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If I get the FlySlice Not responding to respond again, what must I do to get the audio and visual effects. Water texture looks right bur no splash sound or visual splash on contact with water only DUST....Richard;

Hi All,Well, I have dropped my hat into the ring, read the tutorials and threads on TS 2.1First off, Todd .... Thank You.. Your program is absolutely incredible.I rarely do things small, so I am rendering a 50 mile radius from JOT. Since this encompasses all of Chicago, should I remove Ken's Chicago and west scenery pods prior to starting Fly!II after the render is complete. I also understand to remove the not needed data files as well. It has been rendering since last night at 8:30pm or so. It is now at 28% on the progress bar.. :-) Ok, I admit, I had no clue when it said go have a cup of coffee, that it would take a day.. I caught on after an hour or so and using A…

Why is this happening?I Uninstalled and Reinstalled FlyUpdate 230 with the same result. Someone please HELP.....AMD Athalon 1.4512 MB SDRAMGForce4MX 64 MB VideoWinbdows [email protected];

1. What must one do to get the water effects, I have all my mask files, the water looks right, but no splash, visual or audio.2. I keep trying to redo some files to include water mask, but when it loads FlyEditor, it just sits there. CTRL+ALT+DEL I get message FlyEditor not responding! [email protected] L Hill

Hello. I was looking at the Fly forum downloads and tried to download a c-130 hercules for Fly2K. While it does show up as an aircraft able to be selected, it won't work and give me an error code.I am not a computer genius, but does anyone know how to get past this? Thanks for you time and help.

Hello,I have a couple of graphics related problems:1. Inspired by the TBM700 ... I was experimenting with thepilatus ... wanting a tighter cockpit feel ... I modified thePIL_MAIN.PBM file and added a center post ... but now I get the following ...I suspect this has to do with the associated PIL_MAIN.actand PIL_MAIN.AAI files ... what are they ?2. This is not related to the above ...but ever since Iupdated to Fly2 to 230 I am getting bleed-through graphicsthru the fuselage on all the aircraft ...the wheels bleedand I can see them ...some zoom levels are better than others ... any idea what I can do ? Is there an .ini settingthat I can change ?Also ... when attempting to g…

I'm wanting to get into FLY!II aircraft and panel development. It appears to me that most of the good ones we see are done using Photoshop and 3D studio. The cost of these programs are outragous, geared toward commercial use.Photoshop 7.0 =$605 retail3D studio = $3,300 retailI might be able to get photoshop (educational version) for $200. Not sure if 3D studio has an educational version out there.Would anybody make any suggestions on obtaining such software or an alternative? I have looked at ebay, yet auctioning can get expensive too. Is there anybody or anyplace that sells older (several years old) versions of such software or any other software alternatives?Any advice …

Another newbie question!Sorry, but this is fun stuff...Anyway, is there a way to move default objects? There is a beacon on the runway at KVAY...Even better, I'd like to be able to turn it into a wind rose (which is what it actually is)...Andrew

Well, I just ran Terrascene 2.1 for the first time. Easy as pie, though this is actually my second time since the first time I tried a 50 mile radius and ran out of space!Anyway, I did 10 mile radius around my home airport. Looks like it worked flawlessly - and the "10 mile VAY" data, as I named it, appeared in the Fly! II scenery directory.However, I saw no noticeable difference, except there was a beacon next to (actually, on) the runway, which is no longer there, and though I sure seemed to be on the runway, the vector map showed me a mile or two off.Upon flying around, I saw no new terrain features.Any thoughts?Andrew

I am trying to create a new airport in my area. The runway is 5000 feet long. I can't seem to get Flattenator to work. One end of the runway is like 217 feet high and the other is like 220 feet high. I'm guessing this is why only half of the runway shows up. I have created taxi ways, they seem to be placed OK. When I attempt to level the difference with Flattenator, nothing changes. I have tried the advance view and just the overide view. No luck. Anyone have any ideas.This is my first attempt at changing or adding anything in fly. Hopefully I can figure this stuff out. THanks for any help.Dajackman

I'm trying to render Finnish scenery by using TS2. The only data available for that area that I'm creating is from ESRI and unfortunately it is not accurate enough. There are missing towns and villages and some roads are wrong. So the output of TS2 is not satisfactory.On the other hand I have a scanned map (scale 1:20000, resolution 10m/pixel). This map is pretty accurate, containing needed towns, roads and land cover usage (forest, fields, population etc).Is there PC Program to create all needed shp, shx and dbf files out of scanned map? Or is there some other ways to use this map in rendering?

