Louisville, Kentucky Version 9.0
For use with FS2004
By: Jim Jones
Internet:70303.2016@compuserve.com
SECTIONS:
General Notes and Comments
Navigation/Communication
LOGO files
Installation
Gerrish Gray trees (Important section, please read)
Compatibility
Future Releases
Acknowledgments
GENERAL NOTES AND COMMENTS:
This scenery is a detailed rendition of both the core of the city, Bowman Field, the Louisville International Airport, Clark County, Ind (JVY) airport, as well as some of the features of the surrounding area. Airport and SCASM were the scenery compilers used to generate this scenery.
This version is essentially just a copy of the 8.x versions incorporating all the fixes and additions in the various 8.x versions. However to be better compatible with FS2004 a few additional modifications had to be made. These included changes to eliminate the MS bridges that were unlike the real ones and misplaced in respect to the rest of this Louisville scenery. Elevation changes near the river and a flatten command was needed to keep the new MS Ohio River bed from inundating the city. It seems FS2004 does not support some of the compressed .R8 texture files and as a result the Lockheed plane at Bowman had to be repainted as a monotone grey, since the original pattern was not available. The plane now looks more like the real one, since it is seemingly a derilict on the field, with flat tires and painted a somber, dull monotone gray.
This scenery uses custom created buildings and textures to give them an authentic appearance and thus allows the FS pilots to feel at home, rather than fly in another generic jungle of buildings. Some generic buildings were used however, since they do offer similar looks to the originals in some cases. Each bridge, 6 in all, is also custom and bears resemblance to the original. Custom control towers were created to look similar to the originals.
The Louisville Skyline is especially impressive at night, with its illuminated buildings, and the Belle of Louisville steaming up river, belching fire and smoke as it goes. Across the river in Indiana the Colgate Sign and Clock are rendered and glow brightly at night as well.
The Louisville International Airport displays the completed runway/taxiway system as supplied in the fs2004 default scenery. Also since 1998 UPS has significantly expanded its building program to use space once occupied by the main, now decomissioned, runway. The North section of that runway is now used as a taxiway.
Unique to this scenery is a custom terminal, UPS buildings which occupy much of the airport real estate, radar, hangars, lighting standards and five jetways. The fueling area is illuminated in light blue-green instead of the very intense yellow so as not to detract as much from the night illumination of the airport. Four C-130s rest before the Air National Guard Hangar.
This scenery contains most of the major streets and highways in the area as a base for this and future scenery. An attempt has been made to accurately place the scenery with the use of various maps, primarily U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps and the U.S. Terminal procedure charts. As with any scenery, many compromises must be made to keep the scenery sizes and frame rates at acceptable levels. Streets are often depicted straight for many miles before any change of direction occurs. Thus, scenery placed along these roads will not be placed accurately in some instances.
All buildings and bridges do not contain crash detection as this increases the coding time significantly and probably impacts the frame rate and size of the scenery files to some extent.
Microsoft autogen building and tree scenery is excluded for most of the Louisville area except for the SDF runways and taxiways and airport polygon.
The AI ground traffic will now follow the MS Fs2004 runways and taxiways. The terminals in this scenery have had to be moved away from their real locations and more like the MS locations to avoid planes intersecting with the buildings. MS uses the old Delta terminal as a base for most of its AI planes. In reality this terminal has been closed for years and is being remodeled as a customs building.
This version supports scenery complexity selection in five levels.
Very Sparce displays river corrections, base airports without buildings, local hills and some area polygons for parks.
Sparce adds a few downtown buildings, falls textures, Bowman and SDF control towers, Watterson City, Ford Truck and GE plants, and a few significant buildings in the surrounding area.
Normal adds most of the remaining scenery.
Dense adds the authors neighborhood homes, more Bowman hangars, the Lockheed E10 and the C130s at SDF.
Very Dense adds the maximum number of trees at Bowman when the optional Gerrish Gray trees are used.
This scenery was designed for use with FS2004 only.
NAVIGATION/COMMUNICATION (Default MS]
ILS for SDF
Rwy 17R 109.35 Do not use glideslope since 35L is same frequency.
Rwy 17L 111.95 (IPKI)
Rwy 29 109.10 (ILKS)\
Rwy 35R 110.55 (IJJM)
Rwy 35L 109.35 (IRLI)
This version now supports 5 jetways each presenting logos for an airline livery. Seven airline livery logos are included in the texture directory. Other logos may be used provided the logo occupies the entire texture and is in the same orientation as those supplied.
It is easy to change the logos if you are familiar with using the Windows Explorer to delete, copy and rename files. If you are not familiar learn how before attempting this procedure. To change a logo, the supplied logo file must be copied into one of the LogoX.bmp files. For example if the position 1 jetway, which is by default the Delta livery, is to be changed to Contenental the ca-logo.bmp file must become the Logo1.bmp file. This may be done using Windows Explorer by deleting Logo1.bmp, then copy and paste a copy of ca-logo.bmp in the texture directory. This creates a file named "copy of ca-logo.bmp". Rename this file to Logo1.bmp.
INSTALLATION
This program is distributed in a zip file which when properly decompressed will generate the main folder for LOU9.0-R and its subfolders for scenery and textures. A program such as WinZip, which can accomplish this, is required. Perform the following steps:
Unzip all files in the zip file into a temporary folder, creating the LOU9.0-R folder and scenery, texture and doc subfolders.
