Prepar3D.cfg and scenery.cfg config files and paths.

I like a lot to get my hands dirty and manually change the config files, sometimes this is also a necessity if you want to fix certain things and interface is not accessible. Location of the before mentioned files changed in Prepar3D V2, both from FSX but also from Prepar3D v1 so it's good bookmark these paths, especially if you want to install older addons that make changes to these files:

Prepar3D v2:
scenery.cfg location in Prepar3D V2:  C:\ProgramData\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2
prepar3d.cfg location in Prepar3D V2: %APPDATA%\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2

Prepar3D v1:
scenery.cfg location in Prepar3D V1:  C:\ProgramData\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D
prepar3d.cfg location in Prepar3D V1: %APPDATA%\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D

Adding autogen automatically to FSX photoreal scenery

These days I am working on a huge project, creating a FSX photoreal scenery covering my home country. One of the problem I faced was adding autogen to the textures. As adding it manually would have taken ages I have been looking from start for some automatic solution that can do it for me.
After some long searches I have found it. Actuall it is a combination of a couple of programs, but the end result was adding autogen to over 70%  of the country, in just three days, and without too much work from my side.

So here is how I did it:

5 ground textures for scenery creation

A collection of 5 high resolution ground textures useful for flight simulator scenery creation. They and many more are provided for free by 4 Free Textures. You can download each texture in full resolution on each of the pages bellow using the download button.

Concrete wall texture

Cement with cracks texture

Gravel

Grass

Wood floor

Easy place library scenery objects in FSX

While trying to create some search and rescue scenery for Flight Simulator X, I came across this great tool for placing library scenery objects in FSX.

The free open source program is called Whisplacer and allows you to place library objects in FSX using a live preview mode (the program connects to FSX, reads the plane position and places the object visually in the sim). After user is happy with the scenery objects position the program can save a .bgl file. At the next FSX restart the scenery will appear.

I have placed for example a couple of the fsx stock oil rigs on the sea next to CYPR.

Whisplacer is a fairly small download and installation is also easy (it just needs to be extracted in a folder). My opinion is that this program  is overall easier to use than the Object placer that comes with the FSX SDK.

G.A.P. Mega Corfu X released

Greek Airports Project has released a very complete scenery for Kerkyra (Corfu) area, a busy European holiday destination. The scenery, which is based on over 2000 high res pictures of the area, models a large part of the island, the city, harbor, castles, as well as the Kapodistrias airport of Corfu (LGKR). It also features the floating sea base & helipad at at Agios Georgios bay.

More details on the official site.

Mega Airport Amsterdam for FS9 released

The new scenery for one of Europe's largest airports is available on Aerosoft online shop.

Features:
    *  All buildings and airport institutions
    * Dynamic and animated objects
    * High resolution day- and night textures
    * Photorealistic textures on buildings, vehicles, etc.
    * Docking systems
    * Fully compatible to the standard AI traffic and traffic add-ons such as MyTrafficX
    * Taxiways, apron with realistic rendered textures
    * Hundreds of taxiway- and runway signs according to original plans
    * Dynamic vehicle traffic on the airport (and surrounding) based on AESLite
    * Supports AES (Airport Enhancement Services) from version 2.06 (coming soon)
    * Manual (German / English)

Mega Airport Amsterdam Schiphol preview

Some screenshots with the Mega Airport Amsterdam Schiphol scenery still in development have been posted on the simflight.de forums. Looks very interesting but I think it is still missing some details. Looking forward to see the final product when it is completed.

Latin VFR Sao Paulo (SBGR) scenery

Latin VFR released the Sao Paulo scenery for FSX and FS2004. It also includes 400 km of photo scenery and mesh for Sao Paulo region.

More informations

How to obtain registration code for Gmax

For those of you interested in Gmax scenery design for Microsoft Flight Simulator here is a short guide on how to obtain the free registration code needed for Gmax to work.

1) Go to: http://www.turbosquid.com/registergmax/
2) Fill the form to create an account.
3) Check your email for the registration key. Please note it may take some hours untill it is sent, or it might be blocked by the spam filter so make sure you check Junk/Spam folder as well.