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I'm probably stirring a hornet's nest here but...Has anyone else noticed that Microsoft put out the Traffic SDK just after Traffic Tools came out? And now they just release the scenery SDK when Rhumbaflappy's terrain tutorial just came out?Lee.

In my scenery EBLG for FS2002 I move a little bit the rwys and had to put new ILS on the right place. I made it using airport 2.6 but like it seems they don't work.Am I alone in this case, and is it an other middle to put them back?Thks for helping Michel

HiJust a quick question,Is anyone on the road to producing 4 Airfields I think are imperative to both real world and flight sim aviation -1) Everett (KPAE)2) Boeing Field King County (KBFI)3) Renton4) Toulouse BlagnacI Wonder what happens at these airfields then.....Maybe a 5th too, St Louis, Boeings manufacturing plant for F/A-18sDavid Johnson

For a scenery I am redoing I am designing in GMAX and I am able to use original 512x512 bmps. When I use DXT1 then Airport does not recognise the api.Is this normal?Shez

I need a glider or two in api format for the Airport scenery program. Anyone know where i can get one? Thanks.Hornit

While going through the SDK I noticed the picture Microsoft used of Puget Sound and it struck me how similar it was to WorldMaker.My guess is then it shouldn't be too difficult to construct a GUI so I can fix rivers, roads and add lakes reservoirs.

Hello All, Does anyone have any information on the format of the AV3 texture files used by FS?With thanks in advance :-waveLev

Does anyone know how the M$ did the file numbering of the object bgl files?eg F4602951.The number describes position in grid, but how is that done?Cheers, Christian

Does anybody know where to get macros/APIs for gate bridges?

As far as i know, the airports that i have been to on fs are LAX,ORD,Meigs......when i click on those airports i get scenery objects cannot be found, an it gives me these id`s, everytime i push ok, another one pops up and they never stop.? what could be the problem? mAtt

Does anyone know of an afcad file for correct gate placement to be used in conjuction with Chris Grall's FS2000 KIAH scenery? Looked on both avsim and flightsim and didn't find one. Thx for any help,Funky

Hello,Are there places where scenery designers upload designs (.gmax files) for others to use in their sceneries, just like macros?Just curious to know.Thanks for all your help.Danzian

I've been away from flightsim for a while not checked on anything for months. Anyways I love dynamic scenery and am just wondering if there is any way of adding aircraft with moving parts as dynamic scenery. It would be great if we could see the flaps and spoilers move just after landing, not to mention the gear going up as the aircraft climbs.I've seen Oliver Pabsts catering trucks and their gradual lift, so it must be possible some how. Does anyone know how?Thanks in Advance,Dan

Could someone do a facelift on KMSY? I know its small but I would like to see it with jetways and better ground markings. There is no other New Orleans scenery on the net! Hey, if there is please tell me. Anyway, would anyone like to do this?

Just received advance information of Visual Flight's 'Photographic Scenery of England & wales'.The web site info is :-http://www.visualflight.co.uk/photoscenery/faq.htmThe images come from the getmapping project which I have successfully used on some scenery areas of the uk. But this product looks like it will save huge amounts of time in cutting together small images. By the way I am nothing to do with Visual Flight or Getmapping, perhaps I should ask for commission if sales are generated from this thread. (H'm free set of the 4 discs in September????????)

I had suspected that CUSTOM ( photoreal ) slices could be used in a landclass.The new SDK docs list landclass #253 as CUSTOM ( no seasons ). Producing a .bin file with a hex editor, you can specify one byte as custom... There is a problem, however. It seems the smallest area you can place is 4 LOD13 quads... not one. If you have one custom byte, 4 textures will still be needed. I don't know why.Here's my inf file: ========================================[Destination]WithSeasons = 1NorthLat = 45.0000SouthLat = 42.1875WestLong = -90.0000EastLong = -86.2500DestDir =.DestBaseFileName = "Delavan" [Source]Type = ClassU8SourceDir =.SourceFile = "Delavan.bin"Lat = 45.000…

Hi all.I finished the newer VTP terrain macros to go with the earlier LWM terrain macros for use with BGLC.I'll attach the macros and an example. These macros include the whole of VTP usage and match Microsoft's terminology.VTP = Vectored Terrain PolygonLWM = Land/Water Mask

Im going to try and making a emgerncy shute for a Boeing plane, but what way is there to bend the lines and to make the object a solid? mAtt

Dear all:I have created a building using gmax but when i convert it to bgl the object textures disappears at long distances, for example 1 Km.To solve that i created a big ground polygon flipped and the problem was fixed, but when i convert the object to a Library bgl with Fsregen and then i created a macro to call the object, i assigned 30M x 30M for Widht and Lenght in my .scm macro, but when i see the library object on FS2002 the textures dissapear at 1 Km.I think that the macro size of 30M x 30M eliminates the size of the ground polygon.Is there a way to fix it?I'm thinkint to return to FSDS because is a bug that the gmax objects lost their textures a 1Km or less.Than…

Guys,Regarding the bleeding of terrain thru ground polygons/taxiways.I have seen this phenomenon (see pic) with some of the MS default taxiways. But, it seems even more present when I create my own with the SCASM taxiway commands.This example is with the default MS mesh (elevation points).Does anyone have any idea what might be causing it ? It seems like a Z-Buffer issue. I am curious as to any work arounds that might be available, either thru DirectX settings or SCASM commands.Thanks in advance for any explanations or advice,Allen

Hi all.Uploaded here at AVSIM:TMF-BGLC Design Tutorial V1Join the ranks of budding TMF programmers with this initial tutorial of basic TMF-BGLC techniques. :-eek Dick

Hi all.Here's a partial macro for LWM Polygons( Land/Water Mask ), using Microsoft's terminology, and the BGLC code for a small pond in the Sahara ( N23*13.17' E25*17.432' ).First the Macro: ; LWMMacros.inc // include file for use with BGLCLWMFileHeader Macro Version, IndexHeader, Data, End LOCAL startstart LABEL word UINT32 20 ; // Size of this header (20 bytes) UINT32 Version ; // Version (must be 0x0201) SINT32 ( OFFSET IndexHeader ) - ( OFFSET start ); // Relative offset to index SINT32 ( OFFSET Data ) - ( OFFSET start ) ; // Relative offset to data SINT32 ( OFFSET End ) - ( OFFSET start ) ; // Size of all data plus headersENDMLWMDataAreaDraw…

I was working on a fence around my airstrip scenery when I found it looks like MakeBGL or FS2K2 has a limitation with polygons/vertex numbers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????My fences are made with many lines and my scenery was already very detailed but the sim was working with a good frame rate but after my last Gmax export and BGL compilation only some of my fences were visible. The fences are suddenly not displayed were they are existing in Gmax and the last one to appear is drawned corrupted (some polygons are not drawn at the right place) then nothing more is drawned !!!I made several try by adding more object instead of fences : they are not displayed or displayed …

I made myself a private airstrip near my home town in a somewhat wooded area. I really wanted some fairly close proximity trees to the runways and such. After using the exclude areas (using Airport 2.6) the autogen trees receeded quite far away. I tried everything to get them to come a little closer, and right now my exclude areas share the same borders as the runways themselves, and the default trees are still about a half a mile from where I want them. I decided to go ahead and add in my own trees to fill in the treeless areas. My problem here however, is that I havent been able to find any tree macros that blend in with the defaults. The defaults are quite dark a…

Hi,As you know MS released the Terrai nSDK with useful documents to desicribe how things work in this new version.I liked the taxilines commands but i wonder what compiler do we use to compile the commands mentioned? BGLC?Cheers :)Michel