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I am building my first airpost in Alaska, and I want it to be a resort/airport with roads for driving cars and boat docks and shipyards and cabins with personalized name signs at the parking sopts, but the problem is 1)I'm a beginner and never designed an airport or scenery, and 2) Alaska is very hilly.

First question, is there a good program (preferabally freeware, but payware will work also) that will flatten about a 30 X 30 mile peice of landand make the edges slope into the water? (the airport will have boat docks, by the ocean)

Secondly, What are the best scenery and airport editors to use? The problem with the scenery editors I've tried is they don't have good tutorials, and the land I want to place is at the edge of an ocean. They don't show the land, so it's hard to tell where the land ends and the ocean begins in the editor.

And finally, 3rdly, could someone dedicate some time to walk me through and help me learn how to use suggested programs, or provide me with a link to good in-depth tutorals for complete beginners?

My email is jthwalker@gmail.com. Thanks for any help you can provide.
 
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Hi,

jthwalker said:
First question, is there a good program (preferabally freeware, but payware will work also) that will flatten about a 30 X 30 mile peice of landand make the edges slope into the water? (the airport will have boat docks, by the ocean)
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Making a flatten is not that hard. You can do it with programs like Ground2k4 or SBuilder (these allow you to design other parts of the mesh scenery as well).

And if you only want to flatten, then a tool like FsFlatten is even easier to use.

jthwalker said:
Secondly, What are the best scenery and airport editors to use? The problem with the scenery editors I've tried is they don't have good tutorials, and the land I want to place is at the edge of an ocean. They don't show the land, so it's hard to tell where the land ends and the ocean begins in the editor.
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That really depends on what you want to do. At the moment I mainly use AFCAD for the airport layout and then an object placer like ObPlacer XML or Rwy12 to place the objects on the airport.

Before Fs2004 came I mainly used FSSC and GroundMaker to design my airports, but these are not (yet) updated for the new Fs2004 techniques, so I dropped them.
 
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