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I was perusing the new files yesterday, and I noticed two new mesh releases - one for the Grand Canyon, and the other for Hawaii. These are shareware, so I went by the website that was listed in the docs, just because I was curious.So, I go by fsfreeware.com - ironic name for a site selling software. I'm not sure if they actually made the meshes, or if they sell them, but that's not the point. They have a freeware download section, so I took a quick look through. What did I find? Well, some scenery that I had just uploaded to AVSIM a few hours earlier.A quick search revealed that both of the sceneries I have made for FS2002 had been uploaded there. I don't really mi…

Is there a way to replace the default (ALL) Power Station Chimney with say Airport Macro? I would have thought they would have updated them to something more realistic than those striped telephone poles as in FS2000.Richard;

Is there a way to do this? I'd like to either make all of them smaller, or make MOST of them smaller (perhaps vary the size randomly)...They appear to be much too large.Andrew

I spent this evening working on behalf of one of Landclass Assistant's fans, Al Douglass, who helped identify a problem with landclass updates. Al discovered a consistent blue border on the southern and eastern edges of each scenery update. Tom Copeland had also alerted me to this issue, but I followed the wrong hunch and came up with the wrong solution.This .inf file corrects the problem. Please do not question the X/Y dimensions--they work, due to the way resample.exe parses the .raw file. By using these dimensions, I am able to retain the 256x256 .raw file format, around which Landclass Assistant's innards are defined. This problem was hinted at in a recent thread…

Would anyne here know if white paint on runways is done by emplying polygons or is it done with textures ?The answer interests me a lot since this would show how effective Matrox's new card (Prahelia) would be in eliminating those jaggies.Michael J.

Hi all,After having red John Cillis's excelent LANDCLASS ASSISTANT DOCUMENTATION AND TUTORIAL I'm still left with one question on editing landclass.inf.Shouldn't the lines CellXdimensionDeg = 0.0146484CellYdimensionDeg = 0.0109863be edited as well in relation with the lat/long of the working area?If yes, how do I recalculate these?Thanks for your help and thanks to John Cillis for this superb tool.Hugo

if I use fsregen to make library objects out of all my gmax objects?I've been using it, but Arno suggested not to, and i was surprised to find a keep files option right on makemdl.exe.Bob Bernstein

I've completed my final upgrade for Landclass Assistant, which includes these three new updates:-A dropdown landclass selection box-An "Update" button which will write the lat/lon info to landclass.inf-A position indicator showing where in the .raw bitmap the grid is atThis is my final upgrade. I attempted to incorporate as many suggestions as I could given the time I had to work on the program. It will require a previous installation of Landclass Assistant. Regards, John Author - Landclass Assistant

Dear All:I have placed some FSDS mountain with ASD2.1 macros, but some of this mountain look like white instead of desert teture in the format .bmp.Even deleten my custom scenery and placing just the mountain macros the problem reamins.Can any body have somo tips to solve that, i'm planning to leave that method and rebuild my mountain with grises50.Thanks.Alfredo Mendiola LoyolaLima Peru

Hello,I want to change the landclass of a 4x5 grid from forest into bare rock. I repeated the procedure outlined in the readme.doc of landclass assitant step by step - wondering what happens to the large amount of blank squares inside the LOD5 area.After I copied the resulting bgl into FS2002 the whole LOD5 area (and not only the 4x5 grid I changed with the landclass assistant) was without any texture but just plain grey terrain. I repeated the procedure, entered the city texture instead of bare rock into the 4x5 grid and got the whole LOD5 area covered by water including the mountains. Q1) What went wrong?Q2) Which popular graphic programs can display *.raw files?Thanks …

Assuming that's the right thing - As an example, Cape Cod looks mostly barren - in reality it's got lots of houses and trees.How would I go about redefining this region?Thanks,Andrew

hi. i downloaded Airport for windows. i was wondering if the FS98 and FS2k API that come with it can be used in FS2k2. im making a simple addon for SAR operations so it only involves adding an api. so far i have not been able to make the scenery work.any ideasGen. Ernesto AlvarezNational CommanderVirtual Civil Air Patrolhttp://ealvarez.net/vcap.jpg

