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Landable Surfaces In FSDS2

Hi Graham,

Just been having a go at using afcad for my landable deck. No Joy with it, I've created a new airfield, and inserted the taxi links but I'm not able to adjust the altitude on the nodes.

*EDIT* I've just got it to work, the only thing now is that the water ridges up......lol - how do I work arround this?

Cheers
 
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OK, lets take this slowly.

First, you don't need to alter the altitude of the nodes. If the water has risen......LOL that suggests your deck level afcad is at least probably working....LOL

Now the difficult bit, settling the sea around the carrier back down to its proper level. You need a second afcad with an apron link as before but this time at sea level, the link should be around 1800 ft long, use a temporary runway to get the length, and around 1000 ft in width. Once you have the apron link settled, centred on your flightdeck, then delete the runway and save the afcad as a new airport with another new ICAO code, (if you have used AB01 for the flightdeck then use AB02 for the sea level one for example). Make sure it is at sea level. Now that second, sea level afcad needs to be moved to a NEW folder. Make a folder in the Addon Scenery folder and call it Top Level. Inside that folder make another new folder called scenery. Put your sea level afcad into that scenery folder. Start FS and go to the scenery library. Activate the Addon scenery/Top Level folder and keep it at the top of the list shown within FS scenery library. If you make any other carriers then put the sea level afcad into this same folder. If you install any more scenery just move it in the library below this folder, keep it at the top and you will never have sea level problems with your carriers.

I hope that is all clear, if not please come back to me and I'll help you sort it out.
 
Hi Graham,

I'll give it a try mate, Just need to get the time to do it now, I'll let you know how I get on with it;)
 
Just take your time, I know it works, I have more carriers than places to put them.....LOL
 
Thanks for your input on this matter, I've now imported one of the ships (hms ocean) into Gmax, added the attachtool script for a hard surface, removed the crashboxes, exported the .mdl and added it to FS2004
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Hi Guy's just been having a go at the attach tool in Gmax & got it sorted:)

I'm going to go down the same route as Alan McGaughey, so I was wondering if you Guy's can tell me where I can get hold of a CVA Converter:scratchch

Cheers,
 
Hi Dyl,

Glad to hear you've cracked it mate, I just sat down with a couple of tutorials and to be honest I wish I'd done it ages ago, I'm no expert though and box mapping is the only texturing I've done so far on a simple building so I don't know what's to come when I start to texture a ship :yikes:

I'd say from my limited experience that Gmax is the bees knees, but even simple box mapping on a simple building takes much longer than FSDS3 (maybe just because I'm used to it) so I'll stick with FSDS3 for turning out most stuff and use Gmax for anything that needs attachments.

Which ships are you building Dyl ?
 
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Hi Dyl,

Glad to hear you've cracked it mate, I just sat down with a couple of tutorials and to be honest I wish I'd done it ages ago, I'm no expert though and box mapping is the only texturing I've done so far on a simple building so I don't know what's to come when I start to texture a ship :yikes:

I'd say from my limited experience that Gmax is the bees knees, but even simple box mapping on a simple building takes much longer than FSDS3 (maybe just because I'm used to it) so I'll stick with FSDS3 for turning out most stuff and use Gmax for anything that needs attachments.

Which ships are you building Dyl ?
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Hi Alan,

I'm working on a fictional Carrier at the moment, just something to get me into other projects with Gmax:)

I built 70% of my carrier in FSDS3, but now I have the converter, I've imported it into gmax & got the solid deck working!!

Hi, Dyl, I got my CVA converter at: http://www.flightsim.cz/fsitem.php?act=exe&id=59&lan=1 The one I have is a couple of years old but I believe it is the latest one.
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Hi Paul,

Thanks very much for pointing me in the right direction to get the converter.

Very much appreciated;)
 
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