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I'm attempting to modify the default FS airport scenery but I'm not able to find out which BGL file specifically contains my airport. Is there a database somewhere that I can search to find this out?By the way, I will be using Architect 2002.ThanksEnrique

Can Some one tell me how to find this amazing new cloud shadow edit tool i have seen recenlty.The other posts say its done by some called KenyoAny help would be greatly recieved. Thankshttp://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3de550e7458112c6.jpg

Hi all.BGLCCodes.zip is a list of definitions and macros that are standard to BGLC 8.0, and may help with some coding problems related to altering Gmax derived BGLC code.If you are getting into BGLC coding, it gives an idea of how structures, macros, and definitions are organised. SCASM coders can also use this as a comparative resource... perhaps more important as newer SCASM floating point code is used by FSDS2 or NOVASim ( when released ).These elemental 'building blocks' also give some new insight to designers who are studying the Scenery SDKs.Dick

To fellow developpers,We have extracted interesting nav data contained in the FS 2002 bgl's (scenedb folder). Data is relative to airports, runways, VOR's, NDB's, ILS.Approximate statistics :Airports : 260000 records ILS : 44000 recordsNDB : 50000 recordsVOR : 43000 recordsRWY : 1700000 recordsFile size is about 2,31 Mo for ILS, NDB, VOR, RWY.File size is about 2,12 Mo for the airports.If many developpers/designers are interested we can upload this files in the AVSIM library.Serge BAYE and Guillaume DARIERwww.anticyclone.be Here is a sample : **************************************************************Data extracted from AFD files : City: Brussels Airport: Brussels Nati…

I've written a one page tutorial for magvar and msa scenery.Anyone interested in quickly reviewing those before I upload?Cheers, Christian

Hi,I have made some small objects with GMax and created some textures.They appear fine in FS2002 but the textures disappear after about 50 meters away. The objects then appear grey. As I get closer the textures re-appear. The night textures work the same way.I have changed the ambient and diffuse colors to something other than grey but this makes no difference.I noticed there is a 'Default Fallback Color' in the GMax MakeBGL utility, which by default is checked. I unchecked this but it made no difference.I am using Gmax 1.2 - the texture mapping does seem more complicated in this version than in the previous. Am I missing something obvious here?thanksJames.

Hi,Since the runways are excluding autogen at a further distance I thouhgt if I apply the code with the transformcall that made my photogrid autogen friendly maybe it will leave autogen near runways too. Here is the transformcall code of the Photogrid Luis gave me (compiled with FreeSC):Area( b 33:49:2.241296 35:29:23.355961 20 ) ;in the following 2 lines paste in your original latitude and longitudeUvar( $Lat0 33:49:2.241296 )Uvar( $Lon0 35:29:23.355961 ) ;then your ScaleUvar( $Scale 0.304800 ) ;now the latitude and longitude where you want to place your RefPoint();in the present case shifted 30 seconds to the East and same latitudeUvar( $Lat1 33:49:2.241296 )Uvar( $Lon1…

Greetings,I have acquired raw data sample from the Fredericton New Brunswick Canada area.The files are *.xyz, ASCII format. The standard used to create them is Nad 83 Datum.I understand that I need to convert the *.xyz files to a DEM format in order to use them in FS 2002.Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can do the conversion?Tanks for you help.

Hello Captains, i have a problem with my scenery, i wonder if anyone can help,i have various add-on sceneries installed and also FSskyworld se etc,the latest FSUIPC and new drivers from NVIDIA for a ordianary geforce 6600 card on a p-4 2 ghz machinewith 512 mb ram ,the problem is that my scenery seem to be kind of corrupted,when on the sim the buildings and some planes suddenly become brightly multi- coloured their textures are red/blue/pink etc and some of the aircraft which have reflective textures start showing their base silver reflective texture only ,the whole plane looks silver.i cant identify what installation or what exactlt might be causin…

I'm learning to work with Gmax now (looks difficult but it's not) and I want to use some of the things i created in a scenery. My questions are:1) How do I export my Gmax creations to a FS scenery compatible file?2) How do i add them to scenery file?3) How do I remove the default FS buildings?Thanks a lot!!!Cheers!

