i tried that and i said: could not find bglcomp.exe 

im trying to re dowload it just in case

Yeah, CoolP's right. bglcomp.exe is included in the SDK.

i got it to work thanks. and the gold is just the deluxe with the acceleration disk in it i know because thats the one i bought

boeing247 wrote on Aug 14^th, 2011 at 4:44am:

Sorry. But I don't have any at all. For creating the buildings and UV Mapping (applying textures) it is much the same as for aircraft. The shapes are usually easier to do. I never tried to do hills and stuff like that. The main one that I did was for my home airport, but I didn't have any idea of the measurements except for the runways themselves.

I have only had a few tries at doing scenery and they were all done using FSDS 3/3.5/3.51. With that I would create the scenery and export them into the FSX\Addon Scenery\scenery folder as BGL files. FSDS does everything for me, I would use the "export as scenery" tool. After that I would start FSX to see what I had made.

Mark

boeing247 wrote on Aug 14^th, 2011 at 4:54pm:

FSDS 3.5.1 is the latest and current version. You get it from Abacus. It costs $US49. On the web page, it says FS Design Studio, New Version 3.5, but if you buy it you will get v3.5.1.

If I had known that gmax was free, there is no way I would have bought FSDS. Gmax is great, but it has a big learning curve. Gmax is the little brother of 3DS Max 4 or 5 and the models have a much better look than FSDS models do. To get FSDS models that look like very close to what gmax does, is possible, but it takes an enormous amount of work that I would call "joining the dots" (welding vertices in gmax). You already have gmax, I would recommend that you learn it and create aircraft/scenery with it.

I am not saying that you shouldn't buy FSDS, I love it. The truth is, I can't make up my mind which one I prefer. I use both. There are things that FSDS does better than gmax, but then there are things that gmax does better than FSDS. I just wish I could get the best of both in one program. I doubt that will ever happen.

One other thing. I have seen many people move from FSDS to gmax, but I can't remember any going from gmax to FSDS. I have bought both the gmax Bible and The gmax Hanbook and they are very helpful when it comes to learning gmax.

And for all that, all the aircraft I have created, and used in either FS9 or FSX, were made with FSDS.

Mark

StephenL wrote on Aug 21^st, 2011 at 11:41pm:

If you mean for doing a repaint (livery), I have FS Repaint (Abacus). I'm not very good with it (yet).

For my creations, I use a program called Visual Aircraft & Scenery Studio (Abacus) for help with applying textures to aircraft and scenery made using FSDS, but it's not a repaint program (AFAIK).

Mark