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Hi I want to add traffic on roads that don't have any in FSX with SBuilder....How do I make existing road's appear so I can edit them? I used to do it with SBuilder for FS2004 but can't seem to find it in the one for FSX....Thanks!

Hi AllIve re formatted my PC installed XP PRO again.Ive got FS9 installed.FS9 SDK,sBasic Runtime 6 Activated my FSUIPC and installed SCASM.Than I regesterd Sbuilder.I open existing projects to edit and it wont create a bgl.Checked the path to my FS9 and all is good. Im lost now, I just cant figure whats going wrong.No matter what I do, even created a test project and still no bgl.Any ideas.Thanks AlFlight Ontario

On Friday, February 6, 2009, I had the rare and golden opportunity to be in Mason City and Clear Lake, Iowa to visit Mason City Municipal Airport and the Crash Site which saw the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper and pilot Roger Peterson. What I had noticed of Mason City Municipal is that there is absolutely no commemoration of the event or even a memorial at the airport; Sure, they have a large plaque which brags up Lindbergh and other aviators, but nothing made history at that airport like that Feb. 3, 1959 crash. Question is: Has anyone ever made up a freeware version of that airport for FS2004, relatively true to form? I tried to seek it out, but n…

During a recent refomat of my HD I lost a number of helpful items including a sample xml which I used to create Fuel Triggers.The BGLComp SDK has some data - but I am seeking a copy of a Fuel Trigger xml which I can use as a template in the future.If anyone has has a good sample I hope they might send it to me or post it here.Thanks in advance. :(

Hi there,I'm using EZ-Landclass to put some towns near airports in Nunavik, running FSX SP2 DX10 on Vista 32. I choose the #117 "Small City Suburban Grid Wet" on no more that a couple of square and it gives a good similarity with the nordic landscape and aspect of northern township. Except for one thing: the vegetaton. The autogen machine makes bushes, trees and forests appear where there should be only rocks, ice and snow (very, truly hard winter there!).To be clearer, I wanta landclass with houses and small buildings but no vegetation.So, is there a way to exclude vegetation from the autogen system ( the annotation file for the landlcass. I guess) ?If so, how do you do …

Hi all!I'm working on a streetlight gmax object. My purpose is to create a streetlight that simulates glare effect like UTX does but without FSX Bloom effect activated!Here a night screenshot:A day screenshot:A day screenshot with low visibility conditions:I make gmax object whit these parameters:Blinn Basic Parameters:Ambient = Diffuse = Black, Opacity 100Diffuse texture: nothingSelf-Illuminated Texture: a 64x64pixel "Glare" texture no alpha channelSource Blend: SrcColorDestination Blend: InvSrcAlphaEnabled only these parameters: No shadow, no base material specular, double sidedAnyone can explain me why in low visibility conditions I get white rectangles?

Hello everyone.Thanks to LuisFelizTirado, I was able to find a fix for the Gold Airport / grass. Not very realistic, at least for us mortals, maybe Billy flies into the Gold plated Airports that we do not get access to? I included the texture, in case any of you want to do the same mod."142b2su3.bmp" Darker greenSee pics below with the Gold, Real and the green texture.To get the change all you have to do is Save / Copy your original file "142b2su3.bmp" found in …..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Scenery\World\Texture, in case you want to restore it later, and copy the texture files from here, the .zip file below, and unzip / rename it to "142b2su3.bmp", into the same Dire…

Hello All,I am posting this here because I recon that the scenery designers of this world would be the "experts" for this question.I have an issue with one airport I use regularly. PANC (Anchorage Alaska). In FS the ATC chooses to use runway 32 "alot" depending on the weather. Now I am using AS6 I think so am getting real world weather but my issue is that they dont use that runway in real life for landing. Normally you will get stuffed into a crosswind on 07. Anyway, I have gone into AFCAD editor and edited the runway to say dont use for landing or whatever but there is no change. I get there with light winds or something and they are dumping me onto runway 32 inst…