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As I was scanning the web late tonight I found a freeware skinning tool called "Chilliskinner". This may be old news to everyone but not me. I just thought I would post it. http://www.chilliweb.co.uk/chilliskinner/index.htmMaybe some imput on what skinning tools everyone are using. I have looked at "Ultimate Unwrap 3d" and it looks pretty good and it is also purchase. http://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3ce80e1950ba5637.jpgJay....:-waveNWA Line Maintenance KDFW NW KLM WORLDWIDE RELIABILITY

Hello,I've found some macros of oil drilling platforms and I would like to place them near my local airport. I have FSDS. Can it be used or is there another program I need to look for? Also, some platforms are already located. Can they be moved? I suspect they probably can't.Thanks,John Woodward

Hello All,I am new to GMAX, but I have designed a Radar Tower for Dublin Airport.I can animate it within GMAX with no problem. What I want to achieve is this...When a pilot tunes to the ILS of any runway at dublin the Radar animates.Any ideas?Thanks in advance.Nick

We had a power outage last night. It only lasted for about a minute. The power came right back on and my room filled with the odor of melting electronic components.:-((I haven't started to determine exactly what fried but the Bernstein computer is out of action for the current time. Bummer, cuz I was gearing up for a production phase creating the Harvey objects in GMAX. On boot now, there is a sporatic bad evidence..once it went into crazy video mode...once it booted to safemode...often it boots fine...once it booted with an alarm going off on the mobo...When it boots fine, it gives the appearance of working properly until it freezes, which has happened each time I've…

Dear all,Could someone please show me a working example with this command which I guess works together with SetScaleX?Also a bit more info on how it works would be nice! I am under the impression I need to use this.Thanksjmf

...a FS2002 scenery for Antalya Airport (LTAI,AYT)and maybe some surroundings of Antaya city???Read UTorsten

not for steep terrain!I started correcting the deafault landclasses around my hometowns airport with John Cillis great Landclass Assistant and Orlando Sotomayor's landclass values.First you have to imagine the aiport is in a valley. Between the aiport and a close mountain range there is flat land. The default scenery on the flat land and on the mountain range consists of dense pineforests although in reality there is a suburban residential area which streches from the airport quite high up into the foothills of the mountainrange.So I created a bgl and put it into the scenery folder started FS2002 anch checked the results, which looked perfect for the flat land and for a f…

If there is anyone that does scenery for FS2K2 that would do Lake Havasu City, AZ (including the London Bridge)for me I would be eternaly greatful. I would even provide a ride in my Baron and Dinner if you every come to Lake Havasu. :-)I can provide some aerial pictures of the area if needed.My e-mail address is [email protected] thanks in advance.Ed Weber a.k.a tallpilot

I want a nice big runway here!!!!Can anyone make me one pls!http://www.x-plane.org/users/fsonline2002/basemap.gifhttp://www.x-plane.org/users/fsonline2002/basepic.gif

Hi all,I was always keen on using the FS2000 Kodiak (Alaska) scenery downloaded from the file libraries. I would like to know, before installing this on FS2002, if people have troubles using it in FS2002.As far as I know, the Kodiak Scenery has not been adjusted so far. Is it usable in FS2002?Thanks in advance!Regards, Ferry

Is there anywhere online where I can find the dimensions of a jetway? I'd just finished my gmax model of Pittsburgh Intl and was about to start my textures when I remembered I didn't have any jetways. I'd like to make jetways in gmax to help with the framerate (i have a sad little computer and it needs all the help it can get).

Can anyone tell me if there is a limit to the number of Scenery Layers that can be added to FS2002? I've heard talk of a limit around 320. Does anyone know if this is true?