For the scenery issue you'll either have to edit the airport or look for the same scenery for ACOF. Some sceneries work from Fs 2002 and some don't. I had a great floatplane scenery package that updated a bunch of floatplane bases but when I moved it from Fs 2002 to ACOF I had to delete two of them since it put the docks about a hundred yards inland. There's just a tiny difference between 2002 and ACOF at some airports.


The easiest fix for the sounds would be to just alias the sounds from the one airplane that's missing sounds to the one that isn't.

Here's a copy of a plane that aliases to the c172:

[fltsim]
alias=c172\sound


Just replace the c172 with the folder name of the airplane you want to alias yours to.

I fixed the sound, it was just a missing gauge...

Now to the scenery... It seems like the constructor has left the NEW scenery with the OLD data and attached a AFD-text file.

It begins with:

"; Flight Simulator Airport ESSA (Arlanda)
; File generated by AFCAD Version 1.1
; HomeFile( "eurnwafd.bgl" )
;
Set( fsvers 0x800 )
Header( 1  N59:44.3107 N59:33.8959 E17:52.9153 E18:06.7077 )
AI_Border( N59:44.3107 N59:33.8959 E17:52.9153 E18:06.7077 )

Container( APT 1 )

    APLocation( N59:39.1162 E17:55.1166 38.40 )
    ICAO_ID( ESSA )

    ;---- Runways and associated ILS units
    RwyLoc( N59:39.1105 E17:55.1019 38.40 10.370 -2.3 10636 148 L 1 CEMENT 0x55 762.0 )
       Navaid( N59:40.1057 E17:55.4609 38.40  10.370 109.900 LOC   NONE 2 "SSA" )
       Navaid( N59:38.4059 E17:54.6954 38.40   3.000 109.900 SLOPE NONE 2 "SSA" )"

.......and so on, and so on.... Will this file fix the AI for the scenery? PLEASE be specific in what you'd do with the textfile.

It seems like ESSA lies in another .bgl file in fs02 than in fs9. WHAT TO DO?

And hey, what's JABBgl?  ???

okay thanx! i'll do my best

Hi John

As you know, the new XML scenery SDK was issued end of last year and updated with corrections to make it work properly and remove all the errors it contained in February.

XML will be the new scenery standard in future MS flight sims which will not be backward compatible as has been the case up to now unless something happens to change their minds.

FS9 is the first version that can use XML scenery and is backwards compatible.

It will not therefore be possible to use BGLC/SCASM scenery in future sims. All scenery designers will have to learn GMax (that will mean I stop designing as I have a life) and objects created in GMax will have to be incorporated in object libraries (so they get a GUID) or into the sim directly (I think) via the new MKMdl SDK.

Almost all of the current great scenery that is currently around will therefore not be usable in future sims and will have to be re-made fom scratch in GMax.

This is how I understand the situation. Frankly I think it will be a disaster as will the people who made non-GMax scenery want to remake it? I doubt it. Over time (a long time probably) stuff will reappear as it is recreated (probably by different people in many cases) but I think that when the next sim comes out there will be a dearth of add-on scenery for quite a while if as I suspect all but only the most recent stuff has been made using GMax objects that can be quickly put into a 'replacement' scenery package.

Roger

PS

There is a small glimmer of hope. There are some BRILLIANT scenery guys out there who are working on converters but so far nothing has come to fruition. If they are successful it will be possible for non-GMax objects to be incorporated into libraries (so they get their GUIDS) but existing sceneries will still have to be re-made in XML using the objects from the libraries.