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Dear All:What are the advantages in FS performance using FSDS V2 over the FSDS V1.62 ?Is there a significant improve in FS2002 performance?What are the new SCASM codes generated by FSDS V2 ?Thanks.alfredo Mendiola LoyolaLima Peru

Can someone help me with this problem. I been trying to save some downloaded airport layouts in afcad. After everthing has been saved and when I start FS2002 Pro. FS2002 automatically exits after indexing all the scenaries. Why does it do that ? and does any have a solution to this ?Please help

New features will include:-Ability to grab lat/lon from FS2002 via FSUIPC. This will allow you to slew around the perimeter of your new city borders, and plot points as you go along without having to copy and paste the lat & lon from FS2002.-Ability to do global and localized search/replace of landclass textures in landclass .raw. Does your city texture look too bare? No problem, the search/replace lets you experiment, without having to start from scratch.-Ability to drag mouse and "draw" multiple grid cells-More accurate placement of texture updates, based on the June .inf file update (included again with this release).Here's a shot from the coming release, which …

I have been messing withthe new material editor, I cannt find where to add the **_lm texture for my buildings.the button are all weird....sorry I am still very new.http://www.avsim.com/posky/images/banners/gary_ban.gif

Can FS2002 and it's future versions get any more real as it can be??? If you are taxing down the ramp and look out, you will see at every hold short point a set of flashing lights, which are usually wig wag white lights. These LHSO lights are found at every major airport and I was wondering if it is possible to create these for FS2002. If so, has there been any scenery developers willing to venture into this new realm?Shawn Anderson

Dear All:Can FSDS V2 generate .SCM macros ?I want to use .scm with my ASD2.1 ?Thanks.Alfredo Mendiola LoyolaLima Peru

I have been trying to build some fairly simple structures using Easy Object Designer. A subset of what I am trying to include is a simple coloured cylinder. But when I feed the .api into Airport for Windows, and compile I get scasm errors.If I don't colour the cylinder it compiles OK. I can't find the Poly Abl commmand in the Scasm docs, and I am totally stuck.I attach the api code with the error log at the bottom.If any of you experts out there could point me in the right direction I would be extremely grateful David

Hey all.Just getting used to texturing in GMAX. I've been using the UVW unwrap-planar map technique, as described on a New-Zealand based site (On Target, I think...). My Question is, can I assign 2 BMP's to the same object, so the sides are from one and the top is from another? I have tried changing the BMP when I allign the texture the way I want it on a certain face, but GMAX then changes all the faces to the same texture.If there is a way to do this, could you please explain in simple terms... as I am a very simple man!Hope all that made sense.Alun

Hello everybody,I am Michael Hartshorn of Project Airlift (PAL). PAL is similar to Project AI, the difference being PAL makes AFCADs, scenery, aircraft, and AI traffic for military airlift throughout the world.I would like to hear from a scenery designer who would like to design scenery for important airbases that are lacking default MS scenery.Examples of possible airbases wanted are Al Uedid and Diego Garcia.If you are interested in this challenge, I have satellite photos and other information you can work with.Email me at [email protected] and we'll work it out.Cheers,Michael HartshornCommander-in-Chief Project Airlift

Hey,I'm currently working on a small project which involves (among other things) the following windmill pictured below.I have successfully made the rotating animation of the blades. However, I want to turn to top part of the windmill into the wind. To do so, I have divided the windmill into two GMax files. One is the base support structure (non turning part) and one the top structure, which will need to turn into the wind.I the top structure's .asm file I have substitutedSCALE_AGL OBJECT_0_RETURN, 10000, 126, 131072, 00043D426h, 038E4h, 0E38E38E3h, 08E39h, 0, 0BGL_CALL OBJECT_0_BEGINOBJECT_0_RETURN label wordwithSCALE_AGL OBJECT_0_RETURN, 10000, 126, 131072, 00043D426h, 0…

Hi,*One of the TOP photo real available in Fs2002*FS2002 La Rioja - Spain - Photorealistic, The scenery is 380 MB bigand it has more than 634 photos seamlessThe resolution is 4,75m/pixelyou need to download 8 fileshttp://www.fsfreeware.com/dcd/New/Screenshotshttp://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/DCForumID47/12891.htmlhttp://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/DCForumID47/12892.html#5#5ThanksChris Willis[link:fsw.simflight.com/FSWMenuFsSim.html]Clouds And Addons For MsFshttp://fsw.simflight.com/fsw.jpg

I have tried to create a building with reflective texture without success. Can FSDS v2 only create reflective textures for aircraft and not scenery objects?Regards,David S.

