Hello All,I've now released my next VFR scenery package for the North West of England. Included in the download:- All Cities, Towns and Major Villages in the Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Deeside areas.- All Motorways, A Roads & B Roads complete with Slip Roads and Major Roundabouts- All Major Rivers, Canals, Reservoirs and Lakes & Detailed costline from Crosby to Fflint.- All Railways- Best approximate landclass usage for rural areas (Fields, woods, forests, marshes, moorland, floodplains etc)- Fits in well with LAGO terramesh- Seamless integration with the Lancashire VFR scenery I produced.It's now available in the avsim file library. Have a search under my name to find the product.Enjoy!Anthony Dyer

I for one will be getting it. Got your Lancashire scenery and like it very much, especially flying over Preston and being able to identify roads!

Hello,Great job !

Yes, superb. Does make one wonder at the need for the photographic products with all the costs and compromise that entails.Allcott

Thanks for this and your Lancashire scenery Anthony.I have just downloaded 'Manchester' and will be having a look at low level later on and if i can't see my house I will uninstall :-) (j/k)

A question Anthony.I was going to install Manchester along with Lancashire just by placing the BGL files into the Lancashirescenery folder but see that Manchester contains a similar file name to an existing oneLC_047_012.Can I overwrite the Lancashire one with the Manchester one?I guess it is just an updated part of your scenery as you worked your way down the coast.TIA

>Can I overwrite the Lancashire one with the Manchester one?You shouldn't overwrite files with the same name - they have differing content. In this case, the file you are reffering to is a landclass file. The two scenery packages are separate projects rather than an extention of the Lancashire project.Other scenery design experts can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe landclass file names are assigned according to which Cell Group the landclass tiles apply to. As some of the Manchester & Lancashire sceneries sit inside the same cell group, the scenery compiler assigns the same landclass name - but the files have different landclass content! As an experiment, I would suggest renaming the landclass files with common names so that they don't overwrite each other. If that causes problems, it would be best to place the scenery products in separate folders.Hope this helpsAnthony Dyer

I've placed mine in a sub-folder named simply `UK Landclass`, then had both the Manchester and Lancs folders as separate sub-folders within that. Just add BOTH scenery areas in the FS Menu system as normal and there should be no problems. Don't amalgamate the two. Remember, FS2004 doesn't care where the scenery files are located so lng as you point to them as part of the add area routine.Allcott

AnthonyFantastic work, both this and Lancashire. Shame about Samlesbury, would make a great resource for Blackburn and the area - much more important tho' would have enabled me to fly up to watch t' Rovers.Bud

Thanks for the reply Anthony.I had only renamed the affected file so will seperate Lancashire and Manchester.

Hi Anthony, Just a quick question. The enhanced coastlines and villages are a great bonus, however which files should I rename in order to "lose" the road network please ?Thanks again Ash

Hello Ash,I'll get back to you on that one when I get home tonight. I don't have ground2k4 documentation with me at the moment.If you're specifically dissatisfied with the night lighting that came with the Lancashire scenery, then I can tell you that these night lights can be removed separately from the road network. But again, I need to find out which files these are.RegardsAnthony

LOL ! sorry Anthony, it's not that I'm dissatisfied in any way. I like to do my flying in the old stuff such as Leopard Moths ect,the M6 wasnt even a twinkle in the planners eye in these times ! Thats the only reason. Sorry, perhaps I should have explained this in the first instance.Take care and thanks for you efforts.Ash

>LOL ! sorry Anthony, it's not that I'm dissatisfied in any>way. I like to do my flying in the old stuff such as Leopard>Moths ect,the M6 wasnt even a twinkle in the planners eye in>these times ! Thats the only reason. Ah! the good old days! (even though I didn't exist then :-)).I've had a look at the ground2k4 documentation. For manchester there are three files:man_3.bglman_5.bglman_9.bglThey correspond to the LWM bgl, VTP2 polygon bgl and the VTP2 lines bgl.The bgl file with the VTP2 lines has all the roads (which I believe is man_9.bgl - but please keep a backup in case I'm wrong)Unfortunately deleting this file this also deletes the railways, rivers, and the coastlines (not coasts - coastlines and coasts are different entities!). Similarly for Lancashire the files to look at are:lancs_3.bgl, lancs2_3.bgllancs_5.bgl, lancs2_5.bgllancs_9.bgl, lancs2_9.bglThere's also a lot of files in this format:lancs_900*.bgl and lancs2_900*.bglThese correspond to the night lights for the roads. An intelligent guess would have me say that the roads lie in lancs_9.bgl and lancs2_9.bgl.Hope this helpsAnthony Dyer