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Hello. I am a user of FS9-point-whatever. I have been dreaming of modifying my local airport(s) to make them more accurate and realistic. However, I have not done any scenery creation since "Fly!" and ProPilot; and frankly my working hours don't really allow much time to learn and indulge in that right now. How steep is the learning curve with any of the "Instant" scenery programs? Or maybe some creative and generous person would like a little side project? :-) Maps and photos are available. Any tips or advise are welcome! Ron

Hi all. I have just launched a website for my FREEWARE and PHOTOREAL (yes you heard right) scenery projects. The address is: freehqflightsimscenery.simplesite.com. Please visit and tell me what you think. Also, see the site's help wanted section, if you have past scenery design experience, this may be for you. Thanks :smile:

Guessing this might be the right forum section and I’m and FS9 user by the way. I’ve started trying to make moving ground traffic with Afcads and using the vehicles included in the DTTA Tunis scenery and while my handiwork still needs a few tweaks I’m generally very happy with how things are progressing. So the reason for this post is that I’d like some more and different vehicles to use that I can put straight in my Aircraft folder and if anyone could point me in the direction of some FS9 ground vehicle models to download that would be ideal as I’ve not got a clue how to make my own unfortunately. That said, if making my own models isn’t that difficult for novice then …

Hello, Please take a loot at the middle monitor. The buildings are black and change to white and vise-versa. Can some one explain me how to find what textures (I suppose these are textures..) are missing? thanks in advance

First off I would just like to say Hello and thanks for having me in your community, however this is not the appropriate time for hellos. for I have a NOVICE SCENERY QUESTION! Alright so I have been looking around the net and it doesn't appear to be a very popular question asked (or my internet searching just sucks) but anyway I have a specific scenery question. I like to do a lot of flying in Tri-Cities, Washington As you can see a distinctive feature are those 3 bridges. Is there anyway I can add those bridges to the default scenery? The main bridge, known as the cable bridge already has a sketchup model and I know you can edit scenery wi…

I havent't dug around on the forums, so I don't know the current attitude about using SketchUP to create models for FSX. However, I have used it and it really does simplify creating buildings and such for FSX. The second reason I post this is simply because I think this model of my flight sim setup looks pretty cool when rendered. It really would be worth your time to get Sketchup and learn how to use it. Very shallow learning curve. And the tutorial I found on the Web (see link below) is excellent and tells you everything you need to know. I create stuff, then use Airport Design Editor to place them .... and they are all free. Tutorial: http://www.calclass…

Using the FSX Objects Placement tool I placed 9 objects in two steps. Placed 4 and ran FSX and the objects appeared. Then placed 3 more and they did not appear after reload of FSX. Original 4 ok. If I go back to the placement tool and use it to open the XML for the project they are all there in the objects list. The added objects do not appear in the normal FSX display. I checked the BGL with BGLAnalyzeX and the objects are in the BGL. So I see some but not others.Regards,Dick Boley

Hi guys Hope I'm in the right forum and hope you can help. I would like to try and populate the waters around Hong Kong with lots of static ships. Real world, the waters are teeming with leisure boats and tankers, especially noticeable on approach to VHHH. As it happens, Thai Creation's awesome Macau scenery has some excellent looking ships dotted around the airport. My question is: is there a way to maybe take those boats and insert them all over Hong Kong? Or is there any other way to add ships? Thanks for help Peter

I was wondering if I could ask for some assistance. Would anyone be willing to create a simple 1200' x 75' grass strip for me. The hedge row located at Lat 40.46554 Lon -76.040163 is the northern edge of my parents farm. (Google Earth) When I was a kid, my dad owned and flew a J3C. We always talked about this being a good location for a landing strip, but it was always just talk. I thought it would be fun to fly my A2A Cub from the fictious "Knepp's Field". BTW, the N51510 A2A cub is the repaint of my dad's cub in it;s 1960's color scheme. My email is rick...dot...knepp...at...comcast...dot...knepp if you would be so knd to help. Thank you

On approach to Blackbushe the trees are too tall and affect the correct glidepath on orbx scenery. This is a little fix where the lumberjacks have been called in and removed some of them at each end of the runway. There is another issue with the extra tall lamp poles in the BCA car park at the start of runway 07, but the lumberjacks couldn't cut them down they said. Until we can organise their removal, caution must be exercised on finals 07 meantime. Link to the Fix :-https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34685313/FSX%20Folder/EGLK%20Tree%20Fix%20Blackbushe.zip

I have never got on with this programme - it seems so user unfriendly, always wanting to generate errors instead of bgl files, even though I follow the procedures to the letter. I have set up my Ground2K4 project as usual and have a valid workspace, with bmp map and co-ordinates. To create WC over a big square of Landclass in the ocean, I either click F1 and then choose LOD13 Water in the right-hand pane (Invert Mask/LWM) - what do I select in the Fill1x1/LWM pane though, Water (Flatten) or Land? Whichever, the result is the same (failure). Or, I choose WC and then click on the map selecting the waterclass type I want. Then save.. When I try bgl generation I get a…

