Louisville, Kentucky Version 9.2-R
For use with FS2004
By: Jim Jones
Internet:70303.2016@compuserve.com

SECTIONS:

General Notes and Comments
Installation
Author's System Specs
Acknowledgments

GENERAL NOTES AND COMMENTS:

IMPORTANT

This scenery is an addon to Lou9.0-R and Lou9.1-R which must be fully installed and working properly. They are located at SurClaro as Lou9.0-R.zip and Lou9.1-R.zip. They require Gerrish Gray's trees for optimum views of the scenery. See the documentation of Lou9.0-R for details concerning the Louisville scenery.

This addon provides 11 new buildings including: the Kentucky Center for the Arts, a large and unique design; Slugger Field, Louisville's new baseball field; Hillerich and Bradsby Bat factory with the worlds largest baseball bat out front; the new Marriott Inn; and the Cathedral of the Assumption.

Also 22 of the buildings have been completely revamped and use photo real textures. Churchill Downs has been totally revised to update it to the many new features recently added. It also has a satellite photo of the track and surroundings. Papa John's Cardinal Stadium also is among the revised buildings. These changes yield a much more realistic look to the city. There is more work to be done to add photo real textures to existing buildings.

The new and revised buildings have been designed with gmax without a significant decrease in frame rates despite the added number and complexity of the buildings. Also the gmax designs can be seen at a greater distance , even the smaller buildings.

The piers of all the bridges are now 3D objects with textures as opposed to the prior 2D solid color ones.

The MS update to FS9 made changes to the night red lights making them bigger and less realistic. New lights have been to designed to overcome this and are seen mostly at Bowman Field.

An exclude file that should have been distributed with previous versions of Lou9 has been included to eliminate one of the MS bridges.

Ten screen shots may be seen in the Doc9.2-R folder featuring some of the additions.

Included is a listing of the major buildings and their coordinates for those interested in the names and locations of scenery objects. The new or revised changes in this release have been coded as "n" or "rt" in the file "Scenery Locations.txt".

INSTALLATION

Please follow these instructions carefully to avoid problems.

There are 55 bgl and 34 bmp files in this release.

Using WinzipExtract all the files, except the File_ID.diz file, from the Lou9.2-R.zip file into your earlier
installed Lou9.0-R folder. Set the option to use folder names and the option to overwrite existing files.

Optionally you can extract all the files to a temporary folder and move the contents from the temporary
folder to their proper folders in Lou9.0-R. Specifically, copy the Doc9.2-R folder to the Lou9.0-R folder,
the scenery files into the Lou9.0-R\scenery folder and the texture files into the Lou9.0-R\texture folder.
Overwrite files when requested.

Now run your Lou9.0-R scenery with the Lou9.2-R additions you just made. Enjoy.

AUTHOR'S SYSTEM SPECS

The author's system specs are provided here. Systems with less capacity may not run Lou9.2-R revisions as well..

Micron PC with Pentium 4 Processor 2.8 MHz (533FSB)(512K cache)
1.28 Mb SDRAM
2 240 Gb Hard Drives (7200 RPM)
DVD-R/RW combo drive.
128 Mb DDR nVidia Geforce4 TI4600 graphics card
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!
Microsoft Windows XP Home, Service Pack 2
FS2004 with update.

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 Discreet and MS for the powerful gmax design program.

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
fs2004.

To the United States Geological Service for their excellent satellite color photos of Louisville available through Terraserver.

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 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,
Bill Leahy, and Adam Gaweda. (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.

To Doug Horton who suggested the use of seasonal textures where they were not used in the previous
version.

To Dan Moore who prompted the use of photoreal textures on buildings. As a consequence the revamping
of the Kentucky Exposition Center was initiated. Photoreal textures for buildings is a continuing process
and future releases will include them.

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.