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HelloI have just started using AFCAD. Today I have just tried to uptade Singapore's Changi Airport's runway, changing it from 02R to 02C and 20L to 20C. I went and changed the runways. After i finished i tested it on FS and I checked the ATIS, for the runways it said 'ILS 02L and Visual 02C'. I thought that that couldn't be right and i went back to AFCAD and checked the navaids and it said that 02C had an ILS. *How can I make it so the ATC in FS will make ILS 02C approaches available?*thanks Patrick

I have been messing around creating some textures for runways and taxiways for a small airfield. I have used FSSC to create the various elements, however what I cannot get my head around isthe followingIf I create say a shale taxiway, the centre part of the bitmap is the shale and the outer edges are the grass as I want it to blend in. When I assign the texture to the runway I don't get the 'shale' part running up the centre end the grass running the length of the taxiway I get segments of the shale then the grass, then shale and so on.The .bmp is created in photoshop and I usually make it into a 256x256 image.I thought it was me then I tried one off a commercially availa…

The last version that I have is v1.0 3/25/05.I understand that an update was posted but alleged complaints caused it to be removed. Will that, or an even better, update to this needed program be forthcoming???Dick Boley @KLBE

Hi,I should be really grateful for some help. I want to make custom textures and assign autogen to them. I am new to scenery design and I know that this topic has been extensively discussed in this forum - I have read the posts. Unfortunately, I don't properly understand what I am supposed to do to get autogen to show up on custom textures.I am using Ground 2k4 version 5.04 to make a VTP2 poly. and assigning #253 for the Custom texture. After reading the posts on this with as much understadning as I could muster I gathered that one has to use as the texture name the number shown at the bottom right of the Ground 2k4 screen and that that same number is of course assigned t…

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I have almost completed my latest project and am trying to add items that will make it look that little bit more special. One of the things I want to do is to create an Airport Beacon within FSDS.I'm trying to create a light that flashes as the sequence below, and if you know how to achieve this, I would appreciate your help.---------Colour = GreenFlash sequence = 3 Flashes (NOT Very fast flashes, they should be flashes that are clearly visible during flight), break/pause for 10 seconds, 4 flashes, break (lets say 5 seconds).---------The other option is to edit an FX file in some way to achieve this, but I haven't got a clue how to do it. I am struggling to get my chimney…

I've been trying for days to reduce the forest fire effect to produce a nice little campfire for some bush scenery with little progress. Has anyone tried this who might be willing to share some insight?Kind regards,-Greg

HELP WANTED !!!Hello everyone, I am looking for this scenery of Beijing Capital airport for FS 2004 (see the attachment). Does somebody know where I could find it???I've noticed that this scenery often appears as a background on Liu Qing's files...Thanks,CC

Hi there. Has anyone got any tips on accurately fitting top-down-view screen shots so that new land class is placed accurately in the sim environment? My grid-gen cells do not match. They are out of scale and of the wrong coordinates. I

What is the easiest way to remove a complete airport? For example, Miegs in Chicago is no longer in exsistance, so I want to completely remove it from FS9.Thanx in advance.BMBanister

I've read, I've searched. I can create hangers with animated doors and CAT and everything.What I can't seem to do is pilot an airplane into an open hanger that I created without crashing. The animated hangers in RWY12 seem to work. I'm using GMAX. It doesn't seem to matter if the hanger has an animated door or not. I've used a small airplane that can easily fit.I've changed the view so I'm inside the plane (I've read about some problems with viewpoints creating a crash).http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/113020.zipThis is a zip of the cat enabled BGl (frequency nav2 at 113.00 to open door) as well as the GMAX source. It's a simple design.There seems to be invisible …

I use UK VFR Photographic Scenery, which has no night images. Is there anyway to change from this scenery to use MS default scenery AUTOMATICALLY based in time of day and season? I know how to do this manually by disabling it in the scenery library but it would be better it if happened automatically.

How do I get Lightwave8 files into FS9? Jay

This is a bit of an advanced animation question, so please bear with me...I have a rotation AND linear motion animation that needs to be timed precisely: When linear motion stops, rotation starts. The Rotation controller, as stated in the SDK, must be "LINEAR" (this means that rotation happens with no rate of change, i.e. linear), while motion has a BEZIER controller (which means you can actually assign how motion behaves from keyframe to keyframe)The problem is, the only setting for a motion key transition that keeps synched with the time line also produces a "dip" around a keyframe: the object overshoots the target position and slowly moves back to it. If I use a settin…

Hi all!I've a problem placing a firework effect in FS2004. It is not visible!This is the xml file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>Why I don't see anything? Thank you very much for the answers!Regards,Aqui

