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Hello!I am doing some tests with imagery (NASA Blue Marble) and water masks (SWBD). I am using multisource INF file with 2 sources: source1 is the imagery and source2 is the mask. Both files are GeoTIFF, but their dimensions vary vastly. The BlueMarble imagery sources are around 21600x21600 pixels in size, while my generated SWBD mask files are much smaller (around 2048 pixels is what I was using.)Long story short and to the point: I found through trial and error that if the source dimensions and scales are not matched (basically unless I cropped the BlueMarble and mask sources to the same size and scale) the mask is not computed correctly.To summarize: Is there any way I…

I would like to modify the swamp/marsh textures to make them look more snow covered for winter flying in the northern USA. I have tried modifiying the textures with those names but this made no difference as they still looked as though they had open water (green/blue color) in those areas. Am I modifying the wrong textures ? Any help would be appreciated.Thanks

Does anyone know where I could find a domed TV-station-type weather radar for use in Airport Design Editor ?Thanks

Recently I have been flying around the UK in Fs9 and using Google Earth to plan flights. Then a few days ago I realized that there are very few of the abandoned and deserted RAF stations depicted in fs9. Some scenery projects like UK2000 depict the ones that are under use as glider fields and there are a few others in the library here at Avsim but there is not a project anywhere that contains many or all of the fields that have been long decommissioned but still have well defined grass patches where runway used to be. Aren't these old bases still useful for emergency landings and navigation? After thinking this over I think I would like to undertake this project and try a…

I have just got FSX and notice that the ATC boundaries around Heathrow airport (EGLL) are missing.Is this normal?If not, has anyone developed an add-on to correct this?If there isn't an add-on, could one be created following the principles of the FS2004 SDK by creating an .xml file then compiling it to .bgl? If that's possible I might try it.

hello designers!first see attachment:i want to add the yellow region to my project (extend the map above it). how can i do that?further question:how could i easily do square maps f.e. 4x6 or 10x10 of such maps all LOD 15 as the green transparent on the screenshot? without exactly choose their connections, overlap/gaps issue?thx in advance!regardspatrick

Hi all,I am back into FSX and want to edit some of the default textures here and there so my questions are:What are the different format rules and what are the tools of the trade? I do have the SDK, PhotoShop, Corel Paint and others. I recall Martins editing tools such as DXTBMP do those still work?Ground textures, I want to edit some of the default textures for my own use, what format to resave them in?3D building objects, daytime, night LM textures and transparent textures.Aircraft textures, if I want to edit or do a repaint and not loose bump mapping etc?Editing clouds and any others I may have missed.Appreciate the help, Thanks.

I am learning how to fly helicopters in FSX but I am dissapointed to find that there are few if any skyscraper/highrise helipads in FSX. Can anyone help me find where they are besides missions and/or any scenry downloads for rooftops? Thanks for any help.

I'm working on a Barra Scenery and have one problem.1.) When I apply the Textures to the Building in GMAX the Textures are way too small and need to be moved so that it maches the Building.

Hey People,I got now the next problem.You see:http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/274/adeprob.jpgI

Hello allhappy 2010!Its so good to see avsim back. I love to have at least a freeware airports in most the airports and websites like avsim do help but im probably like many people got a list of sceneries and repaints would love to see as freeware. Im wondering if there's any talented scenery designers out there could design some uk/irish airports?I have a whole list of airports from around the world but ill start with UK/Ireland, here's my list:newcastle (NCL), Cardiff (CWL), Norwich (NWI), Inverness (INV), Exeter (EXT), Plymouth (PLY), Shannon(SNN)if any good souls could design any of the above i would be over the moon. Ill help you as much as i can as well.also is ther…

Hi all, I may be wrong but it seems like I use to be able to place rotating beacons in FS9 using either Instant Scenery or EZ Scenery. I've updated to win 7 recently and want to create a couple towers with rotating beacons but I cannot even find them in the list of either program. I've checked all the scenery options available in either program but cannot find them anywhere. Is this in FS9 and if so, what issue could I be having to cause this?THanks, Larry

Hi,right now, I am doing some experiments with FS earth tiles. I created an experimental scenery for EBOS (Ostend) airport area. So far, so good, everything appears in FSX.The "problem" is, that the scenery is "rectangular" and does not integrate so nice in FSX default landscape, the borders are to obvious.I would like to "cut out" the scenery following some roads, fields etc. so it looks smoother. In the "work" folder of FS earth tiles are two textures: the normal aerial image and the same but in pink/violet color. I tried to add transperency with GIMP, but I do not know exactly how and on which of both image I have to work. I cannot find any other textures that FS earth…

