Hi

No i think. Try it and find out.

Stiz

Well I can see why I was confussed. It looks like that it can be used but yet not fully compatable yet.
Thanks for the clear up.
I knew that airport for windows would work in fs2004 but it is for airports not general scenery. Or am I wrong with that statement. I am pretty sure you can make buildings around a air port but can you use this for general scenery. I did not think this would do that 8)

can you put things in to FSSC After they have been in afcad ???

well I spend a lot of my simming time repainting, busy doing a large order for Hyperion at the moment.
So i decided that i would make my own test facility.
Here is what i have at the minute (Day and Night)!





unfortunately since i have done it in AFCAD and so there are no buildings.
Can i convert the BGL file so i can open it in FSSC or Airport?  ??? having a tad bit trouble
thanks 

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No but you CAN add as many buildings & other scenery objects you wish to the existing airport with FSSC - just as you can update a default airport. Just make sure the BGL files have different file names to the ones you did in AFCAD. In hindsight it might have been better to have done all the visual work in FSSC first.

Give it a try. Import a few of the FSSC default buildings to check it out. It might take a little experimenting to get the location exactly right especially if you're not used to FSSC. Give your project a different name to the AFCAD airport & save it. FSSC will do the rest when you export it. Use the Export Wizard. If all else fails you can start again, this time in FSSC.

Make sure your new BGL file is installed & activated. You have 2 choices. Export (or paste) the BGL file to the existing directory or install & activate it as a separate scenery area.

If you're certain it's in the right location & properly installed & activated check the altitude of your airport in FSSC with the actual altitude in FS9. The scenery objects could be underground which is why they don't display.

One of the features I like in FSSC is the Area16N flat area. You can use this to level various parts of the mesh surrounding your airport to any altitude you wish. This saves messing around with manual Flatten switches in Scenery.cfg. If you use this for your existing scenery you will probably have to change what you did previously in AFCAD.

You're welcome to the help. I like messing around. I suspect you must have missed something.

I figured out the location of your airfield from the coords on your shots. Took me a while to figure out the heading but I quickly plonked this down with FSSC. Not sure how well it shows up. It has a runway with a control tower & a couple of hangars. I put one at the water's edge for a floatplane base. I can change the macro later. It's only rough but proves it works.

This is what im doing, correcr co-ords and just off the ground (so i can deffinately see it)



thanks

ant

OK. Silly me. I figured it out. Did you actually check that your new BGL is where it's supposed to be?

Look at the export path in your shot of the wizard. Flight Simulator 9\Addon Scenery\scenery. FSSC creates a scenery subfolder in the directory you point it to. I wouldn't mind betting your BGL is hidden inside a scenery subfolder within Addon Scenery\scenery. In this case it's not activated & won't show up. You can either move it up one level into the Addon Scenery\scenery folder or use my method & install & activate it separately.

right,
Thankyou times a million. im going to try this now and if i fail i guess i wont need to send it to you Doug because the macros are not actually the ones i want, just test ones to see if it would work.
thanks steve - i didnt notice that, i will put it all the way down and see what happens

ant 

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That's great Ant. I would almost have bet money on it. These things are usually caused by something simple that you overlooked. I'm not so quick now as I used to be or I might have solved this before. Being a "belt & braces" man I always check manually to make sure files are where they're supposed to be or where I think they are. I should know better than to assume that others do the same. You might bear this in mind in future.

It's a long time since I've messed around with scenery design & apart from the basics I've lost touch with it all now. I suggest you have a browse through the macro section here. There's plenty to choose from depending on what you want. Good luck.

PS. I still think it's a better idea to export your own scenery files to a separate folder & activate it as a new area from the Scenery Library. Had you done so I suspect you would not have had the problem in the first place.