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I have MegaScenery - Ohio installed. There are three misplaced radio antennas visible near my airport that I am trying to exclude, and then properly place new ones with Instant Scenery. I made an exclude area with SbuilderX, basically excluding everything, and put the bgl in a folder at the top of the Addon Scenery stack. It didn't work. I still see the original antennas. Any suggestions?

Regarding ADE stock airport beacon (Add... -> Beacon) how can I add it anywhere except on ground ? The way it works now it is simply placed on ground at airport elevation. How can I for example add an object, measure its height and position the beacon on top of it ?

I was wondering if someone can make me a airport scenery for fsx if I provided the pictures Thanks Robby

I woulld like help removing a default tower. Using ADE I've tried loading stock obects, then removing them, but the tower still appears in the scenery. How can I create a user defined exclusion? Thank you. Jose

Hi guys, I recently began creating a photo scenery for the Gimli Airport and industrial park, in Manitoba Canada as a starting point for designing scenery. I used Sbuilder X to create the photo scenery and ADE to edit the airport building locations and runways. I imported the scenery into FSX without any trouble after I got a friend to look over the .inf of the scenery. Then I went into Photoshop and created a blend mask where I used a feathered brush around the perimeter of the airport and used a hard brush to colour in the rest of the blend mask. I made the image into a grey scale as told by a friend, and well, when I imported it into FSX, the entire photo scene…

Hello designers! I am cleaning up in some scenery issues, and have started by correcting airports with incorrect elevation data. Using Airport Design Editor X, I am able to flatten the area, but the polygon does not adjust to the elevation of the surrounding scenery. What is the right method ensuring that the flattened area made in ADE blends in with surrounding scenery? I assume this should be a matter of adjusting the value of your flattened area to the airport elevation, but this does not work... Thank you.

I have a number of scenery objects in bgl format. I would like to group them into one library in blg format. What is the process and program I can use to achieve this? Thanks. Slim

Hello there! I have been having lots of fun working with AFCAD 2.2.1 on FS9, that I am itching to enter the world of scenery modification. Basically, I want to start on removing/moving trees and houses that are too close to my home airport, but then be able to place/move scenery like hangers and FBOs (either default scenery or perhaps addon) after I get the hang of things. If there is something user-friendly as AFCAD 2.2.1 is, that would be great. I just need to know what freeware to use, and where to obtain it. My OS is Win XP Home, sp3. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you very much! Jeff

Has anyone designed, or have plans to design the new Dallas Love Field terminal? I have looked in both the AVSIM, and Flightsim libraries and don't see the new terminal. Also, if there is a payware scenery of the new building I would be interested in that as well. Thanks for any info provided. Ed

Working on my first airport with ADX and have a nice layout based on aerial photographs. Have been looking at object libraries, most bgl files. There are some very nice hangars by Jim D that look great in the day but have no night textures. How does one go about getting night textures on the objects if they are already in bgl format? Thanks for your patience and assistance. Henry

Just a scenery user - not a designer, but I'm curious about how FSX treats scenery hierarchy so I thought I'd ask the experts: Does FSX treat scenery files located in the Scenery\Global\scenery or Scenery\World\scenery folders any differently than other add-on scenery I would install say the addon scenery folder or elsewhere? I'm curious because in a few of cases, the installer places them in in Global or World (Orbx FSX Global, PW Caribbean scenery to name a couple) and wondered if there's a compelling reason for this. I always thought that FSX basically 'flattened' everything placing priority in a top-down manner and sorted out the conflicts. Thanks!

Hi , I am using QGIS and scenproc to create autogen for Madurai area (India - Tamil Nadu) though I am from Bombay but Madurai is beautiful so thought of making the autogen on top of Photoscenery. If anyone using scenproc can confirm that it takes hours even to create an autogen for a small area as it is taking too long here. Thanks in advance.

