GEORGIA 99
FLIGHT SIMULATOR FOR SCENERY FOR THE STATE OF GEORGIA
BY KEN DACEY
DECEMBER 1999
REQUIREMENTS:AIRPORT TEXTURES, ASD TEXTURES, VOD TEXTURES(EITHER 2.7 OR 3.0), PATCH ONE FROM MICROSOFT
RECOMMENDED(FOR BEST VIEWING):TOTAL FLORIDA99, ALABAMA99, AND SC99
THIS SCENERY COMPLETES THE 1999 VERSIONS OF THE SOUTHEAST QUADRANT OF SCENERIES BY MYSELF AND RUSS GUNNER. I CONTINUE TO BE
PLEASED WITH THE REVIEWS AND NOTES ABOUT THE QUALITY, DENSITY, AND ACCURACY OF THESE SCENERIES AND AM PLEASED TO CONTINE TO STRIVE FOR SCENERY DEVELOPMENT EXCELLENT WITH THE FINAL RELEASE OF MY VERSION OF THE SOUTHEASTERN USA. I TRIED TO BE AS COMPLETE AS POSSIBLE WILL STILL PROVIDING A DESCENT FRAME RATE(TEST MACHINES WERE OF PENTIUM II QUALITY WITH AT LEAST 64MB OF MEMORY AND A 3D CARD WITH AT LEAST 8MB OF MEMORY AND A CPU OF AT LEAST 400MhZ). SIMMERS WITH A COMPUTER LESS THAN WHAT WAS TESTED MAY EXPERIENCE SLOWER FRAME RATES AND DELAYED PERFORMANCE IN ATLANTA(MY SYSTEM PERFORMS AT 10FPS OR BETTER EVEN IN ATLANTA). I TRIED TO BE AS REALISTIC AS POSSIBLE BUT WITH THE CURRENT FS ENGINE AND FRAME RATES I OPTED TO PROVIDE ONLY ABOUT 50 GATES AND 3 STATIC AIRCRAFT AT HARTSFIELD ATLANTA INT'L AIRPORT. I ALSO HAD TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OF BUILDINGS AND 3D OBJECTS AT NEARBY DOWNTOWN ATLANTA FOR THE SAME REASON. HOWEVER I BELIEVE THAT THE SCENERY PORVIDED IN THIS PACKAGE IS STILL MUCH BETTER THAN WHAT MICROSOFT PROVIDES IN EITHER FS98 OR FS2000.
AS USUAL THIS SCENERY IS COMPATIBILE WITH MY VERSIONS OF ADJACENT STATES(FLORIDA, SOUTH CAROLINA AND ALABAMA).
I RELIED HEAVILY ON INFORMATION READILY AVAILABLE TO ME IN PUBLICATIONS AND THE INTERNET IN DESIGNING THIS SCENERY; HOWEVER, AS USUAL THERE MAY BE ERRORS OR OMISSIONS. I RELY ON MAIL FROM SIMMERS OR PHOTOS IN PROVIDING DETAIL THAT IS NOT READILY AVAILABLE, SO IF YOU ARE FROM GEORGIA AND SEE ERRORS OR PROBLEMS PLEASE SEND ME A EMAIL STATING THE PROBLEM OR THE OMISSION.
AGAIN IT JUST IS NOT PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE TO BE 100% ACCURATE OR VISIT EVERY AIRPORT\PLACE IN GEORGIA.
INSTALLATION
FIRST BE SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE REQUIRED FILES INSTALLED AND HAVE DELETED OR REMOVED MY OLDER VERSIONS OF GEORGIA OR ANY OTHER 3RD PARTY SCENERY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA
1. CREATE A FOLDER OUTSIDE FS ON YOUR HARD DRIVE(I USE SCENERY IE C:\SCENERY)
2. INSIDE THIS FOLDER ANOTHER SUBFOLDER NAMED GEORGIA(IE C:\SCENERY\GEORGIA)
3. AND INSIDE GEORGIA CREATE 2 MORE FOLDERS NAMED SCENERY AND TEXTURE(IE C:\SCENERY\GA\SCENERY AND C:\SCENERY\GEORGIA\TEXTURE).
