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http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b84/CheM...eenMate_040.jpgThis is Ebor, on the Great Dividing Range in NSW, Australia. The ebor river pours off a cliff into the gorge and away northwards to the coast. Holger, how did you do the white water stream in your BC gorge scenery? What program did you use? I'm using Ground2k4 but I can't find any white water stream type. Help!Che

So does anybody here know how to apply seasonal textures and get them to work?Airport has an option for using seasonal textures when you create a raised polygon - even a viewer that lets you look at what's available in the library - but whenever I try to apply them (and I've tried repeatedly) they don't work. The surface is left white and empty. It works fine with regular r8 textures, but the seasonal ones simply don't register.I'm almost done with a major scenery project but I'm stuck on this one point. I'd really hate to turn out yet another scenery addition that leaves big patches of green and brown in a snow-covered landscape. So I'd appreciate any help I can get.…

I have just made a website where anyone can keep track of my work and preview , download http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~nzcoaster/RegardsGreg

Hi,i am looking for an easy-to-use animated flag. rotating according to wind direction and strength, with easy to change bitmap = nationality, and easy to use in FSSC are a similar scenery maker. searching the forums i found many technical discussions, but could not find a link for download. is there such a flag available to the public ?thx for your answerSinzow

I need a tool which creates a list of all the navaids and runways in FS2004. It should include all the available informations: navaid mag variation, LLZ course and position, GP position, ...I used the good Airport Browser by Michel A. Mettling (it was a beta non public version), but I'm not able to find the new version.Also, I tried the database created by several flight planners, but they don't include all the informations.Is there any tool for that?ThanksCristiano

Does anybody know of an easier way than runway 12 object placer, to place jetways at terminals. AFCAD is very easy to use, is there a program like that where i can add jetways. Thanks -Phil

I know there are a few posts here on this, but nothing really solved my problem. I don't seem to be able to get LODs working at all.What I'm doing: I've made 4 models in 3dsmax and exported each as an X file. I named them aeroclub_100, aeroclub_075, aeroclub_050, aeroclub_025. Then just load them with makemdl and export. According to the SDK this should work. However, I only get the lowest LOD, ie aeroclub_025. None of the others appear (I tried stacks of different numbers). Does this not work?!?Cheers,Christian

Hello everyone! I wonder anyone can give me a hand on this... With new terrain mesh, I had to remodel and re-position the Niagara Fall. However, after re-positioning the Niagara Fall, the effects in the default scenery are still in their original positions. (apperantly they are not located inside the oblject BGL) Is there a way to remove those effects after I place the new effects in the scenery? TIA.Johan

Hi,I have an island mesh (LOD10) created from SRTM 3ARC data. The island covers approx. 3 cells. Now I want to create a coastline. I prefer to use Ground2k4 but I think that other tools will have similar results. First attempt was to use source SRTM data as the background bitmap, result is so imprecise that cannot be used. Then I tried to read mesh bgl (just one cell) with lwmviewer and export it as a bitmap, result was again very poor. The only method that seems to work is to follow the invisible coast in fs9 and transfer the movement as a line into Ground2k4. It's very slow process full of returns, few hundred meteres take hours.I also tried to create a huge polygon in …

I'm a newbie at senary design but would like to give it a try. So for my first project I'm thinking about turning the small GA airfield of my hometown into a much more larger airfield.I changed the runways with AFCAD2, that was no problem. The problem is that I only modified the airfield, not the senery, so I have lots and lots of trees in the middle of my runway...So, is there a simple program to use to edit the senery, and to add buildings and objects?Have looked through the guide posted in this group but it seams like a djungel...And also a little help with finding all the files that I should edit. The airfiel is called Ludvika (ESSG)Thankful for any help.Thomas.

This is a request for assistance from any GMAX experts.Have designed a hangar specific to my scenery designs. Can anyone either take my GMAX type files and convert these into simple .bgl macro files or can they offer me a simple explanation of how to achieve this.I am looking for a gmax scenery (primarily buildings) designer to assist me with some work for my scenery recently posted here at avsim.These are simple building designs, which can be developed from some JPEG photo images I have. Thye should not be that time consuming.RSVP to this thread or to [email protected] many thanks,JCFH

I have been working on a set of AFCADs for use with my Ultimate Traffic's Kenmore Air flightplans. Some of the seaplane bases are already done in FS (but not AI-capable) and others I had to make from scratch. I have all of them done now and am in the testing stages... I notice that there is one big problem: at some of my airfields my seaplanes will taxi out to the active "runway" and then just stop.Comparing the location of where they stop and what is present in AFCAD it looks like they pull up to the red hold short node and onto the runway- but never throttle up for takeoff. The MS Traffic SDK's traffic explorer lists these aircraft as still in the "taxi-out" phase b…

