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I'm new to Flight Sim X and want to make scenery. I have a few questions..

1. What software do I need?
2. How do you do it? is there a good tutorial out there?

I have the latest Graphics making software out so shouldn't be a problem there and I have programed in VB.NET and PHP before so working my around new things should not be an issue.
 
Can you give us a bit more details about the sort of scenery you want to make? For example one or more of the following or something else?

  • Terrain - that is the shape of the land (Mesh) or the way it looks (land and water class)
  • Modification of facilities at existing airports such as runways, taxiways, parking and so on
  • Adding objects to existing scenery
  • Creating your own objects to use in scenery
  • Designing airport from scratch using 3D design tools
 
scruffyduck said:
Can you give us a bit more details about the sort of scenery you want to make? For example one or more of the following or something else?

  • Terrain - that is the shape of the land (Mesh) or the way it looks (land and water class)
  • Modification of facilities at existing airports such as runways, taxiways, parking and so on
  • Adding objects to existing scenery
  • Creating your own objects to use in scenery
  • Designing airport from scratch using 3D design tools
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I'm looking at making some NZ and AU Scenery..

[*]Terrain -
Some of this, ie: Queenstown, West Auckland

[*]Modification of facilities at existing airports such as runways, taxiways, parking and so on
A little of this at some of the smaller airports around NZ.

[*]Adding objects to existing scenery
A fair bit of this. There are a lot of missing buildings around Auckland which I want to add... for example.

[*]Creating your own objects to use in scenery
Like above, some object which are not based at the airport i want to add. ie: Mt Smart Stadium.

[*]Designing airport from scratch using 3D design tools
All Airports I want to edit are already in Flight Sim X is just back to point 2.
 
For Terrain work check out SBuilderX (www.ptsim.com and go to forums. Download from AVSIM and maybe other sites) or FSX KML (Check out the forum here). Both are freeware

For airport design work there are three tools for FSX. AFX (payware from Flight1), FSX Planner or Airport Design Editor (both FSXP and ADE have forums here and both are freeware)

Placing objects can be done to some degree using several of the tools above but the main tools for in-sim object placement are Whisplacer (free) and Instant Scenery (payware from Flight1)

To build you own objects you need a 3D design tool such as Gmax (free) or FSDS (payware). There is also a relatively new tool called Instant Object Designer (I think) that allows users to create fairly simple objects from pictures. a Google (or Yahoo) search should find that. It is payware
 
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