Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-09 Thread Heiko Schulz
O.k. I have it - "force layer order" and, that's funny: the big texture layer have to be on the smaller one! Like that: [x] mixcrop - a laaarge polygon, bigger than urban [x] urban [x] drycrop - a laaarge polygon, bigger than urban [x] road Funny, but it works! Regards HHS --- Vadym Kukhtin

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-09 Thread Heiko Schulz
O.k. I have it - "force layer order" and, that's funny: the big texture layer have to be on the smaller one! Like that: [x] mixcrop - a laaarge polygon, bigger than urban [x] urban [x] drycrop - a laaarge polygon, bigger than urban [x] road Funny, but it works! Regards HHS --- Vadym Kukhtin

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-09 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Vadym Kukhtin : > 2007/11/9, Heiko Schulz : > > > > I don't understand, why the order don't > > work. > > > > May be, checkbox 'force layer order" or smth can help? > It is in LandcoverDB tile, as I remember. > Sorry, cant check it now. > > Hi Frederick, glad to see you here. > May be you

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-09 Thread Vadym Kukhtin
2007/11/9, Heiko Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I don't understand, why the order don't > work. > May be, checkbox 'force layer order" or smth can help? It is in LandcoverDB tile, as I remember. Sorry, cant check it now. Hi Frederick, glad to see you here. May be you as creator of this cool tool

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-09 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, That's the problem: My thought was too, that mixcrop is bigger than urban, so I did like your suggestion. But it don't work, I checkec .fgsd.rc too, and this was alright. I don't understand, why the order don't work. Regards HHS --- Vadym Kukhtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > 2007/11/9, Hei

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-09 Thread Curtis Olson
On Nov 9, 2007 9:21 AM, Frederic Bouvier <> wrote: > > Is there still any work on FGSD? I think it could be a > > wonderful alternative to terragear, platform > > independant and userfriendly when removing the bugs... > > I definitively need help for that. FGSD falls on numerical errors in the > u

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-09 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Heiko Schulz : > I give up, first I thought I will write something for > the wiki, but I coulden't modify the tile properly. It > seems to me, that it is not possible. If you want to write some docs, please consider to improve this page : http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.p

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-09 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Heiko Schulz : > Hi, > > Thanks,it helps a little bit, but if I uncheck > mixedcroppastures I only get the default textures with > the urban, and so on. > If I check mixedcroppastures, everything has the > mixedcroppastures textures... I was talking about moving layers up and down, not ab

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-09 Thread Vadym Kukhtin
2007/11/9, Heiko Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > but if I uncheck > mixedcroppastures I only get the default textures with > the urban, and so on. > If I check mixedcroppastures, everything has the > mixedcroppastures textures... > > It is not logical! Why? look from top at this: [ ] mixcrop -

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-09 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, Thanks,it helps a little bit, but if I uncheck mixedcroppastures I only get the default textures with the urban, and so on. If I check mixedcroppastures, everything has the mixedcroppastures textures... It is not logical! I give up, first I thought I will write something for the wiki, but I c

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-09 Thread Vadym Kukhtin
2007/11/9, Heiko Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yeah, it is working - sometimes! :-( > > urban checked, mixcropped unchecked-> urban can be > seen. > urban checked, mixcropped checked-> urban cannot be > seen, it is all full of mixcropped. > May be it is from such order of layers, that mixcropped

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-09 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Heiko Schulz : > Thanks! > > Yeah, it is working - sometimes! :-( > FGSD is somewhat unstable and do things I don't > understand: > > urban checked, mixcropped unchecked-> urban can be > seen. > > urban checked, mixcropped checked-> urban cannot be > seen, it is all full of mixcropped. La

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-09 Thread Heiko Schulz
Thanks! Yeah, it is working - sometimes! :-( FGSD is somewhat unstable and do things I don't understand: urban checked, mixcropped unchecked-> urban can be seen. urban checked, mixcropped checked-> urban cannot be seen, it is all full of mixcropped. FGSD dies sometimes without any reason

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-09 Thread Vadym Kukhtin
2007/11/8, Heiko Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Great - it's working! I Its good! As for shapes, ensure that fgsd see they files. By default, if you type all pathes right, in fgsd-tools-options-LandcoverDB generates table with filename, area type for this file, chekbox use or not it in scenery,

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-08 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, Great - it's working! I could modify an existing airport and start without any troubles! And should be nor problem to do a non-existing without any problems! But there is one problem for me left: the materials of the sourrounding is changed to default. I downloaded V0-shapefiles, but I'm not

