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Dick;As you know I had created PhotoQuality Scenery for FS2K2. I now am considering using TeraScene to add Lakes, and Rivers, and use Ground 2K for roads, rails and trails. I think FS9 is very close as far as ground texture goes, I just want to improve the water and roads.1. Do you think this is a good idea?2. If I use TerraScene should I go with TerraScene default transparent color, or use another color? The last time I used TerraBuilder to build the BGl's and the transparent wiped out all default texture.Any sugestions wswould be greatly appreciated..Richard;

I've just finished a small scenery which I'm quite please with, using photo-real textures ala Terrabuilder, a remeshed hill and even some fuel tanks thanks to Arno's FS2004 macros!I notice though that a little slice of the default coastline is left over where the edge of my photoreal image ends -- i know that I can create a single tile using Terrabuilder to remove this, but is there another way?

Hi! How do I make a macro for the defualt oil rig in fs2004? I would like to add it in some other spots. Thanks Geoff Sutherland

Hi all, I have made a bridge in Gmax but was wondering how to make it solid so you can land on it. At the moment you pass right through it. Thought there might be something simple I am overlooking on export from Gmax.Daniel

Has anyone found out how to make the autogen bridges appear correctly when making new scenery in FS2004? I have been trying to use Ground2K to make scenery, have the ownlines.txt provided by Dick in another thread here installed. The bridges appear, but at least two things go wrong...1. The bridges remain too short (might have something to do with LOD area boundaries?)2. For some of the vector autogen bridge types a small piece of bridge appear at some distance from the intended bridge and at 90 degrees angle to the actual bridge. I have tried to make the bridges just as a straight line (same settings in G2K as for roads, expect for the line type number) with a starting p…

I am using Ground2k to re-do some coast in New ZealandI have found that the grid lines move when you move from ordinary to LC or WC What am I doing wrong?See pic

When you create 2 different scenery files with fssc for different areas that are close by can you combine them into one file later, say adding scenery two an existing airport and then adding scenery out of the grid in another area. Or are you stuck with 2 different addon sceneries in flightsim?

Hi!I'm searching for how to design nice light-macros for my scenery, which should work as floodlights for aprons and parking space. I work with gmax and FSregen.I know how to design lights within gmax (Light_nav ...) and FSregen, but I don't have any idea how to make lights which draw nice light cones on the ground like normal floodlights.Does anyone have experience with the lights or any tutorial?Regards,Klaus

Hi!Is there some way to exclude the default flatten that every airport in FS2004 has? I want to create a sloped runway. The mesh isn't the problem but I don't know how to get it on this flatten. Is there no sollution for a problem that at already existed in FS2002?ThxSasa

Hi all,I'm sure this has been asked before, but I've tried searching and haven't found anything in the forums. I'm trying to create a lake in CFS2. I was using FSSC's surface area with the "water" option, but when I moved over it, the plane didn't splash (it still acted like ground). Then I tried using Airport 2.6, again using the Surface Area: water option, but I didn't have much success with that either. Any ideas?Thanks,Bob

Hello,I'm new to scenery design and I'm in the process of learning how to create objects for FS2004. I'm trying to create a maintenance hanger for my VA and I'm starting from the ground up so I've come to this forum to seek advice on the best ways of accomplishing this task. I already know the basics of GMAX, and I've been following a tutorial on how to create a house in GMAX. I would like to know if anyone knows of a tutorial on how to make a hanger, or can give me a few tips on creating one, since they're a bit different than creating a house. I am especially interested to know how to "hollow out" the solid Box design so aircraft can park inside. How are the openin…

Hi all,why are default shorelines "smoother" than custom ones? Do default ones really have so much points in them or MS uses some kind of a trick to do it?

Hi ALL..I'm trying to craete a animation in the scenery airport.I have lots of questions, but up to now there is one of the most importance:I have compil API macros but it should be changed to indicate the animated object (as was written in the manual). Here is word by word in 'insert object rendering code':"Find the line starting with "Object"; this is around line number 50 and looks like:;============================================; Object to be animated;============================================:ObjectTransform_Mat(0.000 0.000 0.000100.000 0.000 0.0000.000 100.000 0.0000.000 0.000 100.000);;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;…

Good morning, simmers:Does anyone have a link or something to a tutorial thatll show me how to make a flat plane rotate so that it's always facing the viewer?? Arno Gerettsen had mentioned that's what he does whenmaking trees. I cant seem to find arno's email,a nd the links to his page come up dead.Anyone help??Thanks in advance.John WhiteNewburgh, IN

