Thank you so much for sharing how you make scenery. I have quite the ambitious project I am about to embark on and after seeing your tutorials I will finally be able to do it. Thanks so much for sharing with us the need to know.
Sir as an avid simmer I really apreciate the time you have put into this vid and explained it in a way that a beginer such as myself can understand Please make part two in the same way Regards Mike from Scotland UK
hi gary, thanks for posting, this looks like a great tool and i'm going to play with it today. one thing i didn't get from this tutorial is how it handles none flat topography (mountains), but maybe that's in your later video, going through them all now
Do you know if this or of some other guide and software I can use for MSFS. What you have created here looks better than some the non photographic scenes in FS2020. Whilst there are guides out there, they require that I know the basics of scenery development in MSFS. What you have done is here very good.
Hi, I want to make my own custom airport, where I want to make it there are trees and I need it to be just grass like all the other airports. Whenever I put the LAT and LON for the custom airport it doesn't go to the correct place. Please help! Thanks.
I have worked with all your videos, Thanks there great. I have question that I cant seem to find an answer for. All the videos I see show airports with water within the work space. What if your scenery that you are doing has no water at all? Do you have an empty water mask?
Gary, I really appreciate these videos. I think I have followed your instructions to the letter, but no matter what I do, I can't get water to show as water. I definitely get the "hole" through the photo-scenery, but I just get trees and grass (the land class from P3D) showing through. You mentioned in your first video ("basics") that the "vector" needed to be right for water to be seen. Well, I installed ORBX Global Base and Vector, but when I look at the default scenery with the simulator running, there is no "water" (I'm using the same airport as you- KJDD) adjacent to the runway. This probably explains why grass and trees are showing through. In that same section of the video, you said that for cases when the vector didn't exist, a "water layer" could be created, and that you would show how to create it later... unless I missed it, you did not show that. Any possibility you could put together another brief tutorial to show how?
+henry richbourg you just create a water polygon to cover the hole. Then when it renders in the game there will be water in your hole. I can make a video I'd that still sounds confusing.
Hi, Gary. Thanks for the response. I actually tried that using SBX, and when I tried to compile it, SBX crashed. Obviously, I did something wrong. I created the water polygon on the bmp file (background), then created the "white layer", then created the "water layer" with the "black hole" over the water using PhotoShop. When I "selected all" in SBX and tried to compile it, the compile dialog box had both Photo Scenery and Ground Polygon (I think that's the right one) ticked, but when I compiled, SBX crashed... repeated several times, with the same result (Einstein was right!). Would it be possible to get a step-by-step from you? Also, I used Airport Design Editor and created a ground polygon over the pond, selected a water texture, went through the same steps as you (scenery, white layer, mask layer over the lake, flattened, saved the "_W" and "_B" TIFF files, went back to SBX and compiled [no issues]). Then I put both the photoscenery BGL and the ADE BGL files in the scenery directory, and it worked perfectly. So, I can "make it work", but I'd like to make the approach you're describing with SBX work as well. Sorry to get so wordy... I've really enjoyed your tutorials... sometimes you get a little "quick" but I can usually follow okay. And, since you're a law officer, may I say thank you for your service, and please stay safe... there are a lot of crazies out there.
Great tutorial! Can I do this with GIMP? I have been trying, but the sbuilderx will not compile the scenery with the water and blend layer... It does only compile the background image. Any solution? (sorry if you find mistakes in my english)
I just got my new pc and I am in the middle of a design project and i'm worried and unsure about what I need to do. Is it possible to transfer my entire project that I am working on to the new pc so I can just continue working? Or do I have to start again. Thanks
When I select all to compile, the compile window says "there is nothing to compile" although I have selected everything (and can see that the image is selected)??
For some reason I am trying to do an airport in Africa called GMAD. When I zoom the highest it goes for me is 12, after 12 all I see is a white background. Any help
I like you videos a lot. I followed you instructions, but I cannot get the water to show. Also, in default FSX there is no water there. So is there a way to add extra water there? And can you please make a tutorial on how to add extra water, please?
ssm0726 Just do a search inside the sbuilder folder for the old file and replace it. I am not home this week so I am unable to check it right now for you.
okay thanks for the quick response cause i plan on downloading your scenery making vids so i can learn but i found it inside the tiles folder located in the sbuilderx folder.
