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Hi! (Sorry for my english.)I want to light a tower at night.I made a tall cylinder object (tower), and place near a spotlight (light). The tower has 2 texture, one for day, one for night.The night texture is pure black, because the tower not emit light.A) What I must set for spotlight, if I want to see this effects in FS?(See attachment, red circle.)- OR -:( This effects made only in texture.Thanks!abelino

Did some programming last night that got deeper into examining the structure of an autogen .agn file created by the Annotator program and found some strange results applying the format that had been printed here previously. Everything works out really well in regards to the house floor densities, the bytes holding the number of houses, vegetation types, etc. The strange stuff comes when one looks at individual house data. To do this test I created an extremely simple .agn file using annotator that had but one house defined and one vegetation area. The house records in the file that resulted from that simple horizontally aligned house were as follows using the supposed…

Hello All. This is my first visit to this forum. Looks like a very cool place to be. To my quest. I have been designing scenery for FS since 2002. I found that FSDS2 is easier for me than Gmax (I'm all thumbs with gmax). I've started using Rwy12 and I think it's great. As objects can be created for Rwy12 using gmax, I am wondering if a similar way of doing the same using FSDS2. If anyone knows of a method of converting FSDS2's fsc files to xml files, I would greatly appreciate help along those lines. Thanks.

Aargh! Is there an utility that would reverse-convert from *.asm to anything that would be readable by GMAX or 3DS MAX?As I was working on a project, GMAX crashed and wasn't even able to emergency-save the the file (hence they ask wether I want GMAX to "attempt" to save the file LOL)The only record of my project that I can use is in the *.asm file that was created as an intermediate file ( I'm tinkering with some reflectivity settings, and I have a switch for intermediate files set in a MakeMDL cfg file)The question is: Can I somehow reverse-convert from *.asm to GMAX? I'll take ANY possibility, I'll even cut-and-paste ASCII vertex and poly data into something that GMAX o…

I am looking at is ktus_158462.zip by Grainger, needs rnwy12 and jetways to work....you also have a ktus.zip by Jeffreys, question: how does one decide which to use, or can you put both on??.........also some of the scenery downloads need a Nova, Nova gold, Lago something, and some trees, etc. I am not real familiar with these , so that is why I was asking if there is a forum on proper ways to download add-on scenery............PS, I did install one for Osgosh, Wisc, but that was only one file to add to scenery so that was easy and seems to be working........I am told that some of the add-ons really hurt the fps so to beware.........again, any rules of thumb on …

Hi, Do I need add-ons such as AFCAD to get scenery upgrades? If so, where can I get it? Am looking for KMSY, KMIA, KIAH, and the Carribean and Central American airports(free or payware). Thanks in advance for your help,Max

Hi all,I would like to know if something exists better than FS2002 Autogen Annotation Tool (annotator.exe) that is, in my opinion, excessively time-consuming because of its limited commands (zoom not powerful, impossibility of rotating buildings, and so on).Thanks all for an answerAlessandro Fantini

I need to find out how I can decompile non FS9 BGL files to XML.Several years ago, I created a VERY large scenery project for FS2002 which was distributed through AVSIM and other sites to several thousand members of the Flight Sim community. It was called by the name of the scenery area, "Stone Mountain", and included an airport, large mountain (largest exposed granite dome in the world), and surrounding park which attracts 100,000+ visitors each year. I used a combination of many tools including GMax and Airport for Windows.I have recently had a major disaster on my PC and lost all of my work files for that entire project. I wanted to update the project for FS9. I began …

I used to use FSAction tools for FS98 to create dynamic scenery, and unfortunately it doesn't work with FS2004...I'm wondering about how FS2004 dynamic scenery is created and what tools are needed...I'm also wondering if there is a way to take a GPS recorded track and create a dynamic object that runs along the GPS recorded track?Dean

hi there, :-waveit's been a while, (2 year absence) but i'm back into creating quite a large scenery area for FS2004! it's good to be back on avsim.com! first off.. if you've got half of your area as water and you've used an alpha mask, that area still counts as texture and takes up space right? so ideally it'd be better to use the smallest (LOD13) around these coastal/river areas? anyone working on a large scenery project? what size areas do you normally work with (LOD)? any other helpful formatting guidlines?it's late right now but i'm sure i'll churn out more questions tomorrow!kind regards,-mitch

Some guys of you I know from scenerydesign.org but there we did not come to a solution, so I try it here.We try to do apron lights by effect. We found the "fx_whitedot.fx" and altered it to get a really fine apron light. That's the source:==================================[Library Effect]Lifetime=5Version=2.00Display Name=Lamp Spot effectRadius=200Priority=0[Properties]Cockpit=1VirtualCockpit=1Spot=1Tower=1Map=1[Emitter.0]Lifetime=0.50, 0.50Delay=0.00, 0.00Bounce=0.00Rate=1.00, 1.00X Emitter Velocity=0.00, 0.00Y Emitter Velocity=0.00, 0.00Z Emitter Velocity=0.00, 0.00Drag=0.00, 0.00X Particle Velocity=0.00, 0.00Y Particle Velocity=0.00, 0.00Z Particle Velocity=0.00, 0.00X…

