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I have a silly problem with the FSX Object Placement Tool.When I open it up the screen covers the cross that indicates where the object is to be placed.Instead of the screen opening on the bottom of my monitor,it opens on the top-left and covers the cross.I can't click and drag it out of the way.Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thanx. Uncle Greg

I have made my own scenery & airports, but only on a relatively 'low-tech' level. One thing I don't understand is why scenery 'wobbles', like in this video (this example is Thomas Kwong's VHHH - the terminal windows):http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v68/martinlest/?action=view&current=VHHH.mp4Is there a way to fix this, as it clearly is very distracting?Grateful for any advice,Thank you,Martin

Hi everyone,After years of flatten files, excludes, object placement and AFCAD work I'm now getting into land class. I'd like to make changes/corrections to land class tiles in FS9 (for example changing a forrest tile that appears in the middle of a group of industrial city tiles). Could someone recommend a good, easy to use tool for me to get started with? I'd like to get a tool that is all inclusive rather than downloading a bunch of individual components from different websites. E-Z Lanclass??? SBuilder??? Landclass Assistant?? Will I need Microsoft FS9 Scenery or Terrain SDKs to change land class (they don't seem to be available anymore)?Thanks in advance for a…

Hello,I've taken a two years break from fsx and fully dedicated to x-plane9 to the point where I made my own photoreal sceneries of the italian and UK countries.For as much as I enjoyed x-plane9 I was toying with the idea of getting back into fsx and was wondering how feasible it would be toconvert, or adapt my x-plane photoreal sceneries to work in fsx. Ideally, as the sceneries weight 150Gb, I'd like to keep the current tiles as they are so that I could use the same sceneries on both simulators.Some details about the sceneries:My photosceneries have been created with a program called g2xpl that creates 1x1 degrees set of ortophotos in .dds format.I've got hundreds of fo…

I've added scenery objects to the Grants Pass,OR airport for my own amusement and can't figure out how to compile the xml file to a bgl file.I'm on FSX SP2 with SDK SP2.In the environments kit folder there is a bglcomp but no bglcomp.exe.What do I do? Uncle Greg

I recently downloaded Luis Feliz-Tirado's PDF on how to make scenery with the Object Placement Tool from the SDK of FSX Deluxe.I have installed the SDK on my computer and have re-written the portion of the FSX dll.xml that should activate the tool but "tool" won't show up on the menu bar of FSX. Is anyone familiar with this process?

Hi All,I own copies of the GenerationX VFR Photographic scenery (v2.0) by horizon and was wondering if it is possible to edit it. I'd like to try and see how well I can make a copy of an area into snowy winter scenery. After some searching around I found BglAnayzeX which might be useful but I haven't tried using it yet.I'm new to creating scenery and have recently had a go with SBuilderX, and with a bit of trial (and much error), I managed to create a small area of photo-scenery - very satisfying :( (running FSX with Vista home)Thanks in advance for any advice and ideas you might have.

I have the SDK installed and the tools/OPT option is available in-game, but beyond that I'm kinda clueless as to how to add a static vehicle to a default airport.Does anyone have any simple how to on the subject? The FSdeveloper wiki isn't all that helpful on using the OTP itself.(http://www.fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=Scenery_Placement_%28OPT%29)

How do I go about making a sloped runway or for lack of better words a runway with slight grade.If I picked a stock scenery area that already has a slight upgrade it seems like I could create a flatten rectangle using a different altitude at each end, but then how do I lay down a paved runway on top of the flatten? would appreciate any help/jd

Ok Guys,So after developing for the past month or so it is now time to show some preview shots of Eiresim's next scenery.This is our first scenery outside Ireland and is a personal favourite airport of mine. Like Cork it contains high quality 20cm/pixel aerial imagery throughout and 100% custom textures.Still a bit to go yet but pleased so far with the results.Note is also includes the new T3 which is nearing completion (in real life!!)Enjoy,Terry and Conor SmithEiresim (www.eiresim.com)

How do you get the flatten poly in AFX 1.09 to actually flatten the terrain in FSX? I'm trying to create a new "fantasy" airstrip, currently only have a runway with a flatten and apron poly surrounding it; however, it is absolutely refusing to flatten the terrain... If I set the airport elevation to the actual elevation I scouted for the area, most of the runway ends up underground, if I raise the elevation so that the whole runway is not underground, it's floating in mid-air...

Every time I try to exclude autogen from an area around an airport using ADE I get the following error when compiling the scenery, and the exlusion does not occur. I've done this before with no problem, but recently reinstalled ADE after getting a new hard drive. Any ideas?

Downloaded and installed the EPWA X project 2010 from the file library and installed it with no problems. Awesome scenery for freeware! However, neither of the ILS frequencies work for runways 11 or 33. Disabled the scenery in my scenery library (FSX) to go back to the very drab default and my aircraft picks them up just fine. Anyone else experience this? This is a head scratcher...

