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I am interested in attempting to create my home airport, KBTL, into FSX scenery using photoreal ground textures and creating the buildings as they truly are. Some questions arise however: 1) Is this possible? 2) How do I decide the scale of how big they should be? 3) When I am done with creating them in FSX, do I just use the FSX SDK Annotator and put my custom created buildings in as the autogen, or is there some other process that I have to follow? Thanks.

I've been searching for a copy of the old "TMF Manual" by Christian Stock. Every reference to it seems to end up saying it's available from the Avsim file library, but a search there doesn't turn up anything. I tried Google and Bing searches all to no avail. Anything that talks about it says to get it from the Avsim file library. Could someone kindly give me a pointer on how to locate a copy? Thanks!

Hi to all! I wanna ask if someone can help me with the following : I want to change the terrain just around the boarders of the airport and to delete the terrain showed with the red arrow, in order to be covered/replaced with the terrain showed with blue arrow. Of couse, I have installed FSX SDK SP2 and ADE (Airport Design Editor). Can anyone help me?

Hello all, I'm not sure I should post this here... but to me it seemed the most obvious. I'm running Mega aiport Amsterdam from aerososft, and like many, have a extreme framerate dip when i'm close to the airport. I love the buildings, but dislike the runway and taxi way textures/graphics.. I was hoping that, 1: I could replace them with my REX texture direct textures, and 2: gain performance in that way... I came across ADE (airport design editor) can I actually do it at all, and if so, can I do it with that tool? vkr victor

HI have looked everywhere for fedx and ups truck trailers that I can use with instant scenery 3. Have found one ups trailer but doesn't have landing gear and very low poly.Want to place them as static objects around airport cargo areas. would try and make myself but know they would look like shoe boxes with wheels. If anyone could help that would be great. thanx

hi guys, help me find the scene EETU(Tartu)Estonia for FSX only,evaluated urgently need to pass the exam on the PPL(IVAO) Thanks in advance! Best regards Anatolie

Is there any explanation as to why some sceneries show textureless scenery features (terminals etc.) when the bmp files are in the associated texture folder, but show up just fine if you move the bitmaps to the main FS9/texture folder? Where is the error (95% of sceneries don't have this problem, of course)? Can't find an answer searching the forums here... Martin

Since there are no payware versions, MK KSNA is my only decent option for John Wayne. It's wonderful scenery, almost payware quality, but the autogen exclude is gigantic and turns orange county into a baron wasteland. I have tried loading the AFX_KSNA file into ADEX, but the only autogen excludes I see are right over the airport. I cannot find a way to remove the autogen excludes that go on for miles around the airport. Anyone have success getting the surrounding autogen back for this beautiful freeware airport?

So I downloaded the KDAL v1.15b add on scenery from Doug Adkins and when taking off on 31L or 31R the game pauses for about 1-2 seconds then resumes. If I take off from the opposite direction, this freeze does not happen. Now, I thought I had uninstalled it but now that pause is there regardless of whether the scenery is installed or uninstalled, which is annoying. So I was pouring over the manual to see if I had screwed up somewhere but couldn't see that I did anything wrong. I can't find any files left over after uninstall. It came with it's own installer which I used to install and I used it's uninstaller also to remove it but it has done something to …

Hi forum members, I just started using FSEarthtiles over the weekend, and I have built some great scenery with it. However I am seeing an odd issue reminiscent of an issue I had when I created Landclass Assistant. A gray border is appearing within the scenery (see the attached pic) at the boundary of the bgl perimeter. Any thoughts or ideas? Might it be a coding issue with the way FSEarthtiles calculates the .inf for FS2004? Thanks and Regards, John

I posted a similar topic in the Flight1 forums, but haven't heard anything, so I decided to ask another audience. Has anyone been successful in getting Instant Scenery 3 working fully in a windows 8.1 environment? I'm currently creating a scenery for FS2004 and my addon sceneries aren't pulling up like they used to. I just switched over to windows 8.1 from windows xp, so that might be the issue. I've gone through disabling UAC, running as as admin, etc. I can open some of the files using IS3, and can add, view, and place the new files I generated, but I cannot see the older FS2004 addon sceneries found out there on the web. I'm sure what to make of it. I confirmed the tex…

On my scenery project, one runway has ALFS2 approach lighting with 20 strobes spread over 2400' distance. When I create the lighting with either AFX or ADEX, the 20 strobes only reach about half of the 2400' distance. Is there a way to change the strobe spacing distance? Or is there some other specification that I am missing?

