Posts by Wünsch

  • scenery-sdk Syntax needed

    Yeah this can be confusing.

    It helps if you think of a simple X , Y diagram. All coordinates and Vectors use X then Y, ( if 3d ) then Z. If you look an a map and place a X - Y diagram onto it, X = Longitude , Y = Latitude.

    I have no idea where the habit of reading Latitude first, comes from, maybe historically from the "Longitude-Problem". Up until the 18th century you could only determine the Latitude accurately, Longitude was guesswork.
    So the Aerofly always uses simple mathematic systems, and units are metric.

    Best regards
    Wünsch

  • scenery-sdk Syntax needed

    Hi,


    i am sure that i can help. In order to help i would need more information, could you provide your *.tsc file for your POI scenery?

    A screenshot of your project-folder can give me clues as well, i'd like to see your texture names and formats and the copy of the log file from the converter ( tm.log ).

    And what 3d-modelling software do you use?

    If you do not what to show this data in public, you can send me the data in a PM.

    here is a list of common mistakes.

    - flipped coordinates. make sure to use Longitude Latitude, in this sequence, for example google-maps provides the coordinates in Latitude Longitude.


    - missing textures, missing in the aerofly application, meaning conversion of some texture-files could have failed.

    if an object has missing textures, the vulcan-API kind of skips your entire POI. Check log file of aerofly, can be found in the "Aerofly FS 4" folder in your user folder.


    - Model is not in scale. It could be the case that your model is tiny in the result. Either you accidentally modeled it to small using wrong units, or the matrix of you geometry object is scaled down, for example ( scale x 0.001 , y 0.001 , y 0.001 )


    Best Regards

    Wünsch

  • Aerofly FS Airport Creation Tool (Tips & Tricks)

    The Custom Model element in the TAP file is used to add unique and distinctive buildings and objects to an airport.

    If the Xref buildings are not enough, it offers you the possibility to implement a whole scene into the airport. For example, an entire building complex like the terminals at large international airports. Simply put, the "Custom Model" combines the TAP scenery with a TGI scenery.

    KPHL Philadelphia Terminal in 3D-Software

    KPHL Philadelphia in tap.aerofly.com

    As you can see, in KPHL's TAP we only added the taxiways and the marker lines in the terminal area.


    Regards

    Wünsch

  • Aerofly FS Airport Creation Tool (Tips & Tricks)

    Here are some tips and tricks to help you using the Aerofly FS airport creation tool.

    This post will be updated from time to time and you can ask questions.


    Automatic rounding:

    - Lines and Tarmacs are automatically rounded. if the angle is shallower than 137 degrees,

    distance between points less than 25m.

    rule of thumb: for a curve of 90 degrees 4 points are enough.

    - Another focus is on the intersections of the taxiways. My recommendation here is to add 2 more points to the curves.

    The rounding algorithm always leaves the first and last segment straight, so you should always add a segment before the area to be rounded.


    Tarmac under buildings:

    - Even if it doesn't look like it on the aerial photos, it is advisable to always place a Tarmac area under a building.

    At this area the terrain is smoothed and cleaned and you get a cleaner result.

  • Aircraft Development

    Hello,

    to bring clarity into it

    we have the following Shader hints:

    standard - this is for your non-transparent surfaces

    necessary maps (color, ambient, bump / normal, reflection, specular - specular_alpha)

    glass - for glass surfaces

    necessary maps ( color - color_alpha )

    so this is kind of the BASIC, now you have to specify if it is used for OUTSIDE surfaces, or INSIDE surfaces. So the Aerofly can handle them differently. For example, it can adjust some values in reference to the Camera distance.

    and we do that with "exterior" and "interior": example "standard exterior"

    now one thing is missing here, the glass has an additional specification "canopy" and "instrument" it is kind of self explanatory,

    the canopy is used for all the windows, and instrument for all the instruments, again, this controls how the Aerofly handles those surfaces. mainly how the "environment" is reflected.

    so one example for glass would be "glass interior canopy"

    and there is a CATCH, the "interior canopy" glass needs two more maps, it need a "reflection" and a "bump / normal". the reflection is a prebaked reflection of the interior.

    so but this is basically it for the shader hints.

    Regards

    Michael

  • scenProc CreateRectangle Question

    Hello, I tried that myself and I have to say, from the scratch it is not that easy.

    Problem is, when you create a rectangle in ScenProc, it has no Attributes u can use to identify it, but that is what you will net to use it as a filter.

    One possible workflow would be,

    - first thing in your script, create the rectangle,

    - save all polygons to a file

    - import that file

    then in your main script you can load that file and be able to use the FromFile attribute to filter.

    now the rest of your script can be placed beneath that

  • Best strategy to avoid flying cultivation?

    Hello flightextrme,

    your Cultivation is basically too big, I mean from geographical size. when the Aerofly loads a cultivation and generates the meshes, it does not have all the elevation data in its memory, So cultivation objects far from your airport or cameraposition will not have the right elevation. You should tile your cultivation data into a grid with a grid size of around 10 km. each cultivation needs its own tsc file. the file can be relatiovlz blank, just the center point and the Size is needed.

  • Cannot get rid of shininess....and question on materials.

    So i just cleaned up the files, fixed some errors, now the CONVERTER should be able to convert this.

    so you just have to Convert it like an airplane, rightclick on the folder and choose the IPACS Aircraft Converter.

    an then you have a way to look at different Specular / Specular_Alpha - Settings in the Aerofly

    if it still does not work, please provide me a report.txt and a log file.

  • Cannot get rid of shininess....and question on materials.

    looks like zou problem the "_reflection" the reflection is kind of a clear coad of paint, it always hase a sharp highlight and the landscape reflection is always sharp aswell. Make that one Black (RGB 0,0,0) and the shininess of your surface is only controled by the Specular and Specular_alpha.

    the standard is kind of the main shader, and with exterior and interior you define if the polygons ,that use this material, are outside or inside view. so the aerofly can handle them a bit differently. the others are for glass interior exterior and instruments. here you got the same, the interior glass is handled differently by the aerofly, the interiorglass does not show the landscape reflections, and the glass shader have pre-set values right now, so every canopy hase the same nice look, but it is still early access, so there can by changes on the system.

  • Has anyone put in a plane successfully?

    mhhh, normaly the converter hase no problem converting when a texture file is missing, it lists it in the report file.

    and i think the Exporter from max does not care aswell, maybe if you have no material assigned to the mesh it could cause problems.


    did you link objects in 3ds max, i mean something like, that the Gear parts are linked to the Wings, because, when you export those, it is not enought to just select the parent-object, you have to select the whole chain of objects.

  • SDK - airport question

    The Ambiend Color-Channel is simply used for the Dirt-Layer we wanna put on the Textured groundsurfaces. For example the Tiremarks on the Touchdown-zone of a runway. the thing is that the shader kind of works like C = A + B, so you need both components. if you don't wanna create a extra Dirt map, you can simply use a simple texture with a uniform 50% grey color and assign it. So the shader is satisfied and works.

    The Dirt map in the Ambient-Color Channel uses the Second UV-Channel, so you can use a different Mapping for all the Dirt spots you wanna put on your runway.