Aerofly FS airport creation tool ( early alpha version, work in progress )

The converter to aerofly fs 4 doesn't work for me. It says that it converted, but it doesn't show up in the folder.

Quote from Toorop

Hello,

I think making the airport creation tool available would help greatly AFS4 to grow...

A problem with the actual airports is that many some grass airfiels have concrete runways (like LFET : look at screenshots, the good one is with HD textures and airport disabled by renaming .wad file) : would be nice to be able to correct it...

Like LFET looks in streaming version :

How it should look (airport disabled) :

Some others have very too large concrete runways (like LFPL). Would be necessary to be able to correct it too

For both of them being able to modify them is quite mandatory

Kind regards

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I wish the Robin DR400 can make its return to mobile with FS Global!

Ok, I got it working, but what is a good option for a glideslope?

I have noticed, that in the ACT there are some x-ref models missing, which are in Aerofly FS 4.

Could they be added to the Airport-Creation-Tool, so there are more possiblities and ways to enhance the airport. (Especially the staticpeoples for smaller GA airfields) Otherwise these xref models have to be changed painfully slow in the tap-file.

Oops, then I remember that I still have to complete my summary as an open to-do.😩

Nevertheless, here is a further addition:
- Helipads are also still missing

Hi,

I made a new airport with the modeling tool but suddenly I have issues with the elevation Certain tarmac surfaces are hidden.

Airport EBBL. I tried already to manually increase the elevation to 61 (meter) but the problem remains.

Thx for your feedback!

Maybe you need to change the "levels" from some of your tarmac surfaces.

Just increase it by 1 or 2. The levels define if one surface is on top of another surface. So 1 ist the lowest and then you can increase it.

Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately it doesn't help It really seems to be the elevation that gets wrong at a certain point.

Hi svdm

Just try disabling temporarily like this, __elevation in Steam AFS4 base, and see if there is any change?

Oh, I think I have seen this Problem with my airport "Zepfenhahn" (EDSZ). Yeah, no idea how to fix that. Maybe only with a custom elevations-file.

Hmmm, in the meantime I was able to retrieve a tap file form December 30th which was still working perfect (with same elevation data)
I mainly updated the entrance of the airbase near the sport court.....

Thanks for your support !

Quote from Small Planes

Please do not forget about the elevation data of Seo de Urgel. (Already reported in Af2023.)
aerofly.com/community/index.php?attachment/39162/

LSGG is also tilted now on its eastern side.

Quote from svdm

Hi,

I made a new airport with the modeling tool but suddenly I have issues with the elevation Certain tarmac surfaces are hidden.

Airport EBBL. I tried already to manually increase the elevation to 61 (meter) but the problem remains.

Thx for your feedback!

There is the new update "Aerofly FS 4 Version 4.03.03.04 (20240105)". Everything here seems to be working fine for me at EBBL (20240106).

Supplement to EBBL:

I noticed that around the level of the thresholds RW05L and RW23R, the original small technology houses are imported globally as buildings by FS4.

To remedy this, I suggest positioning a small TARMAC with a technology house at each of these locations.

Dear Michael,

Thanks for informing me on the FS4 update. I will check. Did you use the (bad) tap file I attached in previous post? I reverted the live website already to the working version of end dec 23.

Thanks

I downloaded the file directly from ACT on January 6th, 2024 at 10:20 p.m.

Ok Michael,

That explains why it works. I had already 'downgraded' the version to the working December one. It would be good though to know what exactly
made it bad. Perhaps somebody from the FS4 could take a look to the previous posted TAP file include in the zip of my previous post.

It contains both a working version and a bad one that shows a lot of big (too big) triangles in the texture. Changing elevation or airport height to 61 meters makes no difference.

Regards,

Quote from svdm

It really seems to be the elevation that gets wrong at a certain point.

Due to the fact that the terrain in Switzerland is very hilly around the small airfields, I often have this issue.

In these cases, I place as a workaround an additional dummy tarmacs defined as "holes" in the runway extension or at the edge of the problem areas to either flatten or raise the terrain there.

It may then look like this (violet):

It's a bit a kind of a try and error workaround and takes some experience until the issue is fixed, but the only way that currently works.

It is also important to ensure that the dummy hole taramcs are not placed in the forests, otherwise the trees will be missing.

Great idea - why didn't I think of it before?