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Hi there,does anyone know how i can add intersections to the fs2002 scenery?I saw, the intersections database is not actual and i need them for some of my flights.Tnanks in advanceBodo

Hello there,Although I'm no newbie to scenery development I have never attempted an entire region before. I have a question regarding some Land Characterization Data that I have for Europe. The data is in the 'Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area Projection' format. Basically each pixel represents 1000m x 1000m of land cover information.When I view the data as a raster image, it appears to be slightly different from that which I have seen before, sort of 'skewed' a little. The data I have includes a few bits of information such as Lat/Long of origin and radius of sphere etc.My question is this :-The data seems not to be suitable for direct use for scenery generation, so what need…

Hi all!I need help with default exclude area. The problem is:I using Ground2K programm to remove default airport surface (substrate, area, etc..), but default exclude that MS insert for this airport is not removed... so i have a wood with area that have ground texture but not have a tree becaus default exclude area is exist... how to remove default exclude area???THANKS!!!p.s. sorry for my bad ENG :)

I am having trouble getting my custom textures to show up in flightsim. They show up in t GMAx but when I run FS the diffuse color shows not the texture. Any help would be appriciated.

Heyyyy, How long does it take to get the registration key from Discreet?

Just wondering what anyone else would call a good acceptable frame rate guide to build to and also which parts of scenery seem to be bigger framerate killers than others.I'm just building my first scenery at the moment and at present I'm getting 30fps most of the time apart from the odd little patch or 2 where it drops to 20/25fps which I'm quite happy with. But was just thinking if there was some sort of "benchmark" that the rest of you work to as far as this is concerned.As for framerate killers, if anyone has anything on what I should be trying to avoid that would slow things down to a halt then I'd be happy to know.Paul.

OK you guys really helped me out getting the NDB correct at my favorite local airport. Is there a method for extending my favorite airport's main runway? They have repaved it since FS2002. It was 4200' and now it is 5500'. Any tools for doing this kind of work?thanks,Dennis Mitchell

How can I set light intensity in Gmax?My anticollision light (material: light_nav ) on RAI antennas (Avsim File Library) are very bright (night and DAY!!!) so I want to recalibrate it.Thanks a lot. Claudio

Hi there,sometimes, when launching MakeMDL to export some Gmax files, I get this strange (for me) MakeMDL warning.Nothing tragic, the file is exported and compiled anyway, and it does work in FS, but I would anyway like to know what this message does mean (really can't understand it).I wouldn't like to discover this can have negative side-effects on the scenery in a second time only.Thanks for any help.

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Hi allI need your help for making a platform. After doing a flatten, i've tried making a textured polygon with GMax, and putting it on the ground of the airport. The problem is the polygon appears onto the runway too!!So, that's the question: how can i make a platform and put it on the ground, and down the runway?Thanks a lot, and regards from SpainBill StonePD: Please, sorry if my english is not so good enough :-))

I recently downloaded LWMdraw and it worked beautifully with regards to creating my lake. I am now trying to "cut" a grass background for my airport out of the woods. Am I going to be able to use a LWM polygon for that, or do I have to use the VTP? If I can use an LWM, will LMWdraw let me do that, or can someone show me how to edit the file before I drop it into BGLC.exe?Thanks for all the helpJeff

I've been working on an airport (my first) and have had some odd problems with it. I can taxi through the buildings that I placed (a mix of buildings from the file library and those that come with FSSC) which I imagine is normal, but tend to apparently run into invisible buildings near the buildings I made. The airport is set at a lake that's totally surrounded by forest and did not have any buildings before I put my airport there. I think I also had the same problems when my airport was out at N0,W0 for testing which has nothing but water. I'm wondering if the buildings are supposed to be crashable but the crash detection code is getting the wrong locations for them or i…

Hey,Is it possible to animate loading bridges in gmax for fs2k2? For example the bridge adjusts to the aircrafts height?Regards,BWIA330If not, what can I do with this tick 18 key? What are some good suggestions for use.

