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Hi all,I have made a photorealistic scenery terrain with customised aerial photos. I used the Resampler of Elvish to this.Well, in the shorelines beach areas, we have a bad square effect of the 4.8 m/pixel, that lookslike to bad.The question is:Is it possible with the program Ground2k4 to add a shoreline beach onto the scenery above ?I tryed, but I didn

Howdy,As a beginning project, I would like to create a number of small (fictional) South Pacific islands for FS9. What would be the best (and easiest, especially for a new scenery designer :-) ) programme available? From my initial research, it looks like Ground2k may be the tool; but I was wondering what other designers might recommend. TIA.

I'm to the point in my Phoenix area scenery design where I'm doing the fine details now including relocating many of the downtown buildings that FS has created but badly misplaced. The process on most of them is pretty simple even if it's a bit time consuming. I have a very good list of all the major Phoenix building objects from an Excel spreadsheet I found in one of the scenery design libraries. Nearly all the Phoenix objects have names such as Phx_BOB or Phx_QwestTower and it's fairly easy to find the GUID's for manipulating and replacing the objects. First step naturally is to exclude the current object placement and in most cases that's really easy. I have the f…

Up till now, my Gmax modeling skills have be confined to static models - Buildings, fences, runway markers etc. I want to expand these skills to dynamic scenery, so want to start with a windsock.Ive been trawling the net and various forums, but cant seem to find how to get started. I know how to animate an object (make the sock spin on an axis and stand up in the wind), but how do I get it to turn to follow the wind, or stand up when wind is greater than 0 knots)? Is exporting the model any different to a static object?I also watched a brilliant Flash tutorial on aninmating a jetway gate. How would you go about triggering something like this to move?Jon

Hello Guys,I'm just creating some large scaled textures of 1024x1024pix size. When I use PhotoImpact for converting them from 24bit to 8-bit, all works very well and there is no real difference visible.But when I use ImageTool to convert the same texture (doesn't matter if from 24-bot or 8-bit) to DXT1, there is a real lack in quality.Is is not possible to get the same result with DXT1 as with 8-bit BMP? Or are there any hints and tricks to get better results?Best regards,Sasa

I have returned from a long break from my airport project... again.I was in contact with George (Boston scenery guy) a while back and was asking him how he went about doing his awesome ground textures.He told me he used FSSC to texture his taxiways and grass...etc. Also that he used Gmax to make the runways and FSSC's invisible runway option and a lot of time aligning them.Now, following his advice I have installed FSSC and being familiar with AFW I am pretty good at adding runways taxiways..etc. BUT The problem I run into is the fact that for taxiways I am limited to the textures that are in squares. Meaning that if I run a taxiways that

Hello,Want to texture an apron, so a large polygon. With the gate numbers drawn on the ground and taxilines (maybe I draw this taxilines better with another program such as FSSC). Using PSP for this job.Had to look out that 256 x 256 is used... and the polygon is much larger... I see many problems.Otherwise there is GMAX text and can I put these numbers on a plane and put the whole on the right coords ?Can someone tell me the best way to do this ?Thanks. Jos

Hi,I know, a lot of other people have post such a topic. I red also many about this item and tutorials... but not realy found a step-by-step tutorial.It is not only for a fence but also for object where transparancy is needed.If I start already with an image of a fence (on a white background or an object) and load it in DXTBmp... I see at the richt side a white alpha channel screen (but this is not loaded yet). I save both : image and empty alpha on my desktop. Then open the empty alpha in PSP en also the image. I copie and paste the image into the white alha screen en via Menu / Colors I click on Negative.Well now... is this negative my alpha image I need ?Further I inte…

I need help with these. I use these two applications which work perfectly when I export an aircraft model ising FS9.When I try to export a scenery model I get the following screen:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/116268.jpgWhen I press GO!! I get the next screen:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/116267.jpgwhich just hangs. It seems to be looking for an .x file.My .par file is:-b-i-in--i8--keep+savexfileI've tried all the obvious things like selecting scenery whewre possible with no success.My .par file's in the folder containing my Gmax file and to which I'm trying to save my .mdl file and I'm using the same name for each.What am I doing wrong?

