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Thanks guys, might take a gander at that Heli2009 cheers

Hi I am trying to get a helicopter (ai) to do a vertical take off as real ones do say up to 20 feet and then fly horizontal to gain airspeed and take off. This is so I can get them to take off from a helipad on an offshore platform correctly. Is there a way to do this. Thanks

Grau I followed your instructions re MCX and it worked a treat. Thank you so much guys for all the help.

grau Thank you for that I will try it instead of using Library Creator to do the BGL file.

Thanks igami.

Thanks Tom, yes I was thinking that too. Thats why I just drew a cube as above. I'll maybe reinstall sketchup and MCX.

Hi all, I have been trying to make a model house using sketchup 8. I succeeded and exported it as a .dae. I then opened MCX and imported it and then tried to export it as an FS2004 scenery .bgl file but I get the following warnings and the file is not created. Also I cannot see the building in MCX. the texture folder is created with the textures inside. 16:05 Mdl9Writer Warning (Part Part1) Found colocated vertices within triangle 16:05 Mdl9Writer Warning ( 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000) 16:05 Mdl9Writer Warning ( 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000) 16:05 Mdl9Writer Warning ( 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000). this goes on for Part 2 and Part 3. I even made a simple cube and textured it and went through the whole process and got the same results. Can anyone shed any light on this please?

Still happening in Firefox today 16th Feb 24! Must be the site or all the files are affected by virus. Maybe Flightsim has been hacked? Just a thought.

Thank you Bernard. Should have remembered That - Been a while since I tried doing a bit of scenery.

Well to cut a long story short I eventually got EZscenery to work with FS9 and at no cost. I finally have got MAIW objects and Classic WWII buildings etc. However what I am missing are Aircraft models of that era. I have tried using Library maker but so far all the models I try it tells me are invalid and to only use FS9 or FSX models. Anyone know where I can find FS9 only WWI aircraft models, i.e. models that haven't originally been designed for 2002 or earlier, just dedicated 2004 models. OR can I use FSX static models in FS9 scenery? ? Thanks for all the replies. Very interesting. cj75s

Hi folks, I have been designing WWII airfields lacking in FS9. I am r4e-creating RAF Evanton in NE Scotland in the Cromarty Firth. It had a main runway which I think was 09/27 the 27 end stuck out into the Firth. So I designed it as such and all looked good in ADE but when I tested it in FS9 I noticed I could see the wave effects under the runway still. Is there anything I can do to avoid this. I have tried using EZscenery and setting a jetty out into the sea but I can't seem to get it deep enough so as not to appear over the runway or dissapear into the sea! Any help would be appreciated as it's bugging me. Thankyou in advance cj75s

I do use ADE a lot to create airfields MS omitted. How could I use military objects in ADE? Maybe I should trawl through the help files. I do have EZ Scenery for fsx and thought it should be valid for FS9 as well but it tells me I have an invalid licence although I do recall I had bought it yonks ago for FS9 before FSX came on the go. Unfortunately I have no longer got that licence. Where can I find SceneGenX? is it payware? Thanks for your replies guys.

Thanks CoIR948, I think I understand you.

Hi all, I am a seasoned flight simmer. From fs5 to fsx I've flown them all but have recently gone back to FS9 Flight sim 4 because I want to create a post WWII scenario which is workable on my rig, which struggles a wee bit on FSX. So I chose FS9 which works fine for me giving about 30 fps. However I find the need to use rwy12 Object Placer to fill my scenery with just ex WWII images and objects. I have found that its difficult to use Rwy12 OP with RAF buildings found on Flightsim.com. I have downloaded FS9Hangers etc and tried to create an xml file and have placed the texture (.jpg or sometimes ,bmp files) into the correct places but still the images do not show up in Rwy12 menu! how can I do this, anyone?? thank you Flightsim.com for providing this forum space. thank you all in advance of your answers. cj75s

Ah right. How do you place a waypoint in ADE or do you use another tool. I have managed to place a heliport in my scenery and it comes up in FSX but I cannot see an xxAlt.bgl saved anywhere.

