Sim Pilot Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share Posted January 2, 2018 Table mountain needs to be 3 files... Now, lower and Devils Peak and Lions head connected... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Pilot Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share Posted January 2, 2018 I'll get there! The helipad on Devils peak is too big! It starts to look like Cape Town! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zswobbie1 Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Have you seen the Freeware Aeroworx mesh and scenery? It adds Table mountain as well as giving accurate coastlines, power lines and rivers. I do appreciate all the work you have done, but it has been done before, for the whole of South Africa. Cape Town also has a redone Tygerberg hills as well as Ysterplaat, not forgetting harbours. Robin Cape Town, South Africa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Pilot Posted January 3, 2018 Author Share Posted January 3, 2018 I think the fun part is doing it myself! Learning the software! Now I'm busy to create Fish river Canyon... to fly it. Created Ais-Ais field and then a small strip at Hobas then add the Canyon. The pro's did awesome work with the downloads... but there's a different feeling to it... if I did it... for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Pilot Posted January 4, 2018 Author Share Posted January 4, 2018 I am really enjoying myself creating things in FS9 and will just mention this. Il88pp mentioned something very important is his tutorial for me. I build the stuff on the win 10 pc but test it on the win 7 pc. All the "flops" are written in the .exe file that is hard to remove. Messing around like I do now can ruin your installation in win 10. I only add the final stuff to my win 10. The win 7 pc I can format and install fresh. My add-on in win 10 is neat but 7 is starting to get messy. I can fix that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Pilot Posted January 4, 2018 Author Share Posted January 4, 2018 I also figured out... Updating a existent airfield only creates one BGL file. Steps still the same to add it. Some scenery downloads for FS9 is not working anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger1962 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Try here instead: http://www.freewarescenery.com/fs2004/southafrica.html Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..." Xbox Series X, Asus Prime H510M-K, Intel Core i5-11400F 4.40GHz, 16Gb DDR4 3200, 2TB WD Black NVME SSD, 1TB Samsung SATA SSD NVidia RTX3060 Ti 8Gb, Logitech Flight Yoke System, CH Pro Pedals, Acer K272HL 27", Windows 11 Home x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Pilot Posted January 5, 2018 Author Share Posted January 5, 2018 Try here instead: http://www.freewarescenery.com/fs2004/southafrica.html Thanks for the link! It helps a lot. I just wonder where in the OS the settings scenery library skin is hold. In win 10 my installation looks very neat. In win 7 where I played around, not so. I can easily just reinstall the OS and everything fresh then it would also look neat. From other youtube's I noticed they can also get errors, if boxes are still checked. I very glad for the early note in the tutorial about removing unwanted scenery again. Hence I kept my win 10 neat. I have my final 3 airports done, fine tuned and very neat. Just upgrading some regular ones. I want to see what the scenery updates offer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Pilot Posted January 5, 2018 Author Share Posted January 5, 2018 I noticed now, the one BGL file fixed all the surrounding mountains making my Stellenbosh airport better. Real happy with that now. Now that my software and airports is to my liking, I work on other aspects building my sim cockpit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Skin? Do you mean the scenery library list contents file? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 If there is a problem, just explain the problem. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 It's not in the exe file. And reinstalling anything is not needed. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Pilot Posted January 5, 2018 Author Share Posted January 5, 2018 It's not in the exe file. And reinstalling anything is not needed. I need to find the English first... hehehe... It's like finding links, if you google wrong, the result is wrong. Like in my previous post and the reply... The moment the link pop up, I found it and it worked. The screen I refer to... Is this one... That screen have grown on the win 7 pc. Not to get the scenery faults of removed stuff, the blocks is unchecked. After a re-install that screen don't change. Correct, I figured it didn't write in the exe file. That screen I call a "skin". The short around a long explanation is, how to get rid of the unwanted stuff that is not checked. ( That's why I'm glad its not like that on my win 10 pc!) While I'm at my flight sim cockpit. The following image I got from the net give me a starting point. It is from a forum members project. The next step after that, is the windscreen view. One of the questions I have about using a windscreen projector is that most diagrams show 2 projectors and "glide-slope's" using one. I understand his project as it was well described. What is the amount of "deformity" on the sides using one projector? For my cockpit I have tested the screen use, to cut the holes to match virtual instruments. I will eventually use only 2 screens for my setup that is proven to work in FS. One for instruments and the other windscreen projection. The interfaces is already built and works. I might have to get a feeling of the real yoke to match that to the sim cockpit. That was well described in another fellow's blog and how they did it. On Monday the Engineering places open and I'll get input towards the motion platform on the swivel that don't need to be higher than 300 mm or 6 Inches. I contacted two places on ideas and both seems very interested to give input and advice on the possibility to make this project work. Basically software wise I'm ready to "pitch" my concept to the hardware side. When I go to CT and explain, I have the software side set-up to underline the hardware concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 That screen is simply 'the scenery library' or 'the scenery library list'. To remove an area from the list, select the area by clicking on it and click 'delete area' on the right. Files will not be deleted when you do that. Are you getting error messages when starting fs2004? Answer that question please. If no error messages then you do not need to mess with the file that is responsible for that list. Even if there are errors when starting fs it's usually not needed. Messing with that file can really screw things up. Stay away from it unless you have no other choice. 