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I want to tweak the asm files created by gmax. Two asm files where created. How should I compile these two files to get one bgl file with the bglc compiler ?Thank's in advance.ByeJoerg

To you scenery gurus out there I need your help!I need a simple step by step working example of how to do the following. I started going through the tutorials of AIRPORT 2.60 and the sample that of how to use the Jetway API by Shehryar Ansari, but quite honestly I'm totally confused. This is all so very new to me! Generic tutorials do not work for me I learn better when I have a specific task to accomplish such as what follows:First; all my FS2002 and Airport 2.60 for Windows are in the default installation directories.Here is what I want to do. Open the existing scenery for the KBOI airport and using Shehryar Ansari's JETWAY.API, add jetways to the real world locations.I…

Greetings - I am toying with the idea of recreating my local airport in detail. I'm comfortable with the airport and land design program I'll probably use, but I am clueless when it comes to the buildings.gMax, FSDS2, Nova - All three can do buildings, but which one to go with?With your collective experience, which is best for a newbie starting 3D scenery design?! My buildings aren't going to be insanely detailed, but I will want to use my own textures.Mainly, I am concerned with the difficulty in getting objects into my scenery. I know with gMax there are a few extra steps involved, making it a little difficult to design 'n drop. Will FSDS2 and/or the forthcoming version…

I've discovered in Geocomm web page that it is possible to download the E00 files with electric lines data for my country (Italy). It would be very interesting to use them to place electric pylons in the whole country. The project would be:1. with E002VTP transform the E00 data to VTP lines.2. instead to design lines, edit the asm files and place macros of the pylons (designed in Gmax) in the coordinates of VTP.Someone may help me explaining how may i transform this idea in a reliable work?Ciao

I am very new to getting involved with the intracasies of FS2002, and I fancied a go at doing a bit of scenery, so I decided to download FSSC, which I did, can some one tell me if the CFS2 macros will get displayed in FS2002. Many thanks in advance for your time.

I have worked throught the autogen tutorial on Niagara and can get it to work ok.BUT I can't seem to make it work anayplace else. Here is whhat I am trying to do:Recreate my home town as an added textured area where MS left it out.Here is what I have done:I have created a scenery file using FS Architect that correctly displays the area. I have used flattening polygons to flattten the default terrain and have overlaid them with urban textures. This is OK as far as it goes but does not give me any buildings or trees.SO I started thinking autogen was the way to do it.I used the working Niagara Area image to determine size, compression etc and modified my textures to be th…

Hi all!Could somebody tell where can I find that tutorial that explains the step-by-step making of scenery night textures???Thanks,Jean.

Hi..I was make Library Object API from GMAX and FSregen.And how can I place the object to the right place that I want to be.Or Can I see Gmax object shape in FS Architect 2002 ?Thanks for replys.Naphon Sudprasert....Fly highest has too quited cold......

Can anybody recommend an alternative to the Scasm command "TransformCall".I have noticed that its use seems to obliterate Autogen for some distance around.Regards,Tosh

Anyone working on or have available large Commercial Buildings_K-Mart, Target, Circut City, Staples, Lowes, Home Depot, or others?Richard;

Well, I've been designing scenery for awhile, and I would say that it would not be possible without all the help I've receieved here. So I come to you again with yet-another-problem....I designed this scenery for Bangkok. It's had a few thousand downloads, and occaisionally a user will write me with a bug in the scenery that I always make a point of fixing. There's one problem that I can't seem to figure out. A certain texture that is used for a ground polygon will not load, leaving the polygon appearing white (see picture at bottom).I've had only two people report this to me, and I have been unable to duplicate it myself. None of the people that I had test my scener…

Hi to everyboby builders,I have problems moving the control tower view using AFCAD, I drag the control tower (the pink circle with the T inside) in the real position and I set in the properties its height.I save the modifications I have made but while all the other changes take effect in FS2002 after relaunching it, the tower view is always in the original (wrong) position...sigh!Thanks to anyone replying to meRoberto

Any news on progress on tools tool simular to TerraScene that would allow for FS2002 teature including REGEN textures? TerraScene is rather good but lacking FS2002 features, and files are rather large.Please keep us posted on any progress and any BETA testing needed. I would be more thsn willing to help!Richard

