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A bit of background: I'm currently working on developing a freeware version of CEZ3 Cooking Lake, which is a very busy GA airport / seaplane base in north central Alberta. It's a great scenery for me to pursue, as it's never been done and it's easy for me to go out and take pictures at. It's slow going though, since it's required me to truely learn something over and above creating an afcad. One of the features of the airport is that it has a lot of open air parking, with quite a few small GA planes out in the open in the summer. I really want to accurately portray this, so I've been working in Gmax to create some simple static planes so that I can have a mix betw…

Hi guys. Just thought I'd share this with the group. I finally decided to give Instant Scenery 2 a try. As I've always threatened to do, I downloaded BlueSky KPRB (Paso Robles, California...a bit north of Santa Barbara). I spent a couple hours and added some scenery to it. Below is the result. (Some of the objects are from Blue Sky but most of this is what I did.) I was very surprised at how easy it was (and keep in mind I have barely any idea what I'm doing in it at all.) I'm still trying to get a feel for where all the objects are and how to move and resize stuff. Note that everything here is stock...I just used what FSX already has.,,none of it is custom. (N…

I'm currently developing a one click hangar tool for SketchUp, to hopefully make it easier to for people to create their own airport sceneries. All development releases are released on the FS Developer forum (link to thread: http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=424466) The tool is updated more or less daily, and sometimes twice a day, and you're currently allowed to develop your own versions based on the source code, although I do want credit for the original version if you decide to do so, and you're not allowed to charge any money for it. I've attached a few screenshots of hangars. If you need any support, please post your queries here or in the…

Greetings I been try to find some replacement textures for all runways and taxi ways. i dont even know where to start for this libary is a mess for cant find any thing in there too many flies Thank you in a advance

Hi Folks, My project has working photo real changing seasons - courtesy of SBuilder... The problem I am having - is that SBuilder puts my photo textures in my "scenery/world/texture" directory... I would rather have these included with my local "addon" scenery texture directory for my project instead of placing them in the default FS9 texture directory... If I move these textures to my project texture folder FS9 crashes whenever I try to start a flight in the area... Is there anyway I can specify for SBuilder to place the textures with my project ??? Regards, Scott

Hi guys! I live in Rio de Janeiro and I am sick of seeing the wrong default water color around my town, especially inside the Guanabara Bay. It looks like the caribean sea with the default water when actually its color is dark bluish gray. I want to know if there is a tool to change it easily like fslandclass would easily change the landclass in fs9. Thanks, Sil

I'm trying to do a small edit to the aircraft parking at the B-gates at Blueprint sim's KIAH. The only thing I am doing is adding more regional airlines that can park at these gates. No edits are being made to the airport layout itself. When I compile the airport, I get an error message regarding bglcomp (doesn't say spwcifically what problem is). Nonetheless, an AFCAD.bgl file is created. When I open the airport in FS9, I do have aircraft parked at the gates I edited, but taxi signs, taxiway markings and Blueprint's airport roads and buildings are scattered and out of position. I have edited other add-on airport AFCADs with zero problem, so this appears to be a Blueprint…

Would like to find a lighted wind vane and if possible runway pattern imdicator for fs9. If wind vane is in segmented circle thats ok. Have ADE9,rwy12,and Instant Scenery to work with.please email or send message thanks/jd

(As usual, I preface this post with "Excuse me if this has been discussed and discussed and discussed before, but I'm new ....") I just recently got back into flight simming (yeah, retirement is great) and scenery designing for my own needs (landable helicopter pad for practice, etc.). It's simply amazing how Sketchup and a few other utilities make that so easy. Here are the tools I use (many by the great Arno Gerretsen): 1. Sketchup 2. ModelConverterX 3. LibraryCreator XML 4. Airport Design Editor 9 And this great tutorial by Tom Gibson: http://www.calclassic.com/sketchup_tutorial.htm Anyway, it makes it fun. (I've also found the trap I…

Hello all, With a friend of mine, we're currently working on the french LFOZ airport. It's our very first scenery, so every comment or advice will be very appreciated. We have a website where we log our work (in french, sorry, but screenshots can be understood by eveyone ) : http://www.myworlds....ory/scene-lfoz/ Thank you !

Our airport just added these barriers to a windsock location that has a large concrete pad around it. Does anyone have any ideas what these are for?

Since FlyTampa released their KTPA scenery a few changes have happened at Tampa International, for example, AirTran moved to Airside C with Southwest and United moved over to Airside A. I was wondering if it is possible to change the logos on the jetways at the gates to match the current gate assignments at KTPA. Thanks.

