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FSX Loading a flight without loading the scenery?

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Hello FS experts! :)

May I ask a question concerning the FSX's capabilities?
Is it possible somehow to load a flight into FSX without loading the scenery? I mean: no terrain, no scenery objects, no sky, only the aircraft is loaded, only the aircraft can be seen before a completely black background. Can it be done? :confused:
I would need it for making some video effects.

Thank you in advance,
Mickey
 
Hi Mickey,

I'm not sure if Fs is capable of doing this, not that any simmer would want to be seeing black, unless it's 8:30 at night, where there's no population at all. One thought is to fly at an altitude where there's no objects or ground visible. Take snap shots in daylight (without cloud) then using the same position and so on take repeated images in darkness. - use the night shots to replace the sky in the other images (eg. frame by frame animation)

or just take snap shots in daylight and then take out the background, replacing with Black and then creating your effects.. or must the aircraft move at the same time?
 
Hi,

I don't think it can be turned of completely, but FS does support quite high altitudes. So if you place the aircraft at 100.000 ft or so, I think you should not see to much of the world anymore :).
 
Thanks, guys!
Yes, I was thinking of high altitude at night, but the stars and some terrain are visible even then.
The point of my video effect would be to make camera movements all around the aircraft, so I need completely black or any other monochromatic (blue, green) background.
(I tried it with haze reducing the visibility slider; it resulted nice gray background, but the aircraft was almost invisible also.)
 
Well, have you tried placing a HUGE "box" around your aircraft, assuming that you have the source file of course?

If you make the box inside-out-out and texture it with pure black (or solid green) you'd effectively have your a/c inside a enclosed airspace.
 
And this huge box would be a scenery object (as a huge hovering hangar) and my aircraft would be flying in it? It's a good idea but I don't know how to make it.
 
Using any modeling program, Max, GMax, FSDS, or SketchUp, create a box object 2 miles square, invert the faces (turn inside out), then apply a pure black (or green) texture.

Export as a .mdl file, then use placement XML file to specify the lat/lon for wherever you want it in the sim. Load your a/c at that location and have at it!
 
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