Cincinnati Union Terminal and Museum Center Scenery for FS2004 ONLY

by Dan French
daniel.french@insightbb.com

History:

The Cincinnati Union Terminal is one of the most famous of art deco designed buildings in the world. As a hub of rail
traffic in the central US, Cincinnati boasted many travellers through its station. Some of the renowned murals from the
rotunda are located in the CVG airport terminal building. The huge dome is a well known aerial landmark as well and a strong
feature of the Cincinnati skyline. During World War II the dome was painted black for fear enemy planes could spot it
so easily. This model was created in Google sketchup with phototextures both original and from Cincinnati Museum Center,
the current owners and tenants of the building.It makes the west side of Cincinnati much easier to spot when VFR.
A visit to CUT and the Museum Center is a MUST if you are ever in Cincinnati.



INSTALLATION:

A. TO PLACE THE MODEL IN FS2004:

1. Download the CUTmodern_FS2004.zip file to a temporary folder and extract all the files.
2. Place or copy all of the files in the folder labelled "scenery" into the FS2004/Addon Scenery/ scenery folder.
3. Place or copy all of the files in the folder labelled "texture" into the FS2004/Addon scenery/ texture folder.
4. Turn on Flight Simulator 2004 and the building should be in place.

B. TO PLACE THE MODEL YOURSELF:
NOTE: This library was created with Instant Scenery2 so it should work in EZ Scenery, Instant Scenery, etc. I will
use Instant Scenery as an example. You can try it in other programs.

1. Place the file CUT_CincUnionTerm_FS9.bgl (or a copy) found in the Placeable Libraries_FS2004/scenery folder
into the scenery folder of your object placer program (e.g. FS2004/Addon Scenery/AddOn InstantScenery Libraries/scenery).
2. Place all of the bmp texture files found in the Placeable Libraries_FS2004/texture folder into the texture folder
of your object placer program (e.g. FS2004/Addon Scenery/AddOn InstantScenery Libraries/texture).
3. The file is named CUT_CincUnionTerm_FS9 and should be found in the drop down box of object libraries when you start
your program. There are 2 objects: one is the terminal building, the other is the mall. The mall is a Google Earth
phototexture. It best matches the building at a scale of 1.3 (the building stays at scale 1.0). Make adjustments so
the building fits best on top of its image on the mall phototexture.



CREDITS:

Google Sketchup and Google Earth for model creation and placement.

Cincinnati Museum Center for some of the photos used as phototextures.

The ever essential ModelConverterX without which none of this would be possible.




Copyright and Distribution
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This scenery is released as Freeware. Copyright Dan French.
As freeware you are permitted to distribute this
archive subject to the following conditions:

- The archive must be distributed without modification to the
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This is for free.

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THE AUTHOR IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT YOU MIGHT
INCUR AS A RESULT OF USING THESE PRODUCTS. YOU ASSUME THE RISK
OF USE.

Copyright 2011 by Daniel L. French. All Rights Reserved.