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Hi ! Anyone can explain me how to delete/exclude default airport buildings ? Are going to remake Nuuk Airport/Godthab (BGGH) with more accurate buildings. I have tryed to use EXCbuilder, but the buildings are still in scenery.KalaKwww.kalak-flightsim.com

My co-designer David and I are having what seems to be a transparency problem with a small GMAX hill we put in one of our sceneries. David used layer8 to get rid of the ground flashing. He was using your fs2002 tutorial and working at putting seasonal textures in. Please have a look at this shot and see if you can tell what the problem is.The cars you see in the pic are actually behind the hill though they appear as though they are sitting on the hill. The fence is also behind the hill.Thanks Arno,Adam http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/103472.jpg

Hi,I would like to refer that SCASM 2.96 is available at www.scasm.de. It contains a small change in the coding of LWM altitudes. Now I can, for example, create a BGL file with a LWM flatten polygon with an altitude of 627.8828125 meters in SBuilder and, when reading the BGL back to text format, get the same altitude of 627.8828125 meters.627.8828125 meters is the altitude of the flatten that I read at LPVZ (Viseu airfield) in the file FL945170.BGL. This value is coded in 3 bytes. 2 bytes are used for the main part of the altitude which in this case is 627 meters. A 3rd byte is used to code the fractional part of the altitude which in the present case is 0.8828125 meters.…

Holger!?!?!Payware?Sigh!I knew it would happen some day.I hope you will release some smaller packages from time to time yet.

Hey gues i live in regina, saskatchewan Canada and do many flights out of there. People are currently making addons for other airports around me even smaller airports...I was just wondering if anyone could do some work for regina airport even an AFCAD i would be very appreciative I could supply images if any are neededDerek

Does anyone know of a tutorial on creating Approaches?I know that AFCAD can be used to add an ILS but that FS ATC will not recognize it. I assume that an Approach has to be created before ATC recognizes it.Based on the Compiling Scenery with BGLComp SDK, I think that the structure of a simple straight-in ILS approach with a straight-ahead missed approach should be(?):The SDK gives little help on the values to be used in the individual elements - and - and their relationship to the information than can be extracted from an ILS approach chart.The ARINC specification 424-16 referenced on page 50 of the SDK costs $252!

Hello everyone,Yep, the title says all. Actually, there are many sites giving simple tutorials about this function but none of them makes me understand it anyway. Could anyone help me ?Thanks in advance. Best Rgds,Laugher

Please tell me what viewer can view many bmp file at one time....I downloaded a program a while back that could view many bmp files at one time .Does any body know the name ?

Hi,I'm currently working on a scenery project of Philadelphia International Airport (KPHL) with a few other people. I'm building the model in GMax which is going well. However, I'm wondering if anyone would like to join us in the project.We need someone with experience in quality texture creation and also in creating ground polys for taxiways etc. Yes, we are "newbies" in regard to scenery design, although I have used GMax in the past, so there are no problems with the models.Anyone intrested can contact me at "wagz0627 @ comcast.net" (take out the spaces) for details.Thanks in advance,Joe Wagner

I try to use Ground2k i the newest version to create some roads om Bornholm. I can create the roads in the program, and a LMW file i created, but when trying to create the BGL-file nothing is created. I click the button and somethings happens, but there is no BGL-file. I then tried to create a landclass, clicked the BGL creation button, and a landclass bgl was created, but still no with the roads. Whats the problem here?

I have downloaded a list of AM radio stations for the US west coast that includes power output and lat/long coordinates. These stations are shown on Sectionals and are frequently an aid in finding small remote airports. From some earlier reading I thought I could enter these using EasyNav 4.11 but have found that I need to be able to open a scenery bgl for the region I am working on in order to get a starting point. Is there another program that might be used for entering this info and generating a state wide bgl file with just this ndb information?Any help would be appreciated.Zane

Here my task and subsequent observations.I've created a obstruction light object in GMax. It's "lens" portion is approximatly 8" in diameter and about 12" tall and sits on top of a small mast type platform with can be placed at varying heights on other objects. I thought it'd be neat to have the lens protion partially transparent (~45% opaque) I then placed a slightly smaller cube object inside the lens area and assigned the fx_obslight.fx to it. Now watch this, when I went into FS9, not only did my lights not appear but my "glass" lenses, the glass in my control tower

