Ahhhh... developing scenery with MSFS 2020 SDK still in beta! Haha! I do hope M$/Asobo improves the useful but buggy terraform tool and also makes it more versatile by adding tapers/slopes/multi-elevation-features/etc. My gf and I just visited Krabi and Phuket in southern Thailand and I would like to tweak FS2020 to match some of the many unique shaped rocky karst islands in the area that mostly appear as featureless lumps in the sim. Anyway, please keep 'em coming F.T. as you're helping so many of us and I appreciate it! 👍😁👍 Gotta admit I've watched more helpful tutorials, gotten more advice and helpful tweaks from YOU in just the past little while than I ever got for the nearly 1 year I spent struggling to develop scenery for the X-Plane platform in 2018 with the crappy scenery creation tools they had that were also chaotically scattered all over the place. In spite of the many brick walls I hit and only hearing crickets in reply to my many requests for help in their forums, emails, and on YT channels, I'm proud to say that my 'handcrafted' custom 3D-modeled XP scenery turned out fantastic. Sadly it simply proved to be too frustrating and I finally threw in the towel. Thankfully, the MSFS community is nothing like the arrogant unhelpful chumps at brand X and I'm now enjoying creating scenery again... so big thanks to you and the many helpful folks here on YT!😁😄😊 As always, Cheers from Thailand young fella! :)
I'm so glad these videos are helping people create the scenery that they really want to see in the game. I think the SDK still has a long way to go before we can create really finely tuned sceneries. It's pretty good already but there's so much more I wish it would do. The Flight Sim 2020 community so far has been great, flightsim.to is a great resource for free add-ons, reddit.com/r/FS2020Creation/ is full of really helpful folks too and there are some other great tutorial videos on youtube. It's great being part of such a welcoming and warm community!
In the new SDK if you create a rectangle and use that for terraforming then go into the Profile Editor you can set various points If you look for MSFS _custom_airports_v0.2 by Lyriax4391 he has a PDF for a tutorial
Hi and thanks for your channel, I find it a must have for developing or designing my own airports. Could you find the time to do a tutorial on adding roads and getting road vehicles to travel on them please. I watched your video about placing bridges in the correct place but it didnt answer my needs for roads. Hoping you can do this for us. Much appreciated and thanks again. Regards Brian
it would be nice if you could change the color gradient of the runway texture to match the actual one. The overlaid runways look like an opaque surface over the original texture which looks kind of fake. matching the color would help a lot.
I love your tutorials. Thank you! Would you be able to do one using the parallax interior option (looking through windows at a fake 3D room for example)
I have tried this loads of times and it just doesn't work for me. I'm trying to remove the 4 storey building on approach to rnwy 24 at EGTB. It doesn't exist in real life. Any help appreciated. SDK V 0.12.0.0
Hello there will you able to help it seems that the latest SDK is buggy, it seems out of sink with the mouse and the menu inside the flight Sim can you or someone else able to help?
Is there any way to remove the tall rocks that are all around the airport of my hometown of Augusta, Ga. these rocks don't exist and they are everywhere around the airport KDNL. I have tried to insert the Google map scenery according to your tutorial but have been unsuccessful. These rocks are also all around the Key West airport KEYW.
Select the glass msfs sdk material and in albedo, upload a grey PNG image. The albedo here works as a mask and grey means it will be half transparent. But I noticed that it has to be a PNG for it to work even tho the PNG itself doesn't have to have any transparency in it (I could be doing something wrong here too but this is how it worked for me). After that just upload a dark roughness map for the roughness to give the glass some reflections. But the msfs sdk material has only one slot for AO, Roughness, Metalness and uses the different RGB channels for each. So a regular dark image will also end up being used as a dark AO and that will mess up the look. Make sure you combine a DARK Roughness map with a WHITE AO map in the GREEN and RED channels respectively. I do this using Quixel Mixer which is free.
I just use the glass material in MSFS options, play with the alpha settings. Or use the standard material and change type to render parameters alpha mode to blend, under that sliders for material properties, play with alpha cutoff number. In area called color multipliers, you can tint the glass with albedo other than white, just a little colour is required, play with alpha multiplier number.
This may be a dumb question but how do I put my CGL package into my main package. They're already in the same project but they're different packages and so when I build, it creates two different folders to put in the community folder. I want just one folder
what is the CGL package for? aerial photos? I had a similar issue where I wanted scenery BGL files and a mission file for a bush trip in the same package but it just wouldn't build that way and wanted it as two separate packages.
