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What is the best format if saving an transparent window? is it DXT1 or DXT3 or any format? i always save my transparent windows to DXT3 but im having bad result, instead of seeing the interior of terminal i can see the next object or building in my terminal. When i use the DXT1 some my windows are transparent some are not. any explanation on this? thanks :)Anyway im using fs9

Could someone reach into their "Effects" folder within FSX and tell me if these 3 files are default or not:fx_obslight_amber; fx_obslight_green and fx_obslight_white.With a lot of sceneries and planes downloaded since FSX RTM and my own scenery development can't figure out anymore what's default and what's not. I just need someone to cross-check so I don't inadvertantly use another developer's fx files.Thanks

Hello I've been experiencing crashes in the Juneau/Stikine Regions of Flight Simulator for a few months now. It is one of my favorite regions to fly, I have many sceneries installed there and they had been working great up until a few months ago. I don't recall installing any new scenery/mesh in the area or anywhere else at that time. I just started to get crashes there.I can for example start off at PAPG and take off for and fly 040º and after a few minutes the sim will turn all black, and I usually get a error message for a dll and what not. The name of the dll changes most of the time so I can not figure it to be a specific dll. I've tried disabling just about every sc…

I'm working on a seaplane base in FSX. Specifically, Helms Aero Service in Long Lake, NY. I'm using AFX and Instant Scenery. I want to place at least one parking space at a dock so you can start from the dock, taxi out into the lake and take off, rather than starting on the water runway. I place a parking space in AFX, set it's properties as Dock Parking. As soon as I reload the scenery in FSX I get the message "This program has stopped working" and FSX closes. If I remove the parking space and restart FSX, it works normally. I can duplicate this error every time I try to add a parking space. Any suggestions would be appreciated.Thanks,Jim

Hi All,Is there anyone on you who is interested in building some fictional seaplane bases for a VA called Andras Meridian. Andras Meridian is a VA operating from the Fictional payware airport from aerosoft called Andras Field. The seaplane bases (around 10) will be in lakes in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. If you are interested please post here!

Hi guys. I started back doing a little bit of scenery design and ran into a problem. Of course it doesn't make sense to me. I used FSDS2.5 to make my macros (api's) over the years. I made a scenery in FSX and tried some of my old api's and they worked fine. Then I tried a couple of others, and naturally there was a problem. The scenery designer will place them and they will show just fine. However, if ones pans around a bit, the textures disappear and then return and as one swings around the buildings the textures just keep coming and going. (the building turns to solid black) I then went over and made new textures and a new building and it did it again. No go, same on an…

I have build some houses i Gmax for FSX, but have problems with flickering white textures. When dx10 preview is turned on white parts of the buildings flickers, but when dx10 preview is turned of textures stand solid without flickering. Can anything be done in gmax to reduce that effect?And with DX10 preview turned off some textureparts of default ships is missing and just show up as black. In dx 10 preview the textures show up as normal.

Hello folks.In the past with FS2004 on windows xp i was able to use exclude builder. However the FSX version of this will not function with me on windows 7. Is there a relativeley simple programe or way to exclude buildings in FSX?I have the SDK installed and despite numerous google searches and trawling through forums im still scrathing my head on how to get the job done.cheers

I wish to make photo-real scenery for some of Canada's Northern airports and would like to know if there are any persons out there that might have access to to some of these airports and would be interested in helping me by taking photographs. I would like to have straight on High resolution pictures of all sides of all buildings and objects.I have interest in Yukon, NWT and Nunavut. Yellowknife, Hay River and Deline are on top of the list but any others would be most welcome. Fort Good Hope, Norman Wells, Tulita, Fort Simpson, Rankin Inlet, Paulatuk, Resolute Bay, Fort McMurray, Baker Lake, Whitehorse and the list goes on.If there is any one out there with a good digit…

I guess not enough scenery designers use grass runways/aprons/taxiways in their sceneries because I haven't found any replacement textures like REX has done for asphalt and concrete. Is this true? I imagine most scenery designers that deal with grass just make their own textures to lay down?

Hello.I'am new to FSX. all is OK, except most of the countryside grass has a yellowish/desert look.see attachment;Did the install go wrong or is there a way to green up the countryside?Have tried changing the seasons and scenery adjustments, but still no green grass across the countryside.Regards

Hi, I am sometimes lazy and thus ask these types of questions. I was wondering if there is an easy way to change local taxi and parking textures for a generic FS9 airport? Also, is there an easy way to add textures to buildings? Thanks in advance for your help,regards,Macs

