Hello dear IPACS team,
I have a simple question.
You produced very good free (like Utah) and payware DLCs (Like South Florida). Are you currently working on new DLCs ? I understand that money must also come in to make IPACS profitable and I think it normal to pay for good work 
You say working on priority things, it concerns more the IOS or PC version ?
Best,
Thomas
Hi Hartman,
Do you know good satellite photos for Iceland ?
Best,
Thomas
Hi Trespassers,
New York are not released for mac user on steam too
Thomas
Steam work for Mac
You can get ORBX scenery from two ways:
- From Steam directly : no problem
- From ORBX Direct app: problem: Aerofly steam version are not detected and ORBX Direct refuse to launch.
If someone who use Aerofly + ORBX Direct can submit is central.json, i can try to fix that.
Hi all,
Macbook pro 2018 user.
All work fine, graphics very nice but steam version no work with orbx central app, you cant use purchases from orbx. It is a small fix, i think orbx team will fix it.
On appstore version, all work fine but you have a graphical issue for macbook pro 2018.
Hello from Zurich 
Nice work,
Intersting to see you use sketchup to design buildings
Hello, Ryan
Very nice work, congratulations ! And thank you for your tips.
Thomas
Hello Rodeo,
You are welcome this topic is open for it, we follow the creation of a complete scene and his problems.
Thank you for your method, very nice ! I didn't know that the PNG was working 
Thomas
General aviation parking in progress
I just did a very quick test on the same way of runways decals:
- I create a 4096x4096 file in photoshop or gimp.
- I drawn some dirty trails
- I remove this dirty trails of alpha channel
- save it in .tif with alpha channel
- in my .tsc file i added a new decal layer called "tfff_dirty"
- In AC3D i created a new group called "tfff_dirty"
- I applied the dirty .tif image where i want
- saved it and export all .tgi files
- converted it into .tmb
And result:
I think I'm doing something wrong with the alpha layer because it looks white in afs2 but it still works.
Didn't we include this "dirt" layer in our king-man airport example?
Anyway it is possible to assign another texture layer for the tyre markings and oil stains, etc and as far as I know we do this for pretty much all default airports.
You speak about this file probabily:
It's a good base but it does not seem transparent and it's limited in use (corner for example)
Edit: White are caused by opacity of gradient. Dont use gradient.
Hello Spit40
Thank you ! I think you could use .TIF (or .tiff) files for transparancy. official IPACS files are in .TIF
Hello Rodeo,
No, the outside surface stop a few meter to runway. The mesh is from vogel69 Martinique free DLC. But i'm on Beta channel, I will investigate. Maybe a vertice escaped. I will inform you.
It looks nice and very well detailed so far, but you should probably try with a different set of textures for the color of the runway (and taxiways probably), seems to me way too dark!.
Cheers, Ed
Textures are temporary but runway at tfff is dark also "dirty layers" will be probabely added too.
Oh and yes, this scenery will be a freeware
I renamed this topic because I will continue the work
New screenshots. Work on taxiways lines continue.
it's a lot of working on an international airport.
I noticed a bug in cultivation far enough of airport. I don't know if it's because of my work:
You can try it yourself, it is easy
you are right, it depends on the visibility. But I don't understand, for example this picture was taken in Gatwick 3 weeks ago and the lights are ON but visibility is not bad:
Or here at Zurich:
(Video here:
visibility does not activate the lights in AFS2, this is a first way.
But the perfect solution, it would be a switch that allows to activate / deactivate these lights with, for example, 3 positions: ON / OFF / AUTO.
Hello,
Request for IPACS team.
In real world, international airports have runways ligths always enabled (day and night). In futur, it is possible to add an option into .tsc file to set ligths enabled always ?
Exemple at Gatwick
Thomas
Yes but i think this method is little less accurate. Work for a good taxiways yellow line seem huge...
For example, juste for this, I took more than 1 hour 
(and it is not precise enough I find) :
Exemple of yellows lines at TFFF:
1 meter weight for yellow line seem a little too bold(in case of TFFF, i think is 0.6/0.8m)
The IPAC team did not design its airports like that ? (poke drhotwing1 (IPACS) Jet-Pack (IPACS) )
Ok ! I have found a simple, easy and fast solution 
I will post a demo video tomorow. Teaser:
Thomas
Please, find my method to create taxiway corner here:
And result with this technic:
Hello Rodeo ,
Thank you! OK that's what I feared!
Other possibility :
- object > extrude along path but this will create one surface.
- Surface > remove surface only and creat ordered surface each four points.
- Create a 3D circle and object > boolean > knife
the purpose is always the same
We do texture for each surface of the curve ? Isn't possible to repeat it automaticaly ? I will look
Thomas
For those who want to create runway with realistic norms, this document from FAA is very cool : https://www.faa.gov/airports/south…k-reference.pdf