@@FlyingTheston Yes its for aerial photos. I have that package in the same project with my BGL package using the method you showed in one of your previous videos. I tried creating a new CGL within my main package and then placing the aerial images into the new created folders but it doesn't seem to work. I don't know what I'm missing :(
Awesome tutorial as always. Its possibile to show US how to place a costom marking signs on the ground. I need to place a custom arrows on the apron. Greetings!!
I'm not very familiar with SDK but I've got multiple taxiway lights at my home airport that are way off and would like to remove them if it wouldn't be too big of a job. Would the method that you just showed work for this or is there an easier way?
To remove taxiway lights you're better off using the airport object and putting it over the airport then just disabling the taxiway lights via the option, watch my earlier videos on airports for more details
@@FlyingTheston I've tried a few different things but getting rid of unwanted taxiway lights is obviously beyond my very limited abilities in SDK. At this point I feel accomplished in being able to create a polygon :) ....I do enjoy your tutorials so maybe someday all of this will make more sense.
@@FlyingTheston I truly appreciate your help, but being so new to SDK I'll admit you make it look very easy while for me it seems very complicated. If you could do a short video specifically demonstrating the step by step to removing unwanted taxiway lights I might be able to follow that. I'd like to correct this at my home airport because it is annoying and distracts from the realism but I also realize that Asobo might never get around to fixing it. It doesn't affect flight which is the main thing for me. Again, I want to thank you very much for everything you're doing to make this sim better.
Please make a video teaching how to put a 3D building of the “DroneDeploy 3D mapping “into flight simulator!!!! I made a 3D model of my house using drone deploy and I don’t know how to put in the game ...
hello, could you do a tutorial on how to edit textures from google maps download from google earth decoder tool of reddit? thank you so much for your amazing work.
hah yeah, St Just. I need to pop in and clean up that airport at some point it seems to have taxiway signs everywhere! I enjoy the flight from perranporth down to st just
I tried following this tutorial to remove a light beacon tower at an airport that isn't really there. I have failed to do so in 2 attempts. Driving me NUTS!
@@FlyingTheston, yes, I know that. It seems the problem is that I didn't know how to build the package. I watched your first video on this morning, (it always helps to go back to the beginning, lol) and was well on my way to success, I think. I was applying an exclusion rectangle and moved the Scenery Editor panel out of the way when it disappeared sort of and my screen got a transparent blue color over the image. I managed to get the Scenery Panel back, but it looks completely different and it won't let me do anything. I'd like to send you a screenshot of what it looks like in hopes you can help me out. If you're willing to help I will need your email address. Thanks for the help you have provided so far.
Okay, I deleted the SDK and, after much frustration, I was able to download the latest version. I tried installing it and got this message, "Microsoft Flight Simulator SDK 0.7.1.0 Setup Wizard ended prematurely because of an error. Your system has not been modified. to install this program at a later time, run Setup Wizard again. Click the Finish button to exit Setup Wizard". If you could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.
@@FlyingTheston, I finally got it installed with the help of someone on the FSDDevelopers SDK Forum. Hope I'll be able to learn how to do the things you do in the sim. Cheers!
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Using polgons to do this was tricky as sometimes it woudnt appear, good to know they fixed this at last!
Sweet, keep these comming. Thanks to you I was able to modify an airfield and will continue to learn from you, cheers!
Ahhhh... developing scenery with MSFS 2020 SDK still in beta! Haha! I do hope M$/Asobo improves the useful but buggy terraform tool and also makes it more versatile by adding tapers/slopes/multi-elevation-features/etc. My gf and I just visited Krabi and Phuket in southern Thailand and I would like to tweak FS2020 to match some of the many unique shaped rocky karst islands in the area that mostly appear as featureless lumps in the sim.
Anyway, please keep 'em coming F.T. as you're helping so many of us and I appreciate it! 👍😁👍 Gotta admit I've watched more helpful tutorials, gotten more advice and helpful tweaks from YOU in just the past little while than I ever got for the nearly 1 year I spent struggling to develop scenery for the X-Plane platform in 2018 with the crappy scenery creation tools they had that were also chaotically scattered all over the place. In spite of the many brick walls I hit and only hearing crickets in reply to my many requests for help in their forums, emails, and on YT channels, I'm proud to say that my 'handcrafted' custom 3D-modeled XP scenery turned out fantastic. Sadly it simply proved to be too frustrating and I finally threw in the towel. Thankfully, the MSFS community is nothing like the arrogant unhelpful chumps at brand X and I'm now enjoying creating scenery again... so big thanks to you and the many helpful folks here on YT!😁😄😊
As always, Cheers from Thailand young fella! :)
I'm so glad these videos are helping people create the scenery that they really want to see in the game. I think the SDK still has a long way to go before we can create really finely tuned sceneries. It's pretty good already but there's so much more I wish it would do.