Note: this problem has been solved, I found an answer in this forum: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/82169-ground2k-vtp-lines/page__p__560494__hl__ground2k4__fromsearch__1#entry560494. Thanks to AVSim!Hello all,This is my first post here. I plan to re-work some city scenery for my FS2004 (nothing complex, just add a few roads, rivers, repaint the landclass) and after some search I decide to use Ground2k4. SBuilder is good but however it seems to be incompatible with a Chinese-root system (WinXP Home for mine).However I met a problem -- it appears that my Ground2k4 cannot generate #9 bgl (that contains all lines -- roads, railways, shores, etc) while other bgl went fine. I tr…

Hello All,I had a few requests elsewhere for a few images of my current progress on Penzance Heliport. Here's a few images to start off with, all taken within the past week or so (Some slightly outdated, bugs fixed etc)Hope you like it so far!More in depth details can be found here if interested,

Hi all,I am redoing KBGM in FS2004, and redid the AFCAD using AFX (to add the proper taxiway signs). When attempting to fly the ILS to rw34, I noticed that the ILS localizer and glideslope did not work. I tried the default cessna as well as other payware, but couldn't get it to work. I searched online and only found a post about issues that might arise if backcourse is enabled. I disabled on both, but the ILS still doesn't work. Any ideas on what the issue might be? If anyone wants the file to look at, I'll send it to you.Sincerely,Eric

Can a keystroke trigger a wav file?Thanks!

Some of this may apply to UT2, some to the default ATC AI, some to my AFCAD design. This is just one stop on my path for answers so if I can't find them all here no worries. I'm working on my first custom AFCAD (using ADE) and just finished laying out all the AI paths around the taxiways and runways and to parking. After sitting back and watching traffic flow in and out of the airport (KEWR, if you're wondering - with crosswind runway activated) for about 2 hours, while tuned to Newark Ground, here are some things I noticed.BacktrackingI believe this is simply due to how I connected the taxi paths to the runway paths, but I noticed a couple aircraft swing almost off the r…

Hi, im using the sketchup to design my terminal, but im having a problem assigning the night texture using the ModelConverterX i have 50 texture that i need to assign a night texture but when i reach the 20th texture im getting this error message "exeption of type 'system out of memory exception' was thrown" is there any solution or any tools that i can use to assign night texture other than this? because i always have this error message when assigning night texture using this tool specially if i have more than 20 texture. Thanks

Hi all,Is there a method to force FS2004 to show the runway numbers on the tarmac as at least 2 digits? Rwy03 is currently shown as just 3, for example, whereas "03" would be correct.Thanks for any helpChris

Does anybody know how to increase / decrease the visibility distance of paaroach lights in GMax. Is it, in fact a GMax function or an effect in FS or anything elas I haven't thought of?Thanks

I have autogen showing up all over the place in the ocean!Clearly messed up somewhere - any ideas?I guess the terrain.cfg would be a good place to start.Geoff

Aloha from Maui, I have been designing scenery for the Island of Lanai and Kahoolawe and am about ready to upload the finished product to AVSIM. I have have not been happy with the way FSX renders Kahoolawe. The entire island seems to be an autogen object unlike the other islands. From all of the Islands Kahoolawe is clearly visible with its mountain peak but due to the autogen it looks as flat as a pancake even from Maui which is only 8 miles away from Kahoolawe. Question: Is there a way to eliminate the autogen so that the island remains like the rest of the non autogen islands.Any help would be very much appreciated.Chip

Hi,recently downloaded Ray Smith's version of Gatwick airport today avalible from (Download). I have noticed a problem with the default Dash 8, they always get stuck once lined up with the runway and will not take off, then get timed out. I have looked through the airport and cannot find anything wrong with it? Can anyone give me a second opinion?ThanksMatt

Hi I just design my own terminal, its quite big it has 36 gates, and im having a problem converting it to .mdl using the modelconverterx. I use the sketchup to design the terminal and import it to modelconverterx. But when i try to convert it to .mdl the makemdl.exe was stuck up but i never touch it. now its 2 hours now nothing happens it. all i can see the "converting" status under the modelconverterx. Before this i convert a small building and it only took few seconds. any advice? thanks

FSX - I installed some airport scenery that does not have moving jetways. Is there a way to replace the static jetways with moving jetways with some kind of airport editing software such as ScuffyDuck Airport Design Editor or something else?Thankswb2002ASUS P6X58 Premium/Thermaltake W0106 700W PSUIntel i7-930 OC TO 4.0Win 7 Ultimate 64/Mushkin Redline (3 x 2GB) 6-8-6-242x150GB SATA WD Raptor- No Raid/2x320GB SATA WD SE16- No Raid2x SATA DRW-24B1ST/EVGA GTX285 2G3x SILENX 120X25MM FANS + 2x 10in XCLIO Wind Tunnel Case FansDanger Den Water Cooling/Enermax temp/fan controllerFSX ACC@ 1600/1200 |UTX/GEX/FEX/REX/MTX/ASE/UT2/PMDG747+EXT8/CS-767/SkySIM D-C9/ESCX20X/RC-4/FSG/DBS-…