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When I start FS my scenery looks like #1, with some of the textures very blurry. This happens in the daytime as well. The center of the terminal for some reason looks clear. If I slew up close, the textures become bright and sharp and I can slew miles away, come back and they remain clear as in pic#2.The textures are the same size and I've tried both DXT1 and 8-bit and both mipmapped.A tad frustrating after all the work that went into this.Thanks, Adamhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/61446.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/61447.jpg

Hello you chapsAfter a pause of a week or two and a refit to my equipment, I started again on my scenery, and ran into a very strange problem.Normally, I was getting 25-30fps moving up close to objects in FS2002, despite lots of autogen and many objects (library). Now, however, if I add any new objects, these will only give me 5-10fps, even though in the same scenery, the ones I made beforehand work as they always did.It is the same 5-10fps even for objects which I previously used successfully.I doesn't matter if I use library calls with FSSC or Gmax ground polygons with Makemdl, the result is always the same. Even if I place the new objects using a new bgl, the result is…

Hi all!I'm here for three questions ;-)1) How can I toggle a FS2004 original lake and flatten the lake area?2) How can I place autogen trees in FS2004 without annotator tool?3) I have problems with bglcomp sdk designing slant roof houses. The roof have a bug: two textures are transparent. Why?Thank you for the responses.Bye from Italy!AQUI

Hi all! Question on layers. Is there a masterlist of what goes in LWM at what layers? I need to add some trees, but don't know the layer.Thanks!!Don

HI!I'am new here and my english is verry bad:-(But I hope you can help me at this problem:I've download Ground2K V4 with all Update and patches.My actually Version Nr.is 5.32 v.27.12.2003.Ground2K makes an error at the step.where I click on new object Button.A German Error Message say: (in different) Runtime error372 TAB CTL32.OCX is old!OK,a look in the Avsim file library show me a file about Ground2K DLL's!After this download , exrtact and installation of this,the error message is still there??Whats wrong?

I have been trying to add a texture to a simple box but the texture never shows up.I created a simple box and saved it.I then go into the gmax material editor and select new/standard.I click on the area that says diffuse and open up another window on colors. I select a color close to the color of the building texture that I want to use per the instructions.I then click the button by the diffuse area and go to a screen where I can select the bmp of the texture that I want to use and the texture shows up in the window. I then select the prespective view of the box and the apply button is highlighted. I clck on it but the texture does not apprear on the box. I will just go …

Can someone recommend a program or utility to develop VTP-excludes?Thanks in advance Joaquin

Mr Alessandro G. Antonini has released a long awaited tool to convert bgl files to xml.I have tried to use it but when I try to compile a bgl file it tells me that the particular bgl is not in the FS2004 Library. I just wondered if any one else has tried this new disassembler and has run into this problem and how to solve it.Tom Jones

Hi, I am placing some buildings on 99V. Excluded stock hangar & replaced it pretty nice with a texture in the SDK texture table. Also placed a 2nd one but want to color it tan. I poked thru the generic texture table in the XML SDK and find that only some of the many bmp's in FS2004texture seem to be allowed. I think I have the offsets x,z figured out as into the bmp pix x,y. There are lotsa textures in the texture folder that I,d like to use but seem to be limited to the table and its texture number to use. Is there any way to use textures not in the table? I would like some with almost no detail but not the strong colors as per numbers 1 - 7 in the SDK table. They …

Is there any way to make a bridge program to add bridges with these components. These are from the Default Library xml doc. I'm thinking of re-doing the bridges in the Florida Keys using the default componentshttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/58100.jpg

Installed don alexanders egnv and egnt scenery into fs2004, the scenery was for fs2002 but works apart from tree textures which just appear white blocks, installed vod and airport textures, trees v3 and nova textures but still the same, does anyone know how to solve this, its very frustrating, thanks in advance.