Using Windows Explorer, move (using cut and paste) the LOU9.0-R (Release) folder from the temporary folder to the directory where you store your scenery. This could be the fs2004 scenery directory or another directory you have created to store scenery files. The contained scenery and texture subfolders should also be moved automatically as a result of the move operation along with all the files stored in their proper folders.
Copy the two files, SDF35R.FLT and BWM24.FLT, from the root of the LOU9.0-R directory, to wherever you store your personal flights.
Copy the file chicago_smoke1.fx to the fs2004 effects folder.
Start FS2004 and press the Settings\Scenery Library\Add Area buttons in the appearing screens.
A browse type screen will appear where you must point to the location you have stored the LOU9.0-R scenery. When the location is properly selected, the location and name will appear in what had been blank entry boxes. You may change the name box from Lou9.0-R to some other name if you desire. Press the OK button when finished.
From this screen you will return to the Setting-Scenery Library screen. The Louisville scenery will now be at the top of the list or the highest priority level which can be changed if desired. Next press the OK button and then exit FS2004.
Restart FS2004, then begin one of the provided flights to verify that the default scenery now has changed to the Lou9.0-R scenery.
Using an editor copy the contents of the Flatten.txt file to the end of the scenery.cfg file, just after the newly added Louisville scenery statements as described below. The Scenery.cfg file is located in the fs2004 main directory. At the end of this file you should find commands similar to:
[area.xxx]
Title=Louisville, KY (LOU9.0)
Local=..\LOU9.0\scenery
Active=True
Layer=xxx
The value of xxx will vary and is set automatically by FS2004.
Paste the contents from flatten.txt following the "Layer=" command such that the commands look similar to:
Save the modified scenery.cfg file and exit the editor.
Restart FS2004 and start either of the supplied .flt files or begin at one of the Airport selections for Bowman Field or Louisville International Airport. Set the scenery density to its maximum value otherwise some objects will not show.
The city of Louisville is West of Bowman and North of SDF where the significant buildings hug the south bank of the Ohio river.
GERRISH GRAY TREES
If you do not have the Gerrish Gray tree programs loaded this scenery may stop with errors. Optionally you may disable the trees and avoid errors by deleting the loutrees.bgl from the Lou9.0-R scenery directory or by installing the Gerrish Gray tree programs and textures.
If you choose to install the tree programs and textures you will need to download the file trees02.zip from SurClaro. It contains the two files, trees_02 and trees_0 as well as the 66 textures that are required. The readme.txt file in the trees02.zip explains two installation methods. The texture files must be saved in the FS2004\texture subfolder. The trees_0.bgl file must be stored in the FS2004\scenery\BASE\scenery folder. Later versions of Gerrish Grey trees are available, but this installation of Mr Gray's trees only describes his earlier version as mentioned above.
COMPATIBILITY WITH OTHER SCENERIES
This scenery is only compatible with FS2004.
FUTURE RELEASES
No changes have been made to the JVY airports since LOU7 thus a future release of Louisville may concentrate on a revision of JVY while continuing to enhance the Louisville buildings with photoreal textures. Of course any major changes in the MS scenery engine in the future could seriously affect this scenery and require a partial or total rewrite. Stay tuned.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Microsoft and BAO for providing the flight simulator and their continuing improvement of the software.
The creators of SCASM and Airport for their interface to FS making custom scenery possible with supporting textures and to the individuals that supplied the .api and .scm objects that may be included in the sceneries and their very helpful coding that served as a backbone for understanding the workings of scenery programming.
To Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 creators that provide powerful tools for the creation and manipulation of textures.
To Martin Wright for his fantastic bmp2000 and dxtbmp tools that help create compatible textures for fs2002.
To Gerrish Gray for his superb tree macros.
To Norman Campbell for his R8Paint program used to create some of the texture files in the Louisville scenery and some of the Ohio river scenery.
To Luis Viera de Sa for his cessna and c-130 api macros, and those persons who created the texture files.
To Goetz Schuermann and Bob Langendorfer for the inclusion of their Lockheed E-10 as a static aircraft.
To E. Resnik for his Chicago Smoke effects.
To Matthias Bruckner for his program to convert MS effect files into macros.
To the many who have provided encouragement and input on improvements to the software, including: Neil Perrin, Robert Toole, Doug Horton, Frank McCabe, B&T(Bob..), John Whitler, Paul Wittke, Mark Volstad, and Bill Leahy. (In order of their initial messages to me).
To Joe Brown, Flight Operations Manager of Aircraft Specialist, Inc., for his information about the JVY airfield.
To Robert C. Clement, Tom Stryker, Ron Hall and Laura Benson at Bowman Field for their list of Visual Reporting Points near Bowman. Also more thanks to Tom Stryker for flying me around Lousiville to compare this scenery with the real world.
To Ted Kessel, Roger Gaylor and Jim Rhoads for beta testing earlier versions.
This is freeware and is not to be distributed for any monetary gain. Copyrights are those of this author. It would be appreciated if this scenery is installed at other sites that I be informed.
The author of this scenery is not responsible for any problems you may encounter with your system or other files as a result of using the programs provided here.
