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I have some 3rd party scenery in FSX Acceleration that shows transparency as black boxes and ground shadows display out of place.The black transparency is evident in Paul Derbyshire's Runcorn bridge in Liverpool. If I look at the BMP file in PSP the whole background is black. Can I easily change that to whatever colour FSX Acceleration uses for transparency?The other black box problem is in some 3rd party scenery for the Canaries where things like taxiway lights show as black boxes if ground shadows are enabled. This scenery also shows the building shadows in a different place than they should be.Thanks

Does anyone know if there was ever a tweak done to Gerrish's tree textures to have them match the sim(FS9) a bit better? Most sceneries which use them I have noticed that the trees are much brighter and more saturated than the default. Im justcurious since i have so many sceneries which use them. If this hasnt been done I believe I will undertake changing them a bit to better match the default flora. Thanks,Hornit

I have bridges that are wrongly placed and I could not identify what bgl loads them...Thanks for you help.Ghiom

Good day, designers - I'm searching for some FSX library objects for scenery improvements. I am working on some general "area" scenery improvements up in the Lake Champlain valley of VT/NY, and on the hills to the west of the lake a fairly large set of wind farms has sprouted up in the past several years. These monster turbines are visible for miles and miles, and I'd like to add them into the FSX scenery world, preferably via Instant Scenery.They don't necessarily have to rotate into the wind, but I would like them to be somehow animated so that the huge 400' diameter blades are moving as eerily slow as they do in real life. Has anyone seen any turbine library objects wh…

Hey people,my Almeria LEAM X project is nearly ready for release. Just two things are wrong and the forumsearch won

I edited a stock airport in ADE9x in order to add some aprons and taxiways and then compiled the airport. I went into Instant Scenery 2 through FSX at the airport in question and tried to add a building. I was told by IS2 that it couldn't add to that scenery as it was an unknown file type. Is there a remedy for this? I did a search here and didn't come up with anything.Thanks for any advice.

Can someone please help me. I love flying around the Mackinac Straits area, and I love flying to Beaver Island, but I cannot find anything for FS9 to make Beaver Island look better. If someone could please help me, and maybe put in a few lighthouses if you can it would be much appreciated! Thanks a million! Todd

I am using the WSSS package - http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=...p;CatID=fsxscen - beautifully created by Jim Vile.It includes an optional WSSS_ade_TRAFFIC_jv_cvx.bgl file that adds freeway vehicle traffic to all the freeway/motorways (set to a maximum of 30 percent). This causes my computer (with 2 Gig RAM) to crash upon landing at the airport and creates stutters when my aircraft is near or taxing in the airport.I have tried removing this file, and performance improves significantly but there is no more vehicle traffic :( So my question is how can I reduce the vehicle traffic - e.g., to 10 percent?I have tried emailing Jim some time ago, but he has not repli…

I've made a large airbase 'Keevil' (in north Wiltshire) with a scenery bgl 'Keevil_TW.bgl' which I opened with Instant Scenery. I clicked Move/delete but the object wasn't recognised in the usual way (red box, etc) so I can only conclude that Keevil_TW.bgl isn't the scenery file I added these objects to.I did this (added objects to the wrong airfield scenery bgl) when I first stared this malarky months ago & in answer to a question I posted somewhere about finding the proper scenery bgl, someone told me about a bgl recognition utility that identifies the object bgl & the scenery bgl its been added to. After installing the software you press ALT & it appears at…

Is there a way to remove or replace the ugly, perfectly straight edge rectangles that surround the runway? I'd like to have some kind of more irregular shaped airport areas. My experience so far is just editing the original airports with ILS, runway lighting etc. and placing some buildings. Thanx for any suggestions! :(

I have been "collecting" different sets of water textures (*b2wa1.bmp) to try to find a color combination I like.Yet everytime I start FS9 and slew around, I am seeing the same sort of skycolor blue; so I am assuming there is an environmental map or something besides the basic texture files.Can someone point in the right direction on this? As the title says, I'm confused.

