Hi Bird man. Check out the Scenery Design section on this site. Airport 2.6 or FSSC will do what you want. It's a matter of preference but of the two I prefer FSSC. The latest V 1.5.7 was released yesterday. http://fssc.avsim.net/

Thanks Hagar,
            I too prefered FSSC, its great fun.
     One problem though, I made a very simple Airport using the Tutorial but it didnt show up- its in the scenery library but not in the selection part, I dont understand.
Do I need to turn anything off?
         Im on my way over to thier website now so hopefully that'l be sorted-   Great fun just designing the stuff-just can't wait to fly over them. Can anyone help?

     

Hi Bird man. It's been a while since I messed with scenery. First, I would advise you not to export BGL files direct to the main FS2002\SCENERY directory. Install your own stuff separately as with any other 3rd party scenery & activate it via the Scenery Library. This way, if you have conflicts or other problems it's a simple matter to deactivate it while you investigate.

For your new airport to be listed on the FS2002 menu you need to check the "Airport & Facilities Entry" box from Runway Properties. Also create the AFD BGL when exporting the finished airport. This option is now in the FSSC Export Scenery Wizard.

You might need to create one or more Area 16N Flat Areas to fix the floating scenery. First go to the area in FS2002 to determine the average altitude. Hope this points you in the right direction.

Just remove the two folders (aircraft, gauges) from your FS main folder and put them somewhere safe.

Trust me, I have deleted everything before and had to re-download EVERYTHING.

Hi Bird man. I'm pleased you fixed the problem.  
Unlike CFS2 it's possible to Uninstall/Install FS2002 to the existing path without affecting addons. This would not necessarily fix your particular problem as extra files installed to the wrong locations would not be removed. A full Uninstall/Install, deleting the FS2002 directory after Uninstall, or duplicate install is best in that instance.

To fix those floating polygons make sure the altitude settings for the airport, runway & Flat Areas match. I suspect this is the most likely cause of your problems. I think the individual polygons would usually be at 0 ft altitude relative to the airport. This can be raised slightly if you have visibilty priority problems but would not vary by more than a fraction.
With FSSC it is possible to use more than one Flat Area at different altitudes which can give some interesting effects. This can be used to "carve" complete airfields or smaller areas out of the default terrain mesh. I remember showing one member of this forum how to create the greens on a golf course using this method.

PS. I found this shot of one of my early experiments with the FSSC Flat Area feature in CFS2.


The complete airfield is surrounded with one large Area16N Flat Area, set lower than the default terrain. There is also a small landing base/helo pad on the hill at top left using a separate Area16N Flat Area.

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Glad you fixed it Bird man. The cliffs in my shot are "carved" into the default mesh with a single complex Area16N Flat Area set lower than the surrounding terrain. I did it purely as an experiment to check out the feature in the original version of FSSC. You can use anything up to 50 points on each Flat Area.

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You're welcome to the help. Current versions of M$ Paint should save as in JPEG format. If not, try IrfanView from Utilities. That's what I use for all my own shots. For example, the one I posted above. Here's the home site. http://www.irfanview.com/

Almost there. Remeber the path is case sensitive including the file extension. Also there seem to be spaces in your file names which is not a good idea. This is the path to your first shot.
[url]http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/Valley Default.JPG[/url]

That's a fine effort Bird man. I'm sure you will have some customers for it.

I've taken the liberty of cropping/resizing your shots. I still think you would find IrfanView better for this sort of thing.

It doesn't have a readme so ill have to find a link although its not on their website. One more question, using paint i cut the colour out of the satalite picture and pasted it onto another paint image and covered the whole paint screen with it, I then saved it and imported the colour into FSSC, It looked fine in FSSC but when I flew it on FS2002 it was white and Black, I fortunatly saved it in a different name, but is it possible to make your own textures with paint or should I leave it as it is? , does'nt have to be perfect I suppose, but it jut looks a bit plain,

 Also, one side of all the hangars shows up white, Can it be fixed, It seems to change from side to side - maybe its because Im slewing?

OK, first the textures. These need to be the correct size & format. 24 bit images as saved by most graphics editors are not compatible with FS. Scenery textures are commonly 256 x 256 in 8 bit (256 color) BMP or other FS texture format. Saving in 8 bit BMP format should be possible using M$ Paint. From your problems with resizing those shots I think you would need more experience with texture formats & editing images.

I don't know which hangars you're using. If they're 3rd party macros make sure the required textures are pasted into the Texture subfolder of your scenery.

I suggest you upload the scenery files without any aircraft. Include a link to the download page (not the file) in your Readme. End-users can then use them if they wish. This would make it a much smaller download & you won't need permission from the authors.

OK, glad you took my advice. Infringement of copyright is taken very seriously by many Freeware designers in an effort to prevent piracy. Most will happily agree to their stuff being included in a package providing people have the decency to ask & keep their original files & docs intact. Check out Tipster's threads on the subject in the FS2002 forum sometime.
I think this is the page link you need for the Readme.
http://www.simviation.com/fs2002military26.htm

I don't think those adjustable hangars are textured but you might be able to change the colors from Macro preferences. Raising them slightly above the ground polys might also fix any visibility problems.

Great. Now you're sorted I might even download it myself. 
You're on your way now & better than your teacher already.
For such a small program I think IrfanView is remarkable & very useful. The best size for shots would be 800 x 600 which is the forum limit.

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I did notice you corrected that link after I posted my last reply. I suspect you're almost as crafty as me.