SOUTH CAROLINA 99
SCENERY FOR MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR
BY KEN DACEY
OCTOBER 1999
REQUIREMENTS:ASD TEXTURES, AIRPORT TEXTURES, VOD TEXTURES(EITHER VOD27.ZIP OR VOD30.ZIP), PATCH 1 FROM MICROSOFT
FOR BEST RESULTS I ALSO RECOMMEND NC99.ZIP AND GEORGIA98-VER5.ZIP OR FORTHCOMING GA99.ZIP)
I AM PLEASED TO STILL PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY, DENSE, REALISTIC, AND ACCURATE SCENERY OF THE SOUTHEASTERN USA. THE LATEST EFFORT
IS THIS SCENERY PACKAGE SOUTH CAROLINA99 A SEQUAL TO SC98-VERF.ZIP. THIS SCENERY WAS THE FIRST TO BE CREATED WITH THE NEWLY RELEASED ABACUS AIRPORT AND SCENERY DESIGNER(ASD) VERSION 2. IN THIS PACKAGE I REDID MOST OF THE STATE CONCENTRATING ON THE MAJOR AIRPORTS IN THE STATE. I HAND MADE ACCURATE REPRESENTATIONS OF GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG(KGSP), COLUMBIA METRO(KCAE), CHARLESTON AFB/INT'L(KCHS),HILTON HEAD(HHH FORMERLY HXD), AND FLORENCE REGIONAL(FLO) USING VOD3. ALSO NEW TO THIS SCENERY ARE AIRLINE TERMINAL GATES AND HAND MADE 3D OBJECTS AT THESE AIRPORTS AND OTHER SITES. I PLACED STATIC JETS AT THEIR CORRECT TERMINALS. I REDID THE COASTAL AREA TO TEXTURE ALL THE BEACHES WHERE APPROPRIATE AND REDID THE CHARLESTON PENINSULAR AREA TO REFLECT WHAT A PILOT MIGHT SEE WHEN FLYING IN TO KCHS. UNICOM FREQUENCIES WHERE IMPLEMENTED WHERE APPROPRIATE. FINALLY I CONCENTRATED ON SEEMLY MESHING SOUTH CAROLINA WITH MY OTHER SCENERY NC99 AND GA98-V5.ZIP(AND SOON TO BE RELEASED GA99.ZIP).
ALSO NEW IS AN UPDATED AIRPORT AND FACILITY DIRECTORY(AFD( SO NOW YOU CAN GO TO THE AIRPORTS FROM EITHER THE FS6 AND BEFORE MENU OR FROM THE AFD.
INSTALLATION(READ FIRST BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL IT PLEASE)
1. REMOVE ALL MY PREVIOUS SCENERY OF SOUTH CAROLINA OR DISABLE ANY OTHER SCENERY YOU HAVE ACTIVATED FOR SOUTH CAROLINA
2. CREATE A FOLDER PREFERABLY OUTSIDE YOUR MAIN FS DIRECTORY(I USE SCENERY), IE C:\SCENERY
3. INSIDE SCENERY CREATE A NEW FOLDER NAMED SC(IE C:\SCENERY\SC)
4. UNZIP THE SC99.ZIP INTO THAT FOLDER IT WILL PLACE ALL FILES IN THEIR CORRECT DIRECTORIES
5. THEN GO TO C:\SCENERY\SC\TEXTURE AND MOVE ALL SEED*.R8 FILES TO YOUR MAIN FS TEXTURE DIRECTORY(IMPORTANT) OVERWRITE IF ASKED. THERE IS NO NEED TO WORRY I DID NOT MAKE ANY NEW SEED FILES I JUST USED EXISTING ONES SO OTHER SCENERY THAT USES THEM WILL NO BE AFFECTED.
6. GO INTO YOUR SC FOLDER AND UNZIP FS-TEXTURE.ZIP INTO YOUR MAIN FS TEXTURE FOLDER. THESE ARE DYNAMIC AIRCRAFT TEXTURES AND MUST BE PLACED HERE OR THE DYNAMIC JETS WILL BE COLORLESS AND UNTEXTURED.
7. RUN FOLDERSORT AND ARRANGE ALL BGL FILESIN SC\SCENERY BY THEIR NAME.
8. IF YOU HAVE INSTALLED EITHER MY GEORGIA98-V5.ZIP OR NC99.ZIP UNZIP GA.ZIP INTO GA\SCENERY AND NC.ZIP INTO NC\SCENERY AND OVERWRITE. OMIT THIS STEP IF YOU DON'T HAVE ORPLAN TO INSTALL THESE.
