Vancouver International Airport for FS2004 version CYVR42v+
This upgrade, applied to version CYVR4.2 (with or without the fps fix), is to make it compatible with the recent payware release of Vancouver+ by Jon Patch and Holger Sandmann. This upgrade will only work if you have Vancouver+ installed.
This series of my Vancouver International Airport scenery started with the FS2002 version CYVR3.1, which won the FlightSim Developers Award in March 2003. Version 4.2 retains my original terminal buildings of version 3.1, as well as the changes in upgrade 3.11, to make it compatible with FS2004. Further updates have brought it to the penultimate version 4.2, which was issued in August 2005 and to date has had over 15,000 downloads.
If you are interested in flying the south west region of British Columbia in Canada, Vancouver+ is a superb scenery, with a degree of realism that I have not experienced before. It can be purchased here:
When you unzip CYVR42v+.zip, you will find two folders scenery and texture plus the document you are reading.
1. Unzip CYVR42v+ to a temporary folder
2. De-activate my Sea Island in FS, and if you like the new scenery, delete the Sea Island folder later (Sea Island is correctly accurately portrayed in Vancouver+)
3. In your Vancouver (CYVR42) folder, remove or rename the scenery folder, and if you like the new scenery, delete the old scenery folder later
4. Move the scenery folder in the unzipped CYVR42v+ into your Vancouver (CYVR42) folder
5. Copy the texture files from CYVR42v+\texture into your Vancouver(CYVR42)\texture folder and overwrite
6. In the FS library, ensure that the Vancouver(CYVR42) scenery is layered above the Vancouver+ sceneries
7. In the Vancouver+ configuration file ensure that CYVR is ticked and CYV2 is un-ticked
8. You are now ready to fly
Known Issues
I hope frame rates do not become an issue for you, there are a lot of buildings and detail in this airport. I have already issued an fps fix (this is incorporated in CYVR42v+) which has elicited a good response. But the two biggest frame rate hogs are still AI traffic density and the weather density. There are over 140 gates in the AFCAD file, and the airport probably compares with the likes of Heathrow and Gatwick in complexity.
I unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective) now have a fairly powerful machine by purchase day standards (Athlon 64 3500+ and an ATI X800XL video card) so it is hard assessing the fps impact on others' machines.
If frame rates are unacceptable, try selectively removing files from your Vancouver(CYVR42)\scenery folder, in order and one at-a-time, and each time assess the change to your frame rate, until an acceptable level is achieved. (I suggest that you create a folder called "removals" inside your Vancouver\scenery folder and just move the subject files into it.) Most of the files have names that are self explanatory.
I have included the heliport at the Helijet Terminal, AF2_CYV2.bgl, which is a modification of the AFCAD file created by Holger Sandmann a couple of years ago
Files that should not be removed from the CYVR scenery folder
CYVR42v+.bgl and CYVR42V+_Exclude THESE FILES MUST BE IN PLACE AT ALL TIMES these are the main files for the airport terminal buildings, further modified again in this update.
AF2_CYVRv+.bgl THIS FILE MUST BE IN PLACE AT ALL TIMES this is a new AFCAD for Vancouver using Lee Brompton's AFCAD as the seed. This file is the main file for the runways, taxiways and aprons and should only be changed if compatibility with the design building layout is continued; it also includes the apron at the Iona Sewage Treatment Plant
The following modifications were made in the fps fix and are incorporated in CYVR42v+
1. I replaced the api fuel and fire trucks with MS default trucks, they look perfectly okay although not quite so authentic as my originals; I also gave them their own files which allows for their removal, if need be.
2. I adjusted fences to be visible at 3 km; before it was at 30km and certainly not visible to the eye until well into the 3km range, but nevertheless using up valuable computer resources. BUT PLEASE NOTE the fences files are not included in CYVR42v+ since most of the fencing has to be re-drawn to comply with Vancouver+. These files will uploaded in a few weeks. I considered it more important to have the modified CYVR up and running as soon as possible.
3. I adjusted the various apron lights, the Iona outfall, and some of the miscellaneous buildings to the same parameter, ie visible at 3 km.
4. I removed the lonesome ship trapped between bridges on the North Arm of the Fraser River.
5. Most importantly, thanks to"Guru" Arno Gerretsen, I have resolved the problem of disappearing textures at the Air Canada hangar near the threshold of 26R
6. I modified the AFCAD file to stop the aircraft conflicting with the lights at the UPS and FedEx terminals, and this has been further modified to accommodate some differences in Vancouver+ layout
7. Even although it has just been demolished, I have left the old control tower in place for sentimental reasons, since it has always been an identifying fixture in my mind for decades (also it was very complicated to create and I cannot tolerate the thought of throwing it out!)
NEW CREDITS
* Manuel Vilela for Gasolinera CEPSA-ELF (gas station)
* Jorge Pagano for permitting me (Holger actually did the work!) to modify the wake texture for his ship macros
* It almost goes without saying, but Jon Patch and Holger Sandmann for such glorious scenery that my CYVR can fit into
Copyright and Distribution
This scenery is released as Freeware. 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. No charge may be made for this archive other than that to cover the cost of its distribution. If a fee is charged it must be made clear to the purchaser that the archive is freeware and that the fee is to cover the distributor's costs of providing the archive. The authors' rights and wishes concerning this archive must be respected.
