Daviddv

Thanks for your help and suggestions Mike.I did try again with a completely different username, but got the same result about being 'banned'. I'm not sure why my preferred username thinks I'm a spammer. I don't have this problem here or on the other well-known site. Anyway, as they clearly don't want me, I shall stick with all the other sites where I am more welcome.David

I have got the GenX scenery for Southern England together with Gary Summons Airports for the South. As has been said, the scenery is very flat, and road bridges don't seem to exist. This produces an effect where a road dips down one side of an embankment and climbs up the other producing a rather strange effect.The other noticable thing relates to GPS Terrain. Fying over southern England, the GPS shows water rather than land.I also have heard good things about Earth Simulations Trees.Hope this helpsDavid

Thanks for your suggestion Mike, but I probably wouldn't be on this site if I didn't know the answers to their questions!!I did try again and this time I got a msg saying that user Daviddv is a Spam, please contact forum administrator.I don't know what is happening on that site. After all this, are their FSX models worth downloading?David

This may not be the correct place to ask a question about registering at Alpha India Group. I was going to download a recent file from the file library, but it stated that more info available on the AIG site. On trying to register, which seems to be compulsary, I kept being told "Sorry Guest, you are banned from using this forum! Your application appears to be unrelated to AI."Trying to access their Help produces the same result.Is anyone else having this problem?David

I can log in OK and view most forums, but I can never view the Hardware (Mobo etc) forum. It says I am not allowed, and if I try to log in again - the same thing!Help!!!

Managed to sort this out. After trawling through a number of other sites, I found that a dll file (Traffic.dll) had to go into the root FS2002 folder as well as the Modules folder. Very strange as even after a full reinstall as per MS install process FS wouldn't start until I copied that file.I post this in case it is of interest to others.David

This is very odd - I did give it a try, but no difference!I can run FS from Win98 OK, but from XP no. Any ideas?David

JohnThanks for that idea - I'll give it a tryDavid

This is a bit strange...I am upgrading from Win98 to XP (fresh install on new drive), and gradually getting my system back to normal.I didn't want to do a major reinstall of FS (I am still on FS2k2), so renamed my FS2002 folder to FSold, and did a minimum install of FS to folder FS2002 in order to set up the registry entries. Then renamed my new fs2002 to FSMin, followed by FSold to FS2002.But when I try to start FS it won't - says a serious error, did I want to report to MS?Module Name: main.dll.I tried the old trick of removing FS2002.cfg, but same result.Also edited out every scenery addon from the scenery.cfg.Anyone have any ideas on this?ThanksDavid

Yes that was it.I had mistakenly thought that as my test island was well away from land, I didn't need to do the surrounding LWM Polygon.Thanks for all the help.RegardsDavid

Good question EdgarI am still running FS2K2 and am waiting for FS2K6!!!.I believe the V5s are for FS9 only.RegardsDavid

DickHere is my excludeRegardsDavid

Hello Dick Yes it should be very simple.Attached is my test island.I'll follow up with the other one.Thanks for your speedy response.David

Still have a couple of problems:1. I fill the small areas with Landclass 130 (Rock) and extend this around my test island. When I show this in FS, the bottom half fills to the coast, but the top half overlaps. I attch a pic to show what I mean.2. With my real island, I can't seem to exclude the default island. I have surrounded the island with a 'Poly without shore', and set a LWM of water. Shouldn't the resulting exclude 0_xxx.bgl remove the existing island and cover it with sea?Sorry if these questions seem very elementary.RegardsDavid

Sorry - bit of aproblem with my attachment size I thinkDavid

I'm afraid I have a further question....Around one side of my island the Landclass fill borders along the coast perfectly, but the other side not so. I attach a couple of images to show what I mean.When I created the coast I was careful to go round clockwise, and extend the LC fills beyond the coast as seem to be advised.I guess there is another very simple explanation for this too.RegardsDavid

Hi HolgerYes that was it!I remember reading something about spaces in path names early on, but I hadn't realised how important it was.I moved my Ground2k directory up under the root, did a search in the registry for all occurances of Ground2k which I then modified, changed the .inf file in the temp directory, and finally edited with notepad the .lwm files to change the paths there.Then suddenly.... LAND.Thanks a lot for your help (and others too of course).Best regardsDavid

Hello HolgerThere is a LC file generated but it is not a bgl, but a .raw.I haven't done anything with this, as I assume it is used internally by Ground2K.Thanks for your help.David

I have, I think, followed all the steps outlined, but I still get a water-filled island!When I generate the bgls, I get:Test_3.bglTest_9.bgland a couple of .asm files.I copy the bgl files to my scenery folder, but as I said I can see the outline of the island in FS, but no land.I tried extending the LC 'fills' to well outside the island (the inside is of course totally filled) but no difference. The procedure seems so simple, so I must be missing something pretty obvious - but it isn't to me.Getting desperate!RegardsDavid

Thanks Wil and LuisI looked at the thread that Luis referred to a few days ago, but have decided to print it out and study it more closely as it seems very relavent to my problem.I'm determined to get this sorted out.RegardsDavid

Hi WilI first of all tried to modify an existing island, but had a a few problems, so decided to get back to basics and create a simple temporary island in the ocean, so that I could understand the workings of Ground2k better.David

A bit more help please.I think I've got the hang of roads etc, but cant't get the land to show up. I click on 'N' and the Attributes Page appears. I assume to create an island I need to use 'Poly with Shore', but then I am unclear whether to use LWM or VTP. The guide seems to suggest LWM.I have kept the elevation as -9999. and filled in all the small cells with a LC of 130 - Rock., but only the outline appears in FS.I guess I've missed something simple!David

Hi LuisThanks for your help - very easy!I'll add it to my personal collection of tips.David

I am trying to use this for the first time to model better a small island. I have been following the excellent Ground2k for Beginners, but I have a very basic problem that I can't get round.I have got to the point of inserting a road, but made a mistake with one of the points positioned a long way from where it should be. I can't find any way of editing this road by moving this point to the correct position. There doesn't seem to be any undo, move or delete function that I can find.Also in a similar vein, I misunderstood the road definitions and made the road a dual carriageway, instead of one lane in each direction.Can one select the road and edit its parameters?I hope I won't have to ask too many basic questions like this.Thanks for any help that can be given.David

Thanks Bill - I was looking in the 'installation/configuration' forum.I have run the workaround, but still don't get the 'save selected' option.Perhaps you can help with a further point. The aircraft I was trying to use as a static. The author said read in the .Gmax file and save as a .bgl, but it won't allow this.David