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i have found a few GMAX tutorials online, some are videos and some are just text. like anything else some are better then others but most seem to be be for FS2004. I am using FSX.i am trying to build my home airport terminal in GMAX. it is not a very big building and not to fancy, just a big brick box with a glass tower on top. I am looking for tutorials on how to make the textures for this, and how to make the shape in GMAX to place the textures on. i would appreciate any suggestions anyone has out there on a good place to learn the basics.thanks, Kyle

See this image of a CanarySim scenery:What did they use for the street lights? It looks like an object referenced in terrain.cfg, as suggested by Luis Feliz-Tirado on his "Fun with lines" thread here at this forums, but which object? I'm thinking of using something similar for my Bucaramanga photo scenery I've been working on this year.Best regards from Colombia,Luis Miguel

Hi all,I guess this is the correct forum to post my question. I'm going over the airport background tutorial and I'm having a problem with the SBuilder program. I downloaded the SbuilderFS9.zip, which is the complete version and includes all of the required programs - SBuilder 205, revison 6, SCASM 2.96, and the Object pack for SBuilder 2.05. In the SBuilder program, when I go to File - Append - and click on LWM BGL. It opens a window for me to select a file and the file I'm suppose to select from the tutorial is FL926170.BGL. When I click Open, I get a run-time error 9 and says "Subscript out of range." What is the problem here and I can't find anything constructive on t…

I have searched several major sites for the above scenery package, but with no lunck.There is plenty of AI for the base, but no scenery that I'm aware of.Would appreciate any hints as to something I may have missed in my searches.At this stage, I would even pay, :( Cheers,irish3

Hi All:This is an important breakthrough for all... both scenery developers and flyers who never work "under the hood"... to make the "FSX DX10 Preview" work better ! :( http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showtopic=267998GaryGB

I am looking for an object that is normallu used in smaller airfileds i believe to mark teh runway. They are usually white long blocks placed down each side and sometimes each end, i have found some cones yellow and white, but i am after the blocks. Anyone know of any.Ta

I am posting this here rather than the CTD forum, as I solved the problem but thought someone here might have some reason for why I was getting a CTD with this scenery. It mysifies me rather ..Hi there.The proble was this: every time I landed at Helsinki airport, EFHK (a third-party add-on) I would get a CTD - one second I am taxiing to or from the runway, the next FS9 has just vanished. No error messages, the fs9.exe process just ends abruptly. I tried looking at what was happening with Process Monitor, but got no clues from that.So I gradually closed down all my active sceneries and retried at EFHK until I found the culprit, and then reactivated it and gradually removed…

I wanted to start changing airports/making them better (FOR FSX), for example my local one - VIDP. i have a million high res pics from all angles, but the default scenerry sucks.so any program i can use to do this?please note that i know NO coding, so what i need is some sort of click/drag/drop type of program..i looked at flight sim scenery creator, but it seems damn outdated. something much better?

I have just got into messing around with scenery, have a few questions. looking for freeware objects to add to the stck fsx collection also would love to add a fence to my carpark in airport but dont know how, then there are roads etc, what do i need to add roads. Thanks, using ade and whisplacer ,Cheers

I apologise if this is in the wrong forum however,:Some time ago, I saw various adverts for a new scenery developer, namely Aeroscene Simulations, based in Scotland and who had produced sceneries of both Glenrothes Fife and Dundee Riverside. They also claimed to have another major airport in production.I tried to submit an order for Dundee way back in March 2009 but the website would not accept my credit card. I eventually received an email (in May) from the company stating that there had been a problem with his ISP but that as a gesture of goodwill he gave me a code to order the product free of charge. I duly ordered the scenery again but nothing happened. After chas…

Over the course of time, I have developed a condition in my FS9 scenery environment (either base level or ADDON scenery). I have somehow created a "death zone" which, when I attempt to access the area either in flight, or by starting within the area, causes FS9 to CTD with no message. Everywhere else works fine, with no errors or problems. What I am trying to do is "map" a geographic location to determine which scenery (BGL) files reference it. If I can determine which scenery files are applicable to a given geographic location, I will be able to eliminate or correct the offending element. This "death zone" encompasses several square miles of real estate, including ap…

Hi all, i was just wondering what's the best program to use to add scenery like helipads and houses etc.... see i fly helis normally and was just looking for more places to land etc..sorry if this is in the wrong place... move if it needs be.

