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Hi all,Any Scottish members? If so, have you come across what I have dubbed 'fantasy island'?http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/96155.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/96156.jpgAs you can see it appears to be a body of land situated a few miles due east of the Forth Estuary. It even comes populated with autogen!I have recently installed Scotflight Scenery ver.2.0c but I am pretty sure that it is not the cause. Disabling either Scotflight or ScotflightLandClass has no effect - the island/textures persist.Just wondering whether others have come across this anomaly and/or know what installation is responsible and what to do to get rid of these textures?I posted this in t…

I used NovaSim successfully for several buildings in the FS2004 upgrade for my Vancouver International Airport last February. Recently, in undertaking a further upgrade, I have encountered some serious problems using NovaSim, in that I could not get the textures to draw properly on my new buildings. The buildings are simple, and I have used the textures elsewhere before. In the bitmap page of the NovaSim part I was working on, I marked out a strip of texture with the 4

Hi, I thought it might be appropriate to post this message where the experts hang out. I am trying hard to increase the realism of the landscape in Michigan. In particular, south east michigan (livonia, plymouth, 1D2, etc.) and the Detroit area. I am now ready to buy a third-party add-on, but am a little confused as to what "features" I should be looking for. For example, I know that in my area the mesh/terrain is relatively flat, so that's not AS important to me as the overall look of the landscape. So far, I believe that products such as FScene 2004, FSGenesis, MyWorld 2004 may meet my needs. Are there any others I should consider? What are your thoughts on these…

Greetings all!I am starting to work on Oakland Int'l, and was wondering if anyone is also working on this airport, or knows of anyone who is.I am also looking for photos of Oakalnd Int'l, I have scoured the regular places (airliners.net, jetphotos.net etc.) and have a few. Anyone who has any photos to share, please let me know.Any help would be appreciated. CHEERS :)Stephenhttp://okad.ca/cyul/

Does anyone have a solution to my problem?If I go into top-down view in FS9 to find coordinates using the FSUIPC or FSConnect link to Afcad2 or FSTFlatten, at low altitide, say over a helicopter pad, the aircraft obscures the detail underneath so it is difficult to position the "cross" accurately. The easy solution would be to have an invisible aircraft, but how do you do this?George

Hello Everybody,FSDS2.24 has an Export command for scenery object model : this give us one XML file.Is there a way to use this file (or data) with new XML tools as XML Library Creator, SceneGenX or RWy12 ? Many thanks to the authors of these great tools !I am trying to learn gMax, but I have a lot of FSDS2 models in stock...Best regards, pascalhttp://perso.wanadoo.fr/p.dumat

Could someone please tell me where I need to install MSXML4? Everywhere that I've looked including Microsofts site, seems to leave that one detail out (and, is it just the msxml4.dll that i need or is there more to it)?When I attempt to export an object (mainly buildings) from GMAX to the /.../addon scenery/scenery folder I get the .MDL file, but no .XML file. I've become pretty proficient at building design and having built several local landmark buildings, I'd like to finally see them in my FS. Thanks for any assistance, Rick Tobin

Hi All, where can i find human addons for Lago,s Scenery Enhancer for FS2002 ,thats if any have been done ,thanks . :)

Hi all,I'm new to scenery design, and a new user of SBuilder. What I'm trying to do is bring a Shapefile of forest polygons into SBuilder so that they'll render as VTP polygons in FS (so that I can preserve the shape of distinctive looking forest patches in the sim).The problem is that SBuilder gets confused over complicated concave polygons. It tends to create almost a convex hull around them. It seems to handle simple concave polygons well, by splitting the poly into triangles, but with more complicated shapes, SBuilder's algorithms lose the original shape of the poly.So I was wondering if anybody has any experience in pre-processing these complicated concave polygon…

Hi,folks, I've been using RW12 to add buildings, ac, boats etc, to my local area, and would like to use buildings such as hangers, etc from the FS9 library, but can't even find them. Can someone explain how to do this, please..Thanks, JamesJ

Hi Folks,I'm missing something very basic on a very simple FS2002 airport design on a Pacific island using AFW.I need to create a very tiny island in the Pacific, and place a single coral runway on it.I drew a "blocky" island, and placed a coral runway on it. It compiled fine and when I look at it with the top-down view on FS2002, it still looks good. But I place the aircraft on the Rwy, look out the window, and the ocean seems to meet the edge of the Rwy. No land is visible. If I taxi sideways off the Rwy, I go into water, like the island isn't there.I have surrounded the island with a flatten polygon hoping that would harden the island, but no luck.What am I missing bes…

Hy guys,mega newby here!I disassembled a bgl(all the scenery is here inside) into a *.sca file,that contain more than 1000object (and many of these "object" contain various 3d object,each with coordinates and V1 V2).i'm going to modify V1 and V2,since this is the only opportunity to improve framerate (10fps with Cessna;no difference between 1500-2000-2500mhz,so probably a fill rate problem--> too much polygons).before starting this giant and long work,i try to recompile the file(not modified),obtaining an abort liek this:_______________________________________________________________error in line 67048 ->TexPoly< m -1235 32743 0 100 104 126 160 12…

Hi,If you have installed SBuilder 2.02, you may get a 2.03 beta and test Reprojection of Raster Bitmaps files into the "Geographic WGS84" system. Before SBuilder reprojected BLN vector files only. Now you can select "Bitmap" in addition to "BLN".The bitmaps must be in 24-bit format. If the input file is called my_original.bmp, a sister file with the name of my_original_bmp.txt should be present in the same folder with some lines to specify the boundaries. Example:this is needed if you are going to reproject from Transverse Mercator[MERCATOR]North=3333333South=222222West=522222East=1233333this is needed if your bitmap "is" already a geographic projection but in a different…

