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Dear All:I have a problem with a building I am trying to design in GMAX. The building is cylindrical. I typically use the unwrap UVM technique to put textures onto cylinders, however since this technique is more suitable for flat planes the textures end up squished on the sides of the cylinder. So I figure to make the object look more realistic, I would use UVM map modifier and then place a crop image on each face of the cylinder. The object looks fine in GMAX, however when I export it to FS9 each face of the cylinder contains the entire bitmap and not the cropped image. Has anyone else encountered this problem? If so, please tell me how you were able to resolve it.Kind r…

I am using afcad to add some parking spots to a little fictional bush airport I did up with FSSC and I can't get my helipad parking to show up in the main menu of FS9. Is there anyway to get those to show up?

Hello everyone.I've decided to try my hand at GMAX but I have a problem when using bglcomp.exe to make a bgl file of the house tutorial from the gmax SDK.Here is the error message I get: Any Help?Thanks in Advance

Dear All:Have any of you experienced a crash when near an airport created using AFCAD only when the GPS mode is enabled? I have created a new airport and have discovered this problem. The error refers to the facilities dll. Noting several threads, I have reduced the display texture size to less than massive and the problem exists regardless of season to no avail.Regards,David S.

Hi..can someone please post an example of an xml file with at least 3 objects attached via gmax attached tool???... I've been trying with no successd to modify the code....cheers

I hope someday a law is passed outlawing unreversable default flattens.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/69319.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/69320.jpgThe SRTM data i have been playing with is just stunning and can be totally ruined with a few misplaced/non existent lakes.I use G2K4(great tool) to adjust the lions share of the shorelines, which i think really makes the mesh, but this problem really causes me to lose steam on areas i want enhanced.a few of my friends have asked for me to release some of what i have done, but I just dont feel like its 'done' until those uglies are fixed.is there any hope in sight?

Hello and thanks in advance for any assistance.The problem is I have downloaded some addon scenery which I can see but the area and associated objects all appear white. Any ideasregards Rob

Hello,SBuilder - which is a graphic tool to make photo, landclass and LWM/VTP scenery - is available at:http://www.ptsim.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=132Also SCASM 2.91 was updated to support the new FS2004 VTP/LWM terrain extensions. SCASM is available at:http://www.scasm.deRegards, Luis

Hi AllI've been using AFCAD and TTTools to edit some of the AI around my FS installation and find that the taxiway signs being left in the middle of the taxiway are becoming more and more irritating to me.I did a search here of the forum for editing these things but the results I got back returned instructions that require a background in programming which I don't have. Writing a string of xml instructions to be compiled is not something I can do.AFCAD readme indicates that a future update is to add the ability to add/edit/delete both taxiway signs as well as default buildings.Two questions:Any one know the progress of those features?Is there an idiot proof way (spell th…

This is directed to Holger but also anyone that may know the answer. I just downloaded the file G2K4-bmp_Packwood-N.zip which Holger proccessed at my request. Now I am completely new to this kind of scenery design where as before this all I have done is place macros and such using FSSC. Now the problem I am having is that after decompressing the images and converting them to .bmp I am not able to open them with Ground2K4. The only file type that it will allow is .LWM. Any ideas in what I may be doing wrong?

Is there more information somewhere on the layout of the fields referred to in the terrain header (TDFTerrainFileHeader/TerrainHeaderStart) like 'land cover', 'land class', 'water class', 'elevation' and 'main terrain data' ?I haven't found anything in the docs so far.Basically I am trying to figure out where the terrain type/texture references are stored that aren't defined as VTP data. For example like in the middle of the African Sahara desert, where there is nothing but repeating desert texture. I assume there is some basic texture layer for the entire world defined somewhere !?Thanks,Matthias

Hello eveyone. I would like to do a new version of St. Donat Airport, CSY4, in the Qu

Hi all,I have made a lake and a pond for FS9 with BGLC. I get the feeling that the method is going out-of-date even though it seems to work. I now now want to exclude wrong roads and make some new roads. If I understand right, the VTP coding has changed for FS9 and maybe BGLC is not the proper tool. I would like to stay with all XML coding anyway. It was a terror at first but with copy-paste for syntax I like it better than the old stuff. What tool(s) should I be using and would you provide a short segment example of VTP point coding? I can get the point coordinates with several FS9 tie-in tools but I am confused re the VTP header sructure, etc. What set of new macros d…

