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I am interested in adding one of the Hornet class aircraft carriers from the Midway collection of ships at Netwing into FS2004 to try my hand at getting the MAAM Briefing Time off the deck like the men of the Doolittle raid. Is this a simple task? What tools? Any tutorials or How To docs? Thanks for some guideance and advice. Colin

I have seen a lot of discussion about creating transparent textures, but I am not sure this is the same approach.In CellGrid2004a, the program creates a series of numbered grids over the terrain. The numbers are drawn using VTPDataArea, e.g.: VTPDataArea 1, 1, 0, 0 VTPLayer 12, 0 VTPNumTexturesInLayer 1, 0 VTPTextureId 0, 0 VTPPolyCount 1, 0 VTPPolyMethod2 4, 0, 0 VTPPointXY2 9015, 4623 VTPPointXY2 9030, 4623 VTPPointXY2 9030, 4643 VTPPointXY2 9015, 4643The texture files are a series of bmp files, designated 00_00.bmp though 99_99.bmp. According to DXTBmp, they are not dxt files, but are bmp files.The gre…

I downloaded and installed FSXML4 now I don't know how&where I can generate and save a source file .XML.Please explain me it step by step this is the first time I try to attemp to generate a XML document.ThanksG.Franco

A question for you scenery gurus, how difficult would it be to change the location of one of the carriers in fs9? I'd like place one about 640nm off the cost of japan.Thanks,Bill

hi, I have stumbled onto a way to make perfect lakes on elevated terrain. I covered this area in 1 arc second SRTM mesh and redrew most of the shoreline near PAKT ketchikan Alaska. Since pics dont last long, ill try to explain it. This area has lakes at all different elevations from 30m to 800m. They are usually crammed into a mountain valley, and just drawing them in G2k4 and praying was not working. I would get sharp cliffs if it wasnt perfectly aligned with my mesh.so I came up with this idea. If i make a flat plane it would act as the water level and i could see where the shoreline belongs. I slew my plane to the spot i want my lake and write down the Co-ords. Using F…

Working my way through the "Ground2k for beginners" download, I can do most everything very easily, but I do not have an active VTP1 radio button. When I create a new object and get the dialog box shown here, the VTP1 button is grayed out. Is this something I created or are VTP1's no longer available?

What freeware program is a good start to develop fs9 sceneries? I want if there is one that i can import a runway or an afcad file and add a scenery starting with the local airport area and extend it to the city.Thanks.

I used Defarea to delete a line of Utility Poles for the new runway at Orlando International (KMCO). It is interesting to note that I had to use Layer 004 (Rivers) to remove the poles. Of course, it also remove a small stream that was running perpendicular to the line of poles.I also couldn't get Defarea to automatically create the *.bgl. It said BGLC.exe couldn't be found. BGLC.exe was in the folder with Defarea.exe. No matter, I just dragged the *.asm file over BGLC.exe to compile.W. Sieffert

Hi all, I used to have a small utility that would allow you to sort the Scenery.cfg file to get rid of some of the mixed-up number sequences. I have managed to loose it and do not remember the file name! Does this sound familiar to anyone?? I have searched around without success. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi !I'm working on a better coastline and hights for Nuuk, Greenland.Yesterday I notice this:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/57193.jpgI have done two thins before I notice this:1) I have inserted hights (Grpound2K4)2) I have upgraded to Ground2K4 v5.30 21/12/2003Before those things, it was a "perfect" coastline.Hope you guys can help.KalaKwww.kalak-flightsim.com

Been out of the loop for quite a while. Now that I've done some stuff with FSDS2, how do I place it. It was an easier process with ASD and Architect. It was all done visually after importing the .bgl's. I gather FS9 doesn't work with these older programs. How do you guys place your buildings and terminals? Any new programs out that will display the default scenery?CH

Hello, I have downloaded FSSC and I worked around it almost the whole sunday...but I have a problem: when I export the file who I'm working on, I can find this scenery in the sceneries' list but I can't find the airport's name (LICS in my case...it's a fantasy ID since this airport doesn't exist in the real world) in the airports' list. If I start a simulation I can land on it, I can see it but its name isn't showed among the airports. Why so? If it's useful for you to understand the problem, the ID of the airport is "LICS", the name of the airport is "Casale sul Sile" and the city is "Treviso". If I use AFCAD I can find it in the airports' list but I have the proble…

Exclude Builder by Paavo Pihelgas is a very useful program for excluding many items. However, it seems that there is no way to exclude roads from and area. Is there a way to exclude roads using Exclude Builder?Dick Boley @KLBE

I can't seem to figure out how to adjust dashed parking lines. They always seem to run over into the grass area even though the appear to be positioned fine in AFCAD. Also, when two parking spaces are in close proximity to each other lines tend to be unequal in length and tend to curve on top of each other as shown in the pic. Any help would be appreciated.rich@klew

Anyone know if there will be FS2004 updates for Chris Gilbert's TPA, IAD, and MCO sceneries with AFCAD2 files?

