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HiI am new to Fly! II and am writing a DLL for experimental reasons so that I can understand things a little better.My DLL can currently get and set the state of several of the simple switches in the Kodiak, but I can't make the same thing work for the starter switch.I don't, as yet, fully understand the file formats used by Fly!. Can someone help me understand the entry for the power switch in the panel file? I would like to thank all of you who's posts I have read for the valuable information contained in them.ThanksRichard

I work at a company called "Tommorow's Areonattical Museum". This is a non-profit flight school where teens like me can work (volenteer) and make up credits for $5/hour and use that to get flying time. I am a student pilot that is waiting for my 16th birthday to solo. ANYWAYS we have simulators and alot of planes there, my goal is to Model all of the planes we have for FLY2. I can do the modeling but nto the panel work, any helpers for this project. I can take digital pictures of all of the panels and views (views from inside).Justinwww.mentormall.cc

The subject says it all!Guess I need to do some more reading...Andrew

I just want to know how Terramodel regonize Taxiway created with Peter Jacobson program.rgdsCesar/Venezuela

Hi AllI have some work done in 3d max and would love to get this into FLY2.Is there anybody who want to team up with me (I can sent you some screen shot of what I have made, not here cause I would love to get it into FLY2 before showing it to the public ;) )Henrik

I've migrated from Windows 98 to XP recently. Unfortunately Taxiway does not load Ready Taxiways or allow me to create new ones. Talonsoft Technical Support informed it should not work in XP and recommended me to try XP compatibility features. Didn't work also.Does somebody have a solution for Taxiway in Windows XP?Thanks in advance.___ JJLobo ___55 11 37268158

I have not been able to pull out some of the hills and larger mountains on some terrascenery I am making.I left the slicing option to default:subdivide density =4subdivide tolerance =500What should I change to pull more elevation out of the area?Thanks for the help.Kevin

Ken what settings must I select to get my TerraScene output to Advanced options Subdevide Density = 8 Subdivide Tolerance = 100Tile Size options?Richard;

Hey there, I need a quick and concise answer to this question please.What tools/programs do I need to be able to create 3D Models for Fly!II? I have plenty of expearience using other 3D Modelling packages such as gMax and FSDS but I understand these won't export to Fly!II...cheers

I have been having this problem with Fly2slice.EXE not responding.I have uninstalled and reinstalled both Fly2Update2.1.230 as well as TerraScene 2.1, with the same result.Terrascene smoothly goes through its routine, making all required *.tga, *.txt, *.ras, and *.rat files, makes D*folder in Fly2/Scenery, writes *,-* .txt file then STOPS!As much as I enjoy Fly2, making area scenery tiles in general, I think I can finf better use of 10+ Gigs of hard drive space for Fly!2, TerraScene2.1 and all my scenery tiles, when I can find no help with this problem.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Richard L Hill [email protected]

Having seen the really beautiful Salt Lake City post in the screenshots forum, I have to ask:Is 32 megs of video ram enough?I can't see anything close to that level of detail; maybe Terrascene is working OK on my system after all...8^OAndrew

Hello can somebody tell me how I can bypass the craming process? Jak told us some months ago how you can texture the model with a custom made texture file so you can have more control over it! but how can you tell the editor you don't want to crame it? I have tried it without succes Cheers! :-outta

Hi All,Just about finished a new utility I've been working on for a while now.In a nutshell, it is a translation tool for dxf/shapefiles to allow editing before adding to TerraScene.It will be more useful to those creating non-US scenery than anyone else, but there are a couple of useful features for everyone.It should be available very soon, but if anyone wants to test it as is - drop me a line.A first draft of the manual can be got from My Hangar SiteAll comments are welcome - good or bad :-)Colin

I thought I would post this again and see if anyone has a solution.Many of the default Fly II buildings are out of position when you Terrascene the same area that the default buildings are in. For instance after doing the SFO area in TS2 many of the buildings are now in the bay, the Bay Bridge is completely off from the roadway leading to and from it and Alcatraz is in the water. You can move them in the editor but saving does not create a scnery file and when you restart Fly II the objects are back in their default position. Any suggestions on how to reposition them and have the changes stick?

