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I just got the EAA KOSH 2008 Booklet in the mail, and I know the 2002 MS KOSH had this but is there a way to add the colored dots on the runways that have them? If so how or could someone do it for me if I gave you the colors and where to put them?

I am trying to replace the underlying terrain around airports (new airports created using EZ-scenery and AFCAD) with grass. Exactly like the grass surrounding the default runways. Sad story: military airfields (Europe) do not have parking, and other then perhaps a tower, no scenery. Wanted to create military traffic, so I had to rework the airfields to add parking and taxiways. The autogen trees confined my additions to the strip of grass surrounding the runways. Bought EZ-SCENERY to spice up the air bases, so they did not look so sparse, and noticed that ez-scenery got rid of the trees around the objects it placed. So I started looking for a way to exclude (did not know…

With Ultimate Terrain installed, there is a problem with roads and vehicular traffic passing through aprons and parked aircraft at KCAE (Columbia SC). Since FlightOne denies responsibility due to the airport being misplaced, I moved the aprons and parking spaces away from the road with ADE. The buildings and hangers remained on the highway, so I created an exclude area to eliminate them. However, the *!%# buildings won't go away. A partial screen shot and the XML exclude file are included below. Can anyone tell me what's wrong? The same procedure is working for me at other airports.<?xml version="1.0"?>ArtBiostar TF560-A2+, Athlon 64X2-6000+, 4GB RAM, Geforce …

It turns out that google is the only map server with good coverage in the area I want to create with sbuilder, but the tile download limit is stunting any progress. Does anyone know how to bypass this?

Hi,Im creating photscenery with sbuilderx and it while sbuilder is an awsome program it takes a long time to cover a large area in high detail. So my question is, is it possible to set sbuilder to capture a larger area than your screen size as a background? That would make it much easier to cover large areas because it would cut down on panning quite a bit.

I am currently working on an updated AFCAD for Beijing ZBAA/PEK, but I can't find any charts for the airport. Does anyone have one that includes the new rwy 1/19, or know where I can find it?Thanks for any help...

Hello everyone:I just used FS planner to modify the .bgl file ,but failed to compile it like this:*******************************************************************Parsing document: Chiayi Aero RCKU.xmlINTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2031: Failed element parse INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2032: XML Parse Error! Element tree follows:ERROR: ERROR: ERROR: ERROR: INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2031: Failed element parse INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2032: XML Parse Error! Element tree follows:*********************************************************************I didn't know what does it mean.Can anybody help me?

I'd do it myself - in fact I've wasted days trying, but find when it comes to the crunch my technical skills fail me: lots of frustration and few results! I did upload a fully updated scenery for VOMM to AVSIM the other day, but starting from scratch is another matter.The airport in question is VCBI, Colombo Bandaranaike. International airport, capital city: but I don't think there's ever been any scenery for it for any version of FS. What a pity.Well, worth a post, just in case the suggestion may 'tickle the fancy' of anyone with more expertise than I have! I live in hope.Thanks folks.Martin :-)

I there anything that can be used to get FSX ATC to recognize an alternate runway? ATC will not recognize one of the open runways at a stock airport, even if the wind is blowing directly down it at 20k. Is there anything in ADE for this?ArtBiostar TF560-A2+, Athlon 64X2-6000+, 4GB RAM, Geforce 8800GTS-320MB, 500W PSU, 250GB HD, FSX (SP1-SP2), Vista Home Premium 32 bit, CH Yoke & Pedals, 22" WS LCD monitor

I often fly in the area of the White Mountain range in New Hampshire. In FSX, using GEX and UTX, Mt Washington is depicted as being forested right to the summit. In reality, the top third of this mountain is mostly rock and barren of trees and vegetation. How could I got about changing this land class in FSX?Thanks!

We have just released a new update for ADE. This will update either version 1.20 or version 1.22 to the latest version 1.25In addition to a number of bug fixes and other enhancements version 1.25 provides several new functions including:Partial automation of the Cross Wind Runway technique pioneered by Jim Vile; Sloping Terrain Polygons that allow sloped flattens to be created; Change Airport Altitude that generates the required pre load bgl file and also updates all the necessary elements at the airport automatically; A 'wizard' to make designing taxi signs much easier; and enhanced tool tips for taxisigns and library objects that show a visual of the sign or object(whe…

Hi folks!Is it possible to place .api macros (downloaded scenery objects from the AVSIM library) in FS9 using Instant Scenery?I found some hints on how to convert manually .api to .bgl but sounds pretty complicated... any auto converter available?And finally: Does anyone know a good tutorial (= step by step) explaining how to create dynamic scenery (i.e. moving service trucks on airports)?Thanx for help!J.R.