Done a gMax object that should have seasonal textures.Here is ensbgnd_0.asm:ensbgnd_top label BGLCODEtexture_riff_start_ensbgnd label word db 'T','E','X','T' dd texture_riff_end_ensbgnd - $ - 4 TEXTURE_LIST_BEGIN TEXTURE_DEF TEXTURE_BUILDING , <255,255,255,255>, 3535.533809, "ENSB_SFC_WI.BMP" ; 0 TEXTURE_DEF TEXTURE_BUILDING , <255,255,255,255>, 3535.533809, "ENSB_SFC_SP.BMP" ; 1 TEXTURE_DEF TEXTURE_BUILDING , <255,255,255,255>, 3535.533809, "ENSB_SFC_SU.BMP" ; 2 TEXTURE_DEF TEXTURE_BUILDING , <255,255,255,255>, 3535.533809, "ENSB_SFC_FA.BMP" ; 3 TEXTURE_LIST_ENDIFIN1 tex_01, 0000006f8h, 0, 0MATERIAL 0,0 ;…

I'm in need of a little help here,I'm no scenery wizz, but i was dabbling a bit with afcad, i was using it on third party scenery, all seemed to be going well, until a day later when i wanted to fly, i downloaded the real world weather as i always do, and the qnh at the airport i was messing with was 303.87, this is obviously off all the aircraft altimeter scales, not to mention giving you an altitude of -23000ft or so. It has also not changed the weather in the surrounding area for about three days. Now i'm not sure if it is the flightsim real weather server that is poked, or it is something i've done in the scenery, as i said i'm no scenery wizz so i don't know what i c…

Hello,I'm just experimenting a little bit with AFCAD. As I created mostly small grass airfields the last few months and didn't do anything else than moving runways and starting locations, I'm a real newbie with this program.I've got it to create some nice taxiways and aprons so far. But the problem is, that the taxiline created by AFCAD is far too thick for my airport (actually the taxiway is only 4-5 meters wide!)Any ideas? :(Best regards,Sasa

Having trouble getting the animation correct in Gmax. How does one set up a pivot so the doors will cycle through the proper animation?I'm trying to make folding doors.Thanks,Adam

Hi,I've problem with RWY12 object placer and AG Tree Library. After "planting" around 60 trees ( compiled to 3 bgl's, around 20 trees in each file ) next placed trees are not showing in FS2004 up despite bgl's ( fourth and fifth ) has been added to scenery libraly :( .pls help regards Ericson

I would like to add library objects from Rwy12 to Fse Editor or Enhancer. Can it be done and what do I need to do?Any help appreciated.

Hey everyone one, I was wondering if anyone could help me. I created a steam API using FSEffects now can anyone tell me if its possible to scale this steam to a smaller size, I want to use it as an airconidtioning vent at my KBUF, I managed to make it seasonal, so it only comes on in winterm the trouble is at the moment it looks a little like the roof is on fire!, i`ve tired rescaling it using airport for window, but is it possible to edit the actual scasm. Or an I correct in thinking that because its an effect you can`t rescale it?Thanks in advanceSimon Baldwin

Hi,I am able to create a mesh of triangles and I can project a texture on them. But I am not able to call the triangles so that they cover the mesh and that they are covered by runways.I used LayerCall() and PerspectiveCall() and played with altitudes in all sort of ways. I also tested with TexPoly() and DrawTriList(). Calling the triangles with LayerCall( :label 0 ) I get flicker. Using any number greater than 0 the runway gets covered (even if I set its altitude greater than the altitude of the triangles).The only way that I can see the runway is to use the FS2002 runway command (not the XML runway). In that case it seems I can control the order of the ground polygons t…

For those of you that have not tried it as yet check out Google's new venture. Google Maps. You can get Satellite images of areas in North America by simply clicking on the "Satellite" link at the top right side and doing a search for the Zip or Postal code. I use it for my AFCADs now.Hope you find it useful.Chrishttp://maps.google.comHere are some of the images of CYYZ using the zoom feature.http://www.vistafx.com/google/map1.gifhttp://www.vistafx.com/google/map2.gifhttp://www.vistafx.com/google/map3.gifhttp://www.vistafx.com/google/map4.gifhttp://www.vistafx.com/google/map5.gif

hey guys .. i love this forum and i love FS2002 so i decided to post a thread about the only thing that i dislike about FS2002 and want some help to change it ! well i downloaded tons of aircraft and airlines on to my FS .. and they all work just fine .. but when i land or when i am departing i never see any of these airlines arond me .. i see the default airlines of FS that i do not like ! how do i make FS use the airlines i have downloaded as traffic in the airport ? and another quick questions .. some of the planes i downloaded .. it says that i can get in to the cabin .. where the passengers are .. but i dont know how to !! any help ? thank you guys ;)