapt existing effects?Cees

Not sure if this is strictly scenery but:Ever since the very first versions of Flight Simultor aircraft and scenery objects have had shadows, very important it seems to me, without shadows everything looks 2 dimensional.But these shadows look exactly the same as they always did. We have had wonderful improvements in clouds and general ambience but the shadows still look the same.There is no variation with weather, the shadows always look like its a bright sunny day, on a typical gloomy UK day there would be hardly any shadows, indeed there have been occasions when the shadows have looked so out of place with the weather that I have turned them off!Of course any improveme…

Hi,I would like to have your opinion about a "little" problem I have with my FS2004 sceneries. I recently installed a new italian coastline package (Itacoast - released about a year ago I guess), following all the instructions and replacing some default .bgl with new ones. After the work, I have all the italian coastline in a better shape, but just some miles north of Rome I have two little (I guess LOD13 areas) terrain squares offshore the coast. I thought there must be some remaining from the default tiles in that area, and I just wanted to cover those squares with water.Now, what is the easiest tool to change the landclass for that tiles - I suppose is a matter of lan…

Is there a way in XML to make a scenery object appear or don't appear conditioned to a certain date?I can't find any info, except the related to effects placement which is not applicable. Does anybody know?Thanks!

do you think if you make the city Scenery,what softwaredo you need?

I'm making a building with a corner shaped like a triangle and I'm having trouble applying textures to the selected vertices. I want to apply textures to every side of the building. I change the shape of my building with the vertice option under Edit Mesh but still that triangle and the adjacent side share the same textures and I want to apply textures to that triangle seperately. My building was constructed using the box option. Here an example of the building from the top view:

if i want to put background bitmaps,and how big is the background bitmaps and how is the background bitmaps?thank you

how do you feel this software?

I'm experiencing a problem in Ground2k4 (Version 5.?) where I'm unable to create any lines - roads, shorelines etc. When I try to make a line the "type" of line box remains greyed or empty so I'm unable to select the line-type. I tried reinstalling the software - no joy. Has anyone experienced anything like this?Che

Hi FolksI am trying to establish a set of tools to use for scenery design. I have settled on SBuilder for my main design tool and GIMP for my image editor.I have GMax and the latest version of FSDS. I also have EOD and Novasim. I would like to learn either GMax or FSDS in depth for oject design. I really do not have the time of brain cells left to learn both so I guess I am asking the very hard question - which one? I guess I want a tool that has some future proofing for future versions of FS and that means producing xml type objects. I am asl oaware that Autodesk are pulling the plug on Gmax in some way or other - though given the level of investment in it as the t…

Hi,I'm in the process of finishing up my KFRG scenery design project. I would like to replace the default KFRG control tower with the default FS9 tower located at KPNE. The KPNE tower looks almost identical to the real KFRG tower. How would I do this?

Can anyone help me? I want to make my own fictive airport, in an area, which not have any airport in the real world.I use FSSC, there I have flattern and excluded an area, there I want my airport. I have flattern the ground to 0 feet above sea level. And thats work fine. The ground level is then 0 feet in FS2004. I then place the runway at the flattern area (also with FSSC), set the runway preference to 0 feet,but the runway is floating in 16 feet, which is the standard height in FS2004 in that area.I have also tried to use AFCAD, to place the runway in the area (still with the flattern used in FSSC), but it's the same. The runway is floating 16 feet above the ground.Can …

for say a terminal? I'd like to try LOD modeling for my CYYG terminal but have a couple questions first. I noticed that there is little difference in frame rates whether I'm all the way out and all airport objects are in view or I'm smack dab in front of the terminal with only the terminal in view. Maybe LODs are not appropriate for this airport.Secondly, I tried making some LOD models, about 7 different variants of a sphere ranging from very complex (Sphere_LOD_700) down to a very simple shpere (Sphere_LOD_10) - all with radius 20m. What I was seeing was more than one model displaying at a time. I'm guessing this has to do with the fact that I probably didn't pick approp…