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Beginner

Hi Jos,

The first question would be what kind of scenery do you want to make? Designing an airport requires other tool than enhancing the mesh landscape for example. So to give you some starting points, we need to know what you want to make.
 
EBBY - airfield

Hi Arno,

Thanks for the reply.

I want to 'remake' my first project in FSX now: my DPM-base-airfield EBBY.

Greets,
Jos
 
Hi Jose,

For designing an airfield you probably need two things.

The first are the objects, like hangars, etc. If you want to design them yourself, so that they look exactly like the real thing, you need to use a program like GMax to do that. At the moment GMax is the only tool that can make FsX format MDL objects (an update for FSDS is being worked on).

The second part would be to design the ground layout of the airfield. In general this is done with XML style code (see the BGLComp SDK for the technical details). Tools to work with this for FsX are still partly under development, you could use SceneGenX. Or people also often use the Fs2004 AFCAD and then convert it manual to the FsX changes.
 
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