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Can anyone provide the names of some freeware scenery design tools besides FSSC? I'm having a hard time designing decent taxiways with polygons, I'm looking for beizer tool of some kind for FS2002. Any tools or programs that offer this?-Matt

Hi guys I wonder that if we have such a great tool as G max to build 3d scenery objects Why we need to convert those object into API and make a bgl in other as good as be scenery creation programs when G max & Make MDL can export them perfectly well as 3d objects bgl

...then, about half an hour over the STD, they disappear.Hi to all the Brains of this forum, would anyone help me letting the AI Aircrafts take-off. Since I have changed the original FS traffic that flew ok, the new one asks to ground for taxi, taxis, then stops holding short even if there aren't landing crafts (I tryed also a time table containing just taking-off flights). Just for Information I have two airports (one overlayed, different just for active runways), but I'm rather sure that this already happened with only one. Thanks for any help.Roberto

How are other folks getting on with this app??I just can't make anything happen! I gave up trying to be too ambitious too early and decided to just fill in a little bit of coastline in one LOD13 cell.As I've used LWMDraw I used an earlier Cellgrid setup and followed the instructions what I thought was very carefully.Result - no change, whatever I tried.I guess I must be past it. Time to give it all up or what??;) OK, steam let off ----- now back to the drawing board I guessRoger

Hi!I am now in big process of making roads in my country and since I have now roads which have together (in one piece) even over 500 points I am now even more curious about how many points can one have in one VTP line? I see that maximum width is 255 and in one line You can have more than one VTPWidePointWidth which is especially usefull when placing rivers.Best regards,Goran BrumenFS Slovenija 2002 teamhttp://slovenia.avsim.net

Gentlemen,Default Kansas City has a serious flaw. The distintive Kemper Arena which sits in the west bottoms has been positioned by Microsoft where another distinctive Kansas City icon(Bartle Hall) sits. I have timkered without success with fixing this. I've even renamed the file in the Scenery/City directory and started another one, properly named, but program doesn't buy it. Any suggestions?Mike Eppright

Hi!I have few problems with the VTP ground textures. They are custom landclass 252 textures drawn in a small area, one texture per LOD13. The same area was previously covered with "Photo-scenery" created with Resample and it worked. After I drew the VTP polygons it is bumpy! The textures show up, flipped and mipped, transparent with autogen, that is no problem (almost, read more). Just bumpy.The second problem .... the ground textures show up perfectly aligned when the "Terrain texture size" setting in FS is HIGH. When set to medium the textures shift a little bit, but in this case too much. See the picture.And the third....there are only ***Su.bmp and ***Hw.bmp textures,…

I'm looking for a method or program where I can input two seperate lat/lon coordinates and come out with a center coordinate which lies directly between the two. I need such information for runway placement in FSSD, a lack of displaced threshold coords. for KSJC on AirNav leaves me no choice.The two coordinates I need converted:30R: 37-21.13533N / 121-54.91500W12L: 37-22.49933N / 121-56.41033W-Matt

When I download and install airport scenery files (La Guardia as an example), I noticed that AI planes taxi and takeoff in the grass next to the taxiways and runways. Using AFCAD I see that the graphic taxiways and runways from the new scenery are offset from the paths shown in AFCAD.Is there any easy way to fix this other than manually redoing all of the paths in AFCAD?Thanks

Hi all.BGLPlacer is a handy way to add effects, library objects, windsocks and simple building structures.One drawback is the requirement of using the Library names hardcoded into the BGLC. BGLPlacer only allows for those objects.But I've been playing with the CSV files made by BGLPlacer.First, BGLC doesn't need a CSV file. A TXT or ASM extension is fine.Next, we can name an object , in that text file, as it's GUID number.Here's a sample:; format for each line is the following:; EFFECT, ,,,,,,,,; LIBRARY, ,,,,,,,,; WINDSOCK,,,,,,,,,; BUILDING,,,,,,,,,;; SCALE=131072 means a scale of 0.5; SCALE=65536 means a scale of 1.0; SCALE=32768 means a scale of 2.0;LIBRAR…

How can I get rid of this "rising" water around the end of the runway?I think it is the airport skirtings that's causing the problem.What's the easiest way of sorting this out, LWM or VTP?