I was attempting to fix the height at HAAB with a third party freeware airport and no matter what I do I seem to get the underlying landclass bleeding through airport background. I have this order in the scenery config: HAAB (exclude poly turned off) FTX Global Scenery tech landclass FS Genesis mesh I've followed all the guides I can but nothing seems to stop this bleedthrough, would really appreciate if a knowledgeable person could have a look at the ADE file and tell me if anything is amiss please. Thanks in advance Iain

I am a retired commercial pilot who enjoys playing with FSX. Over the years I have tweaked the default AFCADs on many default airports to bring them up to current real world charts. I use ADE 1.5 but am in no way an expert. This is not a question about how to use ADE but rather a tactical question on the correct placement of PAPI4 lights in FSX scenery so they will appear correctly over the runway end. 1. The default FSX airports all have PAPI4 lights set 750 feet in from the runway end lights and in most cases the default GS signal corresponds to the correct TCH per the charts. PAPI (unlike VASI) are designed for accuracy down to touchdown and usually are set to…

Hello again, I'm making a custom scenery of Gladestone, Australia (YGLA). Now, I got the scenery to work in FSX, but as soon as I took my first look as it appeared in FSX, It was overlapping? Here is a screenshot of the problem: The middle of the photo shows default FSX scenery overlapping my new scenery. And I noticed that on the left side of the photo, My photo scenery didn't appear either? The only thing that appeared was the new airport. :huh: It would be great if someone could show me how to fix this. Campo

Hi, Campo here. Right now, I'm downloading the latest version of ADE, but here are a few questions (which I'm new to this kind of designing) Is it possible to put (example: 3ds max or Gmax) buildings in the editor? And I'm using google maps (for photo realism) and I was wondering how to rotate the camera? (because I'm trying to take a shot of Unalakeet's Long Runway as well as the town) Kind Regards, Ranwer

Trying to tweak my fictional airport, created in ADE9x 1.50.4402, but running into an issue. Scenery loads fine in FSX, but after a minute or so, the apron polygon for the terminal area disappears and never returns. Also, if I view the terminal building (assembled with generic library building objects) at a certain angle (facing slightly downwards), the terminal buildings disappear, but only when viewing at that angle. This is a very basic airport of only stock objects, and is not overly large or complex at all. Any ideas why these objects are doing the Houdini act? (Probably something simple I've missed...) Any help would be appreciated.. Dave

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Would anyone be interested in an update to the stock Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya? Lee Marrow and Nuhaid Abdulkhaleq have freeware versions of this airport available from 2009 and 2008, respectively. But with current construction and an initiative announced by Kenya Airways and the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority to expand HKJK, I am rendering the airport using stock objects based on these plans. Here is the stock HKJK (via Airport Design Editor): Here is an aerial view of HKJK from Google Maps (note the new addition to the cargo apron and the construction of the terminal expansion on the main ramp): Here is a (not-so-good) screenshot fro…

Does anyone know where i can find a tool if there is one that is out there that takes all the custom scenery in say like this island im working on and packages it all up into a scenery file so i can upload it . if i upload it now there will be stuff missing . thanks

Greetings! I've been trying for some time now to open particular addon airport with Airport Design Editor, but with no luck. What I want to do is to change elevation of that airport so that it matches the default scenery for that airport since I have holes in runway, taxiway, apron, etc. But I'm having trouble opening airport in ADE... I can open STOCK airports, but I can't open any addon airport... They have bunch of BGL files in their Scenery folders, and when i try to load it with ADE, it says that file doesn't contain aiport... Is there someone who can explain to me how to open addon airports with ADE, or, perhaps, another solution for me on how to change airport ele…

Hi guys Thought I posted this already but it seems not ! Does anybody know how to add extra airlines to the ade9x software. I've been playing around with a couple of airports and assigning the correct airlines to gates but some of the airlines are not available in the choices dropdown. I've had a look at the manual and the website and can't find any info on how to add more airlines. thanks

The Rise and Fall of Home Made Photo Realistic Scenery....................... Almost at my wits end I have finally got FS Earth Tiles working with both maps. Interesting that the imagery with FSET is over 6 years old covering Italy and using GE on line it's only 2 years old. UK seems OK on both and the USA images are better quality in VE. So does that mean I am using old codes? Regards, Michael.

I preatty sure there cant be an awnser to my question but who knows what ADE is capable..... Is there any way that a runway can only be used for takeoff by a certain aircraft (or a certain time)ex. you can only use 26r/08l for takeoff after 1900 and only aircraft Can gates be used only by small aircraft even though its a gate heavy-ex ACA has ERJ-175 and 777 the 777 took the parking spot of the ERJ.......

Hi all. Im new to this but really enjoying the creative side of FSX. Recently i was able to create Photo scenery for the island of Nauru using watermask and blend mask, Sbuilderx and Gimp. My question is whats the procedure for photo scenery that has no water? lets say I want to create a country town about the same size as Nauru. Do I use just blend mask only to blend it into FSX default? thanks in advance