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Hey scenery guru's!I recently installed a pretty decent Dubai airport terminal into my FS2004, but the designer didn't exclude the default FS2004 terminal building and tower... now the tower is bleeding through the new scenery's tower - I think I need to create an exclusion BGL file to get rid of the stock FS2004 main terminal building and tower... how do I go about doing this? LOLHere's a pic of what I mean:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/54726.jpgAny help appreciated!Jaco du PreezProject [email protected][a href=http://www.projectopensky.com" target="_blank]Project Opensky Homepage[/a].: ASUS P4C800E-DLX : P4 2.8Ghz 800MHz FSB Hyper Threading : 1GB PC32…

Hi everybody happy new year to all of youI create a gmax sceneI export it ok, I se it in fs9I go back to gmax and then suddenly I can not open the file again!!The message "fail to open file" is displayed.Any idea why does gmax suddenly refuses to open a file??Thanks to everybody answeringAll the bestChristian, paris, france

Hi,as you know the famous Hong Kong Kaitak has been closed.Within FS9 it still existing under the name Hong Kong Int'l(old).Now in the real life and in fs9 also its runway,taxiways and parkings are closed,it doesn't have Tower ,Comm frequencies,navaids,ATC and traffic.My bet is to return Kaitak within fs9 alive again.By Lee Swordy AFCAD 2.21 I was be able to reopen the Tower, runways,taxiways,parkings,toreassign Comm frequencies and to restore all navaids.Without approaches the ATC doesn't recognize the working navaids and clears by ATIS,Approach and tower only to visual approach.AFCAD2 doesn't have yet the capability to insert approaches and I'm trying to compile, by xml…

I have created a bgl to lay an airport pictures directly on the terrain (lo-res, unfortunately).For each of the eight "squares" on the airport, I use the following:VTPDataArea 1, 1, 0, 0VTPLayer 7, 0VTPNumTexturesInLayer 1, 0VTPTextureId 0, 0VTPPolyCount 1, 0VTPPolyMethod2 4, 0, 0VTPPointXY2 9435, 4590VTPPointXY2 9690, 4590VTPPointXY2 9690, 4845VTPPointXY2 9435, 4845Does this look okay? It works fine. However, when slewing across the boundary for each grid for the first time, the machine hesitates. This did not happen with my other texture mapping programs, so I wonder if I am doing something wrong.The second problem is that the underlying terrain is "bleeding" through…

Hi guys,I've started working with tutorial from the MSSDK on gmax and everything was going along pretty good, until it got into texturing. The first problem is that the tutorial was made for gmax 1.0 which is very different from 1.2 at lease the material editor, ok so I do a translation.First: I set the defused color to the overall color of my house(light grey).Second: I drag the house.bmp onto the defused button.Third: I unlock the ambient color and drag the house_lm.bmp onto the ambient button.At this point I now have the house.bmp on the sphere in the material editor. I then select a view, click apply in the material editor and my house turns light grey. I then sele…

Hello,I have posted this topic already in a forum at scenerydesign.org but it seems there is a problem that nobody knows to solve.I made a library file with selfmade objects from gmax and converted to a lib.bgl with FSRegen.At first, with the default code from FSREGEN the object shows up for the duration of the dwait command an then disapears. Actually it jumps arround on the airport when you move your viewpoint.With the help of a guy from the other forum I changed the code to look like below, but now the object doesn't show up anymore.The big question is now how do we have to change the FSREGEN code to make a library for dynamic objects.By the way: the dynamic scenery fi…

My FS file structure look like this:FS2004 -->All their stuff and folders and one is 'Addon Scenery' and in it -->'Scenery' 'Texture'--------------------------------------------------------I had some lake scenery BGLs in 'Scenery' with no textures. They show up fine.I placed the cellgrid BGLs in the 'Scenery' folder and Cellgrid's BMP textures in the 'Texture' folder. When I go to Top Down View I don't find any grid lines. I tried making a cellgrid BGL with my local Lat, Long. and put in 'Scenery' along with the others. No show in top down view. What am I doing wrong?

Hi,I need help because my source .xml file doesn't generate the relative .bgl file.What's wrong with this file?Thanks G.Franco

A normal directory structure for an add on scenery is as follows:Addon Scenery (the fs file)+- Custom Scenery +- Scenery (insert all the custom bgls here) +- Texture (insert all the custom textures here)I understand that with a landclass.bgl, you cannot use a texture subdirectory or you will create a memory leak. So what you have to do is use the following structure:Addon Scenery+- Landclass Stuff +- Scenery (insert landclass bgl here)No Texture directory.I have created a series of bgls that don't use custom textures, e.g. a mesh.bgl, roads.bgl and coastline.bgl. Can I use the above structure for everything, including the landclass blg? e.g.Addon Scenery+- Custom …

I've have these models sitting on my hard drive since my Fly!II days (see attachment), and was thinking of putting a Philadelphia package together once the PMDG737NG is finished.Anyone know a good source of philadelphia Satellite imagery? Has anyone else been working on Phily?VinPMDGwww.precisionmanuals.comhttp://www.vinscimone.com/dancnkid.gif

How do I remove the hold short lines which are visible in the sim? I'm designing a small country airport which has a grass taxiway. I understand that I must have a hold short node in order for the AI aircraft to use the runway. I want to keep the hold short node but remove the yellow lines which appear on the ground in the sim. Thanks Steve

Good afternoon,I have stubmlesd in strange problem? when trying to move some airports around. I moved the airport in AFCAD to much the Dafif coordinates for the rnw, but while loading the FS9 and select the airport I moved or approaching the area of the airport i have a CTD without any message. Until now I have this problem in 3 airports out of 15 I have moved.I have checked and the new location is not over water or in any strange place just normal land.Any ideas why this is happening?Thx in AdvanceChris

Who can knows where to find the scenery of Russian airport Koltsovo of the city of Ekaterinburg (ICAO: USSS)?