LWMViewer 1.4bIg the world landclass file is the only landclass file present LWMViewer goes into a loop/locks when I disable (X) that file. If another LC file is present it works ok.Dick Boley @KLBE

Hello all,Does any one knows which is the COM2 variable?. I am looking this variable for a while and have not succeded at all so far. Regards,Rafael Sanchez

Hi,I was wondering if anyone could design an effect where the nav light or strobe lights on the plane illuminate or reflect off of the ground at night time..................it is possible because the developers from the ariane 737 did it but i dont own that plane so if anone could do that it would be great...for the PMDG 737 Thank you Tyler

Somewhere back in this forum was a thread advising against building large numbers of objects in one GMax file. I think the rationale behind this was the visibility issue as the objects extended well away from the 0, 0 datum.If the alternative is to create a BGL for individual objects (or say a group fairly close together) then the end result is a large number of BGL's for your scenery area.Is there any advantage in combining a number of these BGL's into one file by using SCLink or similar or would this defeat the original issue?My thought was to merge files like lighting poles from my current 30 plus into one BGL.boneshttp://fsaviation.nethttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/i…

I'm trying to develop some waterclass and I'm running into some problems.1. The SDKs don't really cover it, except the list of textures.2. It appears that waterclass bgls compiled with the Fs2002/2004 resample won't display in TMFViewer. It gives "can't open file"I note that the file size is about 1 or 2 k, about the same as for a landclass passed throught fs2k2 resample.3. By experiment, and searching the old messages, I ran the same raw and inf through the old fs2000 resample, and it generates a file of about 66k (includes the entire raw file data) and after tmf2bgling it, it will display in TMFViewer.4. Waterclass compiled by ground2k4 works, but that from sbuilde…

Hi folks,I am new to this forum. I have been searching for an answer to this question, but all attempts have failed.When I try to install Ground 2k4 v5, I get the following error message in a popup window when I click the setup.exe icon:"Cannot find file: C:ground2k4_v5SETUP.EXE (or one of its components). check to ensure the path and filename are correct and that all required libraries are available." In the title bar of the window it reads "Can't run 16-bit Windows program." I'm not sure why this is happening. I tried installing an older version, thinking that the install program was looking for a folder, or a registry entry, or something, from an earlier version. …

Joel, here are the coordinates of pieces missing from the 401 from Toronto (near CYYZ) to the Quebec border. As I said in the other post, it's hard to believe this is missing from the source data, and it might be better to look at your processing to see how these errors are being created. Good luck!N43 40.22 W79 35.52N43 43.03 W79 30.59N43 44.94 W79 24.74N43 46.94 W79 14.93N43 50.07 W79 4.81N43 52.83 W78 45.03N43 56.62 W78 25.28N43 59.54 W78 9.87N43 59.93 W78 8.04N44 0.00 W78 4.17N44 0.54 W78 0.11N44 3.46 W77 48.69N44 13.70 W77 10.86N44 15.27 W76 59.69N44 16.52 W76 52.42N44 19.88 W76 14.13N44 22.66 W76 0.32N44 38.98 W75 37.84N44 40.09 W75 36.53N45 7.30 W74 31.71N45 12.6…

I have started to add a road and carpark to the small airfield I have created. As I use the VFR Photographic Scenery for the UK, the actual base area is simply flattened and the runway and parking areas (all grass) have been added using AFCAD. Everything else has been created using a mix of FSSC (flattens, API's) and Gmax (Buldings). I have also created the road and car park using FSSC, however they have clear sharp edges.Is there a way of making this more realisting by blending the edges more so that they are not so sharp. I have also noticed that the texture I have used tends to stretch something awful and just looks like a grey blur. Is there a specific setting for the…

I am trying to put down a photoreal texture on the ground with G2K4. I find that if you draw a VTP2 poly which traverses across a grid line (LOD13 block I think) on the GUI of G2K4 then on compilation I find the FS2004 texture is repeated. If you keep to a LOD13 block then the texture is applied in whole. Can someone confirm this?ThanksShez

1. I need to place some fx lights on top of macro objects already in my scenery. I measured using TDCalc2004 with six decimals on the position values. Still, the lights end up systematically off a little. What reference point is TDCalc2004 using? I thought the red cross in Slew mode would be good enough?2. And while I

I was testing the just uploaded RW12 Object Placer, and detected a problem for non-english FS users.I enclosed the email I sent to the authors:----------------------------------------------------------------Hello,Thanks a lot for your freeware RW12 Object Placer. I was looking forward to an utility like yours to make it easier to place library objects in FS2004.However, I have noticed a position problem with my Spanish FS2004 (running on a Spanish Windows XP-SP2)Let me explain, I just tried to place one of the new Fedex trucks following your instructions and getting the position with the "get FS poition" button once slewed in FS to the position I desire for the truck.This…

Hi all,I've just posted a new version of LWMViewer on my website [a href=http://www.jimkeir.co.uk/FlightSim/LWMViewer.html]here[/a].Feel free to try it out and let me know how you get on. The main differences are on the webpage, but in brief it adds landclass editing and a collection of small bugfixes and usability improvements. No object placement yet, sorry!To use the landclass editor, make sure you've loaded some mesh and then either click 'Create' on the dialog or select the 'Edit Landclass' item from the popup menu. An entire LOD5 area is created, preset to 254. Just pick your class or type in the class number and click/drag to set values.While you're editing, you ob…