Greetings,I am an avid motorsports enthusiast and flight simulator pilot. I would like to find out if there is any interest in forming a charter service Virtual Airline using customized executive jets to fly for the Formula One World Championship and Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART).My skills are in web page design and not in designing or painting aircraft. I am looking for scenery designers who could dress up some scenery at a couple of airports for the service headquarters buildings. I would also need some aircraft painters to add the custom team graphics to the aircrafts.Every pilot who joins the charter service would be responsible for their own flight planning b…

I am new to FS2002 (very new)scenery design. I have read and read and read and downloaded software till it is coming out of my ears in hopes that I could muddle my way through with the help files and tutorials. Even with this arsenal of information and software, I am still at a loss as to how I should begin this project that I have in mind (which, by the way, is to reproduce the coastal areas of my old hometown airport - CYQI Yarmouth Nova Scotia).Maybe I have too much info, not the right kind of info or maybe I am just plain stupid.I guess what I need is to be in contact with someone who has done this kind of a project in the past and give me a "push" in the right direct…

Thank you Arno for all the help you give us all all year long; are you planning to update FSDS Shape to work with FSDSv2?Thanks againChristianParis

Hi all, I have a small problem with the terminal buildings at KSMF. A good portion of them have disappeared! I copied the 'USSW' scenery folder from my FS2002 disks with no improvement. I have not, to the best of my knowledge, messed with the scenery for KSMF in any way. I know that they were there because I used them to add more gates with AFCAD. Anybody have any ideas?? Thanks in advance for your help.Fred Zealor, Private PilotUnder looong final to 30 at KSAChttp://hifi.avsim.net/activesky/images/wxrebeta.jpg

Hi,This problem is really confusing. Lately I've been adding a dummy RotatedCall command to two big API-macros, and with that I succeeded to remove the autogen elimination those macros caused before. However, now I've noticed a strange thing to the northeast of the airport. Have a look at it from the attached picture. The LOD-squares are all colored in an area that big. Can the RotatedCall command be causing this?This is what I added to the end of the macros:TransformEndRotatedCall( :BA 0 0 0 );;; <--- these linesReturn <--- -"-:BA <--- -"-Return:ExitEndA------So I added those three (3) lines, …

Hello, friends!It's possible to change the color of the TAXI commands lights?Or only blue lights are allowed?I would like to use green lights, too...Thanks since now!Leandro

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HiI'm currently creating a new scenery and want to place some aircrafts there. I don't want to amek them flying around. The yjust should sit around in a corner of the airport not doing anything (so no Flightplan needed).Can I use the PAI aircrafts for this?? DO I have to go through all these AI softwares or is there an easier way of putting the PAI (or FSPainter) planes into scenerys?Any help is appreciated :-)Thanks & regardsMario :-)

Hi All,Last evening I was trying to make a piece of code like FsRegen does that would allow me to use GMax scenery in a dynamic library (for the section 15 dynamic scenery). But looking through the scenery SDK I couldn't find anything about the commands used in such a library. Maybe I was too sleepy already :), so does anybody know if there is any info on how to make such a library in the SDK? Or should I many refer back to the old Fs98 SDK?Arno Member Netherlands 2000 Scenery Team[a href=http://home.wanadoo.nl/arno.gerretsen]http://home.wanadoo.nl/arno.gerretsen/banner.jpg[/a]

Hi everybody,tryng to figure out how the different macros word I found that there are (at least) to different versions around. My question concerns the VTPPolyMethod2Ex macro. In the version coming with LMWDraw it runs as follows:VTPPolyMethod2Ex Macro ExPointCount; enum{ MaxNumPointsEx = 31 + 127 };; UINT8 bExPointCount; // The number of points = 31 + bExPointCount; BYTE ExPointCount WORD ExPointCountEndMin the version coming with LMWTut as follows:VTPPolyMethod2Ex Macro PointCount; enum{ MaxNumPointsEx = 31 + 127 };; UINT8 bExPointCount; // The number of points = 31 + bExPointCount BYTE PointCount + 127EndMas you can see from the comment lines, both versions are di…

Hi guys,I'm trying to remake my home airfield background. I used SCM2XY2 to produce a VTP polygon from the SCASM file generated by FSSC. Everything works great except for one strange detail : In FS2002 my new polygon appears at the right place, but not with the right texture. Whatever texture I define in my ASM file, FS2002 displays it as "forest". I even tried to just remove any VTP polygon (Exclude set to 1 and NumTexturesInLayer set to 0)... It still displays my polygon as a forest !!!I checked that the BGL file is actually changed when I recompile using different parameters, and that when I completely remove that BGL, the scenery reverts to FS default (ie : I'm really…