An EZ question?I am using EZ-Landclass and want to change to the landclass shown in the scenery files 004b2su1.bmp - 004b2su7.bmp or 004h2su1.bmp - 004h2su7.bmp (farmland with square fields). What is the proper EZ-Landclass identifier?Thanks,Phil

Quick one... Is there a limit to the number of bridges Ground2K4 allows us...?Our city now, incorrectly has, 2 FS9 default bridges, where it used to, correctly have, in FS2K, 9 bridges in our downtown area...I've already added 2 bridges out at our Airport, again replacing the ones Microsoft had incorrectly removed in FS9...Now in a whole new Ground2K4 file I'm trying to add 5 new bridges to our downtown area, and it only lets me add, 1 Rail Road bridge, and nothing else, except flat roads which don't cut it for bridges...I'm just wondering if I have too many Ground2K4 roads nearby in another Scenery directory, which I wouldn't think would affect it...Also what Line/Poly …

Does anybody know of any online beginner's help documents available for Ground2k4?The reason I ask is that I'm at work at the moment so am unable to view the help file that's with the program itself. I'd just like to have a read at lunchtime to get myself prepared for some experimenting tonight.Victor

I'm using the same set of data to generate VTP shore lines and LWM masks, but the points aren't identical. I noticed that this is also the case for default scenery.The problem is that I get water bleeding through the shorelines, which looks quite ugly. Is this a known problem and is there a fix?Cheers, Christian

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Hi everyone,This is what I think I know so far (don't quote me on it please ...). Who knows, someone might even find this useful; if so, great! The info comes from all sorts of sources (including decompiling some stock .bgl's and mining this forum; a big thanks to everyone who has provided the information!)Is there anyone who can help me straighten out some of the questionmarks, please? :)All the best,/Bj

I've been trying to get spot lights to shine on the ground in FSCOF. I know it's possible to have lights shine on objects because my new tower is placed next to a rotating beacon and the light beam "circle" passes over the front surface of the tower. I don't know if this is possible with the concrete FS tiles though. I tried doing a light _lm map, which works great for buildings but displays a big ugly black disk around it when hit by aircraft landing or taxi lights. I've read some stuff on this but nothing I can get to work. I set up a dummy scene with a large box and a light shining on it. It shows the light in GMAX but not COF.I can't find any tutorials or info that wi…

Greetings all!I have been making scenery for FS since FS98. I have a question regading default scenery excluding under FS2004.What I want is to exclude the default scenery for an airport, but keep the AFCAD data "visible", as in runways, taxiways, signs, nav data etc. I can make an exclude .bgl and it's done, but if I put an AFCAD2 file in my folder, I don't see the actual runways, taxiways etc. just AI traffic moving around in the big empty space I created with my exclude. What I want to do is lay down my API's on top of an AFCAD2 file.Can anyone point me in the right direction??CHEERS :D

I rememmber I read that textures on building behave like those in aircraft because the compliler does it as aircraft types...but I believe that there was a way to fix this in the xml file...does Anyone knows?? I just ca

I'm working on my first custom building. My question is how do you get a sharp texture? I know that the smaller the texture the lower the system impact. I made one in PSP that looked pretty good at 1024x1024, but when I downsized it it looked pretty bad. Is it a trade off you have to make? I'm using PSP.Robert

Hi. For some reasons I can't log onto this site. I get an unauthorized access reply when I go here: http://www.freeflightdesign.com/ Never had that problem before. Has there been a vocational change of the site?Hugo

Greetings Everyone...A buddy of mine, who is an AirForce Lieutenant stationed down in Texas, and myself have been putting the finishing touches on our new Portland, Oregon, KPDX scenery, which we are hoping to release April 1st...We have put a terrific amount of hours over the last 5 months painstakingly Researching, Photographing, and learning our Airport, and we are very proud of what we are ready to release for both FS9 and FS2K folks...Having said this, something of importance has come to light within the last few days...Both of us have high-end workstations, with high-end Video Boards... He is using an upper-end, ATI Radeon, and I'm using a, Nvidia-GEForce-4, Ti4600,…