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Howdy Everyone,I have a problem with lakes being present where none exist in nature and have been trying to figure out what's going on for several days but have hit a brick wall.The two lakes suddenly appeared along the Yellowstone River, one on the west edge of Livingston, Montana and the other a few miles downstream east of Livingston. They appear to be default lakes with shorelines. These lakes are not present in reality or in FS9. The only thing that I can recall doing was including two more topo maps in the project. These are on the west side of the project and include Bozeman and the Bridger Range north of Bozeman. I edited default files to remove roads, railroads, …

Hi all,A have a few questions about effects:1) I'm trying to make an effect of 4 lights in a row. For some reason the X Offset is ignored when I place this effect in my scenery, but when I test the same effect by putting it on an aircraft the X Offset works fine...2) All AI-aircraft of my airport scenery have a jet exhaust effect. It happens often (randomly so it seems) that after landing these exhaust effects are hovering above the aircraft instead of behind the engines3) I want to make the de-ice effect only active from november to march. Is it possible to just use MOY=11,3; or do I have to split the effect parameters in MOY=11,12; MOY=1,3;Whatever I try (with SceneGenX…

I have made some gmax scenery but cant get them into BGL files. I have FS2004. Is there a utility that will help me? If so, what is the best and easiest to use? I am lost and I have some cool scenery I made.Thanks,Patrick

Hello everyoneI modified my airport by placing ParisCDG terminals. And now I would like to change the night textures of the ground. If you went to Paris CDG you can see that at night it's illuminated. The nighnttextures are in the scebery/cities/paris folder. Does anyone know how I can apply the same textures to my airport? Thanx

Hi all,I seem to be having great difficulty creating a light with an alpha channel and using DXT3 for a transparency. I know how to make masks etc and do it for all kinds of other ground objects. How would I go about placing a light on an invisible background, so that only my light will appear? I cannot get a light to display on a pure black background a all. It will appear on any other color but ofcourse that bleeds through the mask when rendered in FS.I hope I've explained this in an understandable way.Thanks,Adam

I'd be grateful for advice on how to get started in G2K4. I have read the Beginners Introduction and I have installed the latest version (V5.4). Running FS9 in XP Pro.Problems:1. Not exactly sure how to create the background map and how to synchronise it with the FS9 scenery. I have a map (from Tropozone) and I have saved this as a .bmp file (RGB) using Photoshop 7. 2. When I attempt to assign the NW and SE lat/long coordinates I can bring up my map but I have other problems. First the NW point on the map is in the ocean and I cannot ID the coordinates using the FS slew command. Second, when I take the nearest suitable NW land feature and enter it with the SE lat/long d…

and lake shorelines near Albany, NY USA where I live and it is awesome except all the local bridges are over land not water now. Is there a tutorial somewhere that can teach me how to move them or delete them so I can redo them with some program ?Gmax or Lago's FSE which I have?Thank you. Doc

I am new at at scenery design.I have created an object using fsds2.24 that is meant to be an elevated platform to land on. I have followed the help file for FSDS, it has a 2 page tip for doing this but i cant make it work.Has anyone else used this and had the same problem.Thanks

Hi,Searching a freeware 3D viewer (stand alone) who can project GMAX files and rotate the object with the mouse pointer. I like to place this on my site in order to bring life to my project.Sorry if this is not the right place for my topic.Greetz. Jos

This may seem a bit basic for you experts out there, bu even though I've been simming for years, I know nothing about scenery files. What are AFCAD files, Mesh Scenery, Landclass etc - what do they all do and why are there so many different types. What effect does each have. For example I see the new scenery for New Zealand comes as a mesh and a Topo - what happens if youv'e only got one of them ?Also i downloaded some terrific scenery for Malta from a link from the Air Malta website - it looks great but the terminal buildings are in a hole in the ground and when I taxi the plane, it keeps saying that i have collided with something.Sorry its a lot of questions, but any …

Hi guys.Could someone please tell me whether the two waterclass polys avilable in G2K4 will produce reflective water effects? I don't have a DXT8 compatable graphics card so I can't see reflective water textures in FS9. Therefore, I'm curious as to whether the two waterclasses available as VTP2 polys (inland water and coral reef, I think) will give reflective effects?Cheers,Matthew.

