AFCAD, Flattening and Exclusion switches

[stevewilson]

Hi All,    Ok I'll start this with I'm very new to AFCAD, started using it last night. Was able to create a new airport with navaids, starting points, lights etc...

However the one thing I could not grasp was the flattening and exclusion switches. That is where to include them in the scenery.cfg file.

In the example they use [Area.100], with Group= and Id= Your Area. And "Local=C:\Your Area".The last area in my file is:

[Area.038]
Title=Addon Scenery
Local=Addon Scenery
Layer=38
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE

So what do I actualy use for "Your Area", and do I use the next # ie Area=039? I'm also not sure about the path in "Local=C:\Your Area".

I hope this makes sence to you all, because it goes right over my head at mach 3

Thanks for any advice.

[garymbuska]

Steve

The "Your Area" they are refereing to is the name of the folder where the scenery is located.

[stevewilson]

Gary

I had finaly figured out the flattening switch, however when I included the exclude switch my runway would disapear.

Then after reading your reply, I could understand it a little better. I went into Scenery.cfg, scrold down to the bottom where I had put the following:

[Area.100]
Group=Addon Scenery
ID=Addon Scenery
Title=Addon Scenery
Active=True
Layer=100
Local=C:\Addon Scenery
Flatten.0=199,N36 23,W119 46,N36 23,W119 43,N36 21,W119 43,N36 21,W119 46
Exclude=N36 23,W119 46,N36 21,W119 43,objects

This still hid my runway, then I notice the "Area.038" just above it, added the flatten and exclude switchs to it and deleated my "Area.100" and that worked fine. Below is what the last entry looks like:

[Area.038]
Title=Addon Scenery
Local=Addon Scenery
Layer=38
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Flatten.0=199,N36 23,W119 46,N36 23,W119 43,N36 21,W119 43,N36 21,W119 46
Exclude=N36 23,W119 46,N36 21,W119 43,objects

I seems that when I ran FS9 after saving my afcad file, FS9 added the area.038. All I had to do was add the switchs.

Maybe I'm wrong cause there is no mention of my file or where it is located except for the Addon Scenery referance.

What do you think?

[garymbuska]

 Steve
You are right on. If the scenery you changed was in the main fs9 scenery folder than fs9 will put the area in the scenery cfg file for you but will not make any switches.  YOU WILL HAVE TO DO THAT.
What i usually do is to put any new scenery in the Addon Scenery folder in a subfolder with the name of the scenery EX scenery for Atlanta I would make a Atlanta folder then within the atlanta folder a scenery and texture folder if it needed one.  Then I open the scenery cfg file go to the last entry and make a new entry for the folder I just added put any switches in that I might need then save it. Just make sure you add 1 to the area and you will not have any problems.  

  God job

[stevewilson]

Gary

Thanks Gary that makes it a little clearer on this end. My brain just aint what it used to be , have to pound thinks into it  ;).

I've just finnished adding taxiways, parking approns, parking spots and all the lights. Now if I could just figuar out how to get AI aircraft to land at my airport, and how to add buildings and things. Don't think FSSC freeware works with FS9 and gmax is over my head , will keep trying.

Thanks again all

[garymbuska]

Steve
    No problem glad I could help.

 Good news I just checked out FSSC and according to them it now supports all versions of FS I down loaded it and will give it a look when I get home, at work now
 I agree with you though I would not even know where to start with GMAX and since the system I use to fly on is not connected to the internet, it will not let me use it as you need a internet conection and I do not want to put FS9 on the system we use for the internet. As my family will not let me fly on line

[stevewilson]

Hi Gary,  

I just went up to the FSSC web site to see if they had a newer version than the one I have (1.5.11). This is the latest and when you go into preferances, There is no option to use FS9, the latest version of FS that FSSC supports is FS2k2.

I then tried to bring up my airport in FS9 and could not find a path to the files made by AFCAD.

The good news is that I tried out TTools last night and actualy was able to copy some flight plans and modify them so that at least one plane showed up at my new airport. I'm learning, very slowly but surely .

P.S. I did notice in the "overview" for FSSC, it states that it now supports all versions of FS, however if you look ferther you will see that, that overview was writen befor FS9 came out. Its still a great program and I'm looking forward to when it does work with FS9.