Can somebody design this scenery for me please? Its for FS9, if i have to pay i dont mind.Here are some photos.http://www.srphotogr...p?g2_itemId=235http://www.srphotogr...8&g2_itemId=229http://jetphotos.net...d=389293&nseq=7http://jetphotos.net....php?id=6289641http://www.skyscrape....php?p=65040731http://www.facebook....24.165800288558http://www.facebook....id=165800288558http://www.facebook....id=165800288558on facebook pic you just keep clicking prev or next to c next or previous picture. ill keep looking for a better pictures. the pics on facebook are the actual one. the airport was rebuilt end of last year and reopened in February this year i was there …

Hello! I was wondering if you could give me some advice or opinions of this scenery I'm creating. A video below show the scenery. I'd like to say that its not done yet in the video and this is my 1st scenery project for anything! I'd really like your opinions on the scenery so far!

Does anyone know of a good scenery object library containing piles and large groups of cargo? I have several libraries that contain individual crates, etc, but none with large groupings of cargo together...Thanks,Steve

Hello,I have started to make the radiomasts around my airport to represent the VAC approach :( when I foud this phenomen!If I have a standard FSX "red obs light" on my mast and start at the airport and flies out in the world the lights work. If I flies longer than the mast shoves up in the sim and turn around none of the light show up in the airport or the masts around the airport when I comes back?If I turn the lifetime = 0.00,0.00 and the rate = 1.00,1.00 (in the effect file) then the lights work most of the time but they doesn't look nice. (not 3D and a coloured square around the ligth!Do I someting wrong when I compile the objects or is the fault in FSX (with all th…

OK, newbie to this forum, but not a newbie to scenery design. I have a problem, and my searches result in nothing, or at least nothing relavant...I d/l'd KNJK El Centro by John Stinstrom for FS9 (knjk_j2) and wanted to modify the AI traffic. That's when I noticed a problem. It may have been there after the d/l but not sure- never flew there before.The AI won't taxi and takeoff, but dissapear. The in-bound AI will land but dissapear after the start of the taxi. I know, "not enough parking spots", but I've tweaked it, then even went to the basic stock FS9 airiport after uninstalling knjk_j2, then built a few spots in ADE then deleted that and then built them againin AF…

OK, I have been messing with FSX since it came out...I have designed some scenery...Now, after a clean re-install of FSX, I have reloaded everything and nothing is showing up! Here is what I have done...The sceneries I have created are in the "Addon Scenery/Scenery" folder...All of the textures are in the "Addon Scenery/Texture" folder...Now; Where do I put the object libraries and such that are needed in the scenery? I will appreciate any responses, especially if they arrive before I hurt myself...Thanks a lot...Steve

Hi all,In FSXKml I tagged a line freeway traffic.After loading FSX there is traffic, but it is going 2 way on the same line and cars are driving right through each other.All suggestions are welcome.Edit : by acident I found it in FSXKml itself :Traffic Direction : B/F/T

Oddest thing: starting a flight from KJFK Kennedy Intl airport would result in frequent periodic pauses lasting 3s for each pause and 4s between pauses. Starting in La Guardia also has these pauses but they’re shorter. Before you think it’s about sceneries installed or framerates, it gets interesting: flying from these airports towards downtown New York (using the slew because it’s annoying to fly in normal time with these frequent pauses), once I cross the river, the pauses disappear. If I turn around and head back across the river, the pauses start up again. I know I’ve added 3rd party sceneries, but even after I go into the scenery library and disable all of them, the …

I wanted to have "airport" labels on some terrain landmarks, so I thought of just creating a minimal airport (location) in hopes that a label would appear above it. ADEX created the airport and gave me a tower viewpoint - that was neat and I am happy to have that - but no label appeared above. I don't actually want anything that would create a flatten for the hill top but wondered if anything else would do the trick. I am going to start the experimentation phase shortly, of course, but any ideas to speed the process would be welcome.Loyd

Hi every one！ I'm a new member from China. I'm now making an airport of Beijing China.(Beijing Nanyuan Airport ,ICAO ZBNY,you may know the famous airport ZBAA.ZBNY is another airport in beijing,mainly domestic airlines and as an airbase of China Airforce) The problem is that what format of texture should I use when texturing in Gmax（DXT,BMP,JPG OR OTHER）？Should I resize the texture into FS form（64*64 128*128 etc）when in Gmax？

Can someone tell me if there are any scenery packages that include a BP Oil Sign?

Hi all,FSX ( like Fs9 ) can put bridges over ater when there are roads.Near Schiphol I found 2 default bridges that cannot be exluded with eeither FSXkml, Instant scenery 2 or Exclude Builder FSX.I read about DefArea 2, but do not know if this can be made to work with FSX.All suggestions are appriciated.