Beginner's Guide to Scenery Design

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Languages / Translations:Because of the dynamic nature of this document, and to encourage usage by individuals who's primary language is something other than English. Thanks to the genorosity of the international Flight-sim community, the following translations are currently available:http://perso.wanadoo.fr/p.dumat/htm/beginner1.htm - Frenchhttp://www.flightsim.com.br/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10327 - PortugueseNote: You can assist in this effort by offering your translation skills and talents, to bring to the community the Beginner's Guide to Scenery Design in a language other than the ones listed above. Won't you help? webmaster@scenery.orgTom G, Sr.

[scott967 62]

From the Guide Quote:Image ReprojectionYou may find it necessary to reproject your original image to the Flight Simulator standard using one of the following programs.1. ERDAS ViewFinder http://gis.leica-geosystems.com/erdascentral2. ECW Plugins http://www.ermapper.com/downloads/3. Geospatial Data Abstraction Library http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal//QuoteFor help in using the GDAL programs, Digital Grove has packaged the necessary files with a quick tutorial and some example batch files for converting raster images. This bundle is available here: http://www.digitalgrove.net/dgwarp.zip (12 mb)Of interest is the batch fileutm_jpg2latlong_tif.batThis could be used for reprojecting images from USAPhotmaps. Note that as of this version (2.65) the bigjpeg capability is included.scott s..

[LuisFelizTirado 33]

Translations to this Guide now availableNos amis francophones trouveront ce guide en v.f. ici:http://perso.wanadoo.fr/p.dumat/htm/beginner1.htmUn grand merci

[Gridley 257]

Does anyone know of an updated link for this tutorial?Thanks!

[LuisFelizTirado 33]

SCASM TutorialThe SCASM tutorial by Andreas Klisch can still be found at Tom Gregor's site, The Scenery Hall of Fame, here:http://www.scenery.org/tutorials.htmLots of interesting things there.

[LuisFelizTirado 33]

New link for <> by Cicero Costahttp://www.aerovirtual.org/forum/index.php...t=0#entry304161

[Guest rbrown3rd]

Luis and all,I have this thread converted to a pdf file. Is there a way we can make it available for download somewhere? It just barely exceeds the upload limit as an attachment.Bob

[LuisFelizTirado 33]

This document, with all modifications and additions, is available for download at the Scenery Hall of Fame:http://www.scenery.org/courtesy of Tom Gregor.Please feel free to distribute it to other locations.Best regards.Luis

[LuisFelizTirado 33]

Tools and other thingsThere are prizes, awards, medals for all sorts of things in this hobby: best airplane, best commercial jet, best Boeing, best 737, etc. But, there is never a recognition of the work by all those who create the tools and dispense the knowledge that allow others to make the final product.One of those people in our particular branch of the hobby is Arno Gerretsen. He has a wide-ranging and in-depth knowledge of Flight Simulator scenery, and is very willing to share his knowledge and provide his help to all. In addition, he has put together a variety of tools that do specialized tasks that would otherwise be difficult to carry out.You can find his tools at:http://www.scenerydesign.org/forum/downloads.phpand also the numerous fora where all aspects of scenery design are discussed and that are frequented by all the most experienced designers:http://www.scenerydesign.org/If anyone deserves a FS scenery appreciation award, it is certainly Arno.

[LuisFelizTirado 33]

VTP linesNOTE: Please replace all instances of < and > by [ and ] in this textVTP lines are an extremely powerful feature of the terrain engine. This is nothing new and Dick Ludowise probably described all the details a few years ago. There are some people who have been using their own line definitions in scenery as well, such as Holger Sandmann and others. And, both Christian Fumey's Ground2K4 and Luis de S

[Bill Womack 7]

Hi everyone,I was trying to help a friend who was new to Gmax texture some simple buildings over the weekend, and after attempting to write down the texturing process, it occurred to me that it might be easier to show it visually. I've just uploaded the first of my video tutorials to my site at http://www.antelopesimworks.com/tutorials/...g-texturing.wmv if you're interested. This is NOT for people who already have a handle on texturing in Gmax, but is designed for newbies who haven't quite put all the pieces together yet.thanks,

[Guest mogul]

airport photos .This site has a lot of good pics of airports in the NW USA,OR.WA.ID."http://www.pacificnorthwestflying.com/" might help people doing scenery for that area to see what they look like from the air

[LuisFelizTirado 33]

New link for <> by Cicero CostaOur friend, and scenery designer, Cicero Costa has opened a new web site dedicated to Brazilian scenery and scenery design.His Portuguese translation of this Beginner's Guide has now migrated there and can be found at:http://www.terra-brasilis.org/forum/index.php?topic=43.0He has also kindly placed this translation in the Avsim library for your convenience.Please visit the web site and see all the wonders of beautiful Brasil at:http://www.terra-brasilis.org/Many thanks to him.

[p51d1 1]

Hi there,how do i get rid of the default buildings on FS2004,done it a couple of times,but ended up removing the entire airport and houses around the airport?Kind regardsMark

[Gridley 257]

Small exclusion rectangles. Nothing too big, and you need to be certain that you don't include the airport reference point. If you need more basic info, there's a number of tutorials around. Check the "shop talk" forum at our website for some...Best,sg