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Hi allI'm back with my fence and a lighting/shading problem. In the picture below there is two identical DXT1(A), one with minus a post!!! the time of day is middayI can't understand why the lighting is different on them, the textures come from the same *.psp file/source, below is the code I have used, calling from a library object... ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------; FENCE MACRO; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Area( 5 52:37:52.257002 -03:09:3.908071 5 ); Start of library call IfVarRange( : 346 3 32767 ) PerspectiveCall( :persp ) Jump( : ):persp; Perspective :Fence1;---------------…

After ages trying to get my ED wirless glasses working, finally i've got them to work, and they are great!I found that using nVidia's newer drivers gave me loads of problems with full screen mode and stuff like that, so i installed the older (but supposedly better with FS?) 29.42 drivers and all is fine nowExcept one thing..Aircraft, VC's, sky, land, sea, runways, taxiways, taxiway markings and autogen all display correctly, but old style polys, old style 3D objects, Gmax 3d objects, 3D clouds and Gmax lights (eg. PAPI's strobes, beacons etc.) all display as though they are about 1 meter away from my face!I tested this with FS2K airports, completely Gmax airports and defa…

Hello,After my return from holidays, I just found that a new Scasm v2.89 is available to generate data terrain.The file can be downloaded at http://www.scasm.deRafael G. Sanchez[a href=http://www.fsnova.com][http://www.fsnova.com/images/NsAnimation1.gif ][/a][/p]

Hi all.I've spent the day learning the ins and outs of Mapmaker. It's an ambitious little GIS program that allows an amazing variety of GIS format imports.. and even can be used to reproject data.It's native format is it's '.dra' format... but it will accept bmps, drgs, dlgs, shps, tiger, dxf, ....... and MANY more. Like most GIS programs, it has a Project that consists of 'layers' of data that is added in. It does require some reading and studying ( the manual is a separate download from the program ).Download? Oh, yes! It comes as a fully functional commercial version... and it has a ton of features. After 30 days, it reverts to a freeware version. But what a freeware v…

Hi guys, any of you can let me now step by step what I have to do with the AFCAD available in www.avsim.com, I really don't now where to put all those numbers and positions and I really don't understand the AFCAD Readme File, please let me now what I can do, I have a lot of AI Traffic and I don't see it in some airports, let me now, thanks I be waiting :-)

Hi all.It appears we may have 2 versions of BGLC 8.0There is a version that came with the Special Effects SDK... date modified as :4/1/2002This version is supected to NOT allow placement of effects in the southern hemishpere. I just had some correspondence with a scenery designer from South Africa that could not get effects to show with this version.================A more recent version, in the BGL Compiler SDK, along with another version of BGLPlacer, DOES allow placement of effects in the southern hemisphere...date modified as:6/4/2002The South African Designer, Alan Wilson, is able to now place effects using the newer BGLC.A review with a hex editor reveals they are no…

Terramesh Europa 2002Anyone tried this product, or know where I can find a fair review of it?jason

I have been searching the forum here, but haven't been able to locate anything on this, but I need to remove the flatten from an airport. I know I could remove the bgl file that contains the flatten for this area (or edit it), but I may distribute the final product (if it turns out the way I want that is), and I don't want to have to make any irreversible modifications to the end users install to get it working.Thanks,Bruce

Hi,I ground to a halt with my scenery project because of the problem with coastline elevations, and concentrated on one of my other hobbies (astronomy) for a few weeks until I got some enthusiasm back.When I looked at the problem again, I thought I would try and edit the file with default coastlines, and then recompile it.My project covers four lod 8 areas, and the part I am interested in, is an island centred in them.I found the data I needed to edit in one of the lod 8 areas, and deleted the data for the other three, just so I could see what happened.I was pleasantly surprised with the result, the only problem was one small area (lod 13?), which was miles high (I edite…

Hi all , I have just released my fs2002 SW UK scenery for the Visual flight VFR photo scenery and have a big problem. With the scenery installed it causes the terraine textures to blurr to the lowest resolution. this problem has been reported by a number of users and is intermittent i.e. it doesnt happen all the time, it can somtimes be cured by flipping from full screen to windowed and back a few times but not always. there is a discussion here with more details on the problem http://www.visualflight.co.uk/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=387. I would love to get this fixed as the scenery looks great when its working. I have tried converting the textures to DXT format and compr…

Ok.. my question is this: I'm using install maker to create an autoinstaller. (Yes, yes.. I know, hehe). I'd like the program to check the registry for the location of FS2002 but I don't know what values I have to use in the install maker wizard for that to work. Any help is appreciated.Torsten

HiIs there software (preferably Freeware) that can be use to assist one digitise maps, ie. pick out key features like roads and rivers and make them them into vector files? I want add detail to the existing default secenery, such as extra roads, forest boundary changes etc.Jason

