chris k

X-plane does not apply "shinyness" to runways (yet). however, I wouldnt put it past them to add that - as it's an easy addition i.e. using normal/reflection maps, which are allowed under XP10 for draped polygons. but hey; whatever. Lemme know if you need it - i'll PM you the .ZIp file - CK.

Heh here's another one. "John G. Diefenbaker International Airport xplane". Nope. "CYXE xplane" - Yup. First hit.

And you can always ask for particular airports from the community. Someone just asked for KGSP last week and greggerm threw one together. Someone asked for C99 poplar grove -I tossed it together in an hour for them. Luckily the xplane universe is full if helpful idiots like us (no offence Greg). EDIT, easIert way to search is byICAO code. Scenery developers generally post the ICAO code as part of the naming by convention. i.e. searching for "Ernest Rutherford/Lower Wakari Kakaori international Airport xplane" may not work, but "xplane NZDN" does immediately. I just had a look at the google search you tried. I would never do it like that (and expect it to actually work). Heh. Know your ICAO codes.! These are where planes fly to. Humans are just ballast and/or cargo.

That's a good team of talented aircraft builders you guys have! Wish you all the best guys! Go get 'em.

0 out of 10 for doing it and hurting 3rd party x-plane developers in the process. Just what this community needs - another reason for developers to flee.

Have you tried a google search? Ie xplane vatsim installation etc..? There's an entire multipart video tutorial as well on YouTube. I'm sure the parental controls will allow you to search for such words. Edit: searching xplane vatsim yielded this as the top find: https://sites.google.com/site/arbxplanevatsimsite/

Lights.txt file Look for the size column in the w-w light definition. Change from 0.8 to something like 2.6. HDR heavily affects the sprite size. Known bug which I've submitted to Ben and the boys. I've hacked my own lights.txt file to drastically increase the spill width and billboard sizes for the sprites. Looks much better now.

Wasn't Heinz. Was an imposter. Heinz has his own proper login/account.

And now that I have your attention: - CK.

Great KPHL scenery here: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=11513 There's a *Ton* of scenery - Laminar provides provides the X-Plane fight dynamics, rendering engine, and the base terrain. The rest of us i.e. the 3rd party developers (i.e. other than the 2 people at Laminar research, who are busy coding and adding features to the above) provide the rest of the scenery; and most of the Aircraft too. Due to LR's size, it's uneconomical for them to do the airports. They leave that to the 3rd party scenery developers (just like the MSFS world). They also contract people to make most of the the Airplanes you see. I dont know anyone who still uses the "default" airports in MSFS at all, either... so your net result is the same. You need to grab and install the scenery you want - luckily it's very easy process to add new Custom Scenery. (Far easier than Ive ever seen elsewhere) by simply putting a pre-made file into your /Custom Scenery/ directory. Poof! Done. - CK.

Correct. Or you both need public IPs on your flight sim machine, which you do not. You can try settIng up port forwarding or DMZ mode on your home router, but if you don't understand how TCP/IP works, you're not going to get very far. - CK. Note to network geeks, technically it's UDP/IP were playing with here.

Here's some screenshots of our upcoming Australian Scenery replacement project: This is from YSSY and YMML areas: Updated YSSY Terminal v1.4. Note the water and sky reflections on the tarmac. A320NEO Payware Airbus, with Jetstar Repaint Andras's AlPilotX's HD Tree Repalcements, John's SkyMAXX Additional Animals from RUScenery OpensceneryX wooden fences ISDG Replacement Fence Facades Additional Reeds and grasses from Ropeless and SimmoW, 3D object by Skyflyer New Melbourne Tower by Sethesus UrbanMAXX Australian Replacement urban textures, and CloudMAXX cloud replacements. Hope you enjoyed! - CK.

Mean this one? http://www.realscenery.com/movies/enhanced/scenery.html

They're probably XP7 or XP8 aircraft. ( not XP9 ). I know the 757 is definitely an XP8 acft if you recently acquired it from XPFW. ^^ They even say 8.6 In big bold letters on the download graphic and the plane.png last time I checked. Ryan's remedy is correct.

That's in the OSM data. Somebody drew the platform as 4 railroad lines. XP10 is simply interpreting the OSM data perfectly correctly. Whomever did that, did it wrong in the original data. Now, here's your chance to fix it.

YAY! Glad to hear you recovered some/most/all of your data and/or started it again from scratch Either way, good show. Looking fwd to it - Ck.

In PlaneMaker, I think there's a "Export ACF as OBJ".. However that may only be in PM9... dont recall seeing it (or it working) in XP10. It outputs an OBJ file; older versions push out OBJ7, which can convert to OBJ8 with Xgrinder I believe Dont quote me on any of this - havent done this in a Looooong time... but thats the general direction to take. - CK.

Hah! It's still ye olde LN-NEW too. =) Awesome. - CK.

Tenacious Tedious Tracing of Taxiways... but worth it. (Say that 10 times fast). Autogate 1.40 w/Lit Textures - All gates will be Autogate-capable. Already have replaced the "FSX" static displays with Marginal's new fully-functional DGS placards. Yep - they work. Magic HDR Lighting - Thanks to Ropeless for his initial template for how to achieve specific "magic" lighting effects w/custom HDR light defintions. (YTep - those are indeed true 3D spill lights, in addition to the built-in XP10 library lights - The combined effect of lib+custom HDR is spectacular): Can someone change the name of this thread to "CYYZ Toronto Development WIP Shots"? - Ck.

Raid-5 rules.

All those objects exists in the opensceneryx library in one form of another. The author of the plugin can do what everyone else does; and call those objects by reference in the plugin. This way they don't need to bundle in any objects, and also have access to almost a hundred objects which fit your above description (buses, GPUs, catering trucks, pushback tugs, etc, all of varying size and colour) Examples of plugins that use this trick: SeaTeaffic GroundServices Note: you have not mentioned WHOM we need to send objects to, or who is organising this. You might want to include the original URL where you found this information.

I see that even in MacOSX. Suspect it's a red herring. What Videocard ?

WELL DONE!! Glad the ortho trick worked out for you! - CK.

Shift-6 and Shift-8 also work; centres view on your airplane. Left/right rotate around the plane. - CK.