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Scenery Design Programs, Tools, and
Tutorials
All
the Scenery Design Programs, Tools, and Tutorials listed on this
page are advertised as non-commercial 3rd party "FREEWARE" and may be
distributed freely. Download any or all the files but PLEASE
respect the rights and copyrights of the authors of these scenery
programs. To understand these rights and copyrights, it's important
to read the README files enclosed in each programs folder. THANK YOU
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The Airport 210 Scenery Design
Program comes with a great tutorial which helps
the user learn to use it's menus, tools, and options. The Airport
program includes many 3D macros and was created by The Flight Sim
Group to build sceneries for FS98 and previous FS versions. FS2000
sceneries can be created with the use of the Airport upgrade
below. |
Click Here
Airport
2.10 5.11mb |
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Airport for Windows v2.60 This
is a full version upgrade to the
above Apt210 program. Created by Tom Hiscox, it adds many new features and is
highly recommended for creating FS2000 sceneries. Please
follow the LINK to Tom's Airport Support web site. This
upgrade also comes with SCASM 2.50 with a BIG THANKS to Manfred
Moldenhauer. |
Click Here
Airport 2.60
Upgrade |
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FS Scenery Creator Created by Derek Leung, you'll find
that this program also includes an excellent
tutorial to help the user begin FS Scenery Design. Please go
to Derek's download and development web page to check it out and
download FS Scenery Creator. |
Click Here
FS Scenery
Creator |
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Ground Maker
Created by Vincent Koch, this FS
scenery designing program includes some very impressive options like
the Flatten ground polygon, and automatically adds the LoadBitmap
command for Seasonal and Night lighting ground polygons, plus more.
Please visit Vincent's web site to download and check out Ground
Maker. |
Click Here
Ground
Maker |
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M98toBGL This program, was
created by Trevor de Stigter and is used to convert FS aircraft to
static 3D Object Macros for use with the above Airport 210 or other
scenery design programs. This file includes SCASM version 2.39
scenery compiler program created by Manfred Moldenhauer.
Please follow the LINK to Trevor's M98toBGL web page which includes
the download and tutorials. |
Click Here
M98toBGL |
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Easy
Object Designer
is a little Freeware
program created by Matthias
Brückner which
allows you to create 3D objects for Microsoft Flight Simulator (98
and 2000). You can put a cube and a roof object together, choose the
textures and your house is finished. EOD can save your work as a API
object for the scenery design program Airport or as a SCM file for
ASD. Please check it out! ---> |
Click Here
EOD |
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BMP2000 is a utility created
by Martin Wright to allow the editing of the Extended-Format Bitmaps
supplied with FS2000 and CFS. Edit Images and Sub-Images in your favorite
Paint Program and Create Extended-Format Bitmaps from
ordinary Images (most formats). Supports all FS2000 bitmap types -
8/16/32 bit. Added features for creating problem-free replacement
Ground textures, for the batch-conversion of multiple images, sub image
smoothing, enhanced transparency editing and more. LINK to
Martin's web site.---> |
Click Here
BMP2000
545
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Texbmp2 is
a very small utility which comes in really handy as you can convert
FS5, FS95, and FS98 Textures to bitmap (.bmp) Format and back to
original format after you edit or alter it to your likening. Created
by Chuck Dome. |
Click
Here
Texbmp2
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"GIMP"
I haven't personally used this FREEWARE paint program but I've heard
that it's quite nice for creating FS Textures. The link I've
provided is to the ZDnet Software Library where you can check out
and download "GIMP". |
Click Here
"GIMP"
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Scenery Design White paper for FS2K and Airport
2.10 This html-document reflects the current
state of knowledge about scenery design with APT2.10 for FS2K as
collected by the authors and by messages in the scenery design forum
of flightsim.com. Authors: Martin Wright, Andreas Klisch, Ralf-J.
Triebel . . . This is a MUST
HAVE file for creating sceneries for FS2000.
