Runways and Aprons will not show in TopDownView

[nigelgrant 4]

In my recently completed Vancouver Airport scenery, runways and aprons will not show in TopDownView unless the altitude is set to 30 miles or I remove a macro of a radardome. I converted this radardome macro from ASD2.1, and after a few adjustments, the radardome shows okay in the scenery and is representative of what is there in reality. I would like to retain this macro if possible and would therefore like to correct the coding so that TopDownView shows correctly.I have attached a copy of the API file, I would appreciate if somebody knowledgeable could please review this file and see if they can cure the problem?NigelVancouverI have attached the text below since I am not sure whether the file is attached;ASDesign Compatible Macro;Name=Doppler Radar dome, Type=Antenna-Beacon, Bitmap=Radardome.bmp, ;FixedLength=14, FixedWidth=14, ;Latitude, Longitude, Rotation, Density=0, ;Visibility=0, Range=6, Elevation=0, Shadow=0, Crash=1, ;;Copyright 1999 by Tim Dickens-All Rights Reserved converted to API by Nigel Grant;Area( B %1 %2 25 )IfVarRange( :end 346 3 4 )PerspectiveCall( :D0 )Jump( :end ):D0Perspectivemif( %7 )RefPoint( 2 :P3 1 %1 %2 E= %7 v1= %10 V2= 250 )melseRefPoint( 7 :P3 1 %1 %2 v1= %10 V2= 250 )mifendSetScaleX( :P3 0 0 7 )RotatedCall( :B 0 0 %5 )Return:BCall( :radome )Call( :crash )Return:radomePoints( 0-14 54 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)Linecolor( 00 f0 )MovetoPt( 8 )DrawtoPt( 9 )DotPt( 0 )DotPt( 1 )DotPt( 2 )DotPt( 3 )DotPt( 4 )DotPt( 5 )DotPt( 6 )DotPt( 7 )Return:crashmif( %9 )IfVarRange3( :nocrash1 37E -3 3 382 0 18 386 3 3 )SetVar( 0284 14 ):nocrash1mifendReturn:P3Return:endEndA

[Vulcan 14]

Iam not a scenery designer and don't have a clue about it Nigel but I have similar problem with add-on scenery from Gary Summons and in his support forum he says that this problem happens with large texture files.Perhaps a visit to his site will help.http://www.uk2000scenery.bizland.com/puplic/index.htmRgds

[Guest JR Morgan]

Hi... Have you tried viewing your ground objects while in 'Cockpit' view and viewing straight-down out of the bottom of your airplane ( menu? I've found that 'cockpit-view-straight-down' shows all added objects and you have linear control of altitude instead of the huge jumps that occurr when using 'Top-Down' in the View manu.J.R

[Guest bones]

When I ported my ASD created scenery for FS98 into FS2002/4 it caused several lockups. By tedious elimination of BGL's and then individual components I traced the problem to three ASD macro's - none of which seemed to contain any "unusual" code. I rebuilt the objects in GMax rather than mess around with the SCASM code so I never did fully trace the offending bit of script. I suspect it was inside the MIF call - either the crash code or the SetVar values..BTW I notice that any default ASD 2.1 buildings (those available from the Hangar or Building icons) seem to hit frame rates a lot in FS2002/4.boneshttp://fsaviation.net