4. UNZIP GA99.ZIP INTO C:\SCENERY\GEORGIA FILES WILL AUTOMATICALLY SORT INTO PROPER FOLDERS
5. FIND THE GEORGIA FILE YOU JUST UNZIPPED INTO AND LOOK AT IT INSIDE WILL BE SEVERAL ZIPPED FILES YOU NEED TO UNZIP INTO AS FOLLOWS:
6. UNZIP FS_TEXTURE.ZIP INTO YOUR MAIN FS TEXTURE DIRECTORY(THESE MUST GO HERE THEY ARE DYNAMIC TEXTURE FILES AND MOVING JETS WILL BE UNPAINTED IF THESE ARE NOT PLACED HERE).
7. FIND THE FILE NAMED FOLDER SORT AND SORT ALL GEORGIA BGL FILES BY NAME
8. IF YOU INSTALLED EITHER TOTAL FLORIDA99, ALABAMA99 OR SC99.ZIP UNZIP FL.ZIP INTO YOUR FL SCENERY DIRECTORY, AL.ZIP INTO YOUR ALABAMA SCENERY DIRECTORY AND SC.ZIP INTO YOUR SC SCENERY FOLDER AND OVERWRITE IF PROMPTED. THIS STEP IS ONLY FOR THOSE SIMMERS WHO HAVE THESE STATES INSTALLED. THESE FILES ARE EXCLUDE FILES THAT MAKE GEORGIA99 COMPATABILE WITH THE ADJACENT STATES.
9. MOVE ALL SEED*.R8 FILES(IF ANY) INTO YOUR MAIN FS TEXTURE DIRECTORY FROM GA\TEXTURE
10. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO INSTALLED GA98-V5.ZIP DELETE THE STATIC SCENERY FOLDER AND REFERENCE TO IT IN YOUR SCENERY LIBRARY, IT IS NO LONGER NECESSARY FOR YOU TO HAVE THIS FILE PROVIDED YOU HAVE INSTALLED ALL THE 99 SERIES OF SCENERIES.
11. START FS
12. CLICK ON FILES THEN CLICK ON ADD
13. IGNORE THE WARNING CLICK OK
14. IN THE BOX AT THE TOP TYPE IN THE PATH TO THE GEORGIA BGL FILES IE C:\SCENERY\GEORGIA\SCENERY\*.BGL.
15. NAME THE LAYER GEORGIA99
16. SET TO LOCAL
17. ACTIVATE IT
18. CLICK OK
19. 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 ALABAMA AND FLORIDA MUST BE LAYERED ABOVE GEORGIA
LAYER 1 TOTAL FLORIDA 99 ACTIVE LOCAL
LAYER 2 GEORGIA ACTIVE LOCAL(THIS FILE)
LAYER 3 SOUTH CAROLINA ACTIVE LOCAL
LAYER 4 ALABAMA ACTIVE LOCAL
LAYER 5 NORTH CAROLINA ACTIVE LOCAL
LAYER 6 MISSISSIPPI ACTIVE LOCAL
LAYER 7 DELMARVA BY JUSTIN TYME ACTIVE LOCAL
PLEASE NOTE THAT NOW THE STATIC SCENERY LAYER HAS BEEN DELETED FROM THE SCENERY LIBRARY(FOR USERS OF MY 1998 SERIES OF SCENERY ie GEORGIA98V5.ZIP)
IF YOU ARE INSTALLING THIS FILE ALONE PLACE IT ANYWHERE JUST SET THE PRIORITY TO LOCAL.
KNOWN PROBLEMS OR ISSUES
AS STATED BEFORE THE MAIN THING NOTED WERE LOWER THAN AVERAGE FRAME RATES AT ATLANTA INT'L AIRPORT(10-20 FPS ON MY SYSTEM). FOR SIMMERS WITH LESS THAN OPTIMAL SYSTEMS TURN THE SCENERY COMPLEXITY TO NORMAL OR SPARSE AND TURN OFF THE DYNAMIC SCENERY.
THIS SHOULD RAISE THE FRAME RATES SOME, HOWEVER IF THE FRAME RATES DON'T MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS THAT I SUGGEST NOT INSTALLING GEORGIA99.