Hi! I got the opposite result. I mean, I got water when I suppose to get land! :D I'm assuming that I need to revert the order of the files. Any suggestion? Thank in advance!
I can't click show background. When I click on it it won't go what do I do ok glad I found this video it's easy and goes step by step but I followed the instructions pin point and it still will not let me show background why won't it let me.
Thank you so much for sharing how you make scenery. I have quite the ambitious project I am about to embark on and after seeing your tutorials I will finally be able to do it. Thanks so much for sharing with us the need to know.
Sir as an avid simmer I really apreciate the time you have put into this vid and explained it in a way that a beginer such as myself can understand Please make part two in the same way
Regards Mike from Scotland UK
hi gary, thanks for posting, this looks like a great tool and i'm going to play with it today. one thing i didn't get from this tutorial is how it handles none flat topography (mountains), but maybe that's in your later video, going through them all now
When you use the photo base it will overlay whatever terrain is in the spot you were working on.
Great to find it explained clearly and slowly. Looking forward to your next video.
Great tutorial. Many thanks for making this.
I’ve flown into wood county many of times from canton hackney. Great airports
Yea it's a nice small place I enjoy to visit while working.
Nice
Do you know if this or of some other guide and software I can use for MSFS. What you have created here looks better than some the non photographic scenes in FS2020. Whilst there are guides out there, they require that I know the basics of scenery development in MSFS. What you have done is here very good.
Really Awesome
Can i take a screen-shot of a particular airport from google earth??? and same tha as a bitmap and i can work on it in PS???
Hi, good tutorial. But in my scenery under the zone that i colored with black there isn't the water. How can I fix it?
Will this tool work for FS2004?
Hi, I want to make my own custom airport, where I want to make it there are trees and I need it to be just grass like all the other airports. Whenever I put the LAT and LON for the custom airport it doesn't go to the correct place. Please help! Thanks.
does this work with prepar3d too?
I have worked with all your videos, Thanks there great. I have question that I cant seem to find an answer for. All the videos I see show airports with water within the work space. What if your scenery that you are doing has no water at all? Do you have an empty water mask?
+Sibs6 honestly I am not sure. You can try it without, if it does not work just duplicate the blend layer.
What about night map
Am I the only one who cant open the link correctly because the website it goes to is under "ptsim.com" but its one of those ad sites. Help!
Gary, I really appreciate these videos. I think I have followed your instructions to the letter, but no matter what I do, I can't get water to show as water. I definitely get the "hole" through the photo-scenery, but I just get trees and grass (the land class from P3D) showing through. You mentioned in your first video ("basics") that the "vector" needed to be right for water to be seen. Well, I installed ORBX Global Base and Vector, but when I look at the default scenery with the simulator running, there is no "water" (I'm using the same airport as you- KJDD) adjacent to the runway. This probably explains why grass and trees are showing through. In that same section of the video, you said that for cases when the vector didn't exist, a "water layer" could be created, and that you would show how to create it later... unless I missed it, you did not show that. Any possibility you could put together another brief tutorial to show how?
+henry richbourg you just create a water polygon to cover the hole. Then when it renders in the game there will be water in your hole. I can make a video I'd that still sounds confusing.
Hi, Gary. Thanks for the response. I actually tried that using SBX, and when I tried to compile it, SBX crashed. Obviously, I did something wrong. I created the water polygon on the bmp file (background), then created the "white layer", then created the "water layer" with the "black hole" over the water using PhotoShop. When I "selected all" in SBX and tried to compile it, the compile dialog box had both Photo Scenery and Ground Polygon (I think that's the right one) ticked, but when I compiled, SBX crashed... repeated several times, with the same result (Einstein was right!). Would it be possible to get a step-by-step from you?
Also, I used Airport Design Editor and created a ground polygon over the pond, selected a water texture, went through the same steps as you (scenery, white layer, mask layer over the lake, flattened, saved the "_W" and "_B" TIFF files, went back to SBX and compiled [no issues]). Then I put both the photoscenery BGL and the ADE BGL files in the scenery directory, and it worked perfectly.