Who can knows where to find the scenery of Russian airport Koltsovo of the city of Ekaterinburg (ICAO: USSS)?

Hi all:I recently managed to set up AI water traffic in FS9, both floatplanes and ships. All works well and looks really neat but I have one persistent issue with the wake effect for the AI ships.I trigger the effect, fx_AI_wake_ship_l, in the aircraft.cfg file, either in the EFFECTS settings, as in "concrete=fx_AI_wake_ship_l" or in the LIGHTS section, as in "light.2=2,-19.0,0.0,-4.0, fx_AI_waterland_ship" This works as intended as long as the ship moves around on its own. However, as soon as another AI aircraft or ship enters my current view, the effect takes off toward the sky, as in the screenshot (the Beaver is an AI aircraft, selected via Ctrl-W). Once the AI ship i…

All I started out doing was adding the missing Crawford Reservoir near Crawford Airport (99V) and used Ken Nelson's LMdraw. Ken let me know that FS2000 coding was going obsolete so I downloaded the BLG SDK and started poking. I used to write asm code a long time back and got out of it about the time C was coming into being. Ken also pointed me to this forum and as indicated I am overloaded. I will keep poking around. I want to replace the Crawford Airport (99V) gravel runway with asphalt to update it and make it easier to find from further away. Its pretty hard to spot. I have added Real Scene 2004 which corrected the terrain which helped. When I used to fly my Piper PA-1…

I've looked around for any building macros for thatched roofs, grass huts or other structures that might be useful around tropical or third-world airports. No luck at all in my searches. I've downloaded a few sceneries that have these structures, and I'm wondering if someone could reply with a file name for some of these.Thanks.

Hi all.This code will place a steam effect on top of the roof of the airport building at Lake Lawn, Wisconsin ( C59 ).==============================<?xml version="1.0"?>==============================the effect is AGL plus the 3.0 meters specified in the alt=Note that the syntax in the SDK is wrong, again. The effect must end with '/>', not with ''.Here's some code that will exclude that building. If this BGL and the effect BGL are in the same "scenery" folder, the effect is not excluded... the exclusion pertains to the objects, effects, etc... of lower priority in the Scenery Library.==============================<?xml version="1.0"?>=======================…

I have downloaded this file "Taxi_edge.zip" which looks nice and realistic indeed. However, I want to use it in FS9 in all the Airport, but I know absolutley nothing about scenery designing. Can someone please help me step by step on what to do to get it in my airports. Here is what the Author says we sholud do. Please help. Thank you."Taxiway edge light API macro for FS2002/FS2004. Its light color is light blue like real lights.(verified by Korean Air's first officer!) And it has transparent blue glass so you can look through inside. 3D Model is made by Gmax and API compiled by fs regen to make frame friendly. It also has two LOD models. Light is made by EOD. Use API in …

I have created flatten files and removed the equivalent LWM polygons from the HP file. This works ok, however, obviously the flattens do not show up in map view. I have two questions.Can someone give me a formula to convert Lat/Long as used in SCASM Area16N (FSTFlatten output) to LWMPoly3/LWMPoint3 coordinates (LWMViewer output).Secondly, do LWMPoly3 polygons need to be convex? ie, will I need to split the flatten contours. ( I know I will need to do this on cell boundaries).I am proficient in C++, so given this information I am sure I could write a conversion program.Any help would be much appreciated,George

What kinds of files are the textures 00_00.bmp, 01_01.bmp, etc?They are 88,464 bytes long.DXTBmp says they are not extended images.Paint Shop Pro 8 loads them as 256X256 images with 256 colors (8 bit). However, it says that the file size is only 65K and when I save the image from PSP8, the resulting file is only 66,614 byes long. Apparently PSP8 is not able to load these files correctly.I have tried every method in DXTBmp and PSP8 to replicate this file, but have been unsuccessful.Is there any image reader/editor that will allow me to load, save and edit this kind of file?Thanks,Phil

I must have missed something....Various elements mentioned in the new scenery SDK require a 2 char region code.I don't know what that means or where I should get it - can anyone please enlighten me?Thanks in advance

Has anyone been successfull in using the SetScaleX command to call a library object from a macro.exampleArea( B %1 %2 %3 )IfVarRange( :ExitComplex 0346 %12 5 )Jump( :ComplexOK ):ExitComplexJump32( :Exit ):ComplexOKPerspectiveCall( :PCall )ShadowCall( :PC02 )Jump32( :Exit ):PCallPerspective:PC02mif( %11 )RefPoint( 2 :Skip %4 %1 %2 E= %11 v1= %10 V2= 1500 )melseRefPoint( 7 :Skip %4 %1 %2 v1= %10 v2= 1500 )SetScaleX ( :B 0 0 7) ;set scale to app .003mifendJump( :Continue ):SkipReturn:ContinueRotatedCall( :B 0 0 %5 )Return:BTransform_Mat( 0.000000 800.000000 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 )CallLibObj( 0…

Good Afternoon,I would like to ask if I create rnws, taxiways and aprons, with a X scenery program like Gmax or Airport or anything you want, then Can I move this airport using AFCAD? Or AFCAD can only see objects, ie rnw taxi and aprons, that are stock or created by it?If this is possible is there any paricular name to give to the BGL in orde AFCAD to recognise it?Thx In advanceChris

Hi,Is there any script/converter who can export .DFX from gmax or any other file extension the cva-converter can read. Or is there any other way to open a Gmax file in FSDS.I will try to build in gmax and do the textures and animations in FSDS.Best Chris DK