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Trying to do Scenery?

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bobhegf

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Fellows I am spending more time trying to get the DXTBmp, my paint program and FSSC to work than I am doing scenery. The DXTBmp won`t open the paint program half the time and FSSC won`t scend the scenery and texture to CFS2.I am Using FSSC 1.5 with win 7. I had the the new FSSC but it didn`t have a flaten program so I decided to use FSSC 1.5. When I was running thies programs on win98se they worked great just the way they were designed to.can anyone help or have any ideas why I am having such a problem with them this time?
 
Off hand I know that 16-bit based programs do NOT work on Win7. This may be part of it.
 
Bob I am not sure what version of FSSC you are using. Are you using the older version- 1.25.XX or the newer version- 1.5.xx? FYI, you can do flattens/flat areas with either one. As for sending the texture to CFS2, the texture should already be there- either as a texture you are choosing from one of the cfs2 texture folders or from a texture folder that is specifically associated with the destination scenery folder you are exporting to. In the newer version of FSSC the destination scenery folder is a location you specify in the export scenery wizard. In the older version it's location is specified in the preferences section of the Tools menu. Naturally the export to scenery folder needs to be active- reactivated after each exportation of a revised version of the scenery bgl.

Not sure why DXTBmp is not opening your edit program for you. I don't have a windows7 computer handy to play with. Still using XPPro myself.

MR
 
MR thanks for the help, I had forgotten about that. I got my paint program and DXTBmp to work and now I can open the DXTBmp porgram in FSSC and from there my paint program. I configured FSSC to Win7. I put the bitmap into the CFS2 texture folder but FSSC still did not transport it to CFS2.Here are som pics I took to show what I am finding. It sure isn`t what I use to deal with.
 
Bob,

This is a guess (like MR, I'm still using XP OS), but is CFS 2 installed in the default programme directories? I know from my work PCs that the security system doesn't seem to like programmes writing files back into this directory (or sub-directores) whilst the destination prog is live.

I normally have FSSC write to a different location outside the game structure, then navigate there in CFS 2 to activate the scenery. I also get better results if I do this with CFS 2 shutdown.

Does your FSSC default location for new files show as something like "...Combat Flight Simulator 2/ SCENERY/your airport...". It's not clear from the screenshots?
 
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