Hi and welcome back to Calgary. First of all I'd like to apologize to everyone who has been having problems with my Calgary especially regarding poor frame rates. Unfortunately I designed Calgary on a P75 where poor frame rates are the norm and I was hoping that when I released Calgary and it made its way onto faster machine the frame rates would increase. Well I guess you know what they say about assuming stuff. Okay so what have I done. Well first thing as this is just an update to my Calgary scenery, CYYC9810.zip is required for all of the textures and the static a/c scenery files. Now back to what I have done. Well the big thing I did was to reduce the visibility range of all of the roads as I figured beginning able to see Highway 2 40 nm north of the airport will sitting on 34 was kind of pointless plus it gave FS more things to draw. So I have reduced the visibilty to 10 nm and on my P75 the rates has increased two or three folds. I have tried a couple of approaches and it runs fairly smoothly considering the processor. For me it only pauses twice when it firsts draws some roads in and second when it draws in the taxiways. Otherwise about the same as any other airport I fly into. Secondly I played around with my TL version which seems to give me better frame rates then -nd or -no as there are actually less lights for FS to draw. Unfortunately around the terminal building is kind of slow on my machine just to warn you and of course static a/c make it worse.
Finally I have been informed of a problem with the north and south builings giving off some funny shadows. The only way I was able to correct this was to combine the buildings back into the main scenery file. So yyc-nbld and yyc-sbld are now part of yyc-nd, yyc-no, yyc-tl, and yyc-tlr which are now known as yyc-ndb, yyc-nob, yyc-tlb, and yyc-tlrb respectively. So if you would like to install these buildings use the files ending in *b.bgl and if not use the regular ones. Ohh one last thing, as I have pretty much tweaked every file in this zip, please replace your chosen bgl files from v1.0 with the v1.1. Otherwise the same rules apply. Happy flying and let me know if you run into any more problems or how the frame rates are going.
Files Included:
readme.txt -I think you've already found it yyc-nd.bgl -The basic airport with runways, taxiways, terminal building. Taxiway lights are illuminated night and day.
yyc-ndb.bgl -yyc-nd with south & north buildings.
yyc-no.bgl -Same as above except taxiway lights illuminated only at night.
yyc-nob.bgl -yyc-no with south & north buildings.
yyc-tl.bgl -TL version of the above with original runway lights but only taxi lights around main terminal (explain later).
yyc-tlb.bgl -yyc-tl with south & north buildings.
yyc-tla.bgl -Rest of taxi lights (TL version) for above.
yyc-tlr.bgl -Same as yyc-tl without original runway lights.
yyc-tlrb.bgl -yyc-tlr with south & north buildings.
yyc-tls.bgl -Taxi and runway lights for yyc-tlr.
**IMPORTANT - only use one of nd,ndb,no,nob,tl,tlb,tlr,or tlrb
not more then one!!**
yyc-city.bgl -Rendition of city.
ybw.bgl -Springbank airport.
yyc-fence.bgl -Fence around airport
yyc-_exc.bgl -Exclude file
F999004.bgl -Modified FS file.
**** DELETE yyc-nbld & yyc-sbld if using the above files ****
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INSTALLATION:
Pretty simple, replace the scenery files (*.bgl) in your Calgary scenery directory with (only replace the necessary files with the ones included here, ie you do not have to replace yyc-ac1.bgl) the ones included above (including yyc-city). Please note if you have yyc-nbld & yyc-sbld installed see the above note to see which file to replace it with.
This scenery was created using the wonderful program Airport Designers Toolkit V1.00 Beta 3 (Airport 2.50). I'd recommend having Apt and Vod texture files installed but you probably already have them.
Acknowledgements:
I'd like to thank:
-the designers of Airport Designers Toolkit so that I could design this scenery
-Michael Rodriguez for his taxi signs and fencing api's
-Robert Waszkiewicz for his street lights and control tower api's
-all the people that emailed me with comments and suggestions (you already know who you are ;)
Copyright and Distribution:
This scenery is Freeware and may be distributed freely. No one is permitted to charge for this scenery or include this in any commerical products.
Copyright (C) Kyle Duncan.
The Future:
Hopefully this will take care of a couple of problems. So it's back to TBay with me. All that I can say is hopefully soon.
-Sault Ste. Marie (cyam) -Version 1.2 done, possible TL version
-Thunder Bay (cyqt) -Version 1.0 done, future version in the works
-Regina (cyqr)
-Saskatoon (cyxe)
-Calgary (cyyc) -Version 1.0 done
-Ottawa (cyow) -STAR files done
-Version 2.2 done
-NavDash Database -Update done with CYUL, CYTZ STARs, and CYWG SIDs
-CYVR STARs added
Vote:
For users of SurClaro here is where I'm suppose to plead with you to vote for my scenery. Well back to your regularly scheduled bored by Kyle's notes.
Comments:
Comments, suggestions, questions, problems, and anything else is always appreciated. Happy landings.
