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Hi, I think I saw that you connot do this but I need to ask. I have a bunch of buildings I have placed on 99V, USA. I have a separate BGL for each bldg. They are all close to each other except two at the other end of the airport (abt 4000 ft). I would sure like to make one BGL for all of them. Of course the rextures will have to remain independent, none are shared to now. The BGLs are in FS2004Addon Sceneryscenery and the textures are in FS2004Addon Scenerytextures.I'm afaraid to just try it cause I've seen posts that radical things could blow FS's files and require reload. A big No-no.I would appreciate any advice. I would like to upload this project if its clean enoug…

hi,I noticed that some FS9 default airport files are classified by AFCAD2.21 not STOCK but already MOD.First question is: why?I noticed also that in this condition all applied modifications are not effective because the AF2_xxxx file can disable the STOCK but not the already MOD.Try it with INNSBRUCK airport.All suggestions are welcome.

Hi FS designers!I have redrawn an island in Ground2K4. The default was not in exactly the right place. But the problem is that after redrawing the island there is some missing land along my new coastline. My procedure has been as follows:1. Make a watermask around the island to cover the default island2. Make a new coastline choosing Poly with shore and LWM = Land /Witdh=64/Layer=323. Exclude the old coastline, roads etc with the "Exclude" function in Ground2K44. Then I tried p

Hi, I have suceeded in placing custom buildings with Gmax and want some area trees, not the autogen ones on the airport/airpark area. I did make a conical spruce with Gmax but it had lotsa faces which may affect frame rate if I place too many. Surely there is a way to get trees another way. The airport was reworked with Afcad to bring it from a 25' gravel strip to a 60' wide rwny with proper taxiways. Excludes were used to remove the FS generic buildings and place most of the houses & hangars here using Gmax. I used photo-realistic texturing by taking digital pix and working with Paint Shop Pro. My texturing of the 1st tree I tried looks a little silly but....How make…

HiI've been following some recent posts and stumbled on using SceneGenX.I have been using AFcad and Gmax with some success. I get the impression that SceneGenX might be a compatible tool for FS2004 scenery work. Please enlighten me.Larry Costa

hi every body ; is there a way to move taxiway signs ?Thanks

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Hi Ive just installed some new photo scenery and basically where each photo texture is there is a black line around it.Interestingly though it only seems to display like this on my Nvidia card where ATI users dont seem to have this problem.I think the textures were saved in DXT1 format. Would they being in DXT3 format make any difference at all?Im using the newest nvidia drivers but even when I went down a few revisions it still didnt seem to make a difference.Any idea?Ive read some posts on here about black lines and that the positioning of the texture had to be correct etc but then they wouldnt display ok on ATI cards either I guess if that was the case.ThanksCraig

Does Patch Ground2K4 V5.33 [ground2k4_patchv5_33.zip] on Avsim File library the correct and most current update for ground2k4_v51.zip ? It has been a while since I have used or installed G2K4 and I have lost track :-hmmm

I have been using AFCAD for a while and, as many of you know, you cannot import buildings into the scenery in it.How can I create an airport in AFCAD and then add some buildings or macros around it, what programs do you suggest, I'm currently using FSSC but its buggy and cumbersome.FSSC allows to build everything (including runways) but I'd like to keep using AFCAD for runways, taxiways and parking.Will it present a conflict in FS2004 having several BGL files in proximity (coordinates), how can I handle layers in the scenery.cfg file to make a scenery visible over anotherThank you

Can I use G2K4 without having to put a background image into it? I would just like to draw the roads by hand while looking at a map. The problem, believe it or not, is that I don't have a compatible word processing program on my computer so I don't get any of the illustrations in Ground 2K4 for Beginners. It makes it kinda hard to figure out. I was experiencing frustration trying to get it working with a background image.This will be the finishing touch on 4 airport sceneries that I will release soon. Well, except for the AI. Here's a few pics of my latest 'little' project - CYQD...Thanks, Adamhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/67494.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/…

Hi out there!After redrawing my greek island Skiathos half of the runway of Skiathos Airport is placed in the Sea. Can anybody recommand a program that makes it possible to fix this problem? (Obsiously MS has placed the runway in the wrong position! - Luis wrote about this earlier, so seem to be a rather common problem).Best RegardsLars

Is it possible?Robert

Is there a way to see or re-render the scenery changes in fs9 without having to restart it every time there's a change to a scenery file?