I have converted a couple google warehouse stuff using modelconverterx, but I do not know how to geo position the object in FS2004. I did try with the addon scenery folder but I do not think it is working as the object is not visible. It is the Star Buck center north of KSEA. Please help.

Hey! I was wondering if someone knows a good freeware scenery for "Wyk auf Föhr" (a german island)!

Hi, I'm trying to spice up my simulator by adding wind generators in Germany. Right now, it's a rather cumbersome effort. Step one: Downloaded the germany.osm.pbf Step two: Using osmosis to extract the wg's in 2x2 degree squares The output in the files looks like this: <node id="33069521" version="10" timestamp="2013-05-23T08:14:48Z" uid="1477854" user="Ubbi" changeset="16248707" lat="53.5430568" lon="7.2894643"> <tag k="generator:source" v="wind"/> <tag k="power" v="generator"/> <tag k="power_source" v="wind"/> </node> Step three: create a .csv with moor.csvtoxml converter Example: 0,"33069521","10","2013-05-23T08:14:…

Hi I created an fictional island using L3DT and global mapper and manage it to convert it to .bgl file but the problem is there's no where to add coordinates on it even in global mapper and now my island is located in papua new guinea. Any ideas how to alter the coordinates? thanks

Hi all, I'm a newbie on FS Scenery Development, I am wondering how custom taiway and runway textures of paid add-ons such as Aerosoft, FSDT won't be replaced by REX textures or other texture enhancement? If I would like to customize runway texture for specific airport, can somebody tell me how to do it? or any tutorital or keywords I should search for ? (PS: I would like to customize RCTP runway, because it is really dirty in real world !! )

Afternoon, Tried this in the FSX forum but should have been here. I have had to do a reinstall of FSX for various reasons and am having a problem trying to get the SDK to install. I get a 1607: Unable to install InstallShield Scripting Runtime. I am right clicking as admin and all read onlys are off. Interestingly enough if I start the FSX install it works fine. I was on a delete tear and deleted the SDK, big mistake... :Doh: What I've done so far: -Tried MS Fixit which failed -Numerous searches which all pointed to Fixit or registry issues -Ran SpeedyPro PC and CCleaner registry repairs -Tried to find a newer version of InstallShield to no avail I have…

It might be just my PC but I want to know if Ballarat, Australia (YBLT) was mucked up by MS in the product compilation process. I have never seen the airfield manifest on the ground other than 3 generic buildings, a windsock and ndb which are being generated from a MS stock yblt airport. I decided to get ADE going to fix it and when an ADEx search is done for YBLT it comes up with the Avalon (YMAV) files ( but cannot open them). Is this a fault in FSX directories or has my PC glitched (again!). Is this an issue for everyone or not. I was thinking of finishing what I've done a bit more and submitting to Avsim Library but if its not a generic issue, then my "fix" may onl…

Hello, can someone help me how to create my own hangar and place it in fsx ?

I posted this on their official forum but no help so I thought I would try it here, for anyone using Instant Scenery 3..... I have gone through the manual a few times and looked through the forums but I am stumped at Step #1...... The manual says ...... "Adding objects To start adding new scenery objects, click on the Add objects tab in the Instant Scenery window." I have looked everywhere and darned if I can find that tab! Any help appreciated!

Hello , Ok the question i have is there a program that will package all the models up and textures so i don't miss something when packaging a scenery so that i can share with the community ? As i use ADE , SbuilderX and Instant Scenery 3 . thanks

I am wondering if anyone else is running into this problem with the latest version of ADE. Whenever I make changes to an airport and then compile, the compile fails. The only way for me to get around the error is to delete the boundary fence. Regardless of the change or the airport, the boundary fence causes a compile failure. Is anyone else experiencing this?

http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=147098i This is scenery I have it (libyan tripoli hllt airport), I cause a performance hit, so I need to delete some objects to increase the performance without deleting the basic buildings of the airport, please help me to do that. Thx

Hello, I using sbuilderx to create scenery but when displaying images downloaded from Google satellite are out only white color only. What should I do?