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FS2000 Scenery and Textures for North America

Devildog73

Devildog73

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Perhaps many of you already knew this, but I put FS2000 Mesh & Scenery BGLs and Textures for North America into a separate install of CFS2.

WOW!

I should have done this years ago!!

Then I started CFS2 Free Flight in the air at 5,000 feet above Southern California just south of LA and flew my Corsair to Vegas.

The scenery is outstanding and the airports show up nicely and are landable. A couple of taxiways caused my Corsair to crash and burn, but the runways were fine for touch and goes and landing.

My next excursion is going to be from San Diego to Seattle.
 
Yeah, that FS2K scenery is quite nice :) I have FS2KPro and did the same thing a while back.

BTW, don't forget... total and complete navaids as well. Plenty of VORs/NDBs/ILSs for a nice IFR flight in your FS2K Cessna 182R RG anywhere in the word.

P.S. Check out Meigs in Chicago... would make for some nice combat flying at low altitudes LOL! :)
 
One of the things that is missing from CFS2 is the training flights. Think about all of went into when traing new pilots. All of the different aircraft. Not to mention the airfields. It would be interesting to do some. Maybe have a campaign start from the training days. It would be a way to use that scenery.
 
CFS2 (code name FS7.5) is the younger "combat-version" brother of FS2000. The designers killed the advanced navaids, but left NDB and GPS functions. The two sims share the same basic coding in flight logic and scenery design, so absolutely everything in FS7 is portable to CFS2. Actually, CFS2 is like a merger between CFS1 and FS2000.

I just wish we could get Golden era cities to replace the modern cities in FS2000, then port them over to CFS2.
 
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bearcat241 said:
The designers killed the advanced navaids, but left NDB and GPS functions.
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Do you mean that the actual navaids and gauges themselves do not function? They do for me, when using an aircraft that is so equipped, and scenery that contains them. e.g. ILS/DME, VOR, etc...

As far as the GPS function of FS2000, the panels that include the FS2000 GPS gauge doesn't seem to function in CFS2... only a totally black window/box can be seen when displaying it.

bearcat241 said:
so absolutely everything in FS7 is portable to CFS2
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Hehe, me and my buddies have been having a blast multiplayer dogfighting in some of the FS2KPro aircraft... INCLUDING the Schweizer 2-32 Sailplane LOL! :)

(Edit) P.S. I just remembered -> http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10205065874624243.1073741834.1164518241

Hehe, a "fly-in" of sorts with me and my buddies a while back using the FS2KPro Boeing 737-400, from Henderson to Espirito Santo :)

Our buddy "Unknown Soldier" had a helluva time with the landing, crashing numerous times... all while me and my other buddy were sipping coffee and relaxing LOL!
 
I have various navaid gauges aplenty, but finding native CFS2 scenery that contains ILS/DME or VOR features has been the challenge for me. So i just assumed that the functions were dead is why scenery designers don't use these. What scenery do you have in this department?

As for GPS, we don't have use of the FS styled GPS gauges with the the moving map picture, that's why they are "blacked out" by the sim when you try to use them. Our gauges are more like the NDB pointer styled GPS. A simple pointer vectors you to a chosen location and programmable gauges that allow you to input or add any new global coordinates to expand the default listings in the pointer gauges.
 
There is very little scenery that has been created for CFS2 that includes ILS/DME/VOR/NDB navaids, but they do indeed function in the game.

I can't think of any any scenery that includes them off the top of my head, but my Gilligan's Island scenery does -> http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?94401-Gilligan-s-Island-for-MSFS-and-CFS2 :) Of course though, it was originally created for FS51, and then later slightly updated to function a wee bit better with FS2K (and as a side-effect, CFS2).

P.S. Hehe, a while back I tried adding the FS2KPro GPS module DLL to CFS2... no luck though, resulting in an instant program crash LOL.
 
Just so everyone knows, FS2000 North America scenery works just fine in CFS2 with some minor coastline and flatten issues.
It really adds to the possibilities of CFS2.

These screenies are without any real work on the scenery.
I flew from Atlantic City to Washington, DC and landed at DCA, took off and did some sightseeing around DC.
Amazing for CFS2 to have these views.
I am going to tweak the scenery a bit over the coming months and see how good I can make the North American continent for CFS2.
 
I found anewyork.bgl needs to be deleted so that the New York landmark library objects show up. These objects include the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Central Park, etc.

In addition, if you have the US training missions package by Bob Edwards, a number of his airfields conflict with the modern FS2000 versions of them.

Overall the FS2000 scenery is a vast improvement on the stock CFS2 USA scenery.
 
I have found some water textures in the wrong places and it is a lot brighter blue....
Also, the Rocky Mountains flying out of Denver to Salt Lake City look more like the Appalachians or Ozarks not the actual Rockies west of Denver.
 
Any one that wants to check out some of Alaska for Lazy Flying
may remember this:
AlaskaDF.jpg
AKfordge.jpg


Alaska For CFS2: been on the side burner since my Vietnam project, but Ya'll may still enjoy it.

http://thefreeflightsite.com/Projects_1.htm

No it is not Fs2000 scenery, but it may match up to some ??

Even have some Bush Aircraft to go along with the scenery:
http://thefreeflightsite.com/Aircraft_CFS2_4.htm

Take a look at some of the screen shots toward the bottom of the page.

Dave
 
No Dice,
Sander de Cocq did mesh for Alaska and coastal Canada down to Washington State I believe.
I will check into the site you posted.

I flew my North American install CFS2 from Seattle to Mt. Rainier to Coastal Canada toward Alaska and in stock CFS2.
NO COMPARISON. The North American install with FS2000 scenery is MUCH better.

At least when I got above Canada, Sander's mesh did raise the mountains a bit.

One anomaly I have encountered is very odd. I have been flying into Central Illinois Regional Airport, Bloomington, IL for years. Took my first flight lessons there. It is my home.
Anyway, all of the airports are on a pedestal 1000 feet above the surrounding terrain. Also, the surrounding land texture from Champaign-Urbana to Bloomington is that of 10,000 lakes, ponds, and wasteland, NOT soy and corn fields......
Also, there is a large ridge running NE to SW on the south side of Champaign-Urbana separating the city and UofI from the airport.
The only State flatter than Illinois is Kansas.....

Working on your site's stuff now. Thanks a bunch. I have been looking for more modern civilian aircraft to fly in CFS2.
I have a bunch of Korean and Vietnam era jets, but only had a Piper Warrior for civilian purposes.
 
The FS2004 mesh found at Simviation works well for the parts of the world not covered by Rhumba's or Sander's work. The Rocky Mountains are raised to the correct elevation but there isn't any snow. The Grand Canyon is also depicted with this mesh, while the FS2000 scenery adds the Colorado River.

I think the *.r8 textures from FS2004/FSX are an improvement on the ones which came with FS2000.
 
kdriver said:
The FS2004 mesh found at Simviation works well for the parts of the world not covered by Rhumba's or Sander's work. The Rocky Mountains are raised to the correct elevation but there isn't any snow. The Grand Canyon is also depicted with this mesh, while the FS2000 scenery adds the Colorado River.

I think the *.r8 textures from FS2004/FSX are an improvement on the ones which came with FS2000.
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Thanks kdriver, I will go over to Simviation and pull them down.
 
Interesting Discovery

All 20,000 AFD entries for FS2000 will show up at once in CFS2.

Those entries are contained within 50 AFD.bgl files.

I always thought there was a limit of about 200 AFD entries in CFS2. It appears the limit is the number of AFD.bgl files, not the number of entries.
 
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