So, I can "make it work", but I'd like to make the approach you're describing with SBX work as well.
Sorry to get so wordy... I've really enjoyed your tutorials... sometimes you get a little "quick" but I can usually follow okay. And, since you're a law officer, may I say thank you for your service, and please stay safe... there are a lot of crazies out there.
+henry richbourg try compiling them separately from the ground map.
What makes fsx stop I have also p3D v4.3 way beyond fsx and it is not stoping what program stoping or freezing fsx
Great tutorial! Can I do this with GIMP? I have been trying, but the sbuilderx will not compile the scenery with the water and blend layer... It does only compile the background image. Any solution? (sorry if you find mistakes in my english)
Are you saving them as tif files? Also double check the file names are the exact same the only difference is the _W and _B.
Thank you. I have no idea what the problem could be. Now it works! Thank you for a great tutorial!
Every time I use it, it says, check your polys.txt file, bridge file, etc.As well as not being able to show the background.
I just got my new pc and I am in the middle of a design project and i'm worried and unsure about what I need to do. Is it possible to transfer my entire project that I am working on to the new pc so I can just continue working? Or do I have to start again. Thanks
You can transfer. Just remember to save and make a couple backups.
why the background doesn't appear?
do these tutorials work also for fs9?
When I select all to compile, the compile window says "there is nothing to compile" although I have selected everything (and can see that the image is selected)??
+Ben Stratford Try selecting one at a time and test the compile until you find the culprit.
To select things as water you want to paint in black you will gain a lot of time using the quick selection tool ;)
For some reason I am trying to do an airport in Africa called GMAD. When I zoom the highest it goes for me is 12, after 12 all I see is a white background. Any help
That is the closest that is available in that area. Try using yahoo or another source.
yeah, but I can get a much better close up using Google Earth.
Thanks for the quick answer
I like you videos a lot. I followed you instructions, but I cannot get the water to show. Also, in default FSX there is no water there. So is there a way to add extra water there? And can you please make a tutorial on how to add extra water, please?
You will have to make a water vector polygon. Then just cut out (make that area black) on the satellite base map_W texture.
Thanks!
And you can not tell how to set the path for the file in ADE and Bilder in FSX SE?
am i missing something here ? i downloaded the files you said to download but i dont know what to do with the googleserver.dll files ? :/
ssm0726 Just do a search inside the sbuilder folder for the old file and replace it. I am not home this week so I am unable to check it right now for you.
okay thanks for the quick response cause i plan on downloading your scenery making vids so i can learn but i found it inside the tiles folder located in the sbuilderx folder.
Hi! I got the opposite result. I mean, I got water when I suppose to get land! :D I'm assuming that I need to revert the order of the files. Any suggestion? Thank in advance!
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I dont think that looks very good is there any way to make it look more like an HD photo or someyhing like that??
How come you don't have any watermark on Google images?
It is there just hard to see in the video
I can't click show background. When I click on it it won't go what do I do ok glad I found this video it's easy and goes step by step but I followed the instructions pin point and it still will not let me show background why won't it let me.
Have you found it?
Daniel Tiko León no, I have the same problem too and I didn't figure it out
What if your airport doesn't have water around it
+Steven Heinrich You still make the _W tif, you just make it the exact same as your _B tiff file.
thx for the answer
Thank you SO MUCH! :D
This doesn't work with steam edition. You can't select where the game directory is. That suck for me D:
Can you not make up fake directories? Just put in the files it needs?
It wont let me show the backround
same
same :C
I can't click "show Background", what is wrong?
Have you found it?
You're probably missing SDK
unable to show bakcground, solution?
Allright, it works for me. Thanks for your help. Nice tutorial.
Could You please give me a copy of the text in your ini file? Sbuilder is stupid and does not want to give me one.
+Victor Carlsson I no longer have those files, have changed computers and also cleaned up old files. Sorry
my husband is hot! 😍
+EHAYES hahaha , yea I bet I just get you all fired up with this video.....lol