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Congratulations, Jon, looks to be a very impressive piece of work. Surely a program that will garner a lot of applause.Best regards.Luis

I'm having trouble with some of my addon airports. These are primarily high quality freeware airports (from FRF and Mach1 design) and some FlyTampa airports as well. Some airports I haven't detected problems with (yet, perhaps, I haven't tested them in all wind conditions).Yesterday for instance I did a flight out of KMIA to KJFK. The wind at KMIA was somethinglike 340 @ 12knots, yet aircraft were departing on runways 8L, 8R, and 12 which is completely asinine given the wind conditions.Are the runways used by AI traffic and assigned by ATC based solely upon the data found in the AFCAD file? If so, I'm going to need to start going into my AFCAD files and changing thing…

I just finished my first object in GMAX. (I assume a Ph.D. will be arriving in the mail.) I still have some polishing to do, but I'm stuck.I am having a problem with a disappearing texture on the underside of an overhanging roof. I made the roof with a plane and checked "2 sided" as shown in attachment 1. This works to texture both sides in GMAX as shown in attachment 2. But when I make it into a bgl and load it into FS9 the underside of the texture doesn't show up (attachment 3). Help would be greatly appreciated.

I cant find any good MMUN scenery with Terminal 3 included. Since I cannot find this Terminal 3, I have set out to make it myself. Ive come along quite well with AFX and Instant Scenery.. Of course, I am limited to default and RWY12/EZ libraries for object placement. Instant Scenery requires MDL files for the objects. GMAX will do it, but my dog ate my PhD last week, so I am not going to attempt going that route. Abacus has something out there that would run me another $50, so I try to steer clear of that. Are there any other object design tools that produce MDL files? And are any of these freeware?If I have to use GMAX, Im going to release my current project and release …

Hi,For some time now I have noted a strange cross straddling the landscape of part of Scotland. I've no idea as to what might be the cause so I thought I would ask here in the hope someone recognizes the problem and can help me get rid of it.View - Top Down (All UT-Europe and Scotflight entries: TRUE)http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/186847.jpgView - Top Down (All UT-Europe and Scotflight entries: FALSE)http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/186848.jpgView - Spot (All UT-Europe and Scotflight entries: FALSE)http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/186849.jpgI have UT-Europe and Scotflight (2.1a) installed plus some compatibility fixes (by S. Flannigan) which help to allow the two …

Map2Bgl gets a set of photo files in JPEG format. It is supposed to convert them to TGA format and compile onto a BGL. However, in my case, the conversion to TGA does not happen and there is no evidence of any TGA files and therefore no BGL or textures???Regards,Dick BoleyA PC, an LCD, speakers, CH yoke

Im having problems getting RWY12 object items imported into LOM, Ive followed the tutorial for it but when I try & add SOME ie: Lens Hangar objects & Balloons (both Default RWY12 Objects) Im left with an error message (see photo) & LOM then crashes & closes itself , I cant find exact instructions on how to import the RWY12 stuff in the tutorial, can anyone please explain how to do this correctly or why this is happening on some of the default items Im trying to import please, all the other objects seems to have added correctly. I would have posted this on the scruffy duck forum but it appears to be down. can anyone here help me?

Can anyone tell me or explain exactly how to place fences I have the finneyground crosshairs with the fence but no matter where I put it or line it up, the panel just will NOT line up with my other panels, whats the secret in placing these things its driving me mad!

I've just created a small file using AFCAD2 (FS2004) which allows AI Catalinas etc to land at the old RAF base near Enniskillen, N. Ireland.I have a water runway and both my own plane and the AI planes show up and float nicely on the water. But I have two problems. First is that when I open a window from cockpit view (CTRL+W) my own plane is suddenly at around 100 ft in a dive. Second is that the dock I select when loading FS2004 is not one of the docks created by AFCAD: The altitude of the lough is 200 ft ASL. The AFCAD altitude is 58.7 metres ASL i.e. too low.It would seem that I am not using the AFCAD I think I am using but I have searched for duplicates and there are …

Global land cover data is available from ESA at 300 meter resolution. That is a higher resolution than FSX is capable of maintaining in its landclass tile system. So one would have to use vector data to fully make use of this land class information.Of particular interest might be the outlines of cities, as well as forests.A zoomamble interactive land cover map is to be found HEREhttp://postel.mediasfrance.org/breve.php3?id_breve=21The full multiple TB data set will be made available for access mid of 2008.Press release/article herE:http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMZ16L26DF_index_0.htmlChristian

Thought I'd start in ths forum. I want to know if it is possible to convert an AFCAD for 2002 to 2004 FS9 and if so how? Thanks Rick

Devs,we are considering snipping BGL so that it is only a container system, no rendering behavior.what beside the category system and seasonal variation is currently in use by 3PDs?thanks!