Aloha from Maui,I have been adding land new class scenery to many Islands around the Pacific for some time and have always run in to problems with Hawaii. Microsoft says Hawaii is in Region H which is tropical . On both FSX and FS9 when the settings for seasons are set to Winter Hawaii changes to a Winter land class. All other seasons look excellent. I have been converting my FS9 designs to FSX and have been making minor modifications to fit FSX land class. I was ready to upload some of the scenery changes when I checked the Winter Season and found the "problem". The land class I created for Lanai is much closer to the real Lanai and the rest of the Islands will also be g…

Hi!I was wondering, there seems to be 4 different lights in the halo.bmp file, can anybody tell me what lights they each represent. Is there something special you should be aware of when editing this file, i seem to get some strange "borealis" phenomenon around some lights (just from certain angles), even if i just put in a perfectly round circle?/Bjorn

I've been having some trouble with a small airstrip I'm building using a photoreal ground texture. I have all my seasons, night lighting, and blend mask and when I compile it using the FSX resample.exe it gives me a .bgl which I place in a folder, add it to the library, etc. etc. But it does not show up in the game. In addition in tmfviewer I have to select Show Missing Data Mask to see the scenery appear. Any thoughts on what's causing this? I sense it's a .inf issue.Or is it that my scenery doesn't fill an LOD 13 square? For more info see my design thread:http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5882ThanksAlex

Hello I want guidance and help in the design of fs2004 scenery I know that the issue is not as easy as it looks I also know this topic, which rich in information http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showtopic=79553 But frankly I can not understand I want to tell me the steps and programs exactly that will be used to produce scenery I can work on Photoshop , G-max , 3dMax , and cinema4d What I need in this topic to tell me 1- you need to download 1,2,3

I have a number of MegaScenery X titles (and some earlier MegaScenery titles too), and now I'm seeing products called "Ground Environment X" and "Ultimate Terrain X" packages. Today I got an email selling yet another, called "Flight Environment X."How do these three types of products relate to each other? Do they work together? Do they enhance each other? Are they competitors? Which is best?I'd appreciate your thoughts!BTW, I'm running FSX under the following configuration:

Hi folks.

I've been having a hard time getting my Ini file configured to use the various map services, I understand you are no longer able to use google, but are there any others? I can't seem to figure out how to do it? I've looked at some pre-made Tileproxy configs but don't know how to convert those to work with FS Earth tiles.. I'd love to start making the state of montana, but am stuck at the moment. Any help would be greatly GREATLY appreciated! If someones using FS earth tiles and could point me in the right direction please reply or shoot me a PM! Thanks!Ty

Here is a weird discovery - at least for me.

I am close to reuploading Kansas City scenery with some improvements and modifications. I have a registered copy of Airport Wizard and have added some ramp lighting to the scenery. I packaged it and installed it on another computer and the ramp lighting does not show. I downloaded the AW demo and installed on the second computer but no improvements. Any ideas?Mike (KICT)

Hi, I'm looking for a way to convert a Google Earth kmz file (which includes coordinates and a jpg image of the scenery)to a bgl file that will display this scenery "tile" in FSX.I can find manual ways of extracting coordinates and entering them into tools, but that would seemoverly cumbersome if all I want to do is display some photo scenery in the middle of nowhere whichis actually exactly what I would like to accomplish.Is there a simple way to accomplish this?

I just acquired scenery which cover a large area. The problem is that it comes with an airport that needs taxiway signs. I would rather avoid placing all the signs manually and would like to use the default airport which has the taxiway signs already in place. The problem is that the default airport is layered under the other scenery. Is it possible to essentially cut out a portion of a high priority scenery (lower number) in FS9 with the purpose of a lower priority (higher number) scenery showing through... ie an airport in the lower priority scenery showing through.Is this possible?Thanks in advance,Tony in Miami

Howdy,I was wondering if anyone could help me. I am a registered owner of fsse by lago and had a computer crash and lost a lot of files. I was wondering where I can go to download a copy of the Flight Sim Scenery Enhancer. It seems their site is no longer valid.Thanks

I'm working on a huge project at the moment, one that I've been dedicated to for nearly half a year. Unfortunatley, the bit of the project I'm working on now requires an understanding of locations in several different airports, which I am unable to do, as I don't have my simulator with me. So I'm interested to see if anybody here would like a chance to help out a bit. Please contact me if you have any of the following and are interested: -Default Sion airport in FSX OR FS9 -Sion X for FSX OR Sion 2005 for FS9 -Default Gstaad (Saanen) for FSX OR FS9 -Saanen from Small Airfields Switzerland Vol 6 The project I'm working on will be complete FREEWARE, with all work put into i…

Hi,i have designed a vitual Camp in the middle of no where for Transportation usage.One can use it as amilitary camp or as an oil-field exploration camp. It is situated in DA = Algeria, in the middle of Sahara, something in the middle of DAAT and DAUI.The reason behind of all that was originally some problems with missing VFR Navaids.Now, that "Camp" is working pretty well. So far no problem.What I would like to do: If I fly in with an airplane it should generate an event, that could be used to start some "AI" action at a different point.Some situation like that: If you enter a zone of 40 Miles, or something like ETE >= 35 Minutes away from the airport it will generate…