Hi Sean....
Congratulations, have fun with it, I do... ...!
Pop over to the Lago Forum, all your questions will be
eagerly answered there, they are a helpful lot...

http://forum.videogame.it/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=5;hardset=;start_point=aysPrune=

Cheers mate...
Paul.
(England).

Thanks Fozzer.  Yeah I know about the longer fences, however... I don't like the bottom (brick) of the longers fences, I am looking for something like 'Fence 1' but longer because it is going to be a pain to fence in my home airport (very big).

The raise/lower command is great. Here's a preview of my newest estate. Just a little country house in South Texas actually. 

I used a couple buildings lowered to create the gatehouses and fountain centerpiece.

Front:




Back:


And of course, there's a good long runway so that I can fly 250 friends in for a weekend. 

The roads polygons and grass textures were added with FSSC. I used FSSE for the buildings and trees since FSSC default buildings etc are a little lame. I downloaded some macros for better buildings but I'm having trouble with the textures showing up.

The two editor programs complement each other nicely. I just downloaded Airport to give it a try and see which ones I like best.

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I agree 100% but this is a quick start. I'm just learning the ins and outs of FSSC and BMP2000 so I got my airport going good while I'm learning. That's one of the limitations I've found in FSSE. If  you could create scenery to share it would be a 10 on my scale.

Another shortcoming is the fact that you cannot add objects to it. If they took care of those two things I think FSSE would be a lot more popular than now.

Hey all,

I am trying to find a way to edit a .bgl file. I was hoping for something similar to the dtxbmp program.

Trying to find a way to edit  the airports that I found online(which have a golf course looking grass texture), and place it on top of VFR photographic scenery so the photographic texture will show through the green areas.

Does that even make sense to any of you???
all suggestions welcome
wish_bear

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Maybe not. The strength of FSSE is in the way the elements are placed and positioned inside FS2002. If they allowed user created objects that could then be positioned the current way, scenery editing would be a breeze.

Right now with a macro object I have to try to guess where it should go in relation to my airport and put it in. Next I export it with FSSC and start FS2002 (wait while the flash screen shows and every thing loads), select the flight that places me there and wait until it loads just to see that I missed my placement by about 50 yds.

With FSSC I could put my macro or multiple macros into the editor, go into FS2002 and select what I want to place, if it's in the wrong place I simply move it where I want and I'm done. I could also create objects for other people. If Lago kept the editor licensed then the money would be from sales of the editor while a trade in freeware macros would enhance the usefulness of that.

Another advantage is temporary scenery. At present I'm working on a set of macros of common camping items. Many camps are very temorary. You set up the camp stay for a period of days and then tear everything down. If I could put my camping gear macros into FSSE it would be perfect.

At the moment I have to use FSSC to set up even a temprary camp. With FSSE I could do everything within the game and pick and choose which items I want to use as well as quickly remove them when I'm ready to leave the area permanently. Just like camping in RL except I have a plane to get around with instead of my junky car. 

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Me too. I'd also like to see .api macros supported. Imagine being able to import any .api item into FSSE for placement. Right now it's limited to the objects that come with it (some are great but others are a little lame). If I don't like say one of the houses then I go to EOD and make myself a house (just finished a cool log home) export it as an .api macro and use FSSC to put it in my scenery. FSSE gets left alone. If I could use FSSE to position my house then I'd be much more likely to do it that way for the instant perspective I get on how it looks in my scenery.

At present I don't think they even offer any add on items for FSSE. You get what you bought and that's that. After a while though people get tired of the same old stuff and learn to design their own and use other programs to do so. That's where Lago is missing out.

Proprietary stuff seems to be declining lately. Look at all the new games that come with the ability to design and modify. Hopefully Lago will get on that bandwagon and open up FSSE some.

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Hi Sean... ..!
Have you tried suggesting this on the LAGO Forum...?
I wonder what their reply would be...?
Interesting... ...?

Cheers mate... ..!
Paul...FSSE addict... ...!
(England)