99.9% of the time it's not needed to mess with that file. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Pilot Posted January 5, 2018 Author Share Posted January 5, 2018 Ok... I get no errors as unwanted blocks is unchecked. I was just curios where and how that file is created. It only exist on the win 7 machine telling me it must be in the OS. The win 10 where I didn't test my creations is all 100%. It's real easy to format and reload the win 7 PC. Not the win 10 as it's filled with updates and all complicated. That's why I took note when you mentioned this in the tutorial. I thought twice before updating ... adding scenery in win 10. I think this is useful information for people thinking of adding things in win 10. Somewhere some screen will start to look messy if you start to remove unwanted things. So think twice before adding things on a win 10 pc. This is what I'm talking about... Win 10 neat... Win 7 messy... but no errors as blocks are unchecked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 You don't have to think twice about adding a flolder with an airport in it. You DO need to think twice before deleting a folder from your computer. Before you do that you need to go to the scenery library ans "delete it from the scenery library list". (By selecting the area in the list, and clicking on the right on: Delete Area. (the button is in your screenshot.) What i do is to leave them in. I give every version a different named folder. And I make sure the .bgl file is a different name too. That way it is easy to know in the list what is what. And I can test different version, simply by selecting one, and de-selecting the other. I name airport versions names like: FA2L_ADEX_xx_v1_started FA2L_ADEX_xx_v2_added_taxiways FA2L_ADEX_xx_v3_added_ILS_and_Coms FA2L_ADEX_xx_v4_added_buldings_and_tower (sometimes with _ but often folder names without _ I don't find it messy at all. The only versions I remove from the list, and then delete the folder, are versions that cause an error. With and airport in the list, but not activated, all is well. Only the version with the X in front of it will show in FS2004. Again, adding one is never a problem. If you add one for the second time, no worries, FS2004 will tel you: "cannot add this aArea, it is already in the List". It's only when you want to "DELETE a folder from Addonscenery/sceney on THE PC harddrive" that you need to be careful. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Pilot Posted January 5, 2018 Author Share Posted January 5, 2018 Thanks for that and I see and understand your method. I also see what I overlooked. Maybe I a bit cautious going about it. Something else I thought of now is to keep a file for lets call it "experiments". Always use that one till the project is successful to earn its own unique entry. I cant wait for next week to give feedback on my sim project and a awesome motion solution, fast, effective, not working with hydraulics or electric motors! I'm just on that final stages with a engineering co that's all interested in this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 I should have added something. When I say: "I name the folders/files....." I mean: before/during creating them!! Do Not rename the folders after they are created. If you do want to rename them, you can, but.... First remove them from the scenery library list! Then rename them in the "../Addon scenery" folder, (then add them to the library list again if you want.) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Pilot Posted January 6, 2018 Author Share Posted January 6, 2018 Once again thanks for the information. I place it in a dedicated folder. Now my win 7 also looks neat! The FABW is my own and not the downloads, same with FASH. I like what I created and they are special to me. I think I can send your minds to the direction of the platform for my sim. The idea from one of the engineers I contacted was to use truck trailer airbags whereby valves release and supply air. Such a motion platform was already build by them for a movie set near Cape Town. The old ships close to Somerset West. The bags release and supply air from a 8 bar compressor quick enough and according to them the bags can handle 500 kilos each easily. The sim is not close to that heavy. The lighter the sim the more quicker the action can be. On our last mail, the center post is not needed and 4 bags can simulate the air frame movement. The weird and wonderful thing is, such a platform is not very expensive at all. The design trick the the valves connected to the yoke. That's about all I have for now about the concept. Google around this and you'll see some potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Nice idea, airbags. Whatever you do, make sure it's safe. Planes can make sudden movements. Make sure your device doesn't throw you against a wall at 40 miles an hour. There is the cockpit builders forum here. Those guys and galls may know more. https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/forumdisplay.php?12-Cockpit-Builders Happy building!:) In case you didn't know, to find all the forums you can navigate clicking here at the top of the pages: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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