I'm using Russel Dirks' EZ-landclass at the moment for my new england and florida keys sceneries, but I've run into three stubborn tiles:This one is from the florida keys:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/103513.jpgAnd here's one from the south shore of Massachusetts:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/103514.jpgThe problem is that they are either entirely textured, or entirely empty, rather than filling the area behind the shores as they should. I have played with many (if not all) combinations of adjacent tiles with no effect beyond this on/off result.Figured I'd ask the experts! Is this a polygon problem, or a landclass problem? Also, I've been putting my LC files i…

We want to add some elements to existing FS scenery, using 3D Studio Max. So we need a way of converting existing FS scenery into 3D Studio Max format, or another exchange format like .X or .3DS.Does anyone know of a suitable converter to achieve this?Thanks,Pjotr

I have changed the elevation of the default airport in order to remediate problems I had with add on scenery. I made it using JABBGL.Question now - does JABBGL generates additional BGL (and where to find it) or it edits default scenery file?

This may be a "dumb" question, but is there an Exclude program, preferably with a GUI interface for dummys like me? If, so could you please advise where to download it. Thanks in advance.

This ESDG Ramp Lights library is for users of Rwy12 Objects Placer only. There are 4 Ramp Lights: Quad, Dual, and Single Floodlights, and a small "Street Light." All lights "illuminate the area" in 180

Hey there!Currently in process of a major project using G2k4.Uploaded and started using the latest version.Somehow overlapping polys (imbrication) doesn't work anymore :-hmmm Me got things wrong, or someone else noticed same?/Bqt

Hi,Does anyone know of a freeware scenery for RKSS??? There is one, project_rkss_obt_0111.zip, but i cant seem to get that installer to work...Kind regards/mattias

Still have a couple of problems:1. I fill the small areas with Landclass 130 (Rock) and extend this around my test island. When I show this in FS, the bottom half fills to the coast, but the top half overlaps. I attch a pic to show what I mean.2. With my real island, I can't seem to exclude the default island. I have surrounded the island with a 'Poly without shore', and set a LWM of water. Shouldn't the resulting exclude 0_xxx.bgl remove the existing island and cover it with sea?Sorry if these questions seem very elementary.RegardsDavid

I have been improving the Oregon Cascades lakes with Ground2k4, FSTflatten, and EZ-Landclass. It's fun but a lot of work. Recently I have been trying out Slarti but have run into a problem using USGS NED data.I had no problem creating a mesh "bgl" using SRTM data as outlined in the "Walkthrough" section of the Slarti manual. The USGS NED 1-Arc-second (30 meter) data obtained from the USGS Seamless Data Distribution System web site has produced strange results. Please refer to the attached screen shots from FS9 and LWMViewer. Below is my initial "inf" file and one produced from the initial one. The "bat" files from both

I've emailed a few experts, but in the meantime, would someone here be kind enough to explain to me how to get TS21 to use Canada land cover data from GeoGratis (or some other suitable data for watermaps)?Thanks in advance!Best,sg

Hi folks. I am working on a forest fire scenario. I have set the flames and smoke to appear at a certain time of day, and all works well. As the time progresses more fires start as it consumes the trees. So, once started, the fire burns until it is put out.The thing is, I want to be able to turn the fire effects off by water-bombing them. I figured I would use the proximity tag,then when the water bomber gets close enough the fire goes out....and stays out.I can get the proximity tag to start effects, but I cannot figure out if it is possible to also use it to stop effects once started. Is it also possible to use one effect to stop/replace another effect? i.e. Once "water…

Hello all!This post is to inform everyone that I have uploaded beta versions of my FREEflow Tutorial - a method to generate water scenery for FS9 using TerraScene2.1 (by Todd Klaus) and Slartibartfast (by Jim Keir) - and my first scenery generated using that method - four complete LOD5 tiles that encompass most of New England. Both can be found here (or the link in my sig): FREEflow scenery and tutorialI'm looking for feedback from you all. I will gladly accept submissions from any contributors to be added to the tutorial that will improve the quality or rapidity of the result. Similarly, if you've got any tips or tricks for me to improve the quality or accuracy of the…

I'm looking for Eagle/Vail photos to model this airport-Terminal ( West and North views )-Vail Valley Jet Center-Old North airport-New control towerArial views welcomeThank you [email protected]