That's a pretty awesome tool. Do you have plans to add more taxiways, jetways, etc...?
I'd love to have an easier tool as this one to make the ortho textures. The current one is a bit complicated.
Yes, as the documentation says this is just v1.0 and little more than a beta
I think there may be little or no elevation data up there for our airports to be grounded on. I made Kirkenes and got the same result. I would really love it if we could get all of Norway with good elevation data. Norway and Italy are where I daydream about owning my own charter airline lol.
I would agree with that. My system knows nothing about the elevation, relying on auto-height, so it must be built in elevation issues.
1) no we can't simply add stereo sound. Actually it is impossible to have stereo sound sources in real live, stereo comes from your two ears, so we don't need stereo sound samples we need a sound engine that outputs stereo sound, which, as mentioned before, will require major changes to the sound engine, not as easy as playing a stereo sound.
Thanks for clarifying this. I know it doesn't provide the same eye candy impact of VR hands but I bet it would add loads to a VR experience. Does blacksmoke55 have the source data/audio I wonder? I know that's been an obstacle you've flagged up in the past.
I'll keep my fingers crossed that you're working on this on the quiet and that when we get some 3rd party aircraft they'll come with audio upgrades.
Just downloaded. I've only installed the c172 so far, but i can already say this is well worth 10 quid. Taxiing around the airfield is much more interesting now with the variation of engine noises. I see from the rtf that this is 22k mono. Stereo would be so much nicer. Does it need to have fancy 3d spatial functionality Jet-Pack (IPACS) or can a stereo be done more simply?
Also it would be great blacksmoke55 if you can do some tmd file tweaks too and incorporate new sound triggers. Flaps please in the c172.
Especially in VR with the resolution compromises we currently have, additional sound immersion would really help a lot.
BTW Maxime, keep up the good work! I love your airports.
i'll second that Maxime , France is filling with airports very nicely. You're one of the top contributors now.
http://www.fscloudport.com/phdi/p1.nsf/3d…025822f0051117f
Remember this is v1.0. The runways are there (except one which crosses others) and plenty of buildings. Apron and taxiways still to come and if you try to taxi from the runway to the terminal you will find some bumpy ground.
Once we get more people involved i could use the forum's poll feature
One interesting scenario was by TomB who tried to use FSCP to add an outlying runway to one of the airports in the Swiss DLC. This doesn't work due to the terrain flattening of FSCP conflicting with the DLC.
Please use this thread for support questions for FSCloudPort. So far there have been quite a few good points raised by people starting to use it but the feedback has been given via private conversations to me or others helping me. I have closed down a lot of conversations today and encourage people to send feedback here so that others can see it and benefit from answers given publicly. Glowing praise is of course very welcome 
but so is criticism or improvement suggestions. This is v1.0 remember and, as the documentation says, should be considered a beta. We could have kept FSCP under wraps until we had finished a lot more functionality, but we felt it was at a level that a lot of people could benefit from already, especially with smaller airports.
Please also be aware that the way FSCP is designed, the cloud is not actually storing a completed airport, but the data points of that airport. As FSCP improves the download quality of the airports, based on the same data, will improve. Runway numbers for example. Also you can always edit and add features. So in many ways all the airports are work in progress - I might add a note to each page to set expectations to that effect or give authors a second space to explain where they are up to if they wish.
Finally if you are posting requests or areas of weakness here's the major items development list we already have for future versions:
Thank you so much Phil! This has motivated me to dive deeper into the conventions for understanding the scenery creation/placement process.
That's great feedback and part of my/our hope for this application.
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tested ans very good... a little bit for Future at tool...
Taxiways:
The easiest solution would be... I think... with taxiways.
Insert a button in the task, example building button for Taxiways, there a mask with different finished flat courses, in each case 1x 30 degrees, 1x 60 degrees, 1x 90 degrees, 1x acute angle for 90 degrees around a surface or a straight course to add. As well as various straight pieces and surfaces.
The whole perhaps still in two texture options, tar and concrete surface.
The width would be variable as with the runways.
That would be a modular principle.
Or free polygon selection with Lines Button for yellow follow line.
Please no grid like in AC3D...this is much too complex and does not go well in curves. Too much work.
Unfortunately, not all buildings can be added exactly in parallel
Some no problem and some with 1-2 degrees difference.
Regards.
And many Thx for that tool
ULI
i agree that's how i see the user interface. The tricky bit is incorporating those sections of asphalt into the model. We need some modifications by Ipacs to make that possible.
Buildings rotate by +/- 1 degree so you should be able to align them.
That is amazing! How can I get an account to fiddle around a bit?
Full info on accounts in the download.
Spit40 you're my hero.
Thank you very much for this tool
Shucks. Ty.
Oh wow, this is really impressive! Excellent work.
As it grows, consider offering the airports in batched downloads grouped by their regions. One could download, say, the airports in northern France and easily install them all at once. And then when the download gets updated with new and modified airports you can just re-download and overwrite.
Thanks. Bulk download is high on the request list.
EDIT 4/4/18: If you want an account to create airports, first download the documentation then ask Spit40 via a conversation (video shows how). The support thread for fsCloudPort is here.
Here's a quick overview video - example screenshots and full documentation below
I'm looking forward to seeing what others can create
In the Downloads > Scenery section
aerofly.com/community/filebase/index.php?file/97/Just give me a few more days (i.e. less than a week) and you can download it.
coffeecup1978 - Great thanks. I stopped looking once I'd found a workaround. I haven't done much with telnet since my computer science degree ### years ago.
This is how I do it. I have this script in my AC3D folder in a TCL file in the scripts folder
proc desktopTCL {} {
set filename "C:/Users/PHDULTRA/Desktop/tcl.tcl"
source $filename
doTCL
rename doTCL ""
}
add_tools_menu_item "Desktop TCL" desktopTCL "Desktop TCL"Whenever the procedure desktopTCL is called it loads and refreshes the script in the tcl.tcl file which sits on my desktop and then runs the script doTCL which is in it. That way I can keep tcl.tcl open in notepad, tweak the code in doTCL and just call desktopTCL using the method from before to run my latest code.
TIP: Look at the code inside the tcl folder in AC3D - all menu function avaialble in AC3D seem to be defined there. Its how I worked out how to do some things. ac3dmenu.tcl is particularly good. AC3D navigation seems to be built in TCL.
I have no more documentation. It was pure trial and error and asking questions on the forum which were always answered by Andy. I only use a few commands too.
I found a way to test/develop which doesn't involve reloading ac3d. Not telnet and not interactive but pretty quick. I'll post it when i'm at my PC.
Love it! The UK has free elevation data too, but I don't know how easily contours are converted to heightmaps. I bet arnog could do it !
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownlo…cts.html#terr50