Hi, I did a search but came up empty. I cannot exclude the red and white radio towers with g2k. I read of a similar issue with road signs. Will a scasm exclude kill it? I dont know much about scasm, so any hints welcome.thanksjoe

Gday guys,Can someone pls check if my code for the exclusion is correct as i cant get it to compile, if i remove the exclusion entry, the XML compiles OK. the only thing that comes to mind is the possibility of the V2 setting in the Library Object, I am trying to remove the Rialto Building in Melbourne Australia so i can re-locate it as its in the wrong location.thks in advance: Jeff<?xml version="1.0"?>

Hi,I take the new vehicles GUIDs from FS2004 vehicles.bgl.I checked some by placing by BGLPlacer.Look screenshot please.EAB79A00,4FE2C060,3FF670BE,264C8B4B cruise_linearb7F58F108,43AAD72E,E6EE9D9E,6DD6D4E5 ApowerboatsF468350B,4EEF1C1B,F676C29E,9489A49E wash_ferry9D917126,4D489054,688F2CB2,61B49D41 4170E428,43996E21,C586C782,F4A3524A 6880D52B,4AA28DD7,A7038AB8,0E60DDA5 68992E3D,47F1C52A,70395480,757C01C6 886E7D43,4BC2380A,78A255A7,48D5121D A5D38D43,4D53A509,89C538BB,D358BB59 8EDDAC4C,43BC013F,98A20487,F5F401F7 cargo60EB7054,40BE8969,76ED60A5,0E63C7E1 0A66A25E,47E9DD10,1378619C,23CB694A BB720361,42806D74,232CE4BD,C1455EA8 17A54B77,459DD0A2,55707BAB,3B7EBD87 9EEA367B,4BDC18C…

Hi all!I'm a new user here!I've two questions for terrain textures.1) Can I use a 8bit photoreal texture in FS2004? Or I have to use only a 24bit photo?2) How can I create transparent areas in my photo real texture? With Alpha Channel I can cut a water area in my texture, but if I want to preserve the original terrain in some areas?Thank'you very much.Maurizio (Italy)P.S.: Sorry for my bad english.

After the recently release of the BGLCOMP SDK I started my 'GA AI Traffic generator' project. Part of this project is to examine every airport BGL file (Stock and usermade) and count the numbers/types of GA parking places. The programm should be able to manipulate the GA traffic at airport level up to global world settings. For showing airport data I tried to read the ICAO (called identifier in the SDK) of the airport BGL. But there is a problem, MS used 4 Bytes to store the 5 charcters you could use for the identifier. I found that they use only capatials and numbers, so they could use a 7 Bit code. But if I loock with a hexeditor I couldn't identify the coding MS did. I…

Hi guys, I have created new mesh with 1arcsec SRTM I have created new shorelines with G2K4 the area I have been working on is big, but not as big as the default area. my problem: The default lakes are not in the right places and the cut into my new mesh. Even if i use the G2k4 exclude. The shorelines go, but the elevation/cut into my mesh remains. I used LWM viewer to remove the default area, but this area is HUGE. There's no way i can cover that ammount of area. my question: How can I remove the default lake/shorline elevations so they dont effect my new mesh, but not remove them from outside my working area? the butter: thanks to all you guys, and Christian and Dick for…

Hi. I have some troubles in my scenery. The first it's with the light map. The texture of the VTP2 polys are not visible.I'm sure that the texture that i'm using have light map. Are texture of citie (104 and 121).In the fs look's like a texture not foud, I did not see a day texture in shadow.The roads are fine! The other trouble is with the VPT2 polys when using the Airport/Park textures.The poly is not visible but works fine if I change to LandClass. Thanks for all._____________________________Fernando [email protected]#4947332

Can anyone help please?I have tried to install the latest ground 2k version but when I run the exe file I get the following message"Cannot find the file G:ground2K4_v52SETUP.EXE(or one of its components) check to ensure that all required libraries are available."I am using ground 2k v3.04 but cannot load on anything higher than this. I would really appreciate any assistance.ThanksColinpsI have downloaded the file many times (and on different computers) just in case it was corrupted during the download process.

Hi everyone, for the past couple of days i have been trying to make my own scenery and airport. I am using afcad to make the airport and gmax to build some of the buildings. I can get them to show up where i want them to in fs but i have a couple of problems. I dont know how to make the ground level so the runway isnt in mid air some parts and undergound in other parts. Also how can i edit the ground textures to how i want them to look for my airport? Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks,Evan

Is there away of getting a consistent colour with a polygon which faces the sun and one that faces away from the sun. I've made a bush in Gmax with two polygons at 90 degrees to each other. When the sun is low in the horizon, one polygon is darker than the other.ThanksSteve