Scenery designers.......I'm presently collaborating with another gentleman, creating a FS9 scenery using FSSC, airport, and EOD for the objects.We are in the beta testing phase, and here's our problem. There are 6 testers, 5 using XP, 1 using 98SE. And only 2 of the XP users can't land on any of our 6+ helopads. What happens is, that they land and then fall through.The scenery is in calif, not over water, and we've flattened a hilly area. We have swapped source files to make sure we do not have any redundent bgl's or objects.We've not only added hardened surfaces using EOD, but have also added area16 commands at each helopad.I've had extensive CFS scenery design exper…

Hi all.A recent question in the main FS forum asked about lake ice.This seems possible with VTP2 polys and named textures. The main "Texture" folder has a bitmap called "ice.bmp". Here's some code from LWMViewer's output:include TDFHeaders.incinclude TDFMacros.incBGLHeader 42,37,-85,-90, TerrainHeaderStart, VTPHeaderVTPHeader label word VTPFileHeader 256, VTPIndexStart, VTPTexStart, VTPEndVTPTexStart label word VTPTextureListHeader 1,VTPTexListStart, VTPTexNameStart, VTPTexNameEndVTPTexListStart label word VTPTextureListEntry VTPTexNameStart, VTPTexName0, VTPTexName1VTPTexNameStart label wordVTPTexName0 label word VTPTextureName "ice.bmp;ice.bmp;Clear.bmp;Clear.bmp;Clear.…

What is the name of the grass texture used for default airports? I have a city texture showing up on my airfields now where the grass should be. Thanks in advance.stevekempf

Is it possible to convert AFCAD1 files to AFCAD2? ver 1 is *.txt but ver 2 is *.bgl If so please tell me.

See the above thread. My mouse has this thing about double clicking. :)

I want to remove the default grass at the airport and draw in my own. But in order to exclude it, I need to know the layer number...which I can`t find in the Ground2k4 documentation. Anyone?

I have observed that the magnetic variation given in the map of FSNav isdifferent from the one shown in AFCAD2 and FS2004.If I take LEMD, for example, the default magvar shown in AFCAD2 is -3, andthe magnetic heading for runway 36L (approach course) is then359.76-(-3)=2.76. The magnetic heading given by FS2004 in map view for thatILS is 3 (ok, 2.76 rounded-off). 359.76 is the default true heading for thatrunway in FS2004.However, the magvar for LEMD shown in FSNAv is 4.7 and the approach coursefor runway 36L is shown as 4, in theory 359.76-(-4.7)=4.46 (rounded-off to 4I guess)I tend to think that FSNav is right, because if I put the plane at thethreshold of the runway 36L…

hi,Help!! The generic building in the 2004 scenery SDK refers to texture numbers. I must have found a table or something earlier 'cause I had a note alongside the SDK example that said what the texture bmp was being called out. I have looked thru the piles of printouts I have but can't find the table that links the numbers to the bmp's. I have lokeed thru the FS2004 folder but no good. Please, please point me in the right direction. Yes, I tried a forum search but no findee.Larry Costa

Hi all,.just checking if by chance someone knows if it is already possible to exclude the default fs2004 ils when designing new scenry..as far as I remember it was not yet possible...if someone knows..please let me knowcheersTicosimmer

Hi all,Below is a pic of the default building MS uses in FS9 in most airports as a terminal building.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/61538.jpgPlaying with XML tryied to make the above building but no matter what combination I used I couldn't find the right Texture, and I used all avalable at the xls document that comes with the BGLCOMP_SDKAnyone has any idea what tecture that might be? And what texturesize is used?Thx in AdvanceChris

Hi! looking for a simple app that will let me move some buildings and add a couple of taxiways. Nothing fancey needed. However, if nothing simple exists, then what is the recomended way to go? Thanks for the info, Good Day.

I'm wondering if transparency is available in any form or any way for objects made as "LINES"?I've tested to add textures, and add alpha to these, but it does not seem to work. Obviously "LINES"-objects can have textures (how strange it after all may sound), but no transparency added to them.I've also tested to change the material itself to be transparent, but with no luck there either."LINES"-objects differ in many ways from normal "SOLID"-objects, so I guess this problem is something there's no way around, sadly.

Hi all,I am hoping that somewhere in this group one or more of you have a partial or full list of BLDcomp's error messages WITH an explaintion of what the each message means. The one in my post re ExclusionRectange (I did get answers that worked!) was pointing to the line, character of the call itself instead of saying it was really yelling about the content of the rectangle ( It turns out I had the coordinates in the wrong order).I would surely like anything that would help with stuff this fuzzy.Surely some of you have battled BDLcomp enough to see many error messages. I hope you may have made notes about the meanings. Of course they may have been already posted. I wi…

I have two questions.First I would like to add a rock quarry to my scenery. This quarry would be below ground level. How would I go about this ?Second does anyone know of a program that would let me view the bgl file without running MS Flight Sim ?John