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Scenery Design

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Hello:
Look i'm sorry, but i'm a newbi at scenery design, i know its anoying to tell the things u have allready told to other newbies again to me, but since i'm a newbie well deal with it, lol. ok i am interested in scenery design, i want to add buildings to my home town, modify the airport, make some real grass aroung the airport fix the roads and well wateva to make things look betta, i have Fs2004, and can any one Fire me up on things please, just tell me wat i need to do most of those things, i have Maya, 3dsMax and also Gmax and many other and know how to modell texture n animate. i have noticed alot of softwares out there for scenery design but it gets confusing because there is just so much of them and just dunno which one to use. so just put me on the right track and tell me wats the most recomended SDK softwares, and also i'm in australia and well there arent many scenery files for there on the web.
Thank you all very much.
 
OK the first question is what version of FS you want to design for FS9 or FSX or both???
 
As the origional question mentions Fs2004, I will assume that as the target sim in my reply.

For 3D objects you can best use GMax. Just install the Fs2004 GMax SDK and with that gamepack you should be able to make any 3D object you want as a MDL file.

When it comes to placing your objects into the actual scenery, you will have to use XML code and BGLComp (check the BGLComp SDK). Depending on the scope of your project it might also be useful to use a tool to create the XML code for you. I use my own ObPlacer XML tool usually to do the object placement.

For modifying the airport I would advice that you use AFCAD. And if you want to add polygons to the landscape, you are best off using the mesh techniques. SBuilder is a great tool for that.
 
As the origional question mentions Fs2004, I will assume that as the target sim in my reply.
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That will teach me to read the question :o
 
lol scruffyduck :) , its all good,
thanx for the softwares u mentioned, i have all of FS9 SDK and well i thought ppl said they are hard and thats y i never looked into them and searched for other software, anyways, i'll look into them and read the documents they come with to get started. thanx Arno.
 
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