I am trying to clean up the water mess in the south Florida area near Ft. Lauderdale and Miami. I have already tried going with the WC method, but even though that fixed it a lot, I am finding that I am still not satisfied. What I have done and am planning on doing is taking photo tiles going in the lenght of the coast using SBuilderX like this one.And then using gimp as I have done in the photo above to just blur it a little and make the patterns less distinct. Then I made a blend mask shown here.and a water mask as shown here.But after I compile it and place it in FSX it either doesn't show up correctly or at all. When it does show up it disappears as I get closer to it…

"a failure happened while trying to compile the scenery or processing its created files"i think i have everything set correct so idk what the problem is.please help???im running win 7, on a fairly high end pc :( frustrated

Hi,I've tried to use 3ds MAX 9 with Panda Exporter to build scenery for FS, but they always come out shifted 90

Hello,with FSX there where introduced photo-scenery-files as bgl, including many single photo-files in one big bgl-file. Now I want to change some small things on the photo-bitmap, but how can I work on that ???In FS9 there where single bitmaps which you could work very easy, but how can I work on that FSX-bgl?? Who can help me?Bernhard

Hello,I will download of Scenery Osaka, Tokyo City from fs-x.world.coocan.jp but not more it! Maybe change link? How know it?sebastian

I have just downloaded docks_ss.zip and have installed to the scenery and texture folders, how can I get these to show up in Rwy12 library?

Hello,I have done a bunch of searches but haven't been able to correct the problem.I have created a skyscraper model in Gmax & with a texture. The texture displays OK on the model in Gmax. I used the imagetool to export a BMP and even this displays somewhat OK on the model when viewing in Gmax.In FS9, no texture.I used the folder structure

Hello,I am trying to remove some photo ground textures from a specific area of scenery, namely the airport, so that FSX can display the native runway and taxiway polygons. I already have the AFX file set to a higher priority than the photoscenery but still have a problem. While the photo scenery looks outstanding everywhere else, the runways just do not look the part. How do I remove the textures for the actual airport without removing the entire scenery?Thanks.

I am looking for a way to decompile a SCASM made bgl file into the original sca source file. I need to change the distace from which the old macros become visible in an attempt to improve performance. I know this is from older FS versions but is there a tool to do that? Thanks

anybody know of any Varadero or puerto vallarta scenery for FSX, i would really love to see some good scenery! and does fs2004 scenery work in fsx, or do you have to convert it, and if you do convert it can some one do it for me? i will send you a link if you want to convert it if it is even possible?thanks guys!

How are 16-bit signed integers representing mag var pseudo-degrees in the file magdec.bgl converted into "real" degrees?

In FS9, I have a problem wherever I fly: in an autogen-way little white boxes appear and disappear whilst I fly over scenery. On top of that, at some airports, there are some huge untextured objects appearing, but not disappearing. I have enclosed some screenshots of my St. Maarten and St. Barth scenery (FlyTampa) with those ugly objects popping up all around.I am using Ultimate Terrain for all regions, Ground Environment Pro, and FS Water. I also use FS Genesis, but I cannot imagine how that could cause this problem. I run FS9 on a laptop with has sufficient power (FPS and other indicators never any problem), with NVIDIA Geforce 9600M GT TurboCache graphics card.Can anyo…

HiFSX user, I finally went back to FS9 for well known reasons. Resinstalled UT and a bunch of freeware sceneries. The problem is like 90% of them are incompatible with UT :(So maybe you could help me fix it. The scenery I'm trying to use doesnt contain any vector data, however it adds a ton of buildings based on FS9 defaut coastlines, the buildings are in water! This scenery does contain a very important landmark so I really want to keep it. Everything is stored in one bgl.So maybe there a few solutions-exclude UT scenry from this area and use FS9 default instead - HOW? I dled Sbuilder2005 and made an exlude poly (for vectors) but it wont save the bgl! If I make a landcla…