Would anyone please make a photorealistic 400 acre ground texture for me?The area I'm intested in is the place where I work as a crane operator, The Port of Wilmington, Delaware. It's roughly 400 acres, located .5 miles NW of the Delaware Memorial Bridge on the Christina River. It's 3 miles NE of KILM, directly in the approach path to KPHL. I'd like to have someone create a photorealistic texture of the facility and place it in FSX for me. Afterwards I intend to place scenery objects using Instant Scenery and upload the entire thing to the library here. I'm sure many people fly in and out of Philly, and some of them might like to have a local landmark. I'd be glad to…

Are there any freeware add-ons for British roads? or is it possible to design my own if so what program would I need to use & where would I find the texures etc, Thank you

can anyone tell me where i can find freeware animated objects such as radars etc for use with ez scenery etcThanks

Hi. I have been updating an old FS2000 airport (Chennai, VOMM) for FS2004, adding new terminals, jetways, an new AFCAD etc. etc.I am not really what I (or anyone else!) would call an expert in this and although I think what I have done so far is fine, I am now at the limits of my knowledge. I have edited the old Chennai.bgl file with SCASM, removing various objects, but as with so many of these older sceneries, any taxiways made in AFCAD2 do not show up in the actual airport: the large homogeneous concrete apron covers everything up. Even if I delete all the references to concrete.r8 in the sca file, I get bare ground, but still no taxiways: creating a concrete apron in A…

There is a small building located on the KTEX runway in my FS9. This may have been added froman add-on scenery or from the default. How can I remove this object from the runway?

Ive downloaded a number of ez library objects & am using them with rwy12, Im having problems with the ez_planters library Ive read the readme file but when I try & install the wooden planters most of the textures for them dont show up also Im not getting the mulch in the planters either it appears as though some wooden textures are missing but the mulch texture is there but doesnt show in FS, is there another file containing these textures or does this particular file use textures from another library? this is the only file im having this problem with, file name is (ez_planters.zip)

Hi all,I've found an untextured autogen object in FSX (+ UTX)With a short research (and plenty of luck...) I've identified it.It is: ag_usfactory03{3B6B1B79-66C6-460A-A9D8-C84054A54979}At first, I was thinking I had some missing textures, but a visit to:http://lc0277.nerim.net/sceneobjects/showed the object is not textured (at least the thumbnail on the page, see attachment).Of course, the other similar factory thumbnails are textured and the relative objects do show textures in FSX.Any idea or tips for repairing/retexturing this object?BTW, unfortunately, it is just at the end of the glide slope to LIMJ, and it very annoying to see it untextured.Thanks in advance for an…

and only have a very basic understanding how how FSX works scenery wise. All I am wanting to do is move some of the default hangers and buildings at KHUT airport and perhaps add a building or two. I'm not too worried about AI traffic or dynamic scenery, just would like the buildings to look a little more in place. Is there an easy way to do this? Will I need to "recompile" or work with XML stuff? Like I said, I don't know a whole lot about it. Tried reading some of the pinned post at the top of this forum, but it looks like most of the links are for FS9.Thanks for any help.Dondo

Is there a guide anywhere that would take me through the steps needed to change water class colors in a specific region?

Hi there,before running an actual experiment on it...Would anyone have a rough idea how FSX would deal with massive amounts of BGL files in the scenery library? I am considering covering the globe at LOD 8 with individual BGL files for elevation data. Summed over all land mass, this could result in about 150000 files in total.Will FSX come to a grinding halt or does it actually have something like an efficient lookup mechanism for coordinate to BGL (binary trees, quadtrees, whatever)? ;-)Christian

Could someone tell me where to findTedsRAFTextures.zip to go with his RAF hangers just published on AvsimI have looked in the Avsim library but cannot find anything.RegardsRichard

Im looking for any object libraries containing things like trash cans (rubbish bins) & picnic benches etc, does anyone knoe of any? I found one with a trash can in it & thumbnail pic but no textures for it, any help would be appreciated.

So far I have not found a way to place a textured polygon on top of a photo scenery. Such polygons are never visible even though they are in a scenery folder at the highest Scenery Library priority. I am led to believe that any vector or raster elements are not allowed by Microsoft when placed on top of photo scenery.A more detailed description of my objective is this example. Place a "sloping" polygon, textured with asphalt, as an apron in at an airport displayed with photo scenery. The tool I would use is SBuilderX. I have tried setting the elevation of the polygon to zero, above the mesh elevation and below it. It simply does not appear. Therefore, I suspect that this…