AS EVERYONE KNOWS ATLANTA HARTSFIELD INT'L IS A VERY BUSY AIRPORT AND DOWNTOWN ATLANTA IS VERY LARGE CITY WITH MANY TALL BUILDINGS. THERE CLOSE PROXIMITY TO EACH OTHER GREATLY CONSUME MEMORY. I HAD TO MAKE A CHOICE EITHER A AIRPORT WITH NO GATES AND LOTS OF STATIC AIRCRAFT OR A DENSER AIRPORT WITH AIRLINE GATES AND FEWER AIRCRAFT. I CHOSE TO ADD AROUND 50 AIRLINE GATES AND ONLY A FEW STATIC AND DYNAMIC AIRCRAFT AND INCLUDE AS DENSE A DOWNTOWN AREA WITH THE AVAILABLE MEMORY. I AM SORRY IF THIS DOES NOT PLEASE YOU BUT TO KEEP FRAME RATES ABOVE 10 THIS WAS NECESSARY.
NO OTHER PROBLEMS WERE NOT EXCEPT IN THE EXTREME SOUTHERN END OF TENNESSEE THE ROADS AND NOT CONTIGUOUS DUE TO THE EXCLUDE FILES USED.
NOTE TO FS2000 USERS: ALL OF THE 1999 SERIES OF MY SCENERIES INCLUDING GEORGIA99 WILL WORK WITH FS2000 WITHOUT ANY FLATTENING COMMANDS PROVIDED THAT YOU REMOVE THE STATE FILE NUMBERED 1(IE GA1.BGL-DELETE THIS FILE IF YOU WANT TO USE GEORGIA99 WITH FS2000 OR DELETE THE FL1.BGL FOR FLORIDA ETC). THE SCENERY LOOKS BETTER ON FS98 AND THE ELEVATED MESH TERRAIN USED IN FS2000 MASKS SOME OF THE SCENERY THAT I HAVE PROVIDED. I CHOSE NOT TO USE ELEVATED MESH TERRAIN SINCE IT IS TIME COMSUMING AND LOWER THE FRAME RATES A LOT THUS NOT ALLOWING OTHER THINGS TO BE LOADED AND SEEN. THIS SCENERY WAS NOT TESTED ON FS2000 ONLY CHECKED TO MAKE SURE IT WOULD NOT LOCK UP AND WOULD RUN AND IS FLYABLE.
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
Savannah Int'l Airport terminal textures courtesy of Brent Hebert.
THINGS TO SEE
1. ATLANTA AREA: ALL CONCOURSES AT THE INT'L AIRPORT PLUS 50 AIRLINE GATES A FEW DYNAMIC AND STATIC AIRCRAFT. THE GEORGIA DOME, TURNER FIELD, PHILLIPS ARENA, BOBBY DOOD STADIUM, PEACHTREE HOTEL IN DOWNTOWN
2. AUGUSTA AREA: AUGUSTA NATIONAL GOLF CLUB(HOME OF THE MASTERS)
3. SAVANNAH AND COASTAL AREAS: THE HISTORIC DISTRICT OF SAVANNAH AND DETAILED TEXTURED BEACHES WHERE APPROPRIATE
4. BRUNSWICK AND THE SEA ISLANDS:ST SIMONS ISLAND, JECKYL ISLAND WITH BOATS, CONDOS, AND VILLAS
5. ATHENS:SANFORD STADIUM
6. ALL THE MILITARY INSTALLATIONS WITH APPROPRIATE STATIC AND DYNAMIC AIRCRAFT(dynamic B1 bombers at Moody AFB ETC)
7. OKEFENOKEE SWAMP IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
8. THE OCONEE AND CHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL FORESTS
9. FOOTHILLS OF THE APPLACHIAN MOUNTAINS IN NE GEORGIA
10. CALLAWAY GARDENS IN PINE MOUNTAIN
RESOURCES
DELORME'S STREET ATLAS USA AND TOPO USA. WEB SITES FOR THE CITIES OF ATLANTA, SAVANNAH, AND ATHENS . THE HOME PAGES FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA AND GEORGIA TECH. AIRPORT DESIGNS BASED ON DIAGRAMS OBTAINED FROM VOLUME III OF FLIGHT GUIDE AND INFORMATION READILY AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET PLUS PHOTOS FROM SIMMERS.
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 Georgia and know the area, photos and sketches are helpful for completeness sake. I haven't been to all of GA 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 GA99.zip(this file)
Mississippi99
North Carolina Nc99.zip
South Carolina Sc99.zip