Hey,There was a site that this guy made loading bridges for GMAX sceneries. The site was part chinese and part english, does anyone still have this link? It will be grealty appreciated if I can get it back.Regards,BWIA330

Hi everybody,I tried today to fly north from Adelaide (South Australia) to reach Alice Springs, and I noticed that, in contrast to what I remember from a real life flight on that route, Lake Torrens north of Port Augusta and the other lakes in that region were almost unvisible, being just greenish flat territory. I tried the same changing to spring and winter seasons (assuming that there might be more water present at thet time)-- without visible effect :-( .Looking for the reason I tried tfm-view, opening first hyp476096 in the auste directory - no water polygons. But opening hyl746096 I noticed that the shorelines were there. Then I tried nph476096 - and finally there w…

Hi all.I thought it might be a good thing to discuss how autogen is excluded by different design aspects of FS2002.=========================Gerrish Gray had some good suggestions for this thread... so we don't get too far off track. :)"You should emphasise that any testing needs to be done very carefully, only changing ONE thing at a time and making sure that the observation is repeatable when FS is shutdown and restarted." - Gerrish GrayFS2002 autogen sometimes has a nasty habit of not regenerating upon the addition or removal of some addon scenery. The only reliable way to insure you are actually seeing autogen supression is to exit the sim and restart it. This forces …

I've now just finishing off one of my very detailed projects and i've animated a part of a building. It animates just fine in Gmax, but doesn't even move in FS.This is for scenery only.Is there a specific name i need to assign to an object, so that FS will recognise that it is suppose to animate?Thanks

How can I add an anti collision light on the top of a building?Best regards [email protected]

Anyone know where one might find TFDmacros.zip. I see it mentioned several times, done webb search and NO LUCK. What good is one if the other is required? I want a program to place transportation, and Lake and river areas in FS2002.Richard;

Hi all, I'm back againWe were discussing DXT's not that long ago and Arno did a fine Tutorial which we thank him for.Check the image out, the sign is in front of the Hedge which is a DXT1 with alpha. This problem was a DXT3 problem before and changing to DXT1 did resolve a similar problem. The sign is a Library Object with no transparency involved.If this is a drawing order problem could someone explain this in contection with the points/Texpoly that produce this Hedge. Points( 0 -5 0 1 ; 0 -5 10 1 ; 1 5 10 1 ; 2 5 0 1 ; 3 -5 0 0 ; 4 -5 10 0 ; 5 5 10 0 ; 6 5 0 0 ; 7 ) LoadBitmap( 0 0 EF 20 20 20 hedge_01.b…

Hi guysIn behalf of a programmer friend that would like to develop few small scenery making tools for G max questions;Where can we fined any info particularly S D K regarding G MAX ( not 3DSMAX but G max) plugging SDK and Script SDK ?Where can we fined any info particularly S D K regarding ANIMATION in fs 2k2 sceneriesWhere can we fined any info particularly S D K regarding ANIMATION in fs BGL format Where can we fined any info particularly S D K regarding

Guys, have been experimenting at various texture types DXT1&3, 444-4,888-8, 8bit 512x512 565, etc.What in your experience gives the BEST and clearest result for scenery? No Alpha channel required.DXT1 and DXT3 seem to give the same result for opaque textures. Anyone concur?ThanksShez

Hi everybody,I have been searching for some good elevation scenery for South America, specifically for Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, but cannot find any. I am thinking about jumping into the terrabuilder stuff to try and create it using Gtopo 30 data. In your experience, is this a bad idea or a good idea. I wanted to get your opinion before I invest alot of time. Thanks for your input,Shane Lewis

Hi all..I've been popping in and out of here as I have been learning how to create sceney and it has been a great help to a newcommer like myself.But now the dreadded time has come that no matter how much I read and experiment I'm STUCK.!!!..I've mastered the basics of Gmax and can export a model created with it into my FS2002 world. But now I want to go further.How do I make this gmax object into something I can use in FSSC.???I have downloaded and setup FSregen and middleman etc...But from there on in I'm just way out of my depth and can't seem to find any tutorials on how to go about this. Do I have the right programs for this or is there something I'm missing???Hoping…