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I started on what I thought would be a relatively simple task, to add a detailed shoreline to an existing lake. I grabbed Ground2K and waded in, no pun intended. Registering the source map and digitizing the new shoreline and water poly was pretty straightforward but I ran into a wall trying to exclude the old existing lake poly and shoreline. I have tried every combination of exclude in G2K with no luck. An image of what I am trying to do is below: http://www.bbbrown.com/bbbrown/images/jpgs...terexcltest.jpg

Hi guysIs this image ok, the building has slid or has it, the shot is in spot view, is it just because of the close proximity to the building?http://forums.avsim.com/user_files/15838.jpgJust curious whether I am doing any thing wrong, I think the closeness is making the effect more exagerated!!!Any comments AppreciatedRegrdsDave

hi everybodywhat are the settings to display night color in g max?I tried to chose ambient color but it does not showthankschristian, Paris, France

Hi all, someone suggested I might find an answer in this specific forum, so here goes.. Just about done with an oilrig for FS2K2 but I'm having a problem...the elevated helipad (invisible runway added with Airport) creates a bug; the first time you load the scenery, it looks as if the entire oilrig is sitting atop an elevated "hill" of water. If I reload the scenery library it makes the water surface flat again, but I can't leave this uncorrected as it's custom scenery for a VA. I've tinkered with the Area16 commands but I'm not very familiar with how to edit raw Scasm code. Tried the usual setup with a flatten area underneath etc.. but the problem remains.Anyone have th…

The grass runways I am trying to make have fox-holes nicely aligned on each side. (please look at the screen shot)If I install dirt runways, I do not have the potholes. Also, when I get on or leave either runway, I get a big jump and the engine quits.I tried to play with the altitude of the field and that of the runways, I tried flatten areas from +1 to -4 feet and nothing works. I tried all I could think of even ridiculous solutions as you can see and nothing worksPlease help. I am using Airport version 164 Leon Louis

I had posted this aa while bacl with a few responses. We need some newer commercial buildings, fast-food, derpartment stores, home and building supply, and others that we can use in Airport for Windows or FSSC. Hope to hear some news.Richard;

Awhile back I was able to create more than one item in a scenery in G2K. For instance, I created a ground poly to place a cabin on, saved and compiled, then I was able to create an entirely new item like a road in the same session. G2K would create a second bgl with a number appended to the file name. It would do this for each new item I placed in the scenery.However, it's been awhile since I've used G2k, and I can't for the life of me remember how to create a second item!! I know, what a dope :-)I'm hoping that one of you fine G2K experts and give me a clue!!Thanks in advance for your help :-)Regards,Paul Kane

Sorry if i'm here again I'm neewbe and need help from you. I've try to solve my problem but i'm not able to do it myself.I made a little scen (only roads) follow the instructions found on g2k_for_beginner.I got:1) A land with water poly instead roads so i've change the param on LWM/POLY section checking land param and set altidute to 154 m that's the altitude of my zone.2) after recompiling water poly desappear and i got.. nothing.. only original scen.. Where are go my roads ?Maybe they don't like my town ??? ;-)In poly/line/shore section i've too an altitude setting to 154 m.Where i am wrong ??? MAybe altitude setting must be 0 ???Can help me ????Thanks allRobi

Hey gang,just wanted to know if someone knows how the progress on Airport version 3 is going...?? :-hmmm Haven't heard anything from it for ages now.Thanks,Etienne :-wave

Hi guysI'm new in scenery design, and I'm wondering if anyone could volunteer to help me getting started. Mainly I need information on which programs are best to use, where I could get them etc.Also I'm wondering if it is hard to make dynamic gates?Anyone who's willing to help me out, please contact [email protected] RegardsIceair

Look at these picture, shows a ramp area that I made with FSDS v2 an used FSSC to compile it in to flightsim. The first one look ok that

Hello fellow sim designers.I have the previous version of gmax, v1.1 and have downloaded the new version 1.2.Should I delete the v1.1 installation before installing the new one?Will I have to reregister?Are the tutorials and help files different in the new version? Thanks for your advice and comments.Jim Jones

Hi,I am trying to create airport buildings of EDDF for FlightGear. There is a tool for converting FS95 bgl-files to FlightGear format. Therefore I am searching for a FS95-EDDF scenery. Or does anyone have some photos or maps to be used for creation from scratch?Thanks in advance,Carsten