Hi my name is Yuri Sheykman and me and my partner Chris Waldo have opened a new scenery design company called East Coast Designs. We have 2 jobs opened for 2 experianced designers. Our first project will be KSTL. We have alot of KSTL photo material and are ready to start work as soon as we getn enough people, If you are interested email me at [email protected] or my partner Chris Waldo at [email protected] Yuri Sheykman

Hi everybody,I have made a new tool, Library Creator XML.This tool gives you a GUI to make libraries in the new Fs2004 XML format. You can very easy add or remove objects from a library or mass add all MDL files in a certain folder.So basically it offers you the functions of the FsRegen library compiler, but then for the Fs2004 format.You can get the current (beta) version from here [a href=http://www.scenerydesign.org/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=31]here[/a].I hope you find this tool useful,

I know one can use LWMview to find LWM files bur where would one look to find highway and streams. The reason I am asking is while I am making scenery I want to be able to disable default scenery. Take the North East for example what area is coverd per BGL? What file removed Roads what file removes streams, and so on. I hope someone has been searching this area and has an easy answer. I want to remove the area around West Virginia and want to know how far in each direction I must go.I guess it is not possable to for example to edit each LWM and VTP ASM file to tell FS to disable area in each file.Any help here?Richard

Please see pic. I get this error when trying to run a script. I'm trying to attach fx_strobe.Thanks!!!Adamhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/66397.jpg

Is it possible to create an object in GMAX that can be used in SceneGenX? My guess is that it is possible, anyone know how?Robert

Hi!Today I was trying to generate one bridge in my scenery and I've got really nice result shown on pic.Since bridge is over a valley it is placed according to mesh and I would like to know, does anybody know how to make it straight, not mesh aligned?Here is the code, originaly according to the code by Rhumbaflappy: VTPDataArea 1, 1, 2, 6VTPLayer 7, 0; bridges are layer 7VTPNumTexturesInLayer 1, 0VTPTextureId 12, 0VTPPolyCount 1, 0VTPPolyMethod2 4, 1, 0VTPWidePoint 7140, 1, 6072, 3; start pointVTPWidePointWidth 32; all widths seem to be 32 VTPChildPoint 1, 0, 1, 0; create the starthook VTPChildPoint 68, 0, 39, 0; offset to the end of the bridge in VTP2 points VTPChildPoi…

Hi,I'm not an advanced scenerybuilder, so bear with me. I just downloaded James Belk's ak1.zip. It's a scenery of some primitive strips. However In Fs2004 one of the depicted strips is default (Yankee Creek 2). Is there a way to completely exclude an default airport ?Rob "Holland&Holland" de Vries http://www.emotipad.com/emoticons/Flying.gif"To go up, pull the stick back. To go down, pull the stick back harder"

Hi,may be this is a dumb question but I don't know how is the right way to save in BGLcomp.XSD the modifications suggested by Alex Antonini.I use notepad as Alex says but when I go to save the result is a file.TXT which doesn't work with BGLCOMP.Please an appreciated help.

Hello all,To reshape coastlines and fill in areas using LWMs, is there something new using XML or we still have to code in old asm format? I believe there isn't any new SDK for VTP and LWM.Storm

Finally, I've done it. I can now export roads from ESRI ArcMap into FS2004. One thing I noticed is that my roads don't connect perfectly in FS2004, i.e. I get dangles, although I corrected all the roads in ArcMap, so they are connected. Anyone else experienced this? Maybe it has to do with the accuracy of VTP lines?Rhumbaflappy, did you come up with BGLC macros for the "sub_wide_points", or what ever we call them? I had a quick search, but couldn't find your macros. If you have written macros already. I don't have to solve the problem how to write 3-byte values myself.On a side note, I'm amazed at the detail I have now. This morning, I packed a backpack with some nice lun…

If I am creating the source for an LWMDataAreaDrawPolygons and the LWMPoly3 would contain just the four corner points of the area, is there a another macro which is more efficient than LWMPoly3.In other words, how do I specify that the whole area is to contain water?George