Simviation Forum - Creating Airport Scenery

Oct 26^th, 2009 at 1:54am

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Hey guys, just made an imaginary airport in AFCAD 2, now I want to put AI military traffic into the airport and buildings and scenery. I'm thinking about hardened shelters, hangars, fire section and all other buildings you'd find on a normal military base.

Any help would be appreciated

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Reply #1 - Oct 26^th, 2009 at 8:42pm

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justalilrandom wrote on Oct 26^th, 2009 at 1:54am:

Hey guys, just made an imaginary airport in AFCAD 2, now I want to put AI military traffic into the airport and buildings and scenery. I'm thinking about hardened shelters, hangars, fire section and all other buildings you'd find on a normal military base.

Any help would be appreciated

It depends on exactly what you want to create there are several programs out there that allow you to build or add items to a runway. One of them is runway 12 and then there is GMAX which comes with FS9 & FSX but I must warn you this is not a beginners program. It involves complicated polygons, and is not very user friendly there are several tutorials for it that do help. I finally managed to create a shed that I use for a flight line shack.
And there are others out there as well just use Google and you will find them Cool

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Reply #2 - Oct 26^th, 2009 at 8:56pm

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justalilrandom wrote on Oct 26^th, 2009 at 1:54am:

Hey guys, just made an imaginary airport in AFCAD 2, now I want to put AI military traffic into the airport and buildings and scenery. I'm thinking about hardened shelters, hangars, fire section and all other buildings you'd find on a normal military base.

Any help would be appreciated

I would recommend the Instant Scenery AObject Placer from Flight1. It is payware (about $25 US). With it you can place thousands of available objects such as hangars, buildings, static aircraft, hot air balloons and the list goes on and on.

There is a free trial download (limited to placing objects in a 50 mile radius of Seattle) but that is enough to let you get the hang of how the program works.

You can check it out here:

http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=instscen

BTW - It works in FS2004 and FSX also.

David "Opa" Marshall

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Reply #3 - Oct 27^th, 2009 at 5:03am

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Thanks very much guys, just going to use the freeware trial till I get the hang of it, quick question what is the easiest way of creating AI traffic for a new airfield, and setting it to use some of my custom aircraft?

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Reply #4 - Oct 27^th, 2009 at 8:32am

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The basic utility for ai traffic creation is Traffic Tools v2.02 by Lee Swordy-http://www.simviation.com/simviation/static.php?ID=201&page=1-The excellent help file (Readme.htm) will explain it all.

A nice ai traffic program that provides a menu/dialog driven GUI is AI Flight Planner-http://members.shaw.ca/aifp/-create ai flight plans without the need to manually create/edit the Traffic Tools style source .txt files.

Dave

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