What do I need?

[bm]

Could anyone help me.  
    I would like to start making airport scenery for FS2k2, so I can use AFCAD to make them work.
 Can anyone recomend a scenery desiner program and do I need other things as well?
 I was hoping to be able to improve RAF Valley in Anglesea with taxiways and parking.

    Would appreciate any guidance.

[Hagar]

Hi Bird man. Check out the Scenery Design section on this site. Airport 2.6 or FSSC will do what you want. It's a matter of preference but of the two I prefer FSSC. The latest V 1.5.7 was released yesterday. http://fssc.avsim.net/

[bm]

Thanks Hagar,
                       Im downloading FSSC and Airport right now so ill have a little look at them both.
    Thanks again -

[bm]

Thanks Hagar,
            I too prefered FSSC, its great fun.
    One problem though, I made a very simple Airport using the Tutorial but it didnt show up- its in the scenery library but not in the selection part, I dont understand.
Do I need to turn anything off?
         Im on my way over to thier website now so hopefully that'l be sorted-   Great fun just designing the stuff-just can't wait to fly over them. Can anyone help?

       

[bm]

Well...............................I found my scenery
But still not in the lists ,

[Hagar]

Hi Bird man. It's been a while since I messed with scenery. First, I would advise you not to export BGL files direct to the main FS2002\SCENERY directory. Install your own stuff separately as with any other 3rd party scenery & activate it via the Scenery Library. This way, if you have conflicts or other problems it's a simple matter to deactivate it while you investigate.

For your new airport to be listed on the FS2002 menu you need to check the "Airport & Facilities Entry" box from Runway Properties. Also create the AFD BGL when exporting the finished airport. This option is now in the FSSC Export Scenery Wizard.

You might need to create one or more Area 16N Flat Areas to fix the floating scenery. First go to the area in FS2002 to determine the average altitude. Hope this points you in the right direction.

[bm]

I'll go and try it out now,
     
               I think the mess ive made of the menu is terminal so I think Ill have to re-install, just got to do it without losing all my addon aircraft and gauges.
               
  Thanks for the friendly help.

[Travis]

Just remove the two folders (aircraft, gauges) from your FS main folder and put them somewhere safe.

Trust me, I have deleted everything before and had to re-download EVERYTHING.

[bm]

Yes!!!!!

[Hagar]

Hi Bird man. I'm pleased you fixed the problem.

[bm]

Yes thats right, once youve set the base level for the airport the polygons have to be set at 0, as the airport was set 10m above the sea, I thought I had to put the polygons at the same, so the runway ended up 10m below the polygons.
   With the Area16..thingys, has the scenery maker done the cliffs for you or did you make them some other way?
  Great picture, its amazing what you can do, I have been able to completely revamp Valley AB, I havent altered the heights or anything complicated but its worked really well, combined with AFCAD and TTools ive put the real Hawk traffic flying round, I would like to be able to load up a picture of it here but my Paint doesn't seem to be able to save the pictures as 'JPEG',
    Thankyou Hagar for all the Help getting me sorted, maybe once Ive worked on it a bit more I could Upload it with the AFD file for it, but I dont know if its good enough, Anyway Thank-you!

[Hagar]

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[bm]

I found an image editor on my CPU which saves JPG files so Im away - Ive just got to do this right.

[Hagar]

Almost there. Remeber the path is case sensitive including the file extension. Also there seem to be spaces in your file names which is not a good idea. This is the path to your first shot.
http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/Valley%20Default.JPG

[bm]

     
There we are, just changed the .jpg tho .JPG, I obviosly need to resize them though.
   I really enjoyed making the airport, the origional didn't have anything - taxiways etc. so its been quite rewarding, I wanted to make it because we go on holiday on the little Island just to the left as you take off  and sometimes go and have a barbecue on an Island where you can see the hawks lining up, landing, taxi-ing and taking off. We also have the Hawks flighing round the Island every day and the occasional Tornado, Jaguar and Harrier visiting.
 RAF Valley is I think the only advanced jet training base now (before they move onto Jags, Tornado's and Harriers) and also home to the coast guard helicopters (yellow Sea kings) and also helicopter training.
    I think when i've done some work on it I might upload it,
I think its a slight improvement so it can't do any harm???      There may even be some people here who live round there.