I'm trying to create an "airport" on a lake using ADE9x but I'm running into problems. I do not know a great deal about the processes behind the scenes and I have foundered. Specifically, this is to be an ice runway on Lake Missisa in N.W.T. (as per Ice Pilots S1E10) for a C-46 to land on. I began by trying the steps in 15.2.2 of the manual. It actually seemed to work except for two things. First , the Exclude General Background does not restrict itself to the area of the polygon, but instead affects an entire tile. Consequently, at the edge of the "ice" I have an expanse of woodland instead of open water. Attempts to overlay a hydro texture over this (now) l…

Hi all, I've used Instant Scenery 2 to start building out the Paso Robles, CA airport. Here's the thread where I've been using BlueSky. http://forum.avsim.net/topic/396162-instant-studio-20/ Before I invest a whole lot of time building out the surrounding area, I'd like someone with Sim Saavy to test it (I'm planning on trying out Megascenery 2.0 California when it becomes available...alas they started on the wrong end of the country! :lol: ) *sigh* PM me If you'd be willing to help. It's a small BGL file < 100K. Shouldn't take more than 15 minutes to test and...who knows...you might like it! Regards, Gregg

I have a terminal building at a particular airport that I want to add a sign with the airport name. How can I do this? I did not design the building. Thanks, Bob.

hi i added some helipads with the opt and i was wanting to add a image to one of them can u advise as to how i might go about doing this thanks

Aime Leclerq is an extremely skilled FS-product maker. I am curious to know if the products that are made by "Oscar (Aime)" are hard on FPS, even if I try the lowest version offered. If anybody with any of those products can give me any info on whether it hurts FPS or if it's like default or not. ~Thanks!~

I have downloaded and installed FSX scenery for Madeira Island. When it is installed the airport looks OK with all the buildings and runways. The problem is that there is a file called LPFUAirp.bgl which is the main scenery. When it is installed there are numerous buildings in the water next to the airport. If I delete that file the airport buildings are gone and so is all the buildings in the water. BGL Analyze and all the other disassemblers don't work. I have been told it is an old pre-FS9 type file that was made with SCASM. Can anyone help me to disasemble it so I can delete all the offending scenery items in the water. I have looked at SCIDS but don't understand it. …

Over at the FSDeveloper forum there is a discussion going if we should try to organize an online conference for FS addon developers. I put a little more information in a blog post, it also includes a link to a survey where you can indicate if you like the idea and what you would like to see covered by such a conference. So let us know if you think this is interesting. http://www.scenerydesign.org/2012/12/a-fs-developer-conference/

Sbuilder works fine untill i try to copy objects. When i try to copy and paste objects, the compiler doesn't function. With help of the compile helper from Arno I get the following message: Parsing document: D:\Sbuilder\Tools\Work\Z4_OBX.xml INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2455: Duplicate guid detected when adding model bun7 from file D:\Sbuilder\Tools\Work\..\..\Mdls\bun7.MDL with guid: {37860e9c-54c9-4e2b-ab0d-e245bec7cbf7}. Original model bun7 was in file D:\Sbuilder\Tools\Work\..\..\Mdls\bun7.MDL. INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2454: Failed to add model data to output list! INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2339: Failed to add model data to builder! INTERNAL COMPILER E…

Hi all I have a quick request for a scenery developer to attempt. It is a small grass airfield on the mid-north coast of NSW, Australia known as McIntyres Airfield (YPLI). It is located at Palmers Island, near the township of Yamba - not far from a major centre known as Grafton. I was hoping someone may be able to develop scenery for this airstrip, as it is basically a flat airstrip with a clubhouse and hangar and a road running along its southern boundary. I don't think it'd be a difficult project. I am making this request as I hope to finish my pilot's licence one day soon and when that happens, I intend to fly my wife and kids there to visit my wife's parents, who …

An FS9 user of the FlyTampa KSEA has developed a 3rd runway addition for the scenery. Nicely done, however the problem I am having with it is whenever I am on the 3rd runway, all the adjacent taxiways dissapear. Have read thru the thread on the FlyTampa forum where others have posted regarding this same issue, but the fellow that developed this package does not seem to offer any workable solutions. I have tried everything I can think of (Which isn't much when it comes to this type stuff) and the few suggestions offered on the FlyTampa forum, all to no avail. Would really like to get this sorted as it really is a nice addition to the scenery, but this problem is a show sto…

I have been using Airport Design Editor 9x to fix some things at my local airport KCKB. I added our new taxiway to the aeronautics school area but can not flatten and clear the autogen trees. The hill and area was cleared several years ago and now has several buildings. ADE talks of flattens or flatten areas but I have no idea how to go about it. Is there an easy to use freeware program to fix this area? ADE would be great if there were more aircraft objects to place in the scenery. I thought of using Abacus Scenery Shortcut but after several attemps to get the Tools and Addons menue to work I gave up. I tried the several methods mentioned in several forums with no sucess…

Hi to all,i have a big problem since 4 days ago. The problem is dme associated to ILS reads 1.7NM at threshold of any world runway with ILS/DME,this means that GS captures according to charts are completely wrong flying in raw data. Checking the position with complex addon fmc programmed approach,when i´m over the FAF it´s not the correct distance and position from the nav radio tuned on the ILS,it seems like dme is reading from the end of the runway (1,7NM) distance at threshold. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,Alex.

Last time I messed around with scenery design was about 8 years ago... 1. What app is being used to fix default taxiways on default FSX airports? Since I am using TileProxy, I want to move a couple of taxiways so they match their photoscenery counterparts. 2. I want to add a few custom made buildings to an airport, just a few buildings and not an entire new scenery. What is the best app for that. Back in the days, I used to use Airport Scenery Designer. Thanks for any help, guys and gals... - Sent from my rooted, Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus LTE smartphone via Tapatalk because haters gonna hate.