S! and Hiya Doug !

Well....its been a VERY long time since I've been here. Had trouble remembering my old sign on. The RAF662, of which I am a memeber...you remember those guys right  are reviving a CFS1 squad to fly Ark deck parties, a little ILS and maybe some Bern/Interlaken bomb runs just for old times sake.  What I am trying to find are the commands for activating the built in scenery editor for CFS1. Also may be a tute on how to use slew mode to move objects, forward, back, up and down etc. I've looked and I can't seem to find them anywhere. Any help here on that ? I don't have and have not used Airport 2.60 in YEARS ( been flying IL2 ) so I don't want to go there, thus the simple in game scenery builder would be great.

Also, there are a few bgl conflicts for the add on sceneries. As I recall, I think that the base tile for the scenery is set to a default  size thats fairly big, so if you put two sceneries too close together, then you get really wild crazy blurry looking graphics . Can you use the BGL excluder tool to shrink that tile size, or do you have to go back in Airport and resize it ? I hope not, I want to keep this REALLY simple, thats the whole point of flying CFS again. Any help would be appreciated .

RAF_Ddave aka MAG_Ddave aka Ddave the ex-scenery builder

btw please feel free to drop by and visit us. We are still VERY active and have members world wide. www.raf662.com


OK ! Found the slew commands. Looked in Help section of CFS...duh...still need the command to activate the scenery editor tho

OK AGAIN ! FOUND IT from a 2002 post. Whew Simple , just add to the config file. If you have never used this , its a breeze compared to Airport, not a fancy but tons of fun.

[LAYOUT_TOOL] 
Scenery_Edit_Enable=1

~S~ Ddave

I'm "Fitter and Rigger" at AAC and we still play CFS1 games every Sundays at noon, Eastern Time. My own COMBATFS.CFG file reads;

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The last line is pointing to the last scenery I was working on. The line before... beats me!

The slew mode, as you have probably re-discovered by now, comes automatically when you go in scenery-making mode. Open that mode in a reduced window. Otherwise, the multiple windows will all be on top of each others.

The "scenery conflicts" are caused by a little quirk within your newly created BGL scenery files. Turns out that ALL objects have a 100 km radius in their "Area" settings. This is the radius at which the object in placed in "stanby" in the scenery buffer zone.
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So, all objects in all CFS1 made BGL within 62 miles of your a/c are piling-up in the buffer zone. Add a hefty scenery, like our squadron base, AAC_Ripe, in the middle, and you will probably end with a "deck of card" effect, what you described as "really wild crazy blurry looking graphics".

Using exclude commands does very little, if any. The solution here is to reduce that "" to more realistic values. For huge structures (Big Ben, Eifel tower, and the like, "30" will do. For buildings and runways, "22" is the norm. For tiny objects (pill boxes, trucks, tents...), "12", or even less, should be considered.

For the disassembling-reassembling process, I suggest BGLAnalyse, available from many sources. Make your BGL, disassemble it, change the Area radii in all Areas, reassemble, and voilà!

At the AAC, we often use RAF662 bombers, so if you come to our games, which are open to all, not only members, you will feel at home. For more inquiries, leave a post at our forum ; http://alliedaircorps.proboards78.com/index.cgi

This is a good primer on CFS1 scenery editor basics, but it does not delve into Ddave buffer overflow issues.

Go to Flightsim search engine (sorry Simviation ) and search for «bglana31.zip» file. You will also need SCASM by Manfred Moldenhauer. Simply google it, it should pop on top of the list.

Added bonuses;
-you can change size to other than x1 or x3;
-you can plant smoke stacks and, after changing the call, create trees (the CFS1 editor don't do trees !);
-you can add "time of the day" conditional jumps, making certain objects only appear, or appear differently, at night.

These are the ones I've tried, they may well be others.

Have fun!

Hiya Pads!

It's been a long time pal.Still have and fly your AT6/SNJ with nav equipment in CFS2. Thx fellas for the reply Hubba and Hagar. I have always wondered about the "house of cards" effect in bgl conflict. I dl'd airport 2.60 again and fooled around in it, also have Scasam and will have to get BGL anaylse. Use to have it. I had tons of stuff from Martin Wright's site. RAF662's main sim is Il2 1946 with Ultra Pack 2.0 updates but some members also fly Rise of Flight and some old hands dabble in CFS1. All are welcome to join in. Just check our boards at RAF662.com . Thx again fellas, just like old times eh 

RAF_Ddave aka MAG_Ddave aka Ddave