Sorry, I have found a reference to a stub but where does ADE save this. Or is it the ad4 file. Yep got it now I think.

Jorgen, Thankyou for the reply. A "stub", I'm afraid I don't understand? do I place the heliport at an altitude, that of the jet in my instance? rg

HI all I read somewhere that if you wanted to create an ai flight plan in AIFP that has an ai aircraft taking off from airport A, going to point B and then returning to airport A, without landing at point B, then you have to make a heliport at point B. I did this using ADE and compiled it correctly and placed the .bgl file into an active scenery folder. then ran fsx and shut it down again to ensure it was there. I then began to use AIFP and collected my airport DATA in my active scenery folder it ignores the heliport. all other airports are there bar my heliport. How can I get AIFP to recognise my new heliport. I've even tried placing a parking area over it to no avail. Don't get me wrong I have used AIFP personnaly to a great extent and so far everything worked. This however has me stumped. Is what I read correct or is it done another way. I want this fp to represent an RAF jet flight just out for a jolly kind of thing. Thanks people in advance.

Hi Cas141 As long as your new motherboard has a sata connection(assuming your drive is Sata) then it will work no problems. Even if you have the old connection IDE or PATA you could buy a PCIe card with the IDE connection on it and run it off that. Think though a PCIe card might limit the read speed but I may be wrong there. I have done this a few times but the mobo connections were IDE. However it will work with SATA as well. You might get XP telling you your windows is invalid as you will have changed lots of things. You'll just have to vist Microsoft to revalidate. Hope this helps.

it worked as well as it did to begin with. Stayed connected throughout a 2 hour flight. Very impressed. Thank you all for your input and once again thank you to il88pp.

We are in folks. Took a while but here we go. Watch this space. il88pp I could kiss you. That power thing was I think brilliant.

Boxed. However I think its a power problem, sorry Luke but thanks il88pp. Its not the hard drive as tests perfect with windows and the Seagate tools. However I did look at the power feed and its sharing it with the C:\ drive so had a spareish one free (shared with a fan) and it appears to be working ok. I did hook it up to a PCie card with a sata connection and it all ran ok with that so have re-hooked it up to the mobo connection and it appears in explorer and I copied a few files from it and still appears in explorer. The nest test is to run FSX from it on it's new connection. Here goes nothing.

Hi Guys I had FSX installed on my D: drive and windows 10 installed on my C: drive. Thought it was a good idea at the time to keep them on separate drives. I had another drive E: and also a DVD drive F: all Sata drives. After a while the D: drive started to disappear from windows rather suddenly. I checked the drive with the Seagate software and there were no problems with it. So I thought how about I rename this D: drive to J: and go through the registry changing every D: to J: and also fsx.cfg too. After many hours I was finally happy I'd got all D: to J: every where. However I did notice there were lower case d: in the registry. These I did not change for some strange reason. Re booted and attempted to run FSX only to have windows drop the drive halfway through starting FSX. again re booted only to have the same thing happen. If I reboot then drive J: appears again as if nothing has happened. Now, I have been building pc's for over 25 years ( just for fun) and have never come across this with a drive that tests perfect. I guess I will have to bite the bullet and re install FSX to Drive C: unless someone can tell me whats going on. Is it windows 10? everything else runs smoothly except drive D:/J: I have posted this before but that was prior to my move to drive J: any insight will be appreciated Thanks in advance

Thank you all guys, I shall look at both guides. I am using win10 and have been using disk management. I guess what I'm after is a way of telling windows programs i.e. Ttools etc where fsx is. Probably the best thing is to keep DVD as a usb one and only use it and plug it in when I need it, which is very rare. thank you all once again.

thank you Brian. I never thought about the scenery addons. I think tomorrow or sometime soon(too much work and I'm retired too) I will bite the bullet and do it after saving copies of fsx.cfg and scenery.cfg. I did think about changing the DVD drive, I have tried making it a usb drive on a usb 3 connection but it still obliterated by D drive from windows. Maybe I should try changing it first before delving into cfg files. Thanks for the info.