Hello,

For several days, I have made attempts to find scenery objects in the form of cargo containers and pallets and general ground equipment found on cargo ramps at large airports. Success = 0. Trying to use these objects from payware airports isn't possible when using EZ Scenery because I want to place them in other regions that they are not allowed to be used in. Does such a freeware or payware object package exist? I was sure that this would have been the kind of thing that would have been created by some talented person since it's such an obvious kind if filler needed for those interested in adding objects to airports.

Thanks very much for any info provided.

Neil

Neil,

I see no copyright issues when using e.g. payware scenery objects, to enhance your own existing sceneries ----- as long as you do not re-post any of them, either separately or as part of any new sceneries created by yourself.

Hans

Hi Hans,

Ya, that (copyrights) is not my concern. When I use EZ Scenery to place the objects, it objects - telling me that I can not use the objects because they are out of range for their intended use. There are some nice cargo pallets/containers in some of the payware Airports that I have, but I can only add/use them at those airports, not others.

Best,

Neil

The UK2000 Common Library will probably give you all you need, try here UK2000 Scenery . Make sure you get the FS9 version, not that for a later version. Do note, any branding and logos visible will probably be UK-orientated (inevitably!).

Edited August 11Aug 11 by chris_eve
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Beautiful! Thanks chris_eve, I really appreciate it. There are many goodies in that common library that will be useful.

Best wishes,

Neil

Neil,

Can you please name one or more of your payware airports of which the scenery objects are blocked for placement in other sceneries within your own FS2004.

Thanks in advance.

P.S. Out of inquisitiveness I've also downloaded the FS2004 version of the "UK Common Library" and have found that about 50% of the textures therein needed to be mipped and have their compression changed from DXT1 to DXT3 mostly in relation to their existing ALPHA (= black transparency) channels.

Hans

6 hours ago, Hans J said:

P.S. Out of inquisitiveness I've also downloaded the FS2004 version of the "UK Common Library" and have found that about 50% of the textures therein needed to be mipped and have their compression changed from DXT1 to DXT3 mostly in relation to their existing ALPHA (= black transparency) channels.

Hans

It's quite likely that a lot of those textures actually pre-date the introduction of the Common Library ... UK2000 frequently incorporated components from earlier versions of their sceneries (pre-FS9) in their updates and newer releases. As to why they weren't "mipped" and/or recompressed ... ;)

There are a lot of payware sceneries that are "open" to use with instant scenery. The best for exactly what you are looking for are freeware cyqr, cywg, and fmee by Gregory Putz. They have very nice cargo pallets, vehicles etc. to use in airport.

For payware sceneries that can only be used in a specific area you can try to open the .bgl to other areas by using Geolock_1100 - a small program that is designed to use sceneries that are locked to specific areas

Edited August 14Aug 14 by argeme

Hello, and thank you for your replies. :)

I was trying to use FSDreamteam scenery items outside of the dedicated airport areas, and EZ Scenery prompted me with a message that I couldn't do that.

I can give the airports above a look, as well as Geolock_1100. I appreciate the info on these!!

Neil

Edited August 17Aug 17 by qballbandit