Okay I have FSSC  I follow the tutorial and create an airfield, I save it. Then I use the wizard to install it into FS9, I add the folder to flightsim scenery database.

However when I try and create a flight or whatever I cannot find the airport either by name or ICAO code.

I guess I have either got it all in the wrong file location or have something incorrect in the files themselves.

Any ideas would be appreciated

Thanks

Hi Birdman
Well FSNavigator knows it is there, recognises its name and lists the fictitious ICAO code it, and I can fly over it and land etc. Only FS9 doesn't seem to recognise it??

Yes the Airport tab is filled in as is the icao code .

But this is really puzzling, it is a fictitious airport on a new island as in the FSSC tutorial.

I downloade AFCAD tho Im not quite sure what Im going to do with it yet.

Thanks

Thanks Bird man

Im not totally following you though.
I understand that I can make an underlay, but does this mean that AFCAD is for the layout only and that I should still use FSSC to actually create the runways etc as I want them and place them in AFCAD?. Also if I wish to design bespoke buildings in gmax or something can I add these direct to whatever I have designed with AFCAD or do I add it with FSSC?

slightly confused ?? ???

Thanks Hagar
So correct me if I am wrong now.. you can set the general layout of the runways, taxiways etc as well as ILS details and ICAO etc making a kind of template with AFCAD.

You then create the scenery in FSSC, making the grass and runway markings and light and so on and maybe some rudimentary buildings and so on and adjust altitudes and such.

Any bespoke buildings etc you can create with gmax and add them to your scenery?

Would that be about right?

Thanks for stepping in there Hagar! Im afraid my brain was not in working order at all today!   I knew what I meant......

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An exclude switch added manually  to Scenery.cfg will exlude all objects over a large area. This is where FSSC comes in handy. It's possible to exclude even small objects like trees.

If you're interested in updating existing scenery, rather than use Gmax to create new objects you can add default library objects by using a simple code. This is explained in the FS2004 Scenery SDK. RollerBall posted some shots of the possibilities in another thread & his own tute is posted here. 04ScenPk.Zip  http://www.simviation.com/fs2004utilities1.htm

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I haven't done much with FS9 & this has some basic differences to FS2002. I haven't tried the latest AFCAD either. It's not possible to use FSSC with AFCAD but I think it was possible to link AFCAD with FS2002 using FSUIPC. This is now payware & I'm not sure it would work with FS9 anyway. I think the only way in this case might be to do it visually. Bird man knows far more about this than me & I'm sure he will correct me.

Hagar, FSUIPC is only payware for the full version, which you don't need for most functions, including AFCAD 

Katahu, I agree. I also want realistic models for my airport and hopefully can learn to use gmax.

Only one more question for now, how do I get those gmax objects into FS?

Okay Im hoping for a bit more help here if possible?

I can import an aerial view screenshot feom fs9 into FSSC and I can line them up true.
I can add some macros, this is on a stock FS9 airfield I want to modify.
However how do I export the mods to the FS9 file, or indeed is this what I do?
I don't want to lose the original but want the ICAO code to point to the airfield with the mods.
The tutorial is for FS2002 and I can't really follow it for that part.
This is all I need to know right now, how to export it so tyhat when I open the file in FS9 I can see my mods?

I can work on EOD or GMAX later.

Thanks

Hi All

Very interesting topic.  I hope you don't mind me sticking my nose in.  I have been using Airport for Windows 3.0 (build 187 & 188 ) to make new scenery for FS9. It works very well but as you guys know FS9's built in scenery is all XML and the authors of Airport for Windows has it's first graphic interface for adding XML based scenery in FS9. Until MS releases another scenery SDK we don't know "how" to make new XML scenery but I hear some guys are getting close without MS's help.

In AFW 3.0 to get a location to show in the Create a Flight menu you have to load it through the Addon Scenery Menu. It also HAS to have an Initial Location which AFW can create.

So to the original poster....try adding your scenery in the Addon Scenery directory.  You will have to make a folder with the scenery name and inside you will need a folder called "scenery" and I believe even though it is empty you also need a folder called "texture" (at least that's what I was told).

Your BGL files go into the scenery folder.  Start FS9 go to Settings>Scenery Library>Add Area....when the box opens click ONCE on the new folder you added then OK. You have to shut FS9 down after this then re-start it for the scenery to be added.

I hope this helps.

FaxCap