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Building an entire airport with Gmax

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erikN

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Hi!

I've been building an aiport for quite some time now with fssc, SBuilder and Gmax. I use Gmax to create the buildings etc. Recently I got in contact with a guy named Martin Brunken at Fly Tampa. I had emailed him and asked him how they were able to create such great payware scenery. He answered that they used Gmax and SCASM but not how they used aplications.

Does anyoen here have any experience of building an aiport with Gmax? How do you get the airport and the all the things in it at the right cordinates? Is there somekind of plugin to do that with gmax? And how is SCASM used. I don't wanna bother them to much at Fly Tampa so I thought I'd ask here instead.

I would really apriciate if someone could explaina bit more to me how it's done.

Regards

erikN
 
Hi Erik,

In theory you could build your entire airport in GMax, but the code produced by MakeMDL is only optimal for 3D object. So to get the best performance you would have to do quite some hand tweaking of the source.

SCASM is a language to write BGL files in, FSSC for example makes SCASM files for you. If you want to design your airport in SCASM you need to be a bit of a code-head and be familiar with the code as well. I would not advice anybody to start this way, until you are quite familiar with source code reading and tweaking (I made the Schiphol scenery of NL2000 v1 and v2 completely by hand in SCASM).

So GMax is an option, but for the entire airport I would advice a tool like SceneGenX more. If you want you can make certain ground details with ground polygons in GMax (using the zbias_ prefix to get the correct behavior). But designing your entire airport in GMax would not be my choice.

For example GMax does not support taxilines, so you would have to draw them all as polygons, does not should like easier then the other tools to me :).
 
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