Morning,I'm sure this has been asked a million times, I'm sorry , but one more time. I understand that FS2K2 secnery will work in FS9, Well, I tried that very nice Chicago Smoke bgl and it was a no show. I put it in the Addon Scenery file, turned up all the FS9 sliders, and no smoke. What did I do wrong? Would also like to install the Las Vegas scenery, will that work? Thanks for the help.Old Bob... in sunny Florida

Hope these simple questions don't offend anyone. I like flying around Hawaii but it would be much nicer if there were frequent palm tree groves and occasional resorts present. 1. Why are most add ons based around airports? Is it possible to take palm tree bgl's and add them to a coast line away from an airport.2. What programs are available to place these bgl's?3. How hard would it be to populate the islands with these bgls?4. It must be hard because there are not too many sceneries available for download. Not even payware. Why aren't there more payware sceneries. It seems to me that Microsoft could make some money by selling these addons for different states.5.…

Hi,is there a way to reload scenery, when we build scenery.I hate open and close FS2004 everytime i have to check the changes.I know that FS2004 has a reload function, but that does not include new changes, made while the sim is running.Chris DK

I have seen it somewhere, but cannot find it anymore. Can someone post a link or give me a hint where to find it?Cheers

I'm experimenting with modifying existing texture entries in FS2004's terrian.cfg. I've replaced[Texture.1024] // stream lines / unknown / perennialType=1Size=4ExcludeAutogen=1MaskClassMap=3Textures=RiverSU.bmpoffset=-10with [Texture.1024] // stream lines / unknown / perennialType=1Size=4ExcludeAutogen=1MaskClassMap=3Textures=RiverSU.bmpoffset=flatwith success. However, I wish to add the second record instead of replacing the original. So I inserted the new record and changed the [Texture.1024] with various new numbers such as 4098, 5124 and even 1263 (the next number in the list). I also replaced the DefaultTextureCount=238 to 239 to account for the new record. But…

Hi All( for the newer people here) I thought I would show how to makea simple building model useing splinesPic#1 Draw a closed spline shapePic#2 extrude spline into 3D (modifiers mesh editing extrude)shown in perspective view.Pic#3 result of extrudePic#4 make another spline by traceing over the "inside" edge of theolder extruded splinePic#5 the second spline now extruded into 3DPic#6 the end result it took me about two minutes to create the above.One can make almost any shape of building with this method and yournormals will allways face out I.E no need to mirrorcopy or flip normals. And if one uses splines one has good control over the numberof polly's created when conve…

Hi people.Maybe I am too dumb, but where is the AFD in FS9; in FS8 it seemed having been in the SCENEDB/AFDFILES/SCENERY, but now...? Sorry, I'm pretty new to this. I tried aroud with Manfred Moldenhauer's AFDTree, but no success so far. Or has the AFD changed so much, does anyone know? I'm aware the SDK ain't out yet. :-(Thanks,Etienne

Hi to everybody after having realized a Re-mesh for my scenery, I have created with Gmax the castle, when I have gone to insert this last in FS it is lined up with the hill of default of FS and not with that of the Re-mesh, for which in FS the bastions but the entrance are seen to the castle you is submerged in the earth. Does a solution exist???? Thanks for the possible helpAntonio

Greetings to all,It's been a long time since I last posted here, but I am visiting the forum from time to time...For once more I need your help. As you may know I have designed the LGAV2002 scenery for FS2000/FS2002. Now with FS2004 I, of course, wished to use my scenery over the pathetic default.So, I pointed the scenery library and the scenery loaded fine.Everything works and looks great except one thing.The ILS!LGAV has 4 ILS. One for each runway, and the ILS of the same physicalstrip share the same frequency, but with different IDs.So we have 110.50 for 03L (IATL) AND 21R (IEVR),and 111.10 for 03R (IATR) AND 21L (IEVL).The ILS are programmed into SCASM via Airport …

Hi all.In another thread, our good friend, Dr. Falko Dienstbach ( Falko ) shared some source code that will allow users of SCASM's new VTP code to create bridges.I had been puzzled, as I had earlier experimented with VTP bridges, and come up with artifacts ( oddly placed partial bridges ).The key to getting it to work, is that these VTP lines have no width!Here's some interesting code:include TDFMacros.incinclude TDFHeaders.incBGLHeader 43, 41, -87, -90, TerrainHeaderStart, VTPHeaderVTPHeader label word VTPFileHeader 256, VTPIndexStart, TextureStart, VTPEndVTPStart label word datamark_v0 label word VTPDataArea 1, 1, 0, 0 VTPLayer 32, 0 …

Hi,Im looking for a very simple TUT, on how to animate in GMAX. Its not easy to animate in GMAX i know, but a step by step guide.Chris DK