I have been making scenery for about 10 years now and today I've have a new problem. When adding FSDS scenery to FS2002, it is visible until you leave the area (about 20nm) and then return. Upon returning the scenery is not visible???Any ideas?ThanksRay

For us non-scenery designers, is there a tool to add an ILS and an NDB to my favorite ocal airport? The NDB is missing from FS2002 and the airport just added an ILS. I would like to add these to make flying there a little more like the real world.Dennis Mitchell

Hello guys,I've made the ground of a scenery but at certain angles it dissapears. Below is the scasm code: Header( 1 -21:37:29.005762 -21:57:28.994294 -43:12:26.961396 -43:33:57.038544 ) LatRange( -21:57:28.994294 -21:37:29.005762 ) Menu( Juiz de Fora ) Flatten( 910.742411 12 -21:47:55.273599 -43:23:16.785126 -21:47:56.198445 -43:23:9.327658 -21:47:32.152453 -43:23:6.593254 -21:47:32.961693 -43:22:58.141457 -21:47:21.863543 -43:22:56.898546 -21:47:21.054303 -43:23:5.723216 -21:47:1.516934 -43:23:3.485975 -21:47:0.938906 -43:23:10.446278 -21:47:20.129457 -43:23:12.434936 -21:47:19.089005 -43:…

I made some BMP's and tried to place them over the default, but all I get is white area with water and transportation. What color is used for transpartent overlay, or is this not posssable? I keep hoping someone will come up with tools simular to TerraScene, but no feedback as of yet.Richard;

Hi guys,Could anyone tell me how I add a VOR ou NDB in the "world", but without inside "my airport"?? I made one in Groundmaker, And I would like to setup SID's and STAR's, and for that I want to add some VOR or NDB around the airport. Placing them phisically with groundmaker I think I don't have much problem. The big one for me is adding to the AFD files, since I would like to visualize them at the FS2002 MAP.I was thinking on Airport for Windows to do that, but I'm not sure how!Thanks guys.Miguel

Has anyone had any problems loading Bill Melichar's scenery? I followed the instructions but lost my runways as well as exact location of the airport. I tried going back to the old configuration but had no luck.Glennhttp://ftp.avsim.com/library/index.php?Cat...&CurrentPage=61

Long time user MFS and until recently have never been able to do much other than standard things due to CPU speed and memory.Really interested in AI traffic, different a/c types, different airlines and the like. I have downloaded many a/c types from AVSIM file library as well. I have reviewed the article in January 2003 Computer Pilot magazine and got my interest piqued in AI.I have downloaded AFCAD, Traffic Tools, PAI Installer and AITM but have had some frustrations getting things to work at all. First problem was that my AI aircraft were not working at all. I tried several fixes within FS2K and from different sites all to no avail. I have re-installed FS2K now and have…

Hi,I have read a topic about 1 months ago . In a message it was writing about a utility that shows files, using by an application. So we can see what files is FS using. Now I couldn't find the topic. Can you write the name and/or url of this utility.ThanksKenan

Hi, I tried the landclass assistant of John Cillis, and it a very great tool, but, do you can do a tool (likes landclass assistant) that modify the water color on fs2002? I'm very novice in this area..., ThanksPablo

I am having problems registering my FS2002 Pro edition of GMax, it tells me that my registration is wrong, Can anyone help?Waiting in antisipationNeil

I am building my airport in Airport 2.6 and designing most of the buildings including the terminal in Gmax.My delima is, when it comes time to add the road that runs in frong of the terminal at ground level..and the sidewalk...fences..etcwhat is a good way to align objects in airport with a terminal thats not visible in the program?http://www.projectopensky.com/banners/gary_banner.gif

I've just started experimenting with FS Scenery Creator. FSSC seems quite easy to use and I sucessfully created a small scenery file that looked the way I wanted it to. But reloading the scenery so I could look at changes seems to be a pain. I've been deleting the scenery and then reloading it each time. Is there an easier way to do it?

I made my very first AFCAD file last night for my previously uncontrolled hometown airport, KRSV. I added tower, ground and taxiway designations, etc. But now, that has given me the bug to dig deeper. I'd like to add an a visible tower, maybe some more pavement, a building or two and most importantly, Navaids. Can anyone steer me to a good source of info on this type of stuff for the beginner?Thanks!KP

Hi folks,From my current knowledge of LWM and VTP details (much of which I've learned from this group), I have created a new GUI-based VTP and LWM editor called Coast-Line-Maker. It is similar in concept to LWMDraw and AutoASM, but is (I hope) more user-friendly. The main features of the program are as follows:* graphic-oriented design screen, allowing easy placement of line segments * requires no user knowledge of programming, assembler files or hex editing * coverage over more than one LOD13 cell - Coast-Line-Maker can handle an entire LOD8 cell in one project * automatic alignment between coastline segments and land/water polygons * automatic generation of assembler so…