I just installed Gerrish Gray's tree api's. Does anyone know how to use them in FS Architect? I am having trouble setting the required parameters such as tree type, and tree scale. I would appreciate any advice or help from you more experienced designers. Thanks in advance.Bob Brown

Could someone double check this terrain inf file for me please?. As far as I can work out this should cover 10 x 6 LOD 11 quads, but the southernmost row is missing.[Destination] LOD = 11 DestDir = "C:My DocumentsNIMA" DestBaseFileName = "LOD11" UseSourceDimensions = 1 [source]Type = ElevS16LSBSourceDir = "C:My DocumentsNIMA"SourceFile = "Lod11.dem"CellType = S16LSBNullCellValue = -9999 Lat = 50.800781828Lon = -1.640625NumOfCellsPerLine = 2561NumOfLines = 1537CellXdimensionDeg = 0.0002288818359375CellYdimensionDeg = 0.00017166137890625ScaleinMeters = 1.0Thanks, David

Hey gang,I go to airnav and my DOD flight books and they say the runways at Little Rock are 43 and 42 degrees. But when I put them ove the aerial photo form straight down off of terraserver, they dont match up.now what is wrong here...is it the runway heading setting or is it the photo?If its t ephoto can I rotate it anyway?thanks allhttp://www.avsim.com/posky/images/banners/gary_ban.gif

Anyone know where I can pick up some low-polygon models of a helicpter for gmax??They can be in 3ds, dxf formats.Ive combed the web and cant seem to locate any.Thanks in advance.John

I made this building yesterday in gmax..and was wondering how I would go about adding a red beacon light to the top?http://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3dd1c0ed42b7c60a.jpghttp://www.avsim.com/posky/images/banners/gary_ban.gif

This is still a very early version, but there are some significant additions. It will handle more complex shapes than the first version and also allows multiple polygons. It generates the asm file about three times faster. After Dick's thoughts about TerraScene-generated water masks, the program can now import TerraScene water masks. However, this has opened a whole new can of worms, because these are much larger image sizes (larger than 8192*8192) with lots of lakes scattered around. AutoAsm can handle these images, but not completely reliably. There are potential problems, for example, when two different polygons enter the same LOD13 square. I need to do some more work…

Hi all.I don't know if this is news or not, but Gmax 1.2 is now available.http://www.discreet.com/Dick

I am trying to call typical MS library macro "air_plow" in FSCC and getting this error :Error in macro file C:APT210APIAIR_PLOW.API line 25 -> CallLibObj ( 0 0C545A2A1h 011D2E2ECh 01000849Ch 02AE60C5Ah ) -> invalid operator .. h 011D2E2ECh 0100084 ..Scasm compilation status: error(s) 1here is my entire macro: Area( 5 %1 %2 %3 ) ; Start of library call IfVarRange( : 346 %12 5 ) PerspectiveCall( :Persp ) Jump( : ) :Persp Perspective mif( %11 ) RefPoint (2 :EndC %4 %1 %2 v1= %10 E= %11 %13 %14 ) melse RefPoint (7 :EndC %4 %1 %2 v1= %10 %13 %14 ) mifend RotatedCall( :objcall 0 0 %5 ) ; rotate object to user preset :EndCReturn :objcal…

I have been able to generate the ASM and INI files for a project ok. When I drop the ASM file into the BGLC I cannot trace any resultant BGL file. Can anyone help please?

I just did my first phototerrain project with Misho's wonderful program. Unfortunately it's somewhat misaligned because of my original coordinate boundaries. How can I move the photoscenery over?Below are two screenshots showing what I want to do. One picture is an FS screenshot showing how the default FS runway aligns with the photoscenery. As you can see, it is offset. The point circled white should be where the aircraft on the runway is. I entered the coordinates I wanted into TB and aligned a specific point of the scenery to those coordinates. TB shows that the photorunway is located at the point the FS runway is, but this clearly isn't so in the FS screenshot.…

If anyone cares to verify or comment...The grass texture as used by default at KROC (Rochester NY) is replaced temporarily with a "lit" or city type _LM texture just at dawn and dusk, at night the textures is completely dark like it should be but at dawn/dusk is very annoying. Anyone else see this at other airports or have a clue how to fix?Thanks.

I read a news story about the following siteApparently has a lot of oblique natural color photographs of California USA coastline.http://www2.californiacoastline.org/

HiI`m interested in a complete redesign of my local airport and would like to know what I need in addition to GMAX/Photoshop as far as tools are concerened.I would like to design from the ground up including navaids/ils etcAlso are there any tutorials as well?Thanks for any help and I would share this with the community.By the way the airport is KPNERon