9. FOR USERS OF SC98-VERF.ZIP FIND THESE FILES IN STATIC\SCENERY AND DELETE THEM:
OMIT THIS STEP IF YOU DID NOT INSTALL THE OLDER VERSION OF THIS SCENERY.
CHS_PLNS.BGL
CAE_PLNS.BGL
FLO_PLNS.BGL
GSP_PLNS.BGL
HXD_PLNS.BGL
MCAS_PLN.BGL
MYR_PLNS.BGL
SHAW_PLN.BGL
10. START FS
11. CLICK ON FILES THEN CLICK ON ADD
12. IGNORE THE WARNING CLICK OK
13. IN THE BOX AT THE TOP TYPE IN THE PATH TO THE SC BGL FILES IE C:\SCENERY\SC\SCENERY\*.BGL.
14. NAME THE LAYER SC99
15. SET TO LOCAL
16. ACTIVATE IT
17. CLICK OK
18. NEXT ARRANGE THE FILES IN YOUR SCENERY LIBRARY IN THE ORDER BELOW. FOR COMPLETENES MY OTHER STATE SCENERIES AND LAYERS ARE LISTED. GEORGIA MUST BE LAYERED ABOVE SOUTH CAROLINA AND NORTH CAROLINA MUST BE LAYERED BELOW SOUTH CAROLINA.
LAYER 1 TOTAL FLORIDA 99 ACTIVE LOCAL
LAYER 2 STATIC AIRCRAFT DISABLED REGIONAL
LAYER 3 GEORGIA ACTIVE LOCAL
LAYER 4 SOUTH CAROLINA ACTIVE LOCAL(THIS FILE)
LAYER 5 ALABAMA ACTIVE LOCAL
LAYER 6 NORTH CAROLINA ACTIVE LOCAL
LAYER 7 MISSISSIPPI ACTIVE LOCAL
LAYER 8 DELMARVA BY JUSTIN TYME ACTIVE LOCAL
IF YOU ARE INSTALLING THIS FILE ALONE PLACE IT ANYWHERE JUST SET THE PRIORITY TO LOCAL.
KNOWN PROBLEMS AND ISSUES
THIS SCENERY WAS TESTED ON PENTIUM SYSTEMS OF AT LEAST 300mHZ WITH AT LEAST 72Mb OF RAM AND A 3D CARD WITH AL LEAST 8MB OF MEMORY. WITH THESE SPECS FRAME RATES WHERE NEVER LESS THAN 20 FPS. IF YOU HAVE A COMPUTER WITH LESS THAN THESE OPTIMAL SPECS FRAME RATES MY BE SLOWER. TO HELP WITH THIS I HAVE MADE THE AIRPORTS WITH VARYING SCENERY COMPLEXITY AND SUGEGST THAT YOU TURN THE COMPLEXITY TO SPARSE OR NORMAL AND TURN OFF THE DYNAMIC SCENERY. ALSO IT WAS NOTED DURIN BETA TESTING THAT SOME OF THE 3D OBJECTS ARE MEMORY HOGGERS AND MAY BE SLOW TO LOAD ON SOME SYSTEMS. FINALLY, UNTIL I RELEASE GEORGIA99 THIS WINTER THERE MAY BE A LITTLE DISTORTION AND BRIDGE PLACEMENT PROBLEMS ALONG THE SAVANNAH RIVER AT THE JUNCTION BETWEEN SC AND GA.
ASD RELEASED VERSION 2 WHEN THE PROJECT WAS NERALY FINISHED THEREFORE I AM RELEASING THIS VERSION WITH THE MESH TERRAIN HOWEVER A VERSION WITH ELEVATED MESH TERRAIN IS IN THE WORKS AND SHOULD BE AVAILABLE SOON.
ALTHOUGH I HAVE VISITED AND OR LIVED IN MANY PLACES IN THE STATE AND RECEIVED A LOT OF SIMMER MAIL ABOUT THE STATE I TRIED TO BE AS REALISTIC AND POSSIBLE WHILE MAINTAINING GOOD FRAME RATES. IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE TO VISIT EVERY CITY AND OR AIRPORT. IF YOU ARE FROM THE STATE AND WOULD LIKE TO MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE FORM OF PHOTOS OR DIAGRAMS FOR FORTH COMING REVISIONS PLEASE SEND THEM TO ME.