Hi: I've been flying to Madeira, and I never had a problem, but yesterday, I found this: I don't have Aerosoft Madeira. And, if I install aerosoft Madeira, I do only see a part with the ocean, not all. My mesh complexity is at 100%, and I don't have any mesh installed which could make me this. Could you help me? Plz Rodrigo

I am trying to modify my Pease AFB scenery using ADE. I add a Land Class polygon near the end of the runway for a Golf Course, but it never shows up in FSX I want to add more polygons, but I need to get past the first one Thanks Steve

when I load up @ EGPN (Dundee) my airport is nowhere near where it should be! google map pic loaded up and slewed upwards, - notice no shoreline(should be on the right of the picture) FSX map Recent changes - installed fsx SDK, installed fsuipc, installed sbuilderx (also IS and IOS but everything was ok after that) Thanks

On behalf of the AVSIM forum leadership team, I am proud to announce a moderation team adjustment. Bill Leaming (n4gix), better known as Father Bill has volunteered for, and has been gratefully accepted for additional moderator duties in the AVSIM forums. Consequently he has been appointed as the lead moderator for the "MSFS Scenery Design Forum". The existing moderators will remain involved as needed to help and assist him in anyway we can. This forum, along with the others he is responsible for, fit near hand in glove to Bill's proven technical skillsets and abilities. We wish him every success in his new expanded role within the AVSIM forums. Thank …

Morning folks, I need a little help flattening ground outside airport boundaries(and inside I guess.) I use IS, IOS, ADEX and FSX's SDK, I guess I could use sbuilderx, but I have no idea what I am doing with that. I have posted in various other forums, as to get an answer quicker Thanks

Hey folks, cutting a long story sort, - I had issues installing the sp1a and the sdk.msi - I had to take ownership even though my uac is off, I also had a problem with the sp1a - a directory couldn't be found, which I have sorted, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMpA50AU4jY ; @5.30 just at the oil rig pic, my install stopped saying such and such directory could not be made Anyways, when I copy the FSX_GmaxGamePack folder @ 0.38 of this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbGfV0y5HBY when I go to paste it into the F:\Gmax folder I do not have a fodler named gamepacks; if I create one and paste it in there - I do not have too…

I was wondeing if someone could edit an existing airport for me. its KOGD i tried making it into an airport with terminals and gates but im not very good. any help would be appreciated Thanks tyson

Hi guys, I'm currently working on an airport using ADE, I have the taxiways and runways in place, accurately positioned over a satellite image. From the satellite image I can see that there are strips of tarmac either side of the runway and taxiways, effectively making them wider, but outside the yellow lines on either side. I figure that the easiest way to put these in is with the Aprons tool, however because there are quite a large number of taxiways to do this to, I am wondering if it is better to use many small aprons or fewer large aprons. Which would be better in terms of performance within FSX? Regards,

As the title suggests, I am trying to add these two together, I am trying to apply the grass to my airfield(EGPG), I have already created a bgl by using the exclusion triangle from IS. Now when I go to add that texture to my bgl, I get an "Cumbernauld project.dat" doen not exist, to add a model to an existing bl file, a corresponding ios file must exist. When I go to add my texture, can I just simply add the buildings/hangers etc on top of the grass I laid? or do I do hangers then grass? Thanks Paul

I recently completed this scenery and am uploading it to the Avsim library. I started this topic in case people have issues, however, there are things people might want to offer comment on. For example, the water level in the nearby lake is much lower than the surrounding terrain and I suspect this is due to interaction between the blend mask and terrain mesh I am using, because I notice that water bodies farther away have normal shores. I have pictures here: http://s96.photobucket.com/user/aarque/media/KSLE%20McNary%20Field%20Salem%20Oregon%20USA/KSLE.jpg.html?sort=6&o=2 and I'll link the scenery after I get it uploaded.

Hey folks, I have tried airliners.net, and spent the last few hours trolling around other sites trying to find some to no avail. Can anyone provide anything to help? Thanks Paul To add - I will be sticking with instant object (I do have instant scenery2 also, but keep getting invalid license errors - so it appears as if I aint getting them both to work together) (ticket opened)

Hi, After six years and no YSSY scenery (and apparently no intention of anyone making it), (ever), I have decided to try and create scenery for it myself. As I am sure everyone understands, this project will be a massive undertaking (several months of work), I would like to gather suggestions for inclusions. Instead of filling up the forum, please PM me with your ideas. I will be calling for testers for a beta much later on. As it progresses, I will be posting screenshots. (And now for the best part...it will be 100% freeware). I am sure everyone can agree it is time for a decent YSSY.

Hi, I am trying the IOS demo and I can't seem to resize a building after creation. I am trying to "trace" the approximate building size at an airport relative to the underlying photo scenery, but when doing so, the building orientation is locked to north and makes it impossible to get a relative width/length measurement. Has anyone found a quick workaround for this? I have resorted to obtaining building sizes by taking measurements in ADEX and using the info in IOS, but seems like a cumbersome workflow - one could really churn through some airports making custom buildings if they could easily obtain the (relative) size of the buildings while creating them in IOS . Tha…

Anyone ever want to put Steve B on the Empire State building with a bunch of seagulls, or maybe just an over sized sunburned one out in the middle of a desert somewhere...?