NZFF

OK will do as you advise. When I started with FS I didn't think there would be so much of interest other than just flying but I am learning fast with all your help. I can see why it has such a world-wide following. Cheers. Pat.

Hi Andrew , No chance of an exclude. I had installed the scenery into X as a further check and no it will require remodelling , but that is not so bad due to extra photo material again to fix old crash prob its just time .

Thanks dude that helped a lot  :D I was tempted to start hunting for some lumberjacks for EZ Scenery  :lol: That would be my second choice if exclude builder doesnt work for you. :D It's very easy to use, one tip that will make life easier, you need to make sure the aircraft, or whatever vechicle u use when in top down view to create the exclude area, is pointing directly North when you set up the top left and bottom right exclusion points (if you havnt used exclubuilder yet this wont make sense, it will once you see it). If the aircraft is pointing anywhere other than north,...

i just hope that deaneb fu24 isnt that far away Me too! I can't wait for that one :D

Rhys, I am using the Godzone Wgton package. I believe there is an update for PP coming up. Pat.

I'm just starting to play with AFCAD as well. A whole new world is opening up. Natas put me onto a great tool called Excbuilder which you can use to remove unwanted objects from your scenery. From nosing around various places the following program seems to be the most recommended way to flatten scenery so that you can place your AFCAD and other objects on it. Though as the others have eluded too it's not the only way. Nunner mentioned it. FSTFlatten is available here. I loaded it up on my PC last night. I haven't had a chance to use it yet but from reading the "readme"...

yes the landclass is nzlandclass i got from rbe site ,but im sure i dont need it install with the topo ,as the topo has the same landclass textures??but i havent seen anything go wrong with it install ,but will be taking it of my list now i remember thanks mike

ah ok im using fsdsv3 and ill give that rotation thing the face away ago inside that , yes to apply im doing that .. im just wondering if the mdl file name is having this effect ,im not naming it the same as the original ,its saving as *******_tweaked.mdl and not overwriting , there are animation options in fsds but they are settings in timelines etc... and mdltweaker looks the best way to go .. :thumbup: ill give acouple more of these ideas i go and see if i can work it out cheers

Lawrie Could you let me have a copy of your ZKMF AFCAD please. I, too, have a problem getting the runway to show up properly with 20M mesh but I do not have the knowledge to amend it. Clyde W Levin :D Hi Clyde. AFCAD for NZMF, Milford Sound sent to the e-mail addy you supplied me. Regards, Lawrie. >nzflag<

The default Wanaka is on the wrong side of the road, as you've noticed, and the default Flatten cuts into the hill. There isn't much you can do about that, except remove the default Flatten. Moving the airport via AFCAD is easy enough, but you would need to make a new flatten, and exclude the autogen somehow. There is a fix for all this -- it's called Real New Zealand Wanaka:)

Sweet...im at home now and have the SDK documents. I had specified the null value to the colour of my water as a work around (had set the polygon colour as a horrid green before exporting to geotiff) but then i couldnt set the actual 'nodata' areas.....so i ended up with big blue areas (the colour i used as 'nodata' when i exported them from GIS) Yeah ive noticed that the 'freeway' traffic still shows/animates cars on the roads but of course the road textures are only going to have resolution equalling the aerial photo (i.e. poor...1m max) I thought it may be nicer...

Islands of the West Indies from Flight1. I bought that once- big mistake! The island textures are absoulte crap IMO, "hand painted"- no where close to photoreal! For SABA, I have this one installed: his Terrain Mesh scenery cover Saba Island in the Caribbean Sea. This scenery is a strong mesh with lots of details. Author: Raimondo Taburet. Makes a nice hop over from St Maarten :P

yup no problem i can tell you that nobody has had any frame problems with the scenery with max everything still doesnt effect the beta test team ,so id say it is something to do with your puter if you can run other scenerys such as mountcook or photoreal even a freeware airport that would have more single faces than my hamilton city as it was made with boxes with a photo paste on the sides ,the biggest frame hit would be the stadium or the hospital each with a bgl scenery file that you could remove anyway hope all this info may help in your problems with install mike

90 mb!!!....... *walks away muttering about shoddy dialup......* Do have a break down of what exactly is included? (so i can see whether its worthwhile getting hold of it)

Thanks for your help guys - I'll try these suggestions when I find some spare time which is a bit few and far btween at the moment with Christmas fast approaching Cheers Paul

Howdy, do the various bits preclude you making up a nice package and uploading somewhere? We will see. ;)

Hi Seems its just a problem with New Zealand only. I have tried other video drivers but that's had no effect

I've used Mike Stone's P-3 model for AI traffic and it doesn't like flying VFR. An aircraft that size probably wouldn't fly VFR anyway but the RNZAF does do normal touch and goes at NZWP with its large aircraft. Set it to IFR and it seems to fly okay. Unfortunately the static aircraft can't be removed. I think there is a post in a similar vein about NZAR where a simmer tried putting in exclude files and got white static aircraft where he was hoping for a fresh parking space. NZWP is the same. Of course, if anyone can proove me wrong on this I'll be keen to know how....

Yes, the building at Musick Point was indeed a memorial to Captain Edwin Musick and his crew, who were lost when their flyboat exploded in midair near Samoa. The Sikorski FB had fuel problems and was thought fuel vapour caused the explosion, there were no survivors. The building was shared between the CAA coms (ZKLF) and the NZPO coast radio station (ZLD). ZLD/Auckland radio monitored 500 k/cs morse, and 2182/4125 k/cs r/t. I've only ever visited Auckland once, during the mid 70's and my only view of ZLD was from a tourist launch during a harbour cruise. The weather was crappy and we...