Well, hi again.Can anyone share their TS strategies as far as how to complete a "satisfactory" representation of your flying area for your use?One strategy may be TS-ing just a few miles around each airport - say, 5 airports you generally fly to.... Then, TM-ing those airports....Another strategy may be TS-ing tiles containting those "popular" airports, then TMing them as you wish.. I just don't know.Any thoughts?Andrew

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Hi Folks,Oops, forgot to add. This would be for Fly!II.My Phoenix scenery was almost done this morning as I woke up. 1 full tile, with a few mods in TS 2.1 :-)Has anyone done any Terra Models or scenery for Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport?I used to fly there all the time in the 80's from California to Phoenix on Southwest Airlines while I was in the Marine Corps. Even if it is basic, I would love to get my hands on it. :-)Does anyone remember the FREE alcohol flights Southwest used to have? I used to walk off the plane with bags of liquor the Flight Attendants gave me. :-lolThanks in Advance,Joe :-kewlhttp://home.attbi.com/~jranos/mysig.jpg http://avsim.com/hangar/air/bfu/logo…

I guess I played hooky during this class! How do you add Bibers models with Terramodels. They don't appear in the selection. Did I install incorrectly? TAI

I'm just getting started with panel designs.I cannot seem to successfully rebuild an aircraft pod and have the changes take effect.I'm running windows xp, so no DOS programs or graphics converters will work.First I loaded up File Manager in FLY!II (hold control while loading FLY!). The I select create response file for the pod and I selected the FLYHAWK and named the response file TESTHAWK.txtThen I selected completely extract a pod. I selected FLYHAWK and it seccessfull excracted. Next I went out of fly to alter the main panel bitmap, I simply wrote my name across it, Saved it. THen i started File manager again, and select make pod from response file. Then it made the p…

It seems everyone has stopped working on Fly!2 related projects. Nothing new about TerraScene and adding Divided Highway texture, I had sent Todd an email with no response. Also asked him about problem with no water effects, no splash video or audio although texture is right, still no response. Nothing in the works on a new anfibian aircraft, or smaller turboprops. Guess everyone is inspired by FS2002!

I'm trying to place Stonehenge using the Fly!2 editor. The model is supplied within Fly!2 but the scaling is all wrong. It's tiny.Could anyone tell me how I can scale it up to a rather more realistic size?ThanksAndrew Luck18 miles SW EGSH

Hi Tony (tonycrider) and all Simmers,According to Tony advises, here is a sample code using DLLEventNotice and an UIButton.Let's assume we have in the UI/template subfolder a file called 'button.win' containing a UI window called '_wnd' and a UIButton called '1btn'./////////////////////// BEGIN //////////////////////////char buffer[128];int uibutton = 0;void DLLKeyPressed(int keyCode, int modifiers){ if (APIIsSimulationRunning()) { if (keyCode == KB_KEY_F10) { SDLLObject *xwin = APICreateDLLObject(); // tony solution xwin->dllObject = 0; // tony solution APICreateWindow2('_wnd', "button.win", xwin); } }}void DLLEventNotice(SDLLObject* notify, unsig…

I'm having a problem with an aircraft I'm developing.On some beta testers' systems, just placing the Aircraft.pod file in the aircraft directory causes Fly!II to crash during startup, even though my aircraft has never been selected. On one system, the gtfo.txt file gives: -Msg: Runtime execption code c0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) at address 77F5215CFile: WINRUN.CPP line 165Time: Thu Apr 25 10:17:44 2002errno = 2 (No such file or directory)I'm trying to understand what Fly! might be doing with my pod that could cause it to crash. I guess that it might load the icon art files to make them available for selection, but they're definitely in the pod. Beyond that, I hav…

Ok, Am I doing something wrong, or is my version of Codewarrior just too old?I am using Codewarrior IDE 2.0 (yeah, yeah, I know) to attempt to compile the sample DLL's that were included with the SDK. I setup the linker as "MacOS Merge" and set it to output a "Shared Library". I commented out the "#include WindowDll.h"and added the following "includes to " the "cpp" files:#include "dllintf.h"#include "Sdk.h"#include "Sdkintf.h"I place the required "fcs" and "ifr" files in their appropriate foldersThe samples seem to link and compile just fine but Fly2K gives me a fatal error at startup.Did I miss something in the C++ code, or do I need a newer version of CodeWarrior?---Jo…

Hi Fly!SimFriends,Is there someone here, who can tell me how to use buttons in a UI window ?There is no API feature like 'APIGetUIButtonState'. The only thing I found was 'DLLEventNotice' but I couldn't made it work...Thanks for the help,Laurent