I thought I would try Ground2k to vastly improve the lakeshore in the vicinity of Burlington, Vermont. I created a transparent overlay of a screen capture of FS2k and a Streets&Trips map, and when I started working with the map I noticed a few things right away that bother me a little.......when I click the LC (or WC) icon I get a grid which is DIFFERENT than when I click the EXCLUDE icon, and I don't see why this would be useful or correct. The center of the LC and WC areas defined by the gridlines gridlines match up with the intersection of the EXCLUDE grid. I have Version 3.0. Isn't this a glitch?Attempts to exclude the shorelines doesn't appear to work, either...…

Hello everyoneI am making some macros of aircrafts now and trying to modify some.I need to know what would be the numerical code used to call black and other colors in a FS98 .mdl file.This so I could change the color of the struts undercarriages and other fixed colors. The attached picts show the problem.Please helpLeon Louisps: in one pict you will see a livery of a Stearman I made and the macro. The other are Tiger Moths memories of very long ago.

hi all, One of my GMAX buildings is not displaying correctly in fs2002 - the textures remain black until you are really close - see attched picture.I was messing around with opacity/illumination on the non-textured components and this may have something to do with it? (see yellow buildings in picture).Any suggestions? - oh and the only reason I've got this far with the project is all your answers to my prevoius questions - thanks!

I have many custom textures and I want to use Annotaror to place Autogen. Is their a grid structure or program to locate a BMB based on Long/Lat? With over one thousand *su.bmp per folder how can I find the ones I want?Richard;

What are the best tools to make your own runways with your own textures have made some runway texture but i need a tool to put it in flightsim. thanks

The 10 and 30 meter dems I am working with have lat. and long. lines that show up as not parallel with the x and y axes. This results in thin wedges of areas with no elevation data on all four corners of the map when viewed with the tmfviewer in the fs2002 SDK. Will these dems work with resample.exe to create "accurate"(as in accurate lat. and long.) bgl files? I ask this because it looks like the tmfviewer expects lat. and long. to be lined up with the x and y coordinate axes. After I resample a binary file and then view the resulting bgl on the tmfviewer, the lat. and long. read-outs are not accurate.Is there a utility I can download that will make the 30 meter dems…

Hi, I dont usually work with BGLs, MDLs are my bag. I have a TON of really nice scenery objects that I made in Gmax. I hate to have them wasting away on my drive and want to convert them to a usable format for you scenery guys. I have tried FSregen and have FSSC, but I cant seem to get regen to create a usable lib obj. If someone could show me how I need to covert my gmax BGLs into macros I could upload them for use. I tried to follow the instructions in regen, but was very confusing as im not too familiar with scasm and BGLs. thanks joe

Hi Guys, I'm back againI am trying to use the Runwaydata() command with the runway that I have created using the Points() Loadbitmap() and Texpoly() Commands, in order to provide runway lighting1) I have achieved this reasonably well, although I had to use the 'abs' Refpoint() type to keep the elevations the same.2) I have also acquired a 'bumpy surface' problem on the runway but nowhere else. I have tried to resolve this problem with the SurfaceType() command and this fails!! If I rem the runwayData() command for the lighting, the 'Bumpy' problem disappears!!! SurfaceType( 0 10000 10000 0 ); large area Co-ordinates maybe, I know(Rest of code is the same as 'Arno's' exc…

Terraserver, previously an excellent resource for background images, appears to either be down or Microsoft has sold it. I guess the latter since there is a new commercial terraserver service up now. Ground2K greatly benefitted from this service. I really do not know where we can secure nationwide USA photos to allow us to properly place roads, rivers and coastlines. Dick KLBE

Hi allI would ask if is possible on G2K or FSCC to assign a part of an image contained in texture with more images, to a poligon or the textures must contain the only whole image that i want assign.Hope you understand what i mean...ThanksRobi

Hi can some one help me, I tried to exclude the default scenery for mkjs but cant get it out, keep getting a erro.can some one exclude it for me an post the exclude tex.thanks

I've been playing around with AFCAD trying to add some extra gates at EGNM and I've noticed that when compared to the offical data the airport is in the wrong place. I've placed the ref point as described in the CAA ref doc as being in the middle of r/w 14/32 but when I add the runway its no where near the this point. Is everything like this? I've compared a couple of other airports with CAA info and they don't show in the right place either!What am I doing wrong?