HiI need a goos Landclass add on for Europe showing city's, towns, coaslines, rivers, big roads etc. Any suggestions for a good tittle to buy?BRLars

Is there any way to control the orientation of default landclass texture? I'd like my urban texture to be aligned properly. It's E-W and I want it SW-NE.Jon

Hello all. AutoAsm can create large numbers of animated objects linked to VTP lines, an obvious application being the creation of moving traffic on roads. However, I've hit a problem. It works fine up to about 400 objects, but above that bglc starts to generate error messages. Here's a typical error message: created_path.asm(1297) : error A2054 :forced error : value not equal to 0 : 65536ERRS16(1): Macro called from ADD_OBJECT(8): Macro Called from created_path.asm(1297): Include FileThe lines that seem to create these errors are similar to:object_416 label wordDCALL object_path_0_0I'm using Edgar Knobloch's macro. Thanks to Edgar for his tutorial, that's what got me s…

Currently I'm using various NAV2 radios to control hanger doors but in another area where I do 3D animations, we can use an invisible trigger object to trigger an event. In this realm, as one approaches a door, the person crosses an invisible object (the trigger) and due to the proximity of the invisible object to the door, it is assummed that the person wishes to pass through the door and the door opens automatically.I would like to do the same thing in FS9. As an a/c approaches a hanger, I would like the hanger doors to automatically open and when the a/c is entirely inside the hanger and across the interior trigger object, for the door to automatically close. If you…

Hello,I recently installed 3D clouds fix (I think the latest version).This works great, but in order to increase my FR even more I wanted to try going back and unchecking "detailed clouds". When I do this, I see big white blocks instead of the default 2D clouds. (when FS9 was first installed, I remember the 2D (or 'undetailed' clouds) weren't the best but they were NOT big square white blocks.Is there a way to just restore the 2D clouds from the CD or do I need to re install?I know I know, you're going to say "why didn't you back them up?".well, I have no answer for that :(Regards,Jeff

Dear All:Does anybody knows whether there is a FS2004 Library that includes Jetways?If the answer is Yes, what are the Hex Codes or Id to call the objects from bgl placer?Thanks.Alfredo Mendiola LoyolaLima Per

How in the world can I find which bgl files contain KGSP, Greenville,SC. I want to use that new XML scenery thingy, but I don't know which bgl files to convert.CH

Anybody knows how to make Follow me vehicles reacting to airplanes and guide them to their stand???Any help valuablethank you Terry

Hi,at the moment I'm planting some autogen-trees on a photo-scenery with MS Annotator. I want to place them very near to the ends of the runway of an existing MS-standart airport. I can place them left or right the runway without problems, but I cannot place these trees before and after the runway. There is a distance of about 1/2 mile behind or in front of the runway-end, where no trees are visible, although I placed them with annonator at that place. There must be an stadart-exclude for that place. Can I change this exclude by myself, or is that not possible?Thanks.Bernhard Scharbert

I've been working on adding a bridge-building tool into my autogen creation program that would allow the user to do the following:1. Create, using the available FS objects (specifically the bridge span and ramp segments), a bridge definition object. That object would include which default object would be used for the end ramps of the bridge and which object would be used to fill in the span between those two ramps if any remaining space existed. There would also be parameters for the lengths of each of the segments and any rotation that was necessary for those objects to fit together. Determining those distances and rotations might require the user to do some trial an…

I can't seem to find any information about removing the flattening poly's of the default airports in FS2004. I'm trying to remove a default airstrip that sits at the bottom of a 200 foot hole after installing 38.2m mesh. Then, I want to rebuild it down the mountain and more like the real strip. Having no scenery design experience, it's taken me a while to figure everything out. I can rebuild the airport, no problem...I think. And I can exclude all the airstrip's objects. But I can't seem to get rid of the big hole the airstrip sits in. How do I do that?I tried remesh on ground2k4, but it doesn't have any effect.kkilo

Hi,Made a pylon... and after saving, I want to change the radius and height of the object: is it possible ? Have long searched and red the help files to do the pylon with red and white segments. Hope I can change because manipulating/texturing such a thin pylon was not easy... so I made the radius too lange.Greetz. Jos

Dear All:Does any body knows where can i get Jetways blueprints to make a FSDS model for my Scenery?I want to build the jetway from zero.The problem is that i don't know the builder trademark of the Jetways.Is there a standar measure for all the jetways?Thanks.Alfredo Mendiola LoyolaLima Per

Hello all,here is what I'd like to do, I'm working on KPMD, I'd like to move 3 default buildings. not removethem, just relocate them withing the airport to allow me to modify them ramp areas for my VA. what would be the best way to do this. once the buildings are placed I plan on using AFCAD and RWY 12 to place the other items needed. any help would be great, Thanks

Hi!I have a problem using my FS2002 sceneries with FS2004. These sceneries use SCASM's TexPoly instructions on a flattened area at and around airports to display high resolution ground-textures.In FS2002 everything works fine. But in FS2004 my ground-textures hide the new XML-default airports. Giving my scenery least priority doesn't help. I've searched the net and understood, that the drawing sequence changed between FS2002 and FS2004 so that FS2004 draws the XML-scenery first and then my textures thus hiding the XML-scenery. Is there any solution to this problem?Any help would be very much appreciated!CheersGottfried

Recently, while working on a re-make of Gibraltar, I decided to place some antennae on top of the Rock. The default generic antennae seemed fine for this purpose