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Click Here
SDW1
1.83
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| The SCENERY RESOURCES WEB SITE by
Tom Constantine includes many of the items found on this page plus
much more including TUTORIALS for Airport 210, VOD, and lots of user
3D Macros. Please visit Tom's site. |
Click Here
SCENERY RESOURCE |
| Because
of my moral values, I believe that one should NOT get GREEDY
with their fun HOBBY and charge money or compensation for
creating add-on FS files. For this reason, "DO
NOT" download or
view the below tutorials if your going to create pay ware FS
scenery add-on files using the knowledge from within
them. I will only help and support FREEWARE
intentions.
I
STRONGLY support "FREEWARE
ONLY" for FS
add-ons |
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| I created this FLATTEN SWITCH
TUTORIAL in an html file with pictures to help
you easily learn to make your FS2000 scenery area FLAT. PLEASE ENJOY
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Click Here
FLATTEN
SWITCH
263
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CREATING AN FS2000
SCENERY with the
AIRPORT SCENERY DESIGN
PROGRAM I created this tutorial in
html format to help those of you that want the beginning
basics. The steps included will help you get started with your
first Scenery design for FS2000. Of course you'll need to
download and install the Airport 2.60 upgrade
listed above, along with the Flatten
Switch tutorial also. |
Click Here
fs2ksdt.zip |
| For those that would like to
add SEASONAL AND NIGHT LIGHTING EFFECT
POLYGONS to their scenery area,
Garvin Barnicoat and I created this tutorial. With "Barney"
being the teacher and me the student, I learned to place these
effects into our sceneries enhancing the "AS REAL AS IT GETS"
effects. This tutorial covers the basics workings on an HTML
file with pictures. Enjoy ! |
Click
Here
sgpoly.zip
480 kb |
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Area16N Place the
Flatten Information directly into the scenery bgl file that FS
reads. Doing this will make it so our fellow FS users will NOT
have to enter the FS Scenery Library or have to mess with the FS
Scenery.cfg file for a flatten switch. This short and easy to
understand tutorial is created for those that are using a scenery
design program that doesn't support this option, like the Airport
scenery design program. |
Click Here
area16n.zip
100 kb |
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Taking
the little extra time to setup and add the Airport Program
Background Image can make a BIG difference when it comes time to create your
scenery area. This step by step easy to follow tutorial with
screenshot pictures will help you do just that. The background
image is simply a must for creating a great looking and detailed
scenery area. After learning to do this, you'll never want to
see that BLACK background ever
again. |
Click
Here
bgscnsht.zip
670 kb |
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Manually
Compiling A Scenery.bgl This process is needed
in times that we want to tweak the scasm source code file manually
to add options to the scenery.bgl that are not supported by the
scenery designing program. This tutorial will show you just
how super easy it is to compile with SCASM.exe using the MS DOS
Prompt directly from the hard drive. |
Click Here
mcompile.zip
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Jordan Moore's
Photo
Real 3d Object Macro Textures tutorial. A
great tutorial for anyone interested in using digital camera images
for FS 3d object macros. (this
link will take you directly to his tutorial page where you can also
download the file itself) |
Click Here
PhotoReal
Macro Polys
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Coloring
USGS Black
& White (grayscale) Aerial Images for FS Photo Real Ground Textures
This is a short version text only tutorial that explains my
experiments and learned techniques to download and edit the
grayscale aerial images for FS ground "Textured
Polygons". (this
is a FLAT ground covering texture for flat scenery areas) |
Click Here
PhotoReal
Ground Polys
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"Hand
Painting" a Textured Ground Polygon.
Once you get the hang of doing this you'll add your own techniques
to this process and regular ground polygons will be history. "Caution"
causes creativity!! |
Click Here
hpt.zip
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"LWMDraw5"
LWMDraw is developed to be an easy to use and helpful time saving tool for placing free design shapes or photoreal
default type lakes or coastal editing onto the FS2002 terrain surface generating a "ready to assemble" LWMSource
file. Also includes the ability to generate a VTPSource file for rivers, roads, lines, shorelines and terrain texture land cover
polygons with autogen properties. This new version has a new
interface that allows accurate data point cursor placement and a detailed Help menu along with Quick Start Guide for fast
placement.
Please Enjoy |
Click Here
LWMDraw5.zip
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