Hi,I hope someone can help with my problem.Ive managed to get the siamavsim.com VTBS2006 scenery to work in FSX, and it works perfectly except for the apron textures.The runways and taxiways are fine, just the apron, as seen in this picture;http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/7407/20...14450850az4.pngThe textures only start to disappear when you get very close to the ground, or indeed on it. From the air and in top down they look fine, its just on the ground.Any help you can offer would be fantastic, as I really want to fly in and out of this airport, and the scenery is really good.Rik

Hello,if someone would please refresh my memory (I'm a bit out of touch with scenery fiddling, and searching the Net and this forum lost me in the jungle)...I tried my hand at making a small photoscenery (using Photo Scenery Maker), and it went surprisingly well.(Yes, after decades of FSimming I can now finally see my house! :-hah)However, there is a small airfield in the area which is now slightly off position (relative to the photoscenery); it's not more than about 100 m but still...The snag is that this comes from a commercial add-on, so I have only the BGL files to work with* (apparently "old style" ones, e.g. *_2.bgl, *_5.bgl)Hence my general question:What is the cur…

Designing scenery attracts me since a long time. However the complexity scares me off. I enjoyed runway12 because of its simplicity. Are there any other programs like that which allows beginners to just click and have scenery?Erik [email protected]:Win Vista 64 Ultimate Motherboard: MSI P35 platinumProc.: Intel Core2 duo E6750 coolerMem: 2 x 1 GB DDR2 Twin 800 Mhz Corsair HD 1: Western Digital 750 GB SATAII 16MBHD 2: Western Digital 500 GB SATAII 16MBGraphic Card 1: Point of View Nvdia 8800 GTS 640MB POVGraphic Card 2: Asus 8400GS 256 MB Case: Anec performance OneP182Voeding: Corsair voeding HX 620 W

After constructing an airport using AFW;- viewing from the cockpit, spot and tower views and from the air, I can see runways, grassed and concrete polygon areas and taxiways, but when I look 'top down view' the runways disappear.I have kept the runways clear of everything, have flattend and excluded complete area of airport. Everthing is in their own default layers. I would appreciate any help, hints, ideas.Thanks, davejey

I'm hoping someone can help me plllease???I use AFCAD a lot but have stumbled across a problem I need help with! I am trying to update Stansted (EGSS) to show the proposed 2nd runway and terminal. I have FSGlobal installed on my machine, and have discovered a small hill poking through the middle of my new runway! I also have a small wood growing at the touchdown point!I need a program to allow me to remove the autogen and to level the terrain so that my runway, taxiways and aprons will be on flat ground! If anyone can point me in the right direction I would be extremely grateful!I'd also like to have a go at creating the new buildings, such as the 2nd terminal, hangers et…

I see Microsoft have put up a developer site on MSDN for their new ESP product. They provide an SDK which appears to track the FSX SDK. I haven't had time to look at it in detail to see if there are any insights that might help in FSX.http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa155301.aspxscott s..

I can't seem to login at FSDeveloper. I have tried for 3 days. and can't get my password to be mailed. I had a problem with Comcast and blew all cookies out and am having trouble with several sites. The main one is FS Developer.com. I have tried to email Arno and that gets bounced. I have tried to contact the site before today and can't.Today I'm getting a blank screen, are they down?ThanksJoe W.

Hi again, sorry but have searched and can't find out why FSX won't refresh the updated scenery after I have modified the airport using ADE (and FSX KML). I compile the .bgl and let FSX rebuild the scenery config but there are no changes. I am connected via simconnect. Also, When I first started my airfield by modifying the stock, ADE displayed and allowed me to move and manipulate the stock hangers, but now they won't display in ADE,. Why is this? And while I'm here.....what's the best way to do parking lots with cars in them? Many thanks.EDIT: I guess one needs to close out the "flight", then do a refresh and reload the "flight"? I thought you could refresh the…

I saw a new script by Jonathan Harris to import/export FSX MDL files from within Blender. I haven't tried it, the notes indicates no support yet for attach points or animations. Given that Blender is open-source, this may be yet another way to create models for FSX.Link from:http://www.scenery.org/design_utilities_gmax.htmDownload from:http://mysite.verizon.net/tdgsr/downloads/...der2FSX_010.zipBlender site:http://www.blender.org/Cheers,Etienne

I have no problem with the old bgl format, using scasm, but I have never got the hang of the new format. I used newbglanalyze to decompile a scenery bgl file. I get a small xml file and an .mdl file of the same size as the original bgl. The xml file is as below. The bgl contains many buildings, some of which I want to remove. No idea how to proceed though - I thought Object Viewer (scruffyduck) might help, but the gods are against me: every time I run it I get "Object Viewer has encountered a problem and needs to close..."Clearly there's nothing in the xml file to edit. What must I do with the mdl file to remove what I want? Anyone with the time to put me in the right dir…

I created a building in Gmax, have started texturing with photos. When I export, create the bgl and drop it into Fs9 it looks fabulous while I sit in my aircraft on the ground. Once I get some altitude above the building, I bank the plane so that the new building comes into view and suddenly - the sim stutters and all of my scenery textures go blurry beneath the autogen...Can anyone explain what's going on here? How can I fix this? I'm confused, in the Help file under the LOD section, if I link to a dummy object and reduce the polygons, am I not creating mip maps and if so won't I eventually disable these anyway in DXTBmp as someone suggested?Doug

Simulator is FS2004/9.1I tryed solve this problem many hours without solution. This is mayby my last hope. I have installed:UT Canada/USA, Tongass Fjord, Misty Fjords, Glacier Bay 2 and many others freeware airports on the area of the Canada and Alaska.Yesterday I installed Valdez AK, zia_valdez_new and valdez_afcad and it's look very nice but something is missed:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/187926.jpgAny idea?Rolf

Hi,In FSX, how would I go about making traffic go over a highway?My overpass will be an object and I want for cars to be able to go over it, not pass though like it does now.Also, when I show background with satellite image, it is off a little, is there a way to line it properly?Thanks!Marc PMontreal, CanadaCAE