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Hi Christian,Not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but weather themes are "scenery" files!I downloaded your pdf on how to create weather themes. Rather than be too ambitious from the outset, I decided to try compiling and running a theme based on the example you provided. I duplicated the relevant lines 1024 times and the source code compiled the .bgl file without any problems at all. I then changed the output file name to have the .wtb extension and created a text-based .wt file of the same name.All seemed OK, except that when I tried to selct the theme from within the FS2004 GUI, I received a message saying the theme could not be loaded and to check the…

I would like to get into scenery design. I would first like to get my feet wet by making the FS2K4 default airport for my city a little more realistic (proper apron, hangars, terminal, etc) as well as make some proper buildings/skyline for my small city.Can anyone recomend some programs to help me do this? Either freeware or shareware? I did a search in the file library and either came up with 0 hits or hundreds... out of which none seemed to be what I was looking for!Thanks!

Hi Folks,Two questions.Does anyone know how to add navaids to FS2004, I want to add a DME to Shoreham which is, again, not modelled although its been there for years.Also I notice that the radios now go up to 136.975 now but when I tried to tune into any ATIS freqs above 136 I don't get anything and not does it appear on the ATC menu's. Is this a bug because the ATIS is listed in the GPS screens so therefore in the scenery as its all the same now.Cheers Ron

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Had to start a new topic , it was becoming congested. OK I got my DXT3 + alpha channel bmp. Ive followed the steps and got my bmp.The problem now is that resampler fails to open this bmp! In the SDK, author says that the bmp must be 24-bit only. If i convert to 24-bit I lose the alpha channel.Storm

To make FS2004 display fractional minutes (lat/lon), open fs2000.cfg (it's in FS2004 root folder) and add following lines:[MAIN]Display_Fractional_Minutes=1After editing fs2000.cfg should look like this:[APL]CACHE_WAV_FILES=1[MAIN]Display_Fractional_Minutes=1

Hi, I managed to do light_beacon and light_nav but my problem is the smaller i do the triangle surface on GMAX i never see any chage in the beam when exported to the sim. Can some one help me out on how to make a small nav or beacon/light? An other question is regarding the beacon. I created a beacon for an antenna of a tower and I use a red material. When exported the beacon is showing white....WHY?:-rotor:-rotor:-rotorBest RegardsMauro Caruana

I had made my entire state with Near Photo Quality Terascene texture for FS2002, now I just want to replace roads, rivers, and lakes in FS9. Would you suggest TerraScene or another program.I just want to replace the default rivers, lakes and roads. If I remember once quite a time back, when I set unwanted texture to transparrent things didn't go well. Anyone used TerraScene to replace just rivers, lakes, andd roads? If anyone has suggestions, I would be greatful.Richard L Hill;

to fs2. I thought I read that some people did this and found the scenery copmpatible and working great.What would be the procedure and who has tried?Mb

Hi friends.I have made the terminal for my airport , but my plane make crash in a invisible object or wall . My work in made in GMax and the invisible object is more or less 4 meters from the terminal building.Some help please.

Both 2D and 3D clouds show a dark grey halo around the edges of some of the clouds. Real clouds, at leaset near Pittsburgh, do not have this appearance. Is this something you have to live with or is it perhaps a setting or issue with my hardware?If I go to slew mode the halo disappears. Pause mode it remains.Dick KLBE1ghz AMD, Geforce MX 400 64kb

In FS9 CFG...will cutting it to 128 make all texures just that size?

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I've written a brief summery in BGLC macros of what I have figured out so far from the new FS9 bgl structure. This is far from being complete, and it won't compile into something useful either yet.I just want to share this in the hope that'll motivate more people to unravel the new FS9 mysteries. It shoud be a pretty good start, but knowledge of (or willingness to learn) hexcode is essential.I really need people to help me. It's just so much new stuff, I'd be going for ever. AFDCAD will have some new functionality, but Lee Swordy wrote that it won't include everything from the start. So, relying on the next AFDCAD version is not going to help. (And the SDK is probably abo…

