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Sep 8^th, 2007 at 8:07am

ivormills Offline
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I have noticed that in some commercial airport
packages there is moving ground traffic around the
airport and airport aprons.I use AFCAD and
EZscenery when creating new airports and would like
to know if anyone has created moving ground 'ai'
traffic. If so, how is it done and are there any
tutorials on the subject?

Thanks

Ivor

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Reply #1 - Sep 20^th, 2007 at 9:08pm

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Hmm, not that I know of, Google it.

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Reply #2 - Sep 21^st, 2007 at 10:20am

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Ivor,

I'm guessing there are 2 possibilities:

Create animated scenery, which is beyond the capabilities of EZScenery, Afcad or myself.. Tongue

The other is creating 'ai traffic'. You create an invisible airport using Afcad and then flightplans for a 'flyable' vehicle. At departure time the vehicle will 'taxi' to the 'runway' where it will eventually disappear (because it can't takeoff), to reappear at their next departure. . There is no real limit on the length and and shape of the taxiway so you can have the traffic meandering throughout the airport.

If interested, you can download Holger Sandmann's [urlhttp://www.simviation.com/fs2004scenery13.htm]FS2004 AI Ships[/url]. Though the readme discusses creating ai ship traffic the principles will also apply to ground traffic.

Dave

« Last Edit: Sep 21^st, 2007 at 4:48pm by dave3cu »

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Reply #3 - Sep 21^st, 2007 at 8:57pm

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I am reasonably certain that in order to have animated ground scenery you have to either use ground AI traffic that can not fly or use a program like GMAX to create animated ground traffic.
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Reply #4 - Sep 24^th, 2007 at 5:51am

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Thanks for your replies, I will investigate further and let you know how I get on.

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Reply #5 - Oct 22^nd, 2007 at 7:50am

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A further question on this subject.

AI aircraft land at an airport and taxi off the runway and to the gate presumably as directed by ATC with no input, as if on autopilot when on the ground, following the AFCAD taxiway links. How does this work, is it built in to the config of the aircraft?
If this feature were accessable then it would be possible to program AI ground vehicles.

Thanks

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