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I finally figured this one out...The scenery is not locked!!! It just hasn't spawned into memory...i.e. FS can only display a BGL contents that are residing in the computers memory...If you have the library object built in with the scenery in the BGL, guess what, your library object will not be present in the computer's memory to be able to call the object and display it...As soon as you fly into the scenery area that holds the scenery library object, the BGL loads into the computers memory and is then able to spawn the MDL's in that BGL....I'll explain why they have developed this technique the next time I post..Again, the MDL's are not locked, they are just haven't be…

Hi all, new to the forum. First let me express my great thanks for all who contribute here for their helpfullness and free giving of tools and toys. I've just purchased FS2004 and am just blown away by the wonderful realism it provides and have downloaded a huge amount of addon scenery and scenery design tools. I'm a computer programmer by trade so I'm greatly intrigued by the whole technical challenge and creativity required for scenery design.In flying over the part of the Phoenix valley I live in (Litchfield Park near Luke AFB), it became apparent that the scenery for the Phoenix area was patchy at best and frustrating to fly over. Some parts are truly photoreal bu…

Hi. I have created new airports easily enough, using AFCAD (version 2.21 - I can't find a later one) and 'cleaned things up' by adding exclusion and flatten lines to the scenery.cfg files. So far, so good. (It's hardly rocket science of course, thanks to Lee Swordy's wonderful bit of software!).I'd now like to add a few buildings and a control tower, but not sure how to go about this. I would be more than happy to re-use FS9 default buildings - I don't need to create my own at this stage (looked at the SDK BGL Compiler pack, but it seems pretty complicated for what I want). I seem to remember reading that the AFCAD2 programme would include this facility in a future update…

NASA World Wind (http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov) is a stunning technology, using a public domain data and intranet connection, to put Landsat-7 textures on SRTM mesh (+Blue Marble and USGS as well, where appriopriate) on local PC.It coveres +-...a whole World.So, my idea (if not request) is to find out an easy way of converting that World Wind application's cache to a FS photo scenery.I know that there are some very technical tools (if not MS SDK) already, but some suggestions from experts would be a real help.If somebody would come out with a brief tutorial how to accomplish that conversion...or even if somebody would present us a ready conversion tool for this - I am sur…

Hi all! :-)I've one question for you:what is the default view distance for a gmax object (if I don't define LODs)?THX!Aqui

Hi all!I have one problem assigning a limit distance for gmax objects. How can I limit the visibility of a gmax object? I tryed to rename the object with _LOD_*** suffix, but I watch the object in FS2004 too far.Thank you!See you soon!AQUI :-)

Hi,I know that there have already been discussions about this problem, but apparently I missed one point, so excuse me for asking again one of the specialists:it was stated, that LWMAreaFill instructions will cause problems in FS9,and that only in the default files they work ok. By what criteria does the scenery machine decide, whether a file is a default file? Is it just the naming convention (everything called HP*.bgl being "default"), or is it the folder the file resides in? Or is there some special instruction format the default files use?I am interested in this question because if you want to change a whole cell from the default HP* (and remove it from that file by B…

I have downloaded and installed the greek scenery from The Hellenic Scenery Project (HSP). Their website is: http://www.avsim.com/greece/scenery/index_main.htmAfter running the FSNav Database Creator there are some errors in the way FSNavigator shows the ILS-icon. HSP has moved nearly all greek airports slightly (maybe about 500 hundred meters) to the south in relation to theit original position in order to make the position more correct. Correctly FSNavigator shows only one (the new) runway but the ILS of the "new" slightly more southern placed airport is missing, while it is there on the old airport that you can't be see anymore. That means that on the airports wit…

Hello Guys,I'm using this file for a smoke effect. Is there anyone who has an idea why it is lightened in the night? I tried my best but don't have a clue. :(--------------------------[Library Effect]Lifetime=5Version=2.00Radius=400Priority=0[Properties]Cockpit=1VirtualCockpit=1Spot=1Tower=1Map=1[Emitter.0]Lifetime=0.00, 0.00Delay=0.00, 0.00Bounce=0.00Rate=30.00, 40.00X Emitter Velocity=0.00, 0.00Y Emitter Velocity=0.00, 0.00Z Emitter Velocity=0.00, 0.00Drag=0.00, 0.00X Particle Velocity=-2.00, 2.00Y Particle Velocity=10.00, 35.00Z Particle Velocity=-2.00, 2.00X Rotation=0.00, 0.00Y Rotation=0.00, 0.00Z Rotation=0.00, 0.00X Offset=0.00, 0.00Y Offset=0.00, 0.00Z Offset=0.0…

I installed this file,and also Visual Basic6,but Ground don't start,referring always to the absence of VB6FR.DLL.i'm very frustrated,any suggestion please?Luca

Sorry that I keep revisiting this, but I'm hoping that someone will come along who can solve my problems, and maybe restating the question will find the right audience.I'm looking for *ANYONE* who is willing to help me get TerraScene 2.1 to use shape files for hydrology data for canada or anywhere else in the world for that matter. I've gotten through the digital maps wizard, but my images have no water, so I've either downloaded the wrong data, mapped the wrong subset of the data, or something else.Any help most appreciated.Best,sg

Hello All,Soon to be ready for download is a total rebuild of the Rotterdam Airport (EHRD) for FS2002.Check the link provided for the screen shots.http://members.lycos.co.uk/fsflightline/fs...Pview_ehrd.htmlRegards,Douglas.visit my wesite at :http://www.angelfire.com/ult/fsflightline/index.html

