Diavik Diamond Mine CDK2 scenery for FS9
by Sidney Schwartz & Peter Ham
sidney.schwartz@comcast.net

The Diavik Diamond Mine is located about 200 miles NE of Yellowknife in Canada's Northwest Territory, very near the border with the province of Nunavut. It a relatively new facility, having been begun production in 2003. The only means of access are by air or ice road. (If you are a James Bondian super villian plotting world domination, Diavik would be a great place for your secret underground headquarters.) This scenery is completely scratch built. In addition to the airstrip itself, I used Google Earth pics to create a photo ground texture of the adjoining facility. The buildings of the main processing complex are very simply modeled, as is the large open pit mine.

This scenery was designed for use with Ultimate Terrain and was not tested in the default scenery. (As far as I can tell, Ulimate Terrain does not affect the area around Diavik, so it should work OK.) It may or may not work in FSX.

Basic Scenery Installation
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IMPORTANT!! An earlier version of Diavik is included in volume 4 of the "Pete & Sid's Viva Scenery" series. If you already have that scenery installed, removed ALL Diavik files before installing these.

Unzip Diavik_CDK2.zip to a temporary location. Move the entire Diavik CDK2 folder into your FS9/Addon/Scenery folder. Run FS9 and use the Scenery Library Manager to add Diavik CDK2 to your list of active scenery folders.

Scenery Objects Installation
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This scenery uses a number of freeware scenery object libraries that must be installed in FS9. These are listed in Diavik CDK2 Object Libraries.pdf, which you can find in your Addon Scenery/Williams Lake CYWL folder. The list includes hyperlinks you can use to download these libraries from SurClaro.com and SurClaro. (You must be registered and logged in to download files from either site. Registration is free.) IMPORTANT: If you have installed other add-on sceneries on your system, you may already have some or all of these object libraries. ONLY DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL THOSE LIBRARIES THAT YOU DON'T ALREADY HAVE! Having multiple copies of an object library installed may cause those objects to not display! Check the list of required libraries against what you have on your computer before downloading.

Program Credits
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Custom object modeling: Google Sketchup
Sketchup model conversion: ModelConverterX by Arno Gerretson
Object library creation: Library Creator by Arno Gerretson
AFCAD: ADE9X by Jon Masterson
Object placement: Instant Scenery by Flight1 and EZ-Scenery by Abacus
Terrain modifications: Sbuilder by Luis Sa
Image editing: Lview Pro by MMedia Research

Terms of Usage
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This scenery is freeware. Under no circumstances may it be sold or incorporated, wholly or in part, into any payware product. This scenery may be made available for downloading from other web sites provided it is not modified in any way and uploaded complete and in its original form. Custom scenery objects made for this scenery may NOT be used in other scenery, freeware or payware.

Sidney Schwartz
sidney.schwartz@comcast.net
February 3, 2011