I have added the CellGrid scenery folder to FS2004, it is turned on and is level 1. But no grid lines show up. Anyone else have this problem?The lines show up in FS2002 so I know the BGL's are OK.Is this a 2004 problem or did I forget something??TIA:

Hi all,Has anybody got the Fix for the corrupt GMAX files from MS yet? I have been trying but they are REALLY busy just now.Incidentally I don't regard the suggestion of removing the original Hotfix 824136 as a serious solution, apparently an uprotected machine connected to the Internet over the weekend took just 25secs to get the virus!Geoff

Hi all,In the past work I created a scenery for Lampedusa using GMAX 1.1. In the last week I was updating some buildings and strangely enough, Gmax is saving but when I close an reopen the files; I find them all corrupted. I uninstalled the program and reinstaleed but the same. Can anyone help me? I'm in panick of loosing every thing !!!!I apriciate all your help.:-newburn:-newburn:-newburn:-newburn:-newburn:-newburn:-newburn:-newburn:-newburn:-newburn:-newburn:-newburn:-newburn:-newburn:-newburn:-newburn:-newburn:-newburnBest RegardsMauro [email protected] FLIGHT CAPTAIN

I am really stumped by this one. I just used FSSC to create a new airport. I picked out a nice spot that I had found while flying around in the bush. I didn't change the terrain or landclass, just added a runway and some macros I downloaded from the avsim library. Now the problem that has come up is that my aircraft only fly about half the speed of what they should at full throttle. I am new to this and don't have a clue where to look.

Hi !I'm using Ground2K to edit coastlines for Nuuk (Capitol of Greenland), because MS FS's coastline aren't very good.Probelm #1:I have a new coastline and it looks good, but for some "areas" the "land" is always water.Have tried many things to make it "land" instead of water, but without any luck.You can look at these images:http://www.kalak.gl/flightsim/Files/Nuuk_Coastline.gifhttp://www.kalak.gl/flightsim/Files/Nuuk_Coastline_2.gifWhat I did:1) Make the areas "Flatten Water"2) Excluded coastlines (to remove the original coastline, layer 8)3) Draw a new coastline, using "Poly with shore", LWM Poly Land. This maded in layer 9.All the new coastline are made in ONE line, e…

I'm about to d/l from AVSIM the latest Florida LandClass scenery. Could somebody tell me what is a "LandClass" scenery as opposed to a "regular" scenery such as the stock one in FS9?Thanks a lotJ-Louis, 18 miles NE of KIAD

Can someone please explain to me what the following variables do in a little more detail?TERRAIN_ERROR_FACTOR=96.000000 This is a value from 0 to 100 that control the DEM radius (it is linear in area) TERRAIN_MIN_DEM_AREA=10.000000 This the lowest value used to calculate the DEM radius based upon the TERRAIN_ERROR_FACTOR TERRAIN_MAX_DEM_AREA=100.000000 This is the highest value used to calculate the DEM radius TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=19 This control the DEM resolution: 18 = 150m DEM, 19 = 75m DEM, 20 = 37m DEM, 21 = 19m DEM TERRAIN_EXTENDED_TEXTURES=1 This turns on/off the extended texture ring TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS= This is the default radius in textures for all rings,…

Wow, this really is tedious... please tell me there is a way to refresh the scenery w/o restarting the sim. 2k4 tab does nothing AFAICTjoe

It's me again.By the way, I use imagetoll to convert to FS2002.:-rotor:-rotor:-rotorBest RegardsMauro [email protected] FLIGHT CAPTAIN

Dear Virtual Pilots:Complete article in:http://www.avsim.com/pages/0203/century_of...ry_preview.htmlSo what about compatibility? Third-party developers will be relieved to hear that whatever works in FS2002 (i.e., adheres to SDK criteria) will work accordingly in 'A Century of Flight'. Today's scenery add-ons, and Airport Facility files can be used (a converter will be provided for FS2004's improved AFD format).When will be available the FS2004 AFD Converter, and how will work?The default Nav frequencies can be exclueded?Thanks.Alfredo Mendiola LoyolaLima Per

Has anyone made api macros for calling the library objects from the Vehicles.bgl in FS2k2 or scenery_fs_veh.bgl in FS2k?Lou