I was wondering if there is anybody who is wanting to work on a new freeware scenery project, with me and my group; Project GMax.the scenery project is New York- La Guardia GMax.i know there is already one out. But I want to make a really accurate Gmax one, i have all the gate info, and concourse/airline info.i just need ppl to help make place buildings in the right place and space the gates out the right way too. and i need ppl to can put photoreal textures on it.(if you are from NY and the LA GUARDIA AREA THAT WOULD BE NICE TOO! EVEN UR CAN ONLY GET PICTURES OF THE TERMINALS AND STUFF! ALSO IF YOU WORK AT LGA, WOULD BE GREAT!)thanks all!email: [email protected]: A…

The Version 2 Deciduous tree macros, have just recently been uploaded to Avsim. The version 2 improvements are New winter snow textures edited by Bill Dick. Trees remain dark at night. New Extended 16 bit textures without mip maps, trees remain steady, as you approach them from different distance. They are furnished in API, and Scasm format. By Robert Palmer & Bill Dick. Freeware, hope all scenery designers can make good use of them.Robert

Is anybody aware about any program which would allow to piece (copy and paste)together parts of the map into one high res background? Thanks for help and informations.Ted

Hi,With all respect for Ken

I've been interested in developing a navigation log to append to the flight releases our VA pilots get; a key component of this is the heading which pilots fly between waypoints. I've got the latest NIMA nav data, complete with magnetic variations, but as you probably know they don't match AT ALL with the default mag vars found in FS. These are stored in a .bgl file (magdec.bgl); I'd love to see an updated BGL file produced and released. I'm not sure if the table has values based on waypoint or by coordinate, but if giving you the mag var value at every waypoint in the database helps, I'll give it to you in whatever format you need. I think this is generally an important …

Hello everyoneRight now there have been lots of great canadian sceneries coming out, and I wanted to know if there are some sercretly in the works right now, of if anyone is doing any? :-)

hellowI'm searching for terraindll.dll; I have read in your messages that this dll is existing, but nothing about where we can find it.ThanksChristian

Hi,Is there any VTP tutorial for download, like the LMW tutorial by "Rhumbaflappy"i really want to learn how to create vtp2 custom landclass with transperant textures and autogen, so i can move on with my project.I only need to create 4 textures/titles.bestChris

Hi,The airport I am designing the scenery for has the ATIS on the same freq as the VOR in real life. Therefore in FS I do not have ATIS inthis this airport since this mix freq is not supported in the game. So is there any special way to add ATIS in FS2002 or is it the same ATIS option we used to add for previous FS versions? Or is there a new command for that?Thanks :)Michel

Does anyone know if there is a fix out there for the p.e.i. scenery. -Roger

I'm trying to set up a burning oil drum effect for use in lighting my small airstrip at night. However, I can't seem to find a combination of parameters that result in the effect only being visible during dusk, night and dawn. I read the effects SDK, and those parameters seem to be settable, but when I use them they have no effect (no pun intended). I feel as though I'm missing something here, but the parameters are so simple I can't figure out what it might be. Here's an example of what I'm trying currently:MOY=01,12;DOM=01,31;HOD=00,23;MOH=00,59;DAWN=1;DAY=0;DUSK=1;NIGHT=1;I've tried many other combinations, but all result in the same thing. Either I get burning drums a…

Hi Cousins,Need help in converting units between english and metric. I have had this trouble ever since we swithced units at my pre-retirement job.Couple of years ago while still working I had this handy little FREE program on my laptop. It is an excellent tool to have running when you are working in gmax and you know the height of the building is 49.65 feet and want to convert that to meters. Better yet is when you know the field takes up 2014 acres and you would like to know how many hectare that is. It will even help you in converting 2 fortnights into 28 days!Get the FREE "CONVERT" from http://www.joshmadison.com/software/[email protected] us make it better!http://…

Hi all,I am attempting to produce a VTP file with multiple coastline polygons, but am not sure of the proper structure for files with multiple polys. I have attempted to copy the examples here, but (although the file compiles with BGLC) FS hangs up on loading.I've tried two methods, creating a single VTPdataarea with polycount>1, and also multiple VTPdataareas each with polycount=1, but I get the same result:FIRST METHOD ---------------------------------------- VTPDataArea 1, 1, 0, 0 VTPLayer 8, 0 VTPNumTexturesInLayer 1, 0 VTPTextureId 4, 0 VTPPolyCount 2, 0 VTPPolyMethod2 6, 1, 0 VTPWidePoint 7934, 1, 7505, 0 VT…

Could someone please point me in the right direction to learn how to create dynamic scenery? I want to make some predesigned flights for a huey. Like The LZ has in their scenery. I've read the AFCAD manual but didn't see how to make flights for helicopters. Thanks.

Luisa and other guys using FSDS2!I have just installed FSDS V2 and I have been playing around with it. I tried to import some "old" models and first of all I saw message "FS2k condition checks, AA tags and transformations are not valid in FS2002. Remove?". Does this means, that if I set rotation for windsock because of wind, visibility range for an object (33b) etc. will stay or they will be removed?The next thing which is quite dramatic is DirectX "error 887602f8: Render target buffer lost!". In 5 minutes I got this error at least 15 times and FSDS V2 does not recover from this error like V16b ;( And the first error came up when starting to convert an old object...Does a…