Okay, my conscience is bothering me here and I need some feedback from other scenery designers about this issue. As I've indicated in other posts, I've embarked on a huge photoreal scenery project for the Phoenix valley. Other than a few little holes I've covered all the ground and could easily release what I have to share with all the others that have donated their efforts on these flightsim websites. I'm however, somewhat of a perfectionist. My textures are summer only. The task of putting autogen on the thousands of texture tiles to give some real depth to the scenery at low altitudes has me looking at possibly hundreds of hours of works. I'd like to lightmap the…

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Concerning the so-called new version of Ground2K4 that was recently placed in the AvSim library by Guillaume O

Hi all,just noticed in the library a new version of Ground2K4, ground2k4_v6.zip"GROUND2K4 Version 6.35 (March 2005) This is a new version of Ground2k4, wich has been re-designed to be more Look and Feel and also more flexible for Spercific Large LWM project. Focus on Poly Creation and Update. 70% of the Form have been Modified , a lot of work still remain, but this new version will bring more advantage to Check and maintains your very Large Ground2k project. [...]"Thanks to Christian Fumey and Guillaume O'Neill for continuing to develop and update this great piece of design software!!!Cheers, Holger

HiDoes anybody know if I can add a Wav. sound file to an effect in FS2004. If yes how does it work?Thanx

Now that I've settled the static object movement question I had - here's another ?What I need is someone to point me to either some code examples or developers who have made dynamic externally controlled objects. For instance, VATSIM/Squawkbox allows one to connect to a "real-time" online multiplayer session. When an aircraft comes into a certain range you "see" that plane on radar, or visually. I want to do the same thing, controlling multiple objects from an external-to-MSFS simulation.I gather it's connected to the multiplayer SDK, but I need to do what vatsim does by controlling multiple contacts - not multiple "players" per se. In other words I need to create mul…

Somehow while I've been working on a photoscenery project, when I had had everything lined up with WGS84 data, suddenly it has jolted in the sim and is now off in the sim...I went to a reference lat/lon to find the image has somehow shifted even though the values I used were correct and were tested and confirmed accurate in the sim...I'm left scratching my head... I have since gone back and double checked old versions I made which I know lined up and suddenly they're all off from where they once were too...I had all my phototiles pefectly aligned in the sim, and it was verified against terraserver images and lat/lons... The same BGL's and BMPs that I was able to confirm…

Hi there,I am currently building an airport for FS2004 in Gmax and would like to add some ambient sound to the scenery (WAV.) Does anybody know if this is possible and if yes how it is done?thanx

Hello all,A new version of Ground2K4 V6.35 version has been uploaded;The mentioned authors are Guillaume O

I am making a cylinder-esue object (a tower) and I wonder if there's a way to tell gmax to tile a texture five times around the object if I mark the whole thing for texturing. Or do I have to divide it into five slices and texture each one of them separately?And just a short one about textures and alpha channel; can I add alpha textures in the same file as the normal textures or should these be in a separate file. Would it handle gradients?Sorry, I am very new to gmax so go easy on me. :)

HiI have been using Ground2k4 since its creation but after workingfor 5 hours yesterday,and when I tried to start again today, I am unable to load the project file. :(I just keep getting a Run Time Error 62 "Input past end of File"I can still load the backup one but I will loose all my work fromyesterday.If I istall the new version just out, would that helpAny help appreciatedNorman

Hello All,You can check out the shots of the soon to be released all new scenery for Groningen Airport Eelde (EHGG) Athttp://www.angelfire.com/ult/fsflightline/index.htmlEnter the site and from the main menu click on the Fs2002 scenery link then the EHGG preview link.. enjoyDouglas All comments are welcome.zipmail nospam:;>:-wave

Greetings,I'm very new at the scenery design thing, but I'm trying to apply photoreal textures to my local area. My problem right now is that the textures I end up with after resample.exe are just not high resolution enough to do the .25m resolution images from TerraServer justice. Is there any workaround I can perform to increase the resolution of the textures to something more like 1m/pix?Thanks in advance,James Bryant

I am pulling my hair here. None of the development tools I download will work. First TerraBuilder which is throwing out targafiles, then SBuilder which wont work at all and now Ground2k4.I start a project and pick a map (24-bit Bitmap), but as soon as I am going to type in NW/SE-coordinates it crashes:Before the program terminates I get a message in French; roughly translated:"Erreur 480 Impossible to create an image in AutoRedraw mode"Ok; what am I doing wrong here?Please help before I am going mad.....