Posts by svdm

    Hi,Please find attached some additional configuration details :

    Computer : mac mini M2 pro 16 GB running Sequoia 15.1 512 Gb disk (so standard configuration 10 core CPU, 16 core GPU)

    Aerofly FS4 from steams Build ID 162744990 (4.6.1.1 2024-10-31)

    Graphics settings shown below. It seems to be mainly an issue with the trees, buildings are OK. Also near the horizon you see a lot of pixels.

    Hi all,

    I recently switched from my old imac 27" late 2013 to a new mac mini M2 pro. Unfortunately, the performance went backwards...
    My older imac was using a geforce graphic card and now I have to rely on the apple M2 gpu using Vulkan.

    I am getting the following bad image with a lot of white pixels... Any idea how to resolve this?

    Running Sequoia 15.1

    Thanks for your help.

    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,

    Dear Wünsch,

    Every sign is one object. Of course I have multiple sign objects in the scene. As suggested I have combined all individual objects (250 pcs) to one big combined TGI file all nicely leveled at ground and added it to the tap file. I noticed some buildings where partly hidden in the ground as well until I added a road (tarmac) in front of it..... The complete scene used to work perfect in AF FS2 added as auto-leveled individual objects.

    I have added the sign object as an example. (just remove the txt extension)

    The complete scene unfortunately is too big to be uploaded.

    Is there asle a reason why the new FS4 converter complains about non square textures? eg. 1024 x 512.

    I hope this helps.

    Rgds

    Stefan

    HI ipacs team,

    I managed to get my custom objects of the EBUL airport as one big block in the scene however certain objects are flying really high in the sky.

    When I check these items the are made at ground level.

    As they are road signs, they are located next to the runway in the grass. That might be the reason why the auto height calculation might get confused. Anything I can do about this on my side? On the other hand the trees seem to be at correct height....

    I have added the modified tap file. Other files are too big :(

    Thanks for any feedback!

    Stefan

    Hi ipacs team,

    I managed to add a first custom object to the scene however the orientation seems to be off.

    In the FS2 tsc file you could specify 'orientation':

    Example :

    <[tmsimulator_scenery_object][element][1]

    <[string8][type][object]>

    <[string8][geometry][EBUL-Loods_1-2]>

    <[vector3_float64][position][3.4585207332 51.1379625391 0]>

    <[float64][orientation][-142.489357]>

    <[int32][autoheight_override][-1]>

    >

    So I added the following to the tap file using 'direction' I found in the helipad description.

    <[tm_airport_pd_custom_model][element][1]

    <[string8][type][object]>

    <[string8][name][EBUL-Loods_1-2]>

    <[vector2_float64][position][3.4585207332 51.1379625391]>

    <[float64][direction][-142.489357]>

    <[string8][coordinate_system][lonlat]>

    >

    Is this the correct way?

    Is the sequence of lines of any importance?

    Apparently, the new FS4 converter has problems with converting non-square textures where as the FS2 converter didn't complain.


    I also noticed the converter generates only one (big) tmb file with a the name of the airport. Correct?

    Thanks for your help.

    ApfelFlieger : I got the converter perfectly running using parallel Windows 10 virtualisation. Unfortunately it converts to FS 4 (FS2 is the only version that runs on my iMac late 2013 ... I tried :( )


    Update: I now succeeded in getting FS 4 perfectly running on my old mac using native Windows 10 on an external fast SSD. (Bootcamp could work as well)

    I am surprised to see how good it runs on a rather 'old' iMac ! No I can continue with airport creations and check them.

    Dear Ipac team,


    I have just took my first steps with this new tool (EBUL Ursel) and I can tell you, it is a big step forwards compared to the ac3d approach!

    Adding tarmac and lines is quite easy and fast. This tool, once finished, could make a huge difference to the Aerofly community.

    Thanks for looking into this!


    I am familiar with both Xplane and Aerofly and I strongly prefer to fly Aerofly. The ground scenes are much more realistic and it flies smooth 8o

    On te other hand Xplane has a very good finished airport modelling tool called WED (World editor) I would strongly advise to take a look at it.

    Many suggestions given above are all available in this tool. Just to name one :

    1)object positioning.

    - Objects are selected from libraries which you an easily create yourself. Just a make a folder structure and make a library.txt with the content.

    - Objects are shown with the real image (top view) on scale.

    - Once selected you can move it or easily rotate it by pulling the arrow.

    2) Adding lines.

    You typically add a taxi line on top of a tarmac surface which makes it indeed very hard to select.

    Ideally you should be able to select the Line type before you start drawing. Now you have to edit each line (with the difficult selection)

    What about the lights along the runway, taxi lines etc?

    3) It would be handy to get a list/folder structure at the side with all objects, surfaces you have created. Just clicking them could make it 'selected'

    It could allow changing the properties such as name, coordinates, rotation ...

    4) Sometimes it would be very handy to import ortho photo's with more details (eg.geotiff) This would make it much easier to draw.

    (see my second airport EBBL)

    I am looking forwards to see my creation (after conversion) in the real simulator.

    Good to see progress. I hope to see many more nice airports now. :P

    Regards,

    Stefan

    Lately, I have started to cultivate some Belgian airports in FS2. I was looking for some realistic buildings and found many nice ones made for X-plane... This made me start using Worldeditor which is really the best ‘ all in one’ tool I have seen!

    I managed to use it for adding buildings in FS2 with ModelconvertX (MCX) as intermediated step.

    WED (worldeditor) exports as .dsf which Modelconvert X reads and exports a complete FS2 scenery file with the objects and textures and .tsc file. The later you can edit as you wish as it is a text file.

    It would be great and of great benefit for IPAC to make a similar editor. Such a petty we have to keep on working with small SDK tools , script files etc.

    I prefer to import the .dsf file using the object importer of MCX as it will export all individual objects in stead of one big object holding all buildings. This can cause issues with the position height in the scene...

    A petty, though you can’t use WED to create the runways as this cannot be imported in FS2.

    - objects are positioned on a googlemaps alike background, no need to generate it yourself

    - easy access to objects in library with 3d preview

    - objects are postioned with real top view render and not a simple block. So you see immediately the right position

    - easy to rotate and move.

    - a lot of additional tools ( unfortunately not for use with FS2)

    Note: you need to have x-plane installed (eg. demo version) to make use of WED. Also ask permission to the owner of the objects if you can share them.

    Hi, any idea when we can expect an update on mac (app store) of aerofly FS2 similar to the steam version? It includes eg. the EC135 helicopter and others...

    It seems we are lacking behind here :(

    Cheers,

    Stefan