The Flight Sim 2020 community so far has been great, flightsim.to is a great resource for free add-ons, reddit.com/r/FS2020Creation/ is full of really helpful folks too and there are some other great tutorial videos on youtube.
It's great being part of such a welcoming and warm community!
In the new SDK if you create a rectangle and use that for terraforming then go into the Profile Editor you can set various points
If you look for MSFS _custom_airports_v0.2 by Lyriax4391 he has a PDF for a tutorial
@@chkydiscus Excellent thanks!
Sweet, I have been waiting for this fix. I can finally complete my newest airport build 😁
Hi and thanks for your channel, I find it a must have for developing or designing my own airports. Could you find the time to do a tutorial on adding roads and getting road vehicles to travel on them please. I watched your video about placing bridges in the correct place but it didnt answer my needs for roads. Hoping you can do this for us. Much appreciated and thanks again. Regards Brian
Thank you very match for your lessons! Do you know how to remove the default roads that are located above my "aerial image" map?
Thank you for such a helpful tutorials! I have one question, how can I remove an unwanted area of the default airport to bing map?
it would be nice if you could change the color gradient of the runway texture to match the actual one. The overlaid runways look like an opaque surface over the original texture which looks kind of fake. matching the color would help a lot.
you can use colour correction and transparency effects on the runway materials iirc
I love your tutorials. Thank you! Would you be able to do one using the parallax interior option (looking through windows at a fake 3D room for example)
I have tried this loads of times and it just doesn't work for me. I'm trying to remove the 4 storey building on approach to rnwy 24 at EGTB. It doesn't exist in real life. Any help appreciated. SDK V 0.12.0.0
Hello there will you able to help it seems that the latest SDK is buggy, it seems out of sink with the mouse and the menu inside the flight Sim can you or someone else able to help?
Is there any way to remove the tall rocks that are all around the airport of my hometown of Augusta, Ga. these rocks don't exist and they are everywhere around the airport KDNL. I have tried to insert the Google map scenery according to your tutorial but have been unsuccessful. These rocks are also all around the Key West airport KEYW.
Hello, thanks for the cool video tutorial, I have a question is it possible to get plain coordinates and speed from the simulator?
You can using the SimConnect tool, I believe it has a C# plugin. I may do tutorials on this in the future but it's fairly advanced stuff
@@FlyingTheston Thank you
Will painted runways from satellite data be overwritten by the rectangles?
Not sure where to ask, but could you make a tutorial on how to get glass or window transparency to work via blender ?
if i figure out how to do it then i will
Select the glass msfs sdk material and in albedo, upload a grey PNG image. The albedo here works as a mask and grey means it will be half transparent. But I noticed that it has to be a PNG for it to work even tho the PNG itself doesn't have to have any transparency in it (I could be doing something wrong here too but this is how it worked for me). After that just upload a dark roughness map for the roughness to give the glass some reflections. But the msfs sdk material has only one slot for AO, Roughness, Metalness and uses the different RGB channels for each. So a regular dark image will also end up being used as a dark AO and that will mess up the look. Make sure you combine a DARK Roughness map with a WHITE AO map in the GREEN and RED channels respectively. I do this using Quixel Mixer which is free.
I just use the glass material in MSFS options, play with the alpha settings. Or use the standard material and change type to render parameters alpha mode to blend, under that sliders for material properties, play with alpha cutoff number. In area called color multipliers, you can tint the glass with albedo other than white, just a little colour is required, play with alpha multiplier number.
Do you know how can we remove the default parking slots?
you have to create a custom airport area
This may be a dumb question but how do I put my CGL package into my main package. They're already in the same project but they're different packages and so when I build, it creates two different folders to put in the community folder. I want just one folder
what is the CGL package for? aerial photos? I had a similar issue where I wanted scenery BGL files and a mission file for a bush trip in the same package but it just wouldn't build that way and wanted it as two separate packages.