After struggling for two days with this reading the SDK I have discovered that for some reason my Autogen Configuration Editor window isn't working!I finally figured that something was wrong when I saw screen shot of it on another forum, I can load the autogendescriptions.xml file but the Configuration Editor windows remains blank. It says "index complete" but nothing.As the .XML file loads I briefly see a listing flash up and then disappear.Anybody else seen this?I did all the usual things; reinstall the SDK and the Service Pack (all the other SDK programs work fine)Geoff

Hello everyone.I am in the process of making FSX a bit more realistic looking, and I was able to make some changes to open it up during Dusk time, but I would like to extend the textures some more.1-Do any of you know what textures control the area marked From here? The area marked Up to Here is controlled by "detail1".2-Is there a way to change the Gold texture, Globally, around the Airports. This color reminds me of FS95, and is not very realistic / close to any of the Airports I've been in? See enclosed pic I got while on the VOR appch. into KLGB. After I get it sorted out I will post them for others, if you anyone else is interested,Thank you, TV

Hi,This is going to be my first scenery project, so I would appreciate if someone could help me on getting started.What I am going to do is make a navigational puzzle challenge for my local flightsim club. What I would like to do is put boxes with letters on them in the scenery so that pilots navigating around can puzzle words together. My idea was to take some kind of box object, copy it 26 times, draw a letter on them, and put them in flightsimulator (area 100x100 nm or so).What would the best way to start, and what tools to use? It is only a one time event, so no fancy things required. Just quickly get the job done.Thanks in advance!Djeez.

Firstly would just like to say hello to everyone as this is my first post here :) Been reading the posts here and everyone seems really knowledeable and friendly so hoping someone will know the answer to my questions!My first question is basically I've had some problems with placing trees where there are autogen exclude areas, so I've decided to try making my own trees that don't get excluded. I'm a bit of a newbie and I've just managed to crack the whole transparent texture/alpha channel thing, but have hit another problem - that of shadows! Obviously with a transparent bitmap, the shadow that gets cast is a big rectangular one, rather than the shape of the non-transpare…

Every time I install a new airport scenery package, then run FSNAV's DBC program to update, I lose that airport's taxiways when I display it using FS Navigator.. Any idea why this happens??

Hi. I wonder if someone would kindly help me. I have installed a large batch of airport sceneries from AVSIM, but the author (whose hard work I am certainly not knocking!) has left most of them with problems, at least IMHO. He has added an apron texture, but at all the airports it is too high and aircraft disappear up to their knees, so to speak:ApronThe only way I have been able to cure this is very long-winded (given that I have literally hundreds of airports to amend). I decompile the airport bgl and find the bitmaps responsible, cut them out and recompile with scasm. I then have to add new aprons manually to the AFCAD file.Though the apron textures included are a bit …

Please help.Not sure where else to ask.Having problems with the correct rwy designations.My stock FS9 shows the correct 14L/R rwysWhen I install France 2, or Toulouse 2005 the rwys get replaced by 15L/125RThe rwy numbers display the correctly on the tarmac in the game.I`ve installed various 3rd pary AFCADs but they are not working.There seems to be a file...."TLS_rwy.bgl" thats sits on top of the AFCAD and prevents the info being used.I`ve deleted this file and restarted FS9, and it clears up the display in FSNav and cures the problem and the AFCAD is seen and displayed, BUT i have no rwy lights, and the "go to airport" in FS9 still shows 15L/RSo confused!!!!What is this …

I'm trying to install FS9 onto a vista machine, but my addon terrain mesh (utimate terrain)won;t install (Vista, I expect). I've copied my old XP install across and overwritten the whole install, and it works, but it seems the terrain mesh is the old FS9 and not the Ultimate terrain mesh. Where are the terrain mesh files, and anyone any ideas why they don;t seem to be copied over (I coppied the entire directory, and all the addon scenery seems to be added and selected)?

