FS Scenery Programs

[mikebigtoe]

Guys,
A lot of us "newbies" to creating scenery look at this forum for a place to start. Reading threads about taking offense to comments draws attention away from what this forum is all about. Helping one another. That can't be accomplished by having to sort through 15 threads of "your taking my comments all wrong" to find the one post that gives us our information that we need. A question started this topic "Which are the best software for creating scenery in 2004"
So please answer the question. Please tell us what programs you use and where we can find them and then move on. That would serve us all a lot better than reading peoples complaints about comments made in this topic.
Thanks,
Mike

[Lurch16th]

Can someone answer my question back on page 2 or should i post it on a "Terrain/mesh/texture" forum or thread?

[bm]

Im afraid lurch that photorealistic terrain is quite specialised and I don't know of anyone here who does it. Holger who occasionally checks in will know but he hasn't been for a while.

You might want to try downlaoding a few photo realistic terrains to see which are best and which programs were used. I have looked on avsim & found that a few were made with photoscenerymaker:

http://library.avsim.net/search.php?Sea ... &Go=Search

Other then that I cant help

Birdman

[Lurch16th]

even this helps. at least i now know what it's called and thus have a starting point.

[RollerBall]

pscmkr.zip

--- Photo Scenery Maker 1.2

Photo Scenery Maker is photo scenery creation tool for FS2002/FS2004 (like TerraBuilder).

---
Takuya Murakami

Have it but have never installed or used it.

[Bombardier101]

When I try to download FSSC full installation it tells me there's a 403 error (in other words it says I'm forbidden to access the PHP file that lets me download FSSC! AARRGGGHH!). Can anyone help....?

[brittair]

I had the same problem the other week.  If I remember right I think I had to register with avsim and go through their library to find FSSC.  I did prove frustrating but got there in the end although there is probably a better way it worked for me.

hope this helps

[Bombardier101]

Thanks. I hope AvSim is free... :-/

[Bombardier101]

What do you do the search for? And which Category? ??? ???

[brittair]

Try this link

http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?Ca ... DLID=40836

I hope it's okay to do this

[Lurch16th]

Where can i find this pscmkr.zip?

Does it do the same thing as Terrabuilder and or this FSSC program?

[Bombardier101]

Everyone should try Airport. It's very freindly if you get to use it right (took me a little while :-/ Lol!). Get it at http://www.airportforwindows.com. I create my scenery with it with pride

[Bombardier101]

Thank you heaps Brittair. I've finally got hold of FSSC thanks to you

More addon scenery for me, eh?

Regards,


Bombardier

[Lurch16th]

hmmm, a vey basic snag i found was PhotoScenery Maker requires as one of the first step is a COLOR  bmp
satt or aerial photo.  I have only found my area in black and white.  bummer

[bm]

Perhaps you could increase the colour depth in an image editor such as irfanview to fool Photoscenerymaker into thinking it was a colour image.

Might be worth a try.
Birdman