Anyone care to create a rendering of Boston Light just beyond Boston Harbor and Logan Airport for FS9 ?

Hi!I suddenly got problems:Look at this photo:Http://www.fwi.no/images/hus_gmax2.jpgAnd this:Http://www.fwi.no/images/hus_fs2.jpgI know the roof isnt attached properly to the BOX below, but notice the bend on the roof.. why is this happening ??Here is the XML file used for conversion:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>Any idea any1 ??Freddy

FSDS...yes, a bit long in tooth I know, but I have several old objects like simple buildings and such and the shadows seem to bleed with autogen objects. I have the project files and I simply generated a bgl from within the FSDS. FSDS doesn't seem to have a menu command for enable or disabling shadows.Does anyone have an ideas?Thank you

Hi folks I want to change the position of the shoreline of a lake and so I downloaded Ground2k4 and currently working through the setup info for this new scenery. I've got the bitmap of the lake in and have installed the NW and SE co-ordinates. I'm down to the section shown below: ------ Folders and names associated to the generated Bgls :-------- Ground2K will create several bgls as needed; the following organization has been chosen because it is logical and corresponds to the FS constraints ; Declare your

Please see enclosed pic...All my seasonal tree textures are intact and in the root texture folder. I can't get the spring and fall texture to appear at all. It looks like a winter texture in those 2 seasons. This seems to happen everywhere I've been in the FS world. Not exactly when this started happening.Thanks,Adamhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/127117.jpg

Hi,Was wondering if someone could explain to me, the differences between 38.2, and the 76 LOD meshes, not for scenery design, just so I know what looks better in the sim.Thanks,Jeff

Just some scenery i have been working on.Any comments welcome.

Have my preliminary website up and running now for my Phoenix scenery and have a support forum where I'll now be able to host my own freeware autogen creation software. If you'd like the latest version (full installer coming. This is just the executable), go to www.simulatingart.com and click on support to get to the forums. Art

I seem to be losing my night textures placed in Ground 2K4 when using Ultimate Terrain regardless of whether I use default texture or select the textures using "other textures". The day textures appear normally but no night ones.Has anyone experienced this and if so, is there a cure? Ultimate Terrain is great but I need to spice up the areas as UT does not place town/city textures in a lot of places where it places roads.Thanks in advance,Adam

Hello everybody,As a moderator of SDI (Scenery Design International) im putting out a call for all new members. Our scenery design group is running low on members. Most of the current designers are very busy themselves, and to keep the project up to date, i ask for any people who are interested in scenery design. Preferrably experience in either texturing or designing (gmax or other 3d object tool). AFCAD is not a neccessity, we have enought members to do afcad. We really need textures and designers. If your interested and driven, i can tutor you into becoming a designer or texturer. However, some dedication is asked. Weve had people only come and go after a few weeks, an…

Hi Folk's.I have done some work with gauges and panels but never tried any scenery. One thing that bugs me is the fact that after getting some new mesh and textures the landscape consists of green blobby things.At altitudes above say 5000 feet it looks ok and the high ground textures are really good but when flying low and slow the ground looks like a green leopard. This is the mid height terrain before the patchwork fields and towns. Is it possible to load these textures into Paint Shop and have a go at repainting them? I've looked for the textures by browsing the Sim but can't locate them. Are they the R8 files? I don't know what these are although I've obviously seen t…

Dear AVSIM Enthusiast:I would like to change the default textures in my CFS2. I really hate the "satellite" looking textures that is in CFS2. I would like to change these textures to either a simple grass texture or farm type of texture, i.e. IL-2 Sturmovik series. For example I would like to make Ford Island into a sand/dirt texture instead of the satellite looking forest texture.Also, how do I create seasonal textures?I am complelety new to this idea so please be very patient with me.I downloaded FSSC and I am having a blast creating aerodromes all across the world but the textures are really tunring me off.Any help, information, guidance would be greatly appreciated.TH…

Hmmmm... What we need now is a client viewer that accesses your FS9 scenery and provides real time Google Earth style satelite views... AND downloads and installs new scenery at the click of a button to replace default locations using GPS style coordinates to locate freeware addons!Che

hey guys,Does anyone know if its possible to increase the thickness of FSSC created taxilines? They are just too skinny currently.Thanks,george