FS2004 Haystack Observatory Scenery
version 0.01 alpha - October 6, 2004
By Thomas Perry
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When flying Northwest of Boston along Rt 3 North and Route 2 West, one of the most noticeable landmarks in the area is the MIT/Lincoln Labs Haystack Observatory in Westford, MA (www.haystack.edu). These files contain a model of these structures as well as a basic model of the Tyngsboro Bridge over the Lawrence River along Rt 113.
The models I've made are very basic, but they serve the purpose for now. I will be upgrading this scenery as I find the time, but I thought I would make what I have available now. Let me know if you would have any models which would be useful for the scenery or you would like a copy of the source. I'd love to find better model for at least either the tracking antenna or the bridge, or any of the objects for that matter.
The API's I used with this scenery are:
astrohq1.zip - Robert Waszkiewicz
parabole.zip - Alain ROBERT
sat_ant.zip - Ino Terpstra
I have included their distribution files in entirety. For this scenery, I modified Ino Terpstra's Satellite Antenna API file for this scenery (removed the trees and cut the height in half)(Haystack Antenna 1.api). I have included the texture files from these API's that are needed by this scenery in the Texture directory, so you do not need to install them if you don't want to.
To develop it, I used SceneGenX Build 28 (buildings and new models), and Airport for Windows v 3.0 build 192 (API's, Roads, and polygons).
This scenery was developed with the following addons installed, USA Roads (Flight1.com), FSGenesis Terrain and Landclass (SurClaro.com and FSGenesis.net), and Jim Keir's scenery for the Maine coastline (Maine.zip, www.jimkeir.co.uk/FlightSim/scenery.html ), which includes improved water (lakes, rivers, etc.) for the area covered by this scenery.
This is the first scenery I have released for public consumption. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or what you think.
Thanks.
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Installation - Scenery
- Copy the files in the "Scenery" directory to your "Flight Simulator 9/Addon Scenery/Scenery" directory.
- Copy the files in the "texture" directory to your "Flight Simulator 9/Texture" directory
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COPYRIGHT
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The Scenery in this archive is released as FREEWARE.
Copyright (C) 2004 Thomas Perry. All Rights Reserved
You are permitted to use the scenery in any way you like and to modify it as you see fit.
You may also redistribute the package free of any charge or gain as a single
unaltered archive accompanied by an acknowledgement of the author's copyright
(a copy of this file will suffice), for use with Freeware or Public Domain
scenery or for the creation thereof.
You may NOT use, distribute, or otherwise reproduce this package, or any part
thereof for commercial gain or profit unless expressly licensed by the author to
do so.
Commercial or shareware scenery authors are hereby EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN from
using or distributing these files without first obtaining a
LICENCE for such use or distribution from the author. Any enquiries should be
sent by e-mail in the first instance to the author as below. A reasonable offer
of payment, proportional to the financial gain to be made from such use or
distribution, will normally be expected.