Has anyone created traffic around a glider port that consisted of a gliders and tow planes with release and glide back? If you wanted to do that, just how would you under the constraints of FS2004?Art

Below is the text of an email I have sent to a group of correspendents who had trouble with textures missing in some of my published addon sceneries. This illustrates the problem: the questions are; does anyone else have this problem?, and, what can we do about it?---From: John McKeonTo: all my scenery contactsDate: Friday 30 SeptemberI have received a number of queries about two recent sceneries of mine, Cardington and Tangmere. I hope that this circular, which addresses the issues raised, will serve to answer your particular query.I have joined the Golden Wings project, which provides a pre-1939 Flight Simulator world, and all of my Vintage Airport sceneries will soon b…

Hi Folks- I recently upgraded to an AMD 4000 computer with an Nvidia 6800, and windows XP(home). I installed EOD and clicked on the EOD.exe to do some work and I get 4 Error messages in succession: ---Error in Main: ActiveX component can't create object. Debug information:File System Object(SCRRUN.DLL?) ---Error in Main: Object required Debug information: Object pictures installation ---Error in Main: Object required Debug information: Move data files (installation) ---Runtime Error 424 Object required I went to Microsoft.com and checked out ActiveX but there are so many ActiveX downloads to choose from. not sure which one I need. I also d…

Hi All just 2 questions to ask all you scenery modders 1. in scenery useing rwy12 do you have to have the whole install programe on your system or just the scenery and texture librarys to enable you to run the scenery 2. do's anyone know if there is any scenery files for the castles of wales and also anyone doing a file for fort perchrock (a napolion defencive fort) at the mouth of the port of Liverpool. thanks all

Can someone please tell me which BGL file Hong Kong International Airport is in in the sceneryasiascenery in FS9?thanks Patrick

I have used LA quite a bit and have never had a problem. I was trying to add some landclass in the area around Madrid, so I used some of the landclass values already found there, (112,116 which should be residential/dry/fields) to fill in the blank green areas. I created the Bgl normally, but when I view the scenery it has somehow turned into Waterclass so I have big rectangular lakes!I don't have an add on scenery there, although I am using an AFCAD for LEMD so I'm wondering what the heck is going on; is LA reading or writing the wrong value for some reason, or am I missing something?I'm in the process of adding landclass for all of Austria and after a third of that cou…

In many places that I put a city texture with ground2K4, I get only small pockets of autogen buildings. They often appear on the perimeter of the texture. I'm including a pic...Thanks,Adamhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/128436.jpg

Hi thereResize Default Autogen buildings to better scale?Does anyone know if this is possible and I am meaning the model scale not the texture size.Any helpappreciatedRegardsGreg

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Does anyone know if there is a way to transfer an airfield ID using AFCAD without delving into the original .bgls? I can't find a way and I suspect the problem is that FS9 uses the ID as a unique identification and as long as there is a default airfield with the same ID it will conflict with the new one.My problem is that FS9 includes Hatfield (EGTH) which has now been closed and its ID has been transferred to Old Warden. I created Old Warden with AFCAD but can find no way to associate the ID with it.

I'm working on a large landclass scenery using Ground2K and I'm trying to learn how to use GMAX to make some XML objects to decorate it with using XML object placer. It's pretty generic sort of stuff - houses, terminal buildings, vehicles, light-houses, radio masts. You can find the 1.1 version of my scenery at http://www.virtualvfr.com along with extensive notes and piccies in the forums. OK, the level I'm at is that I've just created my first object - a house created by making a box and putting two inclined planes on top for a roof. Neat, eh? Question Number 1:From fiddling around with Easy Object Designer I get the impression that transforming shapes is a powerful tool…

Hey,I've been using Microsoft TerraServer to get aerial photos for use with Flight Simulator, but I'd like to extend my scenery beyond its coverage area. Where do you guys go to get your images? And is conversion necessary? Thanks

Would somebody please help me i have been asking for help all over and nobodyis helping. I would like to place carriers around the USA. I have FS DesignStudio2, Afcad 221, Airport 3, in the process of downloading SceneGenX, FSSCFlight Simulator Scenery Creator. I have a Template of a Carrier for FS DesignStudio, I did some edit and removed the cranes people and mules from the decksaved as a api opened up in FSSC created a Surface Area it seemed to work but ifall though every time after a few seconds on the deck. Also i opened it up inAirport 3 created a Surface area thats asphalt and the right height but i fallthough also. If somebody could help me out with it please …