Simviation Forum - Airfield background grass textures

Oct 6^th, 2008 at 2:24pm

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I have designed and added several airfields to FS9 using a combination of AFCAD and FSSC . adding runways , taxiways and comms details with AFCAD and buildings macros with FSSC is not a problem. However one problem is the background.
If I use AFCAD or FSSC to produce a polygon and colour it with a texture, that texture remains un affected by seasonal changes.

If I look a some airfields that Microsoft have deleted (eg's RAF Machrahinish and RAF West Freugh in Scotland (both supposedly Black ops sites ( Halo Aurora etc ) , they use a grass background texture that is subdued and it changes with season and gets covered in snow.

I have been reduced to using fixed textures or superimposing the runways etc over the existing textures. This latter is especially a problem when using grass runways as the airfield does not stand out from the air.

Any suggestions anyone?

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Reply #1 - Oct 7^th, 2008 at 10:27am

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SBuilder can provide the tools for that (and many more). It will allow you to create your airport background poly using seasonal texture sets (default or custom).

Download SBuilder here:http://www.simviation.com/fsdesign_scenery8.htm Note: the file 'sbuilder.zip' is the same file as 'SB205.zip' referred to in the 'installing_sbuilder.pdf'

Instructions for installing the required udates here:http://www.scruffyduck.co.uk/files/installing_sbuilder.pdf

Find links to the required updates here:http://www.ptsim.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=411. The links to the 3 files are at the bottom.

Dave

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Reply #2 - Oct 8^th, 2008 at 7:48pm

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Dave thanks for the advice , which I have followed to the letter and also the Jay Langham advice you refer to.
I have the four zip files and installed them as Jay suggests.
However when I get as far as revision 5 I can start the programme, but when I try to create a new project the message "error 338; Component TABCTL32.ocx or one of its dependencies is not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid"

I have tried the silacom-tech link but the page is not available.

When I install the revision 6 and try to start the programme, I get the message "Run-time error "9" Subscript out of range.

I have tried this numerous times , but always with the same results.

Any suggestions?

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Reply #3 - Oct 8^th, 2008 at 8:58pm

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The first is referring to a missing Active X control that is needed.

Search your Windows drive for 'TABCTL32.ocx'. It should be in the ...\Windows\System32\... folder. If you find the file, make sure it is in the proper folder...copy it there if necessary. As it is a fairly common file...if you have more that 1 computer, you may be able to retrieve it from one of the others.

If you can't find it, or have it but SBuilder reports it missing, here is the topic at the SBuilder forum. Read Luis Sa's response to download the file and register it with Windows

http://www.ptsim.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=183

If this doesn't also fix the second error, we'll have to look into it.

Dave

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