*** AK180thru183 - Geneer AKR Stations A Thru D for FS2004 ***
Alaska, Juneau / Ketchikan Area. By Ed Cox
Full Install, Version 2.0 - Feb. 27, 2004 (Ak180v20.zip)
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*** Requires Gerrish Gray's Trees Installed!!!!! ***
'trees_v3.zip' available at SurClaro / SurClaro.com
also:
*** Requires NOVA and NOVA Gold Textures!!!!! ***
*** available at www.fsnova.com ***
4 files in all:
Novatxt1.zip, Novatxt2.zip, Novatxt3.zip, NovaGt1.zip
place ALL *.bmp files from these sets in the main fs9 Texture directory.
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Notes:
AK180, 181, 182, and 183
4 Fictional Seaplane Bases located south of Juneau, Alaska for Fs2004. This pack is full installalation for all 4 spots. Requires Nova and Nova Gold textures as well as Gerrish Gray's trees III installed (trees_v3.zip)
Mainly used for cargo distribution and supplies, these 4 AKR Stations were also intended to serve as tourism spots for hunting, fishing, skiing, camping, etc. Just fun little spot to hit in a bushplane/floatplane.
No AI traffic in this version. If there is interest in the scenery, then a later release will follow with taxiways, propper facilities entries, and ai tracks. (via AFCAD). This release is intended for ease of installation. :)
There are also NO automatic fuel boxes in this scenery... However, these spots do serve as fuel available stopovers for virtual pilots who, like myself, turn the 'engine stops when out of fuel' switch ON for realism, and look at stops for viable refuel locations.
This scenery has been tested and designed on an AMD 1.4ghz system, 512Megs RAM, ATI 9600xt128 graphics, and is suggested to use machine w/ 3d vid and somewhat fast processor. I never got less than 16fps with my setup. Also, no extensive destinction is made in scenery detail level, most to all objects show on normal, sorry... no time to take trees and such, and spread across detail levels...... i did use 8bit textures for macros i made, helps keep fps hits and a need for 128-256m cards to use flightsim a minimum.
This Scenery has only been tested in Fs2004. (ie, Fs9)
Any questions, problems, and/or suggestions, please email to address below.
Thanks for downloading this scenery, i hope you enjoy it!
Most should know how to addon scenery in seperate folders by now. if not, read below. I personally like addon scenery this way instead of all dumped in the default addon scenery folder. This way, if you dont like, or have problems with, you can uninstall individual sceneries.
2 ways to do this:
A. - If you have previously installed my recently released seperate AK183 spot, uninstall it, and use the new scenery instead. I updated ak183 and include it in this 4 spot pack.
Installation:
(make sure Nova, Nova Gold texture sets and Gerrish Gray's trees are installed according to their respective instructions)
(If Gerrish Gray's trees dont show up, just place the trees_0.bgl file he has you place in the main scenery folder into any active folder ONCE, and it will work. Trees didnt show on my machine till i placed it in my Ak180_AthruD_2004\Scenery folder. BUT, you should only have to make sure its in an active scenery folder ONCE to have it installed. If you delete or uninstall Ak180, then you need to place the trees_0.bgl file in another active folder to see other's addons using that tree library.)
Then:
1 - Unzip into a temporary directory, Ak180v20.zip unzips w/ folders intact to 'Ak180_2004_v20'
2 - place 'Ak180_AthruD_2004' folder (with Scenery and Texture folders inside) anywhere u like. (or where you normally put scenery addon folders)
3 - In FS2004, when the sim first starts up, look in the lower left corner for settings. Then select Scenery Library, then add area. Browse to where you put the Ak180_AthruD_2004 folder and select the Ak180_AthruD_2004 folder itself. (NOT Ak180_AthruD_2004\Scenery), Name it (if not, already Ak180_AthruD_2004 is selected), make sure 'use these files directly' is checked, and click ok. Restart Fs2004.
4 - To start at one of these spots, you must search under 'Search add-on scenery' in the select a flights section, without afcad files generated, not using main apt list.
Thats it!
Folders should look like this:
-->Ak180_AthruD_2004
-->Scenery - (all *.bgl files ONLY)
-->Texture - (all textures files, *.bmp, *.pat, *.*AF)
*.txt - these files can be deleted once scenery is installed and working...
*.jpg - screenshots for zipdivers (grin), can be deleted after install...
*.pdf - Printable Map of all 4 spots and surrounding area nav info.
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Special Thanks to:
Developers, for whom we get great tools, converters, compilers, etc that make addons and user-end goodies possible:
Derek Leung - F.S. Scenery Creator, Leung Software, www.fssc.avsim.net
Matthias Brückner - Easy Object Designer, www.echos.ch/eod
Martin Wright - Bmp2000, www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk
Rafael Garcia Sanchez - Nova Textures, macro sets, www.fsnova.com
Macros;
Gerrish Gray - Wonderful Tree Macros!
Frank Betts - http://www.flightsimsetc.dhs.org
FS Flightline - http://www.fsflightline.com
Leon Louis - Bush Plane Macros
Robert Palmer - http://bobs_hangar.tripod.com/
Jimmy R. Martin - Ice Machine Macro
Important: This scenery is NOT to be used in packaged SOLD (ie, for money) scenery. This is Freeware, and is to be distributed freely intact. NOT with any other bundle without permission. This is to always remain FREE. (besides... who 'would' pay for this???)
NOTAMS: This scenery is in freeware and made by an amature hobbyist... Appologietic, though not responsible if this scenery doesn't work, causes mild to severe psycological discomfort, and/or makes your computer explode... Other such symptoms include, but are not limited to; loss of sleep, seaplane flying euphoria, long late night hours on flight sim, and dry mouth.