Hi,The island where i live is positioned geographically in a way that my mask i huge, so i wonder if i should divide it into a bunch of smaller regions not to have such a big portion to mask.As you can see the island is at 45 degrees pretty much, so i need to blank out a bunch of land. Would it be less demanding on the computers resources if i was to split it into 6 smaller regions, masking less area ? You can see below, The red square showing if i was to do it in 1 big chunk, the yellow would be how i would split it in 6 regions.Will splitting it in 6 regions be less demanding to the computer? Thanks!Marc

Hi guys i have a problem with the Ninoy Aquino Interational Airport scenery the building end of R6 its the outside the airport. Every time i try and do a ILS landing i crash into the building yet im about 3m above.... Global texture res very high, sernery complexity extremely dense, autogen extremely dense. I have downloaded Airport Design Editor 9x and have tied to move the ILS with no real change. And i can make it over the building if i add some power to lift the front then i get nose planted in to the runway.fix ?1 fix the ILS to i miss it.2 Remove that building, harder and will be back after reinstall of FSX

If anyone lives or works near the Edmonton International airport in Canada could you please take pictures of YEG or send them to CanUK scenery. If we could get enough shots they could get a scenery made for it. I'll give credit to the original photographers.

I have an aerial photograph of Bucaramanga (my hometown), and I'd like to adapt it in order to make night photo textures, so there can be a city also at night. What do you suggest me to do? What parts should I edit? Should I add color or paint something over it? I'm using SBuilder for making the photoscenery, but I understand changes for night texture should be done directly over the source photo. Which software should I use for editing the photo? Photoshop? GIMP? MS Paint?For seasonal variants, well... because we are so close to the Equator, there are no seasons here, so I'll use summer :( (but maybe someone else would appreciate having this suggestions here also).Best …

Is there a way to change the ILS idents? KDTW has changed the 4L/22R idents and freqs. Changing the freqs. was easy (using AFX) but the idents will not change. There is box (in AFX) for the ident which allows the change, however the afcad does not reflect the changes. Also, in the sim the idents are the old ones. Did some searching around on this but did not come up with any direction for this little problem. Thanks in advance for any help.

i'm looking for a photoreal or good quality disney scenery for fs9 if anyone knows of one?

Hi guysI just downloaded the the Sidney Schwartz scenery objects to use with Instant Scenery in Fs9.I installed it directly into the addon scenery as suggested by the installation-text.But - unfortunately - I cant se anything. The Library shows up when I open IS but no textures(colours) on the models/buildings. Any idea what to do ?thanks

Hi. Can anyone say why, when I disassemble (with BGLAnalyze fro FS9) many of the default scenery files (e.g. AP******.bgl) to an xml file and then try to recompile the file (even immediately, unaltered) with BGLComp.exe I do not get any bgl file created - the cmd window that flashes up shows errors which prevent a new bgl file from being created.Is there any way around this? I have a number of files I'd like to edit (airport names, navaid data etc. - elevations I know I can do with other tools).Thanks!Martin

i have done my research and have gone through a lot of forums regarding the issue of apron lighting. as what i understand, having the emitter set at 0.00 will show apron/ramp light effect when you start FS more than 10km from the airport but with this, you get a very solid and very bright effect from a very far distance. so the other solution is to create a controller. my question is, how exactly do you make a controller?-is this also an .fx file?-should this reside inside the effects folder?-what filename should you give this file?here's a sample of my controller-----------------------------[Library Effect] Lifetime=5 Version=2.00 Radius=200Priority=0 [controller.0]lifet…

Hi,How would I go about creating a line type where the I define the object place. For example, I could put down a line in Sbuilderx along a highway, and it would place lightposts, spaced evenly, and lined up against the line.How do I create this, determine the spacing in between, heading of the objects in relation to the line, etc....Thanks!Marc

Hi. I was trying to fix some addon airports and need to make a few changes to one of the default AP bgl files (EurW\scenery\AP949130.bgl). I corrected the elevation, but then found that the xml file I produced to do this won't recompile with BglComp.exe - I get a number of errors. It turns out that the original MSFS file won't recompile either when you reduce it to an xml and try with that, so it's nothing I did!My problems are, first, I don't know how to keep the cmd screen (which comes up when I drag the xml file to BglComp.exe of course) open, in order to read the errors - it closes within a few seconds. I can keep it open by grabbing the side slider and holding it, bu…

Hello ! I've some photo scenery made from both bgl files and agn files. In certain areas I ( mostly around major airports ) I would like to remove autogen by deleting agn files to improve performance but I would like to keep autogen outside big cities. The problem is I can't guess which files to delete by looking at their names. Name of agn files is composed from several numbers. How determine which file is responsible for certain area ? Thanks !