@@FlyingTheston Yes its for aerial photos. I have that package in the same project with my BGL package using the method you showed in one of your previous videos. I tried creating a new CGL within my main package and then placing the aerial images into the new created folders but it doesn't seem to work. I don't know what I'm missing :(
Very cool and simple when you know how!
and when the SDK actually does what it's supposed to :D
Awesome tutorial as always. Its possibile to show US how to place a costom marking signs on the ground. I need to place a custom arrows on the apron. Greetings!!
@BennyBoy444 actually did a good video on this ua-cam.com/video/yI5iZCrkjVc/v-deo.html
@@FlyingTheston WOW! Did I miss that?! 🤫🤭😂 Thank you and wish you all the best!
Thank you, cpt!
And is there a way to exclude the default taxiways?
Yes, you need to set up an airport zone and then you can just tick exclude taxiways on the options for it.
@@FlyingTheston Thanks dude! Visit our channel some day... 😁
@@cmtepena subbed!
I'm not very familiar with SDK but I've got multiple taxiway lights at my home airport that are way off and would like to remove them if it wouldn't be too big of a job. Would the method that you just showed work for this or is there an easier way?
To remove taxiway lights you're better off using the airport object and putting it over the airport then just disabling the taxiway lights via the option, watch my earlier videos on airports for more details
@@FlyingTheston Thank you
@@FlyingTheston I've tried a few different things but getting rid of unwanted taxiway lights is obviously beyond my very limited abilities in SDK. At this point I feel accomplished in being able to create a polygon :) ....I do enjoy your tutorials so maybe someday all of this will make more sense.
@@stevekrubeck2861 have you watched this video? ua-cam.com/video/BN49Hxfl4gg/v-deo.html
@@FlyingTheston I truly appreciate your help, but being so new to SDK I'll admit you make it look very easy while for me it seems very complicated. If you could do a short video specifically demonstrating the step by step to removing unwanted taxiway lights I might be able to follow that. I'd like to correct this at my home airport because it is annoying and distracts from the realism but I also realize that Asobo might never get around to fixing it. It doesn't affect flight which is the main thing for me. Again, I want to thank you very much for everything you're doing to make this sim better.
Can This exclude thé auto generated buildings ?
You just need to use the polygon tool to do that, look at my other tutorial videos for more details
@@FlyingTheston ok thanks
Please make a video teaching how to put a 3D building of the “DroneDeploy 3D mapping “into flight simulator!!!! I made a 3D model of my house using drone deploy and I don’t know how to put in the game ...
if you can get it into blender then you can just follow the tutorials for bringing in custom scenery
This is relevant to my interests
work on the MMR
Anybody knows how to remove default powerlines? Didnt find a way how to do that.
I don't think you can at the moment, same as you can't remove wind turbines
@@FlyingTheston any updates on this ?
hello, could you do a tutorial on how to edit textures from google maps download from google earth decoder tool of reddit? thank you so much for your amazing work.
even after baking the textures in blender then the textures are still a mess
Land's End Airport?
hah yeah, St Just. I need to pop in and clean up that airport at some point it seems to have taxiway signs everywhere! I enjoy the flight from perranporth down to st just
I tried following this tutorial to remove a light beacon tower at an airport that isn't really there. I have failed to do so in 2 attempts. Driving me NUTS!
They only disappear when you actually put the built package into the community directory, they still show up in the SDK scenery editor mode.
@@FlyingTheston, yes, I know that. It seems the problem is that I didn't know how to build the package. I watched your first video on this morning, (it always helps to go back to the beginning, lol) and was well on my way to success, I think. I was applying an exclusion rectangle and moved the Scenery Editor panel out of the way when it disappeared sort of and my screen got a transparent blue color over the image. I managed to get the Scenery Panel back, but it looks completely different and it won't let me do anything. I'd like to send you a screenshot of what it looks like in hopes you can help me out. If you're willing to help I will need your email address. Thanks for the help you have provided so far.
Okay, I deleted the SDK and, after much frustration, I was able to download the latest version. I tried installing it and got this message, "Microsoft Flight Simulator SDK 0.7.1.0 Setup Wizard ended prematurely because of an error. Your system has not been modified. to install this program at a later time, run Setup Wizard again. Click the Finish button to exit Setup Wizard".
If you could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.
@@avfuels This is a question you should be posting to Asobo on their support desk flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
@@FlyingTheston, I finally got it installed with the help of someone on the FSDDevelopers SDK Forum. Hope I'll be able to learn how to do the things you do in the sim. Cheers!
If you compile all this sdk info into a book, ill tell u to shut up and take all my money