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Okay I'm working on autogen wildlife for FS2004 and want to place autogen elephants in SE Asia (in the "Tropical Region"), but not show up in Central America (also located the autogen "Tropical Region")....I'm also planning on placing autogen Kangaroos in Australia but I don't want them to show up in New Zealand...Someone suggested locking the object library, and from what I've read about decomiling locked Object Libraries it sounds like if I try and go the other way this might just work....Does anyone know in short how to create an area locked object library?I'm wondering if:1. I can create a stand alone object library that locks the MDL's into certain locations (i.e. la…

It seems everyone skirts around this issue. Most of the answers revolve around designing your own objects for placement. There have been some attempts to provide pictures of some of the default objects that come with FS2004. I would prefer when possible to use the already existing objects in FS2004.The problem seems to be relating the object in the SDK to what it is ? I have a particular hanger at KSEA that I want to use at another airport but how do you find it and relate it. If I know the ID number I can place it.I think we all would like to minimize the new designs we need to make and use the existing ones in FS2004 but how do you find the right ones. Which BGL a…

Does anyone know, or indeed created buildings in say Gmax or EOD to use with Autogen. Is it possible? or are you restricted to what exists in FS9.Any help on this would be appreciated.thanksPaul

I'm wondering if anyone has experimented with autogen XML codes to see if they can code XML objects based on country, state or cities instead of on region code?I'm hoping to be able to create autogen kangaroos that will show up in Australia and Central Australia but not NZ and the SW USA... Likewise Elephants that show up in SE Asia but not in the Carribbean...Right now the Autogen XML Coding is based on region codes, I'm wondering if there may be a country coding format that can be used instead, or if the Autogen XML coding is locked in to region codes only...I'm also curious if it might be possible to use Lat/Lon to assign autogen object categories specific to certain c…

Is it possible to create brand new autogen objects (using GMAX) and have it listed and usable in Annotator.exe? For instance, if I wanted to create brand new icebergs or boulders as autogen objects?Thanks,

I have a quick question.I am using GMax to build hangers and other airport buildings which is a lot of fun, I am just learning how to use the program.Is there a library of textures that I can download to use with GMAx or do I have to make my own?Thanks for any replys,Hollister

Hi all,Just curiosity... I imagine most folks doing XML set the "IsAGL" flag to true. Anyone ever set it to false, and if so, why?Just being nosey :)Thanks,Jim Keir

Hi Arno, Just wondering if you could tell me what this error means or how to fix it.Thanks,Adam

What is the biggest bitmap dimension that FS2004 can display on a ground polygon, 1024x1024 or 2048x2048?I did a 512x512 square ground polygon and was able to display a high resolution bitmap of 1024x1024 pixels but when I tried to display the 2048x2048 bitmap, it showed up as white.Both bitmaps were saved as 32BIT 888 bitmaps. Is 1024x1024 the highest I can go? Thanks for any help on this.Regards,Efrain Ruiz, APR001Administratorhttp://www.flyapr.com

I am brand new at this. I want to build an airstrip at a remote location. I am studying the instructions for AFCAD2. I assume this is the program for creating runways. First I want to change out the default textures of the airport area with a grass texture, like you see in Emma Field, Skykomish,Darrington, ect. What program would be best for doing this, and where does one get the textures? I would appreciate any help or direction here.If this question has already been discussed by someone please just point me to the thread.Thanks in advance.

Folks, I've found Coastline Maker a fairly quick learn; it's a great tool.But I have a couple of frustrations with the UI.1. The documentation says to right-click on a segment to select a point for editing. Sometimes this works. More often a seemingly arbirtrary point is grabbed from somewhere on the screen and dragged to that point. At other times this works. It appears the program is modal, but does not tell you what mode you are in or how to change it! Help!2. This is perhaps related to the above problem: If I want to start a new segment, I click the new segment checkbox, then click on the spot on the screen I want. More often than not, rather than starting a n…

I just downloaded Norway Airports vers 2 last week for my FS2004 , and really like the scenery. I have installed the new AFCAD files for this scenery and also installed the update. One thing I have noticed is that If I go to top down view and try to get a close in view at the airport, the runways and taxiways and all airport scenery disappears in that view, and all I see is terrain. If I zoom out, all of a sudden everything pops back in again. Is this a problem with the scenery design, or could there be something wrong with my Install?