During the recent tests about the autogen exclusion we bumped into the fact the v2 value of the RefPoint isn't the radius of a circle in which the object should fit, but more the size of a square centered at the same point.So this thread is meant to take that discussion out of the autogen exclusion thread and have a look at other effects that might influence the v2. For example the scale of the RefPoint. Another interesting question is if the minimum value should be half the length/width of the square or half its diameter.Let's see where this discussion leads to :D.Arno Member Netherlands 2000 Scenery Team[link:home.wanadoo.nl/arno.gerretsen]Arno's FlightSim World for sce…

Is there anyway to get rid of the default grass?http://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3e696b022377a941.jpg41,200 downloads and counting on Avsim alone.http://www.projectopensky.com/banners/gary_banner.gif

Does anybody know if there is a way to get FSNavigator to show the correct (new) runway designators? The ones I'm concerned with are the newly designated 18C/36C and 18L/36L runways (the other runways are OK). I changed the designators in AFCAD but FSNAV still shows the 'old' ones. I found the BGL file with the information which needs to be changed (F5400051.bgl). I can change the required info using BGLanalyze, but SCASM won't recompile it (too many errors). I know it's nothing I've done as SCASM (latest version d/l from the SCASM site) won't even recompile a disassembled version of the file which came fresh off the installation disks!Thanks.Keith....Wherever you go, the…

Hi Everyone,Does anyone know how to control the diameter of a flat area? I am putting together a lodge and a couple of outlaying cabins on a gentle downward slope. I want to put the lodge at the top of the "Hill", with the cabins situated lower on the slope towards the lake front. I am trying for a terraced effect with the building inside their own tightly defined flat area. Right now, if I make a flat area, it makes the entire hill I'm building on flat. Anyway, If you have any ideas, I'd love to hear them!! :-)Thanks in advance for your help.Regards,Paul

I read a while back someone was working on a step by step intro on using Ground2K ant news or progress. I wwnt to create faster and smaller files than those I opbtain using TerraScene2.1.Richard;

I have been using a commercial scenery package developed by an individual. I have noticed that at some airfields specific textures and objects disappear, but this seems to be limited to only a very small number of objects and it is always the same objects. The objects may or may not appear when the sim is started, however if I crash an aircraft on restarting at the ssame location very often the object has disappeared. All other objects seem to be constant in their behaviour.Doing some investigation I discovered that the textures (.bmp) applied to these objects are reported by imagetool.exe to have corrupt size parameters. After opening with paintshop and saving they t…

Hi - bit of a newbie type questionI am designing some buildings in gmax using 512x512 bmp per main building(converted to DXT1).Once a number of buildings are placed, will using 512x512 bitmaps hinder performance compared to, say 256x256? Or in todays era of GHz machines and 512M+ memory does it matter?

I am interested to know how the trees were created for the Fly Tampa scenery. Which scenery software was used? Any ideas.? The trees seem to be round and rotate as you move around, you do not see a polygon. Could some one help? ThanksLetats

Hi GuysI was interested in Bob's suggestion to fencing and it seems that alot of people do tend to use a polygon with a DXT1 with Alpha to represent a fence, Am I right?Bob, are the Bars created in Gmax/FSDS and the Block a Polygon?The picture below is a type of common Agri fence which I would like to replicate, taking into consideration frame rates and all other things, I would appreciate any advice on creating this!!I could spend hours on editing images, as long as I know its the right direction to go!!!RegardsDave

As many others have done, I created a wind turbine in GMax and created an animation so the rotor is rotating - works great. Now I read on http://home.wanadoo.nl/arno.gerretsen/ about the cahnges needed to turn it into the wind - I change the BGL_CALL to POINT_VICALL as suggested, however it has absolutely no effect. I tried placing two mills next to each other as seperate BGL files, then I tried 4 (based on 2 different GMAX exports to get the rotor at a slightly different angle). Still nothing....Next attempt was to insert the mill into a library - I used Airport to generate the base SCA file with two mills (identical) - still no turning into the wind. Next attempt is to …

Hi, guys!I would like to know how many versions of this program exists today...Thanks!Leandro Braun

Hi, I designed in gmax a complete scenery with animations and custom texturing for SKBO and also the surroundings.Now I am ready to start doing the hard stuff. I have read the Scenery SDK and did not understand too much on .asm file editing, I would like to Know;1. Is there any tutorial, the ultimate complete stupid, dummy idiot's guide for .asm editing techniques. I need to do exclusions, flattening, Placement of effects, Agn placing etc..., terrain elevation editing etc...And also:any tip or advice on how to build a fence (metalic?) so I can see trough it and with the barbwire on top?Thanks!!!Searched the forums no much success, almost all the info found there presumes…