I am not sure if I should have posted this to the general FS9 forum, but on balance I think this is the right place. Apologies to anyone who disagrees ..I have installed a scenery for the Western Sahara (by Toni Agramont) which adds suitable autogen to the desert. I have one particular mystery. In the scenery folder there are four files called Camp_1.bgl (and 2, 3 & 4), which add four 'Bedouin-like' encampments a little way east of DAOF (just over into Algeria). But most of the tents etc. have no texture - just silver-grey shells. So I used BGL Analyze to create a list of bitmaps required by those files and checked against the texture folder. All bitmaps in the bgl/sc…

I am developing the airline terminal at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. All is going OK except some jetways I place with AFX display and others do not. I've confirmed non of the AFX exclude files are apparently excluding these. Any other ideas?

I have installed the Anchorage AK airport by Wil Morgan but have a flatten problem. I've emailed him and he has tried to fix the issue but is unable to get his program to work. He suggested that I post this on various sites to see if anyone has seen the problem and has corrected it. If you have, I would love to know what I need to do. The lake next to the airport sits on a mound instead of being flat. You can se it toward the back of the photo. Please see the screenie.Thanks for any help.Jim D.

Does anyone have any reviews on Blueprint Simulation sceneries? I can't find to find anything about them.

Hey everyone - just wanted to see if there was a relatively simple way to align airports with Tileproxy photoscenery? The location of the airports are almost always fine, but the alignment is often off, resulting in a great looking image overlayed with an airport/runway that is angled off the underlying scenery. Any help and tips would be appreciated! Also, I have had a couple of airports' elevations wrong... any way to correct that as well?

Hi all,Hope you can help.I posted this here rather than a general forum because I think this forum will know the cause of this problem.Sim is FS2004.I have just installed a scenery of WBKK - Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo.I have underlying Mohammed Omar's sceneries of Borneo (Mesh, LC, LWM,VTP).Not had any problems with it at all - its all displayed perfectly.I have just downloaded his new version of WBKK airport, which is obviously created to fit in with his underlying Borneo files.I have seen screenshots of other people with this scenery displaying properly.Yet mine looks like this:I have usually used LWMviewer in the past to fix these kind of issues, but this one ha…

I just got back from a friend's house where I was kitting his computer out with two new SATA hard drives and doing a fresh install of Windows XP. His first priority after the OS install was to get FSX Gold up and running along with his newly bought NextMap ProMesh UK package.I've only just got back into FSX and haven't really scoped out any decent scenery add-ons yet but from what I saw of ProMesh UK in action, I have to say I'm still not impressed with terrain mesh add-ons since FS2004 days. I always had this impression that there was simply no data out there that gave a true sense of height of the various hills and mountains we have in the UK. I used to have FS Global f…

Not sure if anybody here uses AFX I did a search but didn't find anything...Just in case: does anybody have any ideas why the AFX preview function might have stopped working? It briefly flashes on then goes away - (it looks like its becoming transparent).I have used this app almost since it first appeared (and before that as AFCAD) but the AFX preview feature is really cool...Its not related to runway heights, fake runways or any of the usual causes and it does sometimes work - (which is really annoying).I recently installed Acceleration, but it was flaky before that (anyway I already had SP2).I am presently having to load SBuilderX tiles into AFX as background images …

Hi,I added the ILS info to KSEA for the new runway from the KSEA2008 Afcad file from the library here which had no ILS info. I used the ILS-GPS creator to get the info into FSX. Added the 3 bgl files to the scenery\global\scenery directory as per instructions.The airport info shows up properly on the FSX map and now in FSC after running the database manager.Im using MytrafficX for ATC. The runway info doesnt show up in the GPS which is really not a matter to me since I dont use it for approaches but I cant figure out how to get the ILS info into MytrafficX. The KSEA afcad is a layer above the mytraffic in the scenery library. The runways show up fine in FSX and all the na…