This is my long overdue overhaul of Hua Hin. I meant to complete this months ago, but I was kept busy by my real life. This worked out well in the end, since there were a few issues with my scenery that I was unable to resolve until the last few weeks.
Hua Hin is a slightly unusual airport for because it has highway that runs underneath the runway. The default scenery has the highway several hundred meters away. Also, the end of the runway is just a few meters away from the beach, whereas the default scenery has placed it too far away. These issues result in compromises being made, and you may notice this especially near where the runway hits the beach. It is important to understand that this scenery is a compromise between the real-world Hua Hin Airport, and what is possible to create in Flight Simulator. You can expect future updates to this scenery, as issues with the game engine are resolved.
I will post updates to any scenery I create about once per year, if necessary. Otherwise, you can get updates off my website at http://www.martinstrong.com/FS_Project.htm . I dont see any point in flooding SurClaro with endless postings of the same scenery like some people do.
Features:
* airport completely redesigned from scratch custom 3-D buildings created,
* AFCAD2 file included,
* Custom shoreline created in Ground2K4.
Installation
Unzip to any folder you wish. Make sure Use folder names is checked off in Winzip so that the proper directories will be created for you. It should create a directory called Hua Hin with subdirectories called scenery and texture. If this doesnt happen for some reason, then just make a new directory called Hua Hin 2004, and creat sub-directories names scenery and texture, and place all the *.bgl files into the scenery subdirectory and all the *.bmp files into the texture subdirectory. Go into FS2004 and add the scenery in the usual manner. If you dont know how to do this, then RTFM or go to www.SurClaro and there are tutorials that tell you how to do this. Flatten and exclude switches are not required for any of this scenery.
I have also included a landclass file. If you dont know what these are, dont worry since they are not really necessary. However, it is important that you do not put the landclass file titled Hua Hin Landclass.bgl in the same directory as the onter scenery files in this distribution.
Hua Hin Landclass.bgl needs to be in a scenery directory that does not have a texture directory.
I think that there are enough landclass files going around that people understand what I mean. Heres a screenshot to show you what your directory tree should look like:
Design
I have optimized my scenery using every technique available to increase framerates. Every tree that you see is a library object. All textures are DXT1/3, and all models have a LOD built into them. That is why you may see some of the smaller objects pop in at close distance. This is a trade-off for getting better framerates. However, there are things completely beyond my control that will also affect framearates:
* Autogen
* AI aircraft
* Your own aircraft
Acknowledgements
Two individuals helped me out a lot by providing me with some excellent maps and many, many photgraphs.
Sukit Sittisudjatum from thaiflight.com not only had good maps and pictures, he also had first-hand knowledge of the layout of the airport. He was always patient with me even though I had many questions about the buildings.
Erik Frikke takes quite a few photographs of airports while travelling. I found him on airliners.net, and I emailed him asking if he had any more pictures of Hua Hin. He certainly did, and he actually burned a CD and mailed it to me. He isnt even involved with FS at all, and he still did this for me. He didnt even ask for postagge in return, but perhaps if we meet one day, Ill buy him several beers. His photographs are amazing, and they were invaluable in getting the textures on the buildings right.
Thai Flight Simulator
http://www.thaiflight.com/
I strongly recommend that you drop by this site if you are interested in Thailand. He has collected many sceneries for Thailand, most of which were built for FS98, but he also has mesh terrain that he has created and updated FS2K airports for Bangkok, Krabi and Chiang Rai. He obviously has put a lot of work into this.
He also has many aircraft available for download. The B717s created by Apichart Owcharoenporn are especially impressive.
Other Stuff
This scenery is freeware. You never have to pay to use it. It will always be free from my website at http://www.martinstrong.com/FS_Project.htm . The textures and objects that I have created are copyrighted by me. If you want to use them, just email me at martinstrong@martinstrong.com and Ill be more than happy to let you do this. If you want the original *.api files for any of the objects, just email me and itll be no problem. Just remember to give me credit. Do not upload this scenery to other websites. I am tired of seeing my scenery on other peoples sites with uploaded by: Joe Blow underneath it. If you feel that this scenery would complement your websites library, then please contact me first, and I will deal with it on a case-by-case basis. Usually it wont be a problem.
Copyright and Distribution
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This aircraft is released as Freeware. Copyright (C) Martin Strong. As freeware you are permitted to distribute this
archive subject to the following conditions,
- The archive must be distributed without modification to the
contents of the archive. Redistributing this archive with any files
added, removed or modified is prohibited.
- The inclusion of any individual file from this archive in another
archive without the prior permission of the author is prohibited.
This means, for example, that you may not upload an archive that uses
our visual or flight models with your own aircraft or include it in a
package containing a panel or aircraft sounds without first obtaining
the authors' permission.
- No charge may be made for this archive other than that to cover the
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to the purchaser that the archive is freeware and that the fee is to
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