Hello allI need some initial help or assistance for that problem: when some airports are beeing "incompatible" to add-on meshes.How do you change the airport altitude?which bgl's are to modify?is there a topic runing inside this forum that i could no see?i saw that an airport is not correct in the new mesh, and my idea was doing following steps, which i please you to comment or/and correct:1. changing values of altitude with AFCAD: Airport & RWY, maybe changing the design of the airport (position, rwy, taxiways, etc.)2. changing altitude for AI-Traffic with JABBGL3. creating a new flatten area for the new airport (if position has changed) with a BGL (i use ground2k4)4…

Hi All, If your a budding scenery designer and looking for a new project then please contact me. I have a project in mind that would give you excellent recognition for all your hours spent working on it.

Hi everybody.I'm creating this Airport, i had been work hardly.My project is 40% finish.I would have more pictures.Thanks all.PS: sorry for my poor english.

Hello,I have this problem : g2k4 does not generate lines BGL(roads...). Everything else - like excludes, LC, polygons BGLs - works fine and BGLs are generated. I tried everything and spent 2 days about it.. Thanks. milan

Tried to lower airport KLBE but did not work using JABBGL. The program showed the initial elevation properly. Subsequently it showed the new elevation ok. Th AB file was also updated, at least by the indication of the date/time stamp. Any suggestions?FS2004/FS9.1 windows XP SP2Dick Boley @KLBE

Hello Jim,I think that I am about half way through the Slarti learning curve. The more I use it, the more I realize what a powerful program it is. Are you still planning to release a payware version? If so, I hope it is soon.Thanks for all of your help.Dan

hi!is it possible to make an animated object (e.g. a traffic light) for an airport scenery that can be triggered by selecting a special frequenzy (or something else). the started animation should also be visible during an online flight at the other computer (if both computers are set to the same place of course) without triggering again on this computer.(e.g. during an online flight i want to trigger a countdown that also appear on the other computer.)thx for your help

Using FSSC, I have created an API which defines a hardened surface to be used as the deck of a carrier:Area16( a %1 %2 5 5 )RefPoint( 2 : %4 %1 %2 E= 0 )SenseBorder( : 5736 6358 870 3534 -5579 -3061 -6428 -5387 -4915 -6492 -2722 -5524 3903 1101 6566 5528)SetElevation( 20 )End16It works find when placed on top of a carrier of the coast of Tinian:N15* 05.18'E145* 37.26'However, it does not work when placed on top of a carrier west of San Diego:N32* 55.55'W117* 41.87'The shadow under the plane flickers. The plane will sit on the surface for a few seconds and then drops through and crashes.Any idea what is causing this?Does it make any differ…

I am working on a project which requires the placement of individual light beacons, both flashing and non flashing, of various colors such as white, red, green, blue, etc.For those who may know,..these will simulate Holophane and OCCULT beacons as used during WWII to temporarily mark Drop zones and navigational waypoints. These need to be visible for a distance of perhaps ten miles I have downloaded FS Scenery creator and find that there is no feature for placing a light anywhere.Is there a utility or perhaps some macros out there which will be of help to me?ThanksSam

Hi folks,Another problem on the way :-)If I try to assign a colour to an object and not a texture, in FS2004 it is invisible when seen from specific angles or when at a distance. If a texture is assigned to it, everything is fine. I found that this is the case only when the render to texture is enabled. If disabled still everything is ok, even if just colours are assigned to the object.Does anyone knows a solution for this problem? I think it's a good way to save frames from simple objects :-)ThanksMarios

Arno and others,I've read everything in this forum and can get an animated object working in FS with the Tick18_xxxx label providing that the animated object is a single object, but in the pic below you can see I created a grouped object (the part I want to rotate) but it will not animate in FS. Tried beacon2,3,4 etc in maxscript with out keyframe animation of course and get weird effects.The scene does contain another 'static' group. I've tried grouping things in many different ways to no avail. Tried it with fs2002 and 04 sdk's. Any ideas?Thankshttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/105554.jpg

Dear allI've worked with GMAX already for FS2002. Now I've changed to the FS9 SDK.As I was used, I created an element in GMAX and assigned the LIGHT-Material as stated in the SDK. But the light does not work. I checked this forum, but unfortunately the only thing I found out is, that this functionality is not working anymore.Which is for FS9 the best way to create anti-collision lights in GMAX?Would an effect be the right choice?Which would be the right effect to be attached?How can I make the light show up only during the night?(I was used to tweak the asm file)Looking forward to your suggestions. Thanks.ByeJ

Hi I am trying to find out how to get the distance in Meters between 2 points using FS.This is so I can build a hydro dam but I have no idea how to convert the position data into meters.Any assistance would be appreciated.Cheers Norman