FOR USERS WHO OPT NOT TO INSTALL GEORGIA OR NORTH CAROLINA, MAJOR FEATURES ARE STILL INTACT, HOWEVER, THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT
DISCREPANCY IN THE ROADS AS THEY CROSS INTO THE DEFAULT GA OR NC SCENERY FROM SC. ALSO THE COAST LINES WILL NOT LOOK RIGHT AT THEIR JUNCTIONS...FOR BEST RESULTS I SUGGEST INSTALLING ALL 3 STATES FOR OPTIMUM VIEWING.
FOR USERS OF FS2000..................................
SINCE I CANNOT FIND A WAY TO EXCLUDE THE DEFAULT MESH TERRAIN SC99 IS NOT COMPATIBILE WITH FS2000. IT WILL RUN BUT THE ELEVATED MESH TERRAIN EATS UP A LOT OF MEMORY DOES NOT LOOK TO GOOD WITH THIS SCENERY. USE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION WITH FS2000.
CREDITS
To Joe Fisher for his beta testing.
SCASM-Manfred Moldenhauer
ASD version 2-Abacus Software and Peter A. Jacobsen
MDLtoBGL-Trevor Dr Stigter
Dynkit-Konstantin Kukushkin
FSAction-Louis Sinclair and Abacus Software
VOD-Raphael Sanchez
Beaches 2 Luis De Sa
some textures courtesy of FS Genesis and Justin Tyme
macros courtesy of Tim Dickens, Raphael Sanchez, Robert Waszkiewicz, David Lang, Dan Geis
THINGS TO SEE
1. NEARLY ACCURATE RENDTIONS OF THE DOWNTOWN AREAS OF GREENVILLE, COLUMBIA, AND CHARLESTON
2. DYNAMIC AIRCRAFT AT THE MAJOR AIRPORTS AND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS
3. THE GRAND STRAND AREA OF MYRTLE BEACH COMPLETE WITH HOTELS, CONDOS, AMUSEMENT PARKS, AND GOLF COURSES
4. HILTON HEAD ISLAND COMPLETE WITH VILLAS, HOTELS, GOLF COURSES, AND SAIL BOATS
5. PENINSULAR CHARLESTON COMPLETE WITH THE MASSIVE COOPER RIVER BRIDGES, POWER PLANTS, MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, HISTORIC HOMES, FORT SUMTER, AND HAGOOD STADIUM
6. RENDITIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
7. THE SAVANNAH RIVER
8. SUMTER NATIONAL FOREST
9. ALL THE BARRIER ISLANDS EDISTO ISLAND, KIAWAH ISLAND, FOLLY BEACH, ISLE OF PALMS
10. FRANCIS MARION NATIONAL FOREST
11. DARLINGTON INT'L SPEEDWAY
RESOURCES
DELORME'S STREET ATLAS USA AND TOPO USA. WEB SITES FOR THE CITIES OF GREENVILLE, COLUMBIA, CHARLESTON, AND MYRTLE BEACH . THE HOME PAGES FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AND CLEMSON UNIVERSITY. AIRPORT DESIGNS BASED ON DIAGRAMS OBTAINED FROM VOLUME III OF FLIGHT GUIDE AND AVAILABLE WEB SIGHTS AND FROM ACTUAL PHOTOS TAKEN FROM THE AIRFIELDS AND DOWNTOWN AREAS.
DISCLAIMER
We do not guarantee that this scenery will work as intended on your system. It should not
damage your PC or FS. Please pass the files to others, but do not alter the files, publish
on an CDROM in any form, whether for commercial or noncommercial purposes without our express
written consent.
ADDRESS AND COMMENTS AND INQUIRIES TO KDACEY@GATE.NET(as usual if you are from SC and know the area, photos and sketches are helpful for completeness sake. I haven't been to all of SC and relied on information readily available to me, however, I am willing to make changes, just please send me what you can.)
Visit my webpage at http://www.gate.net/~kdacey for all our scenery and updates
OTHER SCENERY
Alabama current version AL99.ZIP
Total Florida99
Georgia current version Ga98-v5.zip(all 3 zips required)
Mississippi99
North Carolina Nc99.zip
South Carolina Sc99.zip(this file)
