Getting some airport objects in the sim

[He who is not welcome!]

Hi all,

I'm new to X-Plane, but not to flight sims; I recently made the move from MSFS to X-Plane, after 20+ years of simming.

For me it was about; FSX taking 14-17 mins to load and be ready to fly, versus X-Plane taking 24 seconds!  ...also things like the native ability for FL CH and SPEED (pitch) modes in the APs, flight realism, but more than anything, the eventual arrival of some of the high level payware aircraft that we're starting to see.

I have a question, I was hoping the experienced X-Planers could help with;

Is there a relatively easy way I can get some 3D objects (primarily building) into some of the larger airports? ...... I'm thinking something like the "EZ Scenery" approach (for FSX), where standard library objects can be placed individually into the sim, where required.

I would be eternally grateful if anyone could tell me if this is possible, what add-ons would be required (payware or freeware), and (pushing my luck!), some links to these if possible.

Thanks so much in advance!

David R

[Goran_M]

Hi all,

I'm new to X-Plane, but not to flight sims; I recently made the move from MSFS to X-Plane, after 20+ years of simming.

For me it was about; FSX taking 14-17 mins to load and be ready to fly, versus X-Plane taking 24 seconds!  ...also things like the native ability for FL CH and SPEED (pitch) modes in the APs, flight realism, but more than anything, the eventual arrival of some of the high level payware aircraft that we're starting to see.

I have a question, I was hoping the experienced X-Planers could help with;

Is there a relatively easy way I can get some 3D objects (primarily building) into some of the larger airports? ...... I'm thinking something like the "EZ Scenery" approach (for FSX), where standard library objects can be placed individually into the sim, where required.

I would be eternally grateful if anyone could tell me if this is possible, what add-ons would be required (payware or freeware), and (pushing my luck!), some links to these if possible.

Thanks so much in advance!

David R

Your best bet and easiest method would be to just convert your FS9/FSX scenery to X Plane using FS2XPlane.

http://marginal.org.uk/x-planescenery/tools.html

It's not perfect and you may need to do some clean up of some stray objects, but these are few and far between.

[He who is not welcome!]

Thanks Goran, I'll check that out 

[MdMax]

Hi David !

When I was using FS2004, I also bought EZ-Scenery. A very easy tool.

In X-Plane, you can use these tutorials:

http://wiki.x-plane.com/Airport_Creation

http://wiki.x-plane.com/Airport_Customization

Happy building !

[UH-60 Blackhawk]

The equivalent of EZ Scenery from what I understand here is OpenSceneryX.  It has some 5k+ objects.  Overlay editor is how you place them, quite easy to use once you get the keyboard shortcuts.

[He who is not welcome!]

Thanks guys, I'll look into all of your suggestions. 

Cheers,

David.

[He who is not welcome!]

Hi all,

I tried 'FS2Xplane' scenery converter but it didn't work too well on the scenery I chose.  (Perhaps I was choosing bad examples).

Anyway, I found exactly what I was looking for! ;

I downloaded OpenSceneryX and the 'OverlayEditor' and this is working fantastically for what I wanted;  placing objects in some airports to make them a little more 3-dimensional.

David

[UH-60 Blackhawk]

Just remembered, FS9 sceneries convert much better than FSX sceneries as far as objects go.

[He who is not welcome!]

Just remembered, FS9 sceneries convert much better than FSX sceneries as far as objects go.

Cool, I have tomns of FS9 scenery but unistalled FS9 years ago, (still have FSX installed) so will be good to get some further value from my FS9 scenery  ;D

Cheers,

David