Hi,After downloading quite a few scenery files, I've discovered that some of them require nova gold textures. Also in (forget his name's) FS2004 Hints and Tricks, there is a strong recommendation for these textures. First of all, what are they and what do they do? Secondally how do you install them and what difference will I see. CheersTristan

Nova is a scenery design program and comes with a set of textures used by the program for it's objects. A lot of scenery designers use these simple tools to make custom objects. You also use these textures to design your own macros(buildings/cars/hangars,etc) and since these things use those textures you need them either in the texture folder of your flightsim or in the sceneries folder itself. Most sceneries come with them but not all. If you go to simviation and search under the scenery utilities you will find two sets, one Nova, and one Nova Gold, which is just a second addition to the first set. I also recommend the Airport for Windows textures If your using some older sceneries. If you put the textures into the flightsim texture folder the objects created with these programs will show up correctly. If you dont have them these objects will appear white or gray.Hornit

G'day Tristan, Nova and Novd gold are textures developed for a Airport building program called Nova. The developer has made his many textures avaliable to all of us as freeware. As many scenery designers use these textures in their work it is important to have them installed in FS2004 or FS2002. Scenery that you download from the net will likely call for these textures and as they are numerous they will not be included in the downloaded scenery, therefore for the scenery to display correctly you are required to have them in your main Flight Simm texture folder. If you don't the scenery will diplay with blank squares wherever the scenery designer used the textures.You can get them at most of the FS site or I would recommend you getthem from Nova direct. http://www.fsnova.com/ and they go in the main texture folder, FS9/texturesHope this helps.Clive M. (Ausie)

Cheers guys,Yeah I'll check it out. I downloaded Adelaide international of Avsim, which uses Nova textues. I gotta tell ya, this is the best freeware airport i've downloaded so far. It has posty vans driving around and really cool looking gum trees surrouning the airport. I really felt I was at Adelaide. Happy flying and tally hoTristan

Ok I went to the Nova download page and this is what my options were: NOVA program download notes: In order to download and use properly the NOVA software, you have to know that the NOVA software consist of a set of programs and textures, each one targeting some specific fields as follows: * NOVA main program. This main program is required to run any NOVA software and related software add-ons. The actual version is Nova v1.6. This full version includes both Nova Addons 1 and 2 programs, as well as the OGL plug in for FS Architect 2002 . NOVA is a shareware program, you can download the program and use all features on it for a period of 10 days for free, all functions and features working at 100 %, after this you will need a registration to continue to use the program and its add-ons. * NOVA CUSTOM TEXTURES, MACROS and EXAMPLES. These files include all Nova and Novagold set of custom textures, to be exact 241 textures with a wide range of buildings, hangars, trees and more, day and night textures, as well as seasonal textures for threes. You can also find here some custom macros in API and ASD format using the above textures and a file library of objects. * NOVA MAIN PROGRAM FULL DOWNLOADS File description File name Size NOVA V1.6 full installation The file contains the Nova program and installation files. This file includes the two addon programs as well as the OGL plug in module. Help files are not included. Novav16.zip 5660K NOVA help files This file contains the entire help files of the program and addon files Novah16.zip 7106K NOVA OGL plug in update v1.2 This file update fixes previous scaling problems of objects NovaOgl2.zip 140K * NOVA CUSTOM TEXTURES, MACROS and EXAMPLES File description File name Size NOVA example files This file contains the entire set of example files as described in the help files documentation. Novae14.zip 110K NOVA GOLD TEXTURES 1 A collection of 24 photorealistic textures NovaGt1.zip 1200K Add-on textures A collection of 10 textures NovaTxt3.zip 170K NOVA GOLD Macro collection 1 A collection of 19 macros in ASD/API format. NOVA source files included. Requires the NovaGt1.ZIP file textures. NovaGm1.zip 520K NOVA Texture files 2 A collection of some textures used for docking systems and macros. NovaTxt2.zip 81K NOVA Texture files 1 A collection of 183 textures with day and night effects, as well as trees with seasonal changes These set of textures are required for the Montreal Int'l Dorval scenery CYUL2002 released by the Quebec Virtual Pilots. NovaTxt1.zip 4811K NOVA Macros and library A collection of ready made macros in API and ASD formats NovaMac1.zip 1652K NOVA Effects file A collection of 3 custom smoke effects Effects.zip 2K As you can see, options are numerous and I don't know exactly which ones I need to download. For the airport files that say nova and nova gold textures, which one's do I download?CheersTristan

Hi Tristan.I found my NOVA-textures om flightsim.comIn the file library, look under "Must have files".There you can get other texture-sets, that other scenery