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Thank-you that was very helpful, how do i get a satelitte image of the aiprort on the screen?

wat is it that i need to place to exclude auto-gen etc?

Thanks.

Chappy,

To get the satalite image of the airport open NZCH.SBP in Sbuilderx and under view click on show backround. Use the mouse wheel to set zoom level of 12-16. You need to edit the polygon to include tha autogen you want to remove. After that compile and copy the BGL to your airport directory.
 
Okay thanks, but in SB-X the 'show background' option is shaded out, and i cant click on it, so how do i fix that?

also at Christchurch the hills there are flatter than real life so using SB-X could i change the hills to be more mountainous?


Thanks

Chappy
 
Background options are under Edit | Preferences. Also, you may need the TileProxy tweak to allow downloading of sat images, available at PTSim.com

Have you added any addon mesh for NZ? There's some free stuff available IIRC?
 
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chappy said:
also at Christchurch the hills there are flatter than real life so using SB-X could i change the hills to be more mountainous?


Thanks

Chappy
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Hi Chappy, me again, I know I keep chiming in here but Chch is my home town.
The FSX mesh is quite good for NZ -- at 75 metres per pixel. It does a good job of displaying the Port Hills. You could redo the mesh, but the only elevation data freely available is SRTM, which is what MS have used anyway. One thing you can check is your mesh display setting -- look for mesh resolution under the scenery tab, and make sure its set to at least 76m.
The current mesh, however, isn't really based on 75 metre data, but only 90 metres. If you want a proper 75 metre mesh, take a look at the Red Baron freeware 75 metre mesh at Geographx.
For the ultimate NZ mesh, you can purchase a 20 metre mesh from Geographx.
 
Okay well thats kool, im doing that stuff with the background image and i'll leave the port hills alone, lol.

Im pretty sure i dont have any terrain mesh at NZCH airport already.


Thanks for your help guys.


Chappy
 
i trythe scenery which is just a polygon that the person on the other forum section gave me and the canterbury aero club buildings which were defenitly inside the polygon area didnt get deleted so wat do i do about that?
 
chappy said:
i trythe scenery which is just a polygon that the person on the other forum section gave me and the canterbury aero club buildings which were defenitly inside the polygon area didnt get deleted so wat do i do about that?
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That would be me and my exclude would only exclude autogen (trees autogen buildings ect.)

If you need to exclude generic buildings or library objects a different type of exclude is needed. These would not be called autogen though.
 
Okay, but i tried an exclusion rectangle thingy with delete library object and generic building or sumthing but wen i looked at the airport in game the buildings were still there, so wat do i need to do, or canu try to get ridd of those buildings for me?


Thanks


Chappy
 
chappy said:
Okay, but i tried an exclusion rectangle thingy with delete library object and generic building or sumthing but wen i looked at the airport in game the buildings were still there, so wat do i need to do, or canu try to get ridd of those buildings for me?

Thanks

Chappy
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Well to start with we need a screen shot from FSX showing the buildings you are interested in removing. Somehow marking them as there are about 9 or 10 buildings on the airport.

My tool of choice will be Whisplacer (http://lc0277.nerim.net/whisplacer.html) to do excludes as it allows you to look in OBX94470.bgl which is where the scenery for NZCH is stored.
 
im trying to upload the photos but they wont upload mon!!!!!

I have no problem actually knowing where the building are because in SB-X i use a background and in FSX they're exactly there.
 
chappy said:
im trying to upload the photos but they wont upload mon!!!!!

I have no problem actually knowing where the building are because in SB-X i use a background and in FSX they're exactly there.
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Tell me which numbers you are talking about.
 
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Hello, im talking about numbers 1 and 12, they are nowhere near correct and i want them deleted plz.


Thanks


Chappy
 
oh yeah, if anyone delete those buildings for me, i want to make/have made taxiways near those buildings so make sure it wont delete taxiways signs or anything, just those buildings.

Thanks

Chappy
 
chappy said:
oh yeah, if anyone delete those buildings for me, i want to make/have made taxiways near those buildings so make sure it wont delete taxiways signs or anything, just those buildings.

Thanks

Chappy
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Gone

I used Whisplacer to locate the two generic buildings and Sbuilderx to exclude them.
 
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Okay i tried it out and those buildings were gone!

Thanks heaps guys for all your help.


Chappy
 
So in SB-X at NZCH airport if i changed some of the ground to how it would be in real life, would the runway slope to adjust to how the ground is changed or would it just screw up. because at NZCH airport the runway slopes up a bit at the runway 20 end, also if i were to change that where could i find the info on really specific altitudes of the airport?


thanks


Chappy
 
I've got a problem which i kinda thought would happen, i found some buildings which kind-of look a tiny bit like the canterbury aero club buildings so i put them there using the object placement tool so that they could kinda represent the canterbury aero club buildings but in FSX once i had made that scenery XML into a bgl and put it in the scenery file for FSX the buildings dont show up. is this because there an SB-X thing deleting all generic buidlings and autogen that i place?

here's the XML i made for those buildings.
 
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chappy said:
I've got a problem which i kinda thought would happen, i found some buildings which kind-of look a tiny bit like the canterbury aero club buildings so i put them there using the object placement tool so that they could kinda represent the canterbury aero club buildings but in FSX once i had made that scenery XML into a bgl and put it in the scenery file for FSX the buildings dont show up. is this because there an SB-X thing deleting all generic buidlings and autogen that i place?

here's the XML i made for those buildings.
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No, it's the extra '.' in the filename -- a full-stop is one of the characters you really need to keep away from when naming files.

EDIT: reserved characters
 
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i've got ridd of the extra fullstop. so one extra fullstop, stop's the game loading that scenery?


thanks


Chappy
 
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