I am back on my project again and I am trying to improve the coastline around LeTouquet (unless anyone knows of one already done, that will not screw up my France VFR scenery)) Anyway, I have redrawn the coastline as best I can with the sources available and after following the instructions, all seems to work, apart from the fact that there is no shoreline. I have selected Poly with shore, land on right etc, but nothing. I am wondering if it is anything to do with the fact that I have Lennarts textures installed? I have tried others but they do not show up? Should I use Poly with shore or coastline?.My other problem is I cannot get roads to show up, could this be tied up …

Hi Folks.I would be pleased to get some input in this question.I have started up a small?? project where I will try to recreate my own home airfield (ESGE, Sweden), In the sim this is no more than a concrete runway in the woods.In real this airport consists of two aprons, two taxiways, some hangars, club houses, fuel facility, two carparks, connection roads and a grass strip located along the pawed runway.What is the best way to create this small airport ? The total scenery will cover a square about 1500 x 300 meters wide.Is the best way to create the whole airport as one "big" file, will use GMax, or is it better to model the different object one by one and put them toge…

I am a scenery design rookie and am working on a personal project for my own use - a small seaplane base in FSAddon's Misty Fjords for FS9. I have successfully created a water runway with AFCAD2, placed a few small buildings, a dock and a few other items with FSSC and everything looks pretty good for a beginner :-) The only problem is that my airplane crashes sometimes when it is parked next to the dock. I have tried 3 docks and they all do the same thing. The cause does not seem to be from bumping the dock, since I can taxi my plane right through the dock and it does not crash, but I will be sitting stationary and all of a sudden - "crash !!". It seems to happen freque…

Hello again, have been working more on my Phoenix area photoreal texturing and have just put in a section covering downtown Phoenix. Now MS has done a very good job of adding in a number of very realistic building objects that are great models of downtown buildings. However, I've found that those objects are a bit offset from where they fit on the photoreal textures. Case in point: The Bank One Ballpark looks fine on the default texture since the photo they used originally was probably taken long before the stadium was built. There's simply no reference to tell you the if building is in the wrong place. Once I lined up my new image however, you can clearly see the a…

Hi everybody...I hace downloaded and installed Hellas Scenery Teams fine Scenery for Greece. It works fine in FS2004. But I got a problem after purchasing the flightplan-program "FlightSim Commander". When starting this program for the first time you make a database of the airports, NavAids etc etc to be shown on the map. The program reads every file in your FS9/Scenery folder. So when I look on the greek airports in "FlightSim Commander" the most important (those who are modified) shows up twice with a very short distance from each other. What I need in order to fix this problem is to delete the original MSFS bgl files that has been exhanged with the new bgl-files from t…

Right now I have to make obstruction lights for my bridges per XML files, bglcomp and lots of trial and error to get the right position.This is because I can`t get Attachtool to work right from Gmax. I have followed the tutorial, and can attach a fx effect to this "box" that are supposed to be stripped away when I export, but everytime I try to export, I get the error shown on the pic. All my other Gmax models exports just fine, and I got MSXML 4, and all the FS9 SDK`s installed.Another question: The tutorial does NOT tell if I should attach my "effectbox" to my model before exporting, or export the effect only. Any ideas?

I can't seem to edit .hgt files with photoshop, as suggested in the Starti manual.Anyone know of a windows paint program that will allow editing of .hgt files?Thanks.

Just a question is anyone making the new Suvarnabhumi Airport at Bangkok? This is the new International Airport at Bangkok.Here is the website.http://www.bangkokairport.org/demo/en/index.htmScheduled for opening 29th September 2005Looks really good.

I built a pole in gmax and following the SDK I put a box on top of the pole, making sure it was resting on the top of the pole.I ran the script, empty box with the box selected on the pole. Saved it and exported it. I then edited the mxl file as per the SDK and compiled it. All went fine and I loaded it into FS9.The pole is there and so is the beacon, BUT the beacon is not on top of the pole, it's a few feet away on the ground.Could someone please tell me what I did wrong? I looked through the forums but couldn't find the answer.Thanks in advance for any advice.Hollister

I had a table that showed the relationship of scenery numbers to the actual file names in FS2004. Lost when disk erased by faulty cable. Anyone know where on is?Dick Boley @KLBE

Hi,I just started to check in what way the VFRTurkey scenery in the AVSIM library enhances the representation of this wonderful city. It has new coastlines (apparently made with an earlier version of Ground2k) which in places match those in the default scenery, in other places not. So my curiosity was aroused. I downloaded a satellite image of the region from GLCF, reprojected it using ERDAS, calculated the coordinates for the relevant part of the resulting picture and took that as a base map for Ground2k4. After designing the coastline with LWM-Polygons I compared the result in LWM-Viewer with the default HP955170 and HL955170 files . I was rather astonished to see that…

Is there any AF2 file for LAGO Schiphol 2004 with crossing runways?

If what I just read over at AVSIM is correct, if you place an object library into a self contained scenery file then the object becomes locked by the scenery BGL...i.e. the GUID only shows up when that particular BGL is loaded into the computers memory (I just figured that out)...i.e. if the BGL with the MDL and GUID contained is not loaded into the computers memory then the MDL in that BGL will not show up because it's not in the system or FS's memory at that point in time....That makes logical sense correct?Now in theory it would be possible to have stand alone object libraries that load into the computer's memory as long as certain lat/lon parameters are met otherwise …