Most of the taxiways at EGSH (Norwich) do not have centreline lights, just the blue edge lights. Is it possible to simulate this with the taxiway editor?Andrew Luck18 miles SW EGSH

I am trying to extract a .pod file using the file manager. However, the dialog window does not accurately represent the current directory as it is stated at the top of the window. It simply lists the directories that it expects to be in the Fly! II folder, no matter what the current directory contains. I tried running Fly! II in both Mac OS 9.2 and Mac OS X, with similar results.

In anticipation of the Mac patch, I

Hi again Ken - Something I've always wanted in a sim are good lights on the ground at night.My question is this: is it possible to use Scengen to place "point lights" - that is, single points (in 3d) which are bright enough to look like actual lights on the ground?Or, for that matter, do you know if there is a way to assign a brightness level to points in a ground texture which would be much brighter than what we have now?Andrew

Just wondering how to go about doing this...Did a search but didn't turn anything up.Cheers,Andrew

G'day!Who can tell me, where I can found good geodata to create a perfect scenerie outside the USA? I mean where can I found data which are not come from the arc-explorer or usgs? I like to create a scenerie in asia, africa or south america and I'm looking for the necessary data.Aslo I know, that the ready sceneries from this continents in this download-forum are very perfect; I mean swiss, brazil, hong kong a.s.Who can give me a link or any info?Greetings Markus

Firstly, I wanted to say a big THANKS to the moderators of this board, Ken Salter and Todd Klaus - for an amazing job. It is awesome to see people who really know what the **** they are doing, who can be bothered picking up threads from neophytes like myself (who can't seem to follow simple instructions!!) and putting them together. If you want to see what I mean, check my previous posts (complaining about PODView and TS2...) and the succint and informative and speedy replies I got from Ken and Todd. Also thanks to user RandellR, for helping me out on that last one.I just love happy endings.

Hi there. I am working my way through the "Create TS2 Fly!2K Scenery using Fly!2 Generic Textures" tutorial, and I've come up on an early snag. I can't seem to use PODView to extract the base texture files from Fly!2's gentex.podI have tried it with clean installs of Fly!2K, Fly!2, and PODView, on two different machines.On one machine I get an "Out of Memory" error (and I think not likely, as it has 512mb, and I'm running minimal/no other applications).On the other machine (also 512mb) PODView just seems to freeze once I point it at gentex.pod.Any ideas?Sorry for reposting this - no-one seemed to be looking at my "I need help!" post - I figure I should have used "Question…

I intend to write (or rather, intend to TRY to write) a DLL for Fly2k and am in need of some advice.Would I be better off using CodeWarrior or the C++ compiler / Dev tools that shipped with OS X?---John R. SippyChicago, IL, USAPowerMacG4 -Dual 5001024MB RAMnVidiaGF2 - 32MB

Hi there. I am working my way through the "Create TS2 Fly!2K Scenery using Fly!2 Generic Textures" tutorial, and I've come up on an early snag. I can't seem to use PODView to extract the base texture files from Fly!2's gentex.podI have tried it with clean installs of Fly!2K, Fly!2, and PODView, on two different machines.On one machine I get an "Out of Memory" error (and I think not likely, as it has 512mb, and I'm running minimal/no other applications).On the other machine (also 512mb) PODView just seems to freeze once I point it at gentex.pod.Any ideas?

Hello I use the CAM and PIT files from the Hawker because it has a few morecameras than I need for the cockpit.The rest is used for passenger views.But I need more than 4 views.I want to take a full 360 circlelike the cockpit.But adding extra cameras in the CAM file by cuttingand pasting do not work.I also defined them in the PIT file.Any suggestion? I need at least 20 cameras total.ThanksJan

Hello thereI'am wondering how the panel sizes can be adjusted I'am having some problems when I eddit the TRI30.pnl file from the DATA directorycan somebody explain me how to get on on this? ---- panelBackground ----F50main.PBM<3Dxy> ---- 3D window position ----0-768<3Dsz> ---- 3D window size ----1200500 ---- image size ----786160 ---- home offset X Y ----0150-182what are those values and what do they do! the image size I wanted to display is 1822x1322!cheers!

Hello to all.Can some of you tell me how I can to place sings and marks on the floor of the taxiways and parkings, using Terra Models?Greetings and thank you.Israel Abril

I'm trying to terrascene Philippine area but when I click on "ASIA" in the texture choices in the load render options i got this error message. Any comment.chezz