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-07 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, Haven't got time to go one today, I will report when I have success. It would be great, if you can start from new airport, though there aren any lights ( yet!) Greetings HHS --- Vadym Kukhtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > 2007/11/7, Heiko Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > When runway ligh

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-07 Thread Vadym Kukhtin
2007/11/7, Heiko Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > When runway lights are generated in terragear, so new > airports also will be maybe not appear in runfgfs in > the airport list?! > Do you ask is FGrun takes list of availible airports from apt.dator dig the *.stg files in scenery? Good question, an

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-07 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, Thanks again! O.k. so I can't use it for bigger airports than as a preview and help placing buildings. But it should be usuable for small glider places... When runway lights are generated in terragear, so new airports also will be maybe not appear in runfgfs in the airport list?! Hmm...that'

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-07 Thread Vadym Kukhtin
> > > Hi all I'm use fgsd.exe dated 23.04.2006, this is last version that I found at ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/ And yes, in lastest versoin was disbled terrain edit ability - read about it at custom-scenery and fgsd site chapter philisofy, as I remember, it is made for avoid

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-06 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 01:05 +0100, Heiko Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > I did try it, your short manual was quite useful. > > But at the end I get an error message, and fgfs ends. > I think, that's because I coulden't save the new > apt.dat. right. I used to pack in .zip and rename it > to .gz. > > I d

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-06 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, I did try it, your short manual was quite useful. But at the end I get an error message, and fgfs ends. I think, that's because I coulden't save the new apt.dat. right. I used to pack in .zip and rename it to .gz. I don't know any programm which convert directly or packs to .gz. So how did

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-06 Thread Heiko Schulz
Oh, just began to learn how to do it- one curious question: can you select your new airport in fgfs or it just only the airport drawn in fgfs, but you can't select it? HHS --- Vadym Kukhtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > > > > Thanks you guys for a positive feedback! A'm very > glad to read

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-06 Thread Heiko Schulz
Thanks a lot! There is only question I have: which version of FGSD? There are several around, and with the earlier one, you could do easily changes to the scenery ... Regards HHS --- Vadym Kukhtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > > > > Thanks you guys for a positive feedback! A'm very > glad

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-06 Thread Heiko Schulz
Thanks a lot! There is only question I have: which version of FGSD? There are several around, and with the earlier one, you could do easily changes to the scenery ... Regards HHS --- Vadym Kukhtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > > > > Thanks you guys for a positive feedback! A'm very > glad

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-06 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Vadym Kukhtin schrieb: > > > > > > > Thanks you guys for a positive feedback! A'm very glad to read that. > > Now I'm time-to-time write manual in russian, and wanted then translate to > English and share, > but now I give some detail here. > I'm not a profi and I have some question how do som

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-06 Thread Vadym Kukhtin
> > Thanks you guys for a positive feedback! A'm very glad to read that. Now I'm time-to-time write manual in russian, and wanted then translate to English and share, but now I give some detail here. I'm not a profi and I have some question how do some things too. May be you help me later. 1) yo

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-05 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Vadym Kukhtin schrieb: > > > > > > I'm also use FGSceneryDesigner for it, since I dont familiar with > Linux and terragear is very hard for me now. > Download shapes, HGT files, draw my > aport, and mix it in FGSD; then export and change only one tile in my > scsnery. > I know, it is a bit dont rig

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-05 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, Wow - how you did it in detail? Does it have slope? Can you make en explanation and the difference to Terragear? Regards HHS --- Vadym Kukhtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > > I'm also use FGSceneryDesigner for it, since I dont > familiar with Linux and > terragear is very hard for me n

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-05 Thread Vadym Kukhtin
> I'm also use FGSceneryDesigner for it, since I dont familiar with Linux and terragear is very hard for me now. Download shapes, HGT files, draw my aport, and mix it in FGSD; then export and change only one tile in my scsnery. I know, it is a bit dont right, but usefull as quick preview. in FGSD

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-04 Thread Mirko Stanisak
Am Sonntag, 4. November 2007 21:22:06 schrieb Georg Vollnhals: > Hi Mirko! > > The difference between X-Plane and FlightGear, both using the apt.dat > format, is that X-Plane draws the airport realtime whereas FlightGear > has a precompiled/prebuilt airport-terrain display. > So you might already

Re: [Flightgear-users] Question on apt.dat

2007-11-04 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Mirko Stanisak schrieb: > Hello together, > > I have a question on the apt.dat file. AFAIK, the apt.dat stores different > information of airports, like runways, directions, tower position etc., > right? For my home airport (EDVE, Braunschweig, Germany), the apt.dat > contains the real taxiways