March 14, 201412 yr After travelling the depths of Alaska, Microsoft Flight is in desperate need of some new scenery. I have also realized that when coming to make new missions and challenges, it gets harder to find locations to set them . The technique to create scenery in Flight is similar to FSX (according to stone) but its difficult to understand due to how Flight is archived. If anyone has any past experience on creating scenery in FSX or have any ideas on what to do (e.g scenery development method), please suggest them here. These suggestions will be useful to the whole community and getting a discussion started will certainly get the development rolling. With some scenery, Flight could once again takeoff. Its time to step up the Game. Literally! :lol: Kavinda J.D ^_^
March 16, 201412 yr I know nothing at all......... Which doesn't stop me from wishing you the very best of luck! We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
March 16, 201412 yr Author I know nothing at all......... Which doesn't stop me from wishing you the very best of luck! Thanks HiFlyer! I hope that someone does know about developing scenery, to keep this Simulator flying, but enthusiasm such as this, is what keeps the world of MSFlight going. The structure of the scenery is a little different from FSX which is hard to understand and I'm having trouble figuring out how all the .dds files connect together! Kavinda J.D ^_^
March 16, 201412 yr The dds files are texture images for both scenery objects and aircraft. They are DXT formatt in a DDS wrapper - Wikipedia is your friend for a more comprehensive explanation. They are not particularly important in the new scenery files since the texture formats have not changed since the previous version of FS. For a more complete understanding of the various scenery elements, please see the FSX SDK documents. You can also consult some tutorials that I put together on various aspects of scenery design and that can be found in the Avsim library. The challenge(s) for us now is to see what has changed since FSX from a technical standpoint and how we would go about creating new scenery. Outside of converting FSX scenery to Flight format, if we are able to figure it out, re-creating the world of FS is a very long and pain-staking effort, so you should not expect any immediate gratification. Best regards. Luis Hot, humid Caribbean paradise!
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