Louisville, Kentucky Version 9.3-R
For use with FS2004
By: Jim Jones
Internet:mrjlbones@bellsouth.net
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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, Lou9.1-R, and Lou9.2-R which must be fully installed and working properly. They are located at SurClaro as Lou90-R.zip, Lou91-R.zip and Lou92-R. 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 features the Belle of Louisville steamboat with rotating paddle wheel and cam and reciprocating drive shafts. It is an ai vessel using an AFCAD path to circuit a portion of the Ohio River at Louisville. It is not designed to be driven. Other scenery enhancements include four completely revised complexes using day and night textures. They are the Oxmoor Mall, the St. Matthews Mall, the Baptist East Hospital and the Louisville Water Company purification plant in the Cresent Hill area of Louisville. Also, 17 buildings and complexes have been given night textures that had none before. The static Belle of Louisville has been deleted from the scenery, replaced by the dynamic one. The flatten info has been changed to expand the area for the new Louisville Water Company and to correct an error that showed a very large depression in the scenery east of the General Electric plant.
Seven screen shots may be seen in the Doc9.3-R folder featuring some of the additions.
I wish to express special thanks to Holger Sandmann, Larry Silsbee and Allan Wheeler for the inspiration created by their Columbia River Gorge Sternwheeler to create my own Belle. Their modified air, aircraft.cfg, and effects files were used to display the great smoke, steam, wake and spray effects. Futher acknowledgements to them are in the Acknowledgements section.
The Belle of Louisville, built as the Idlewild in 1914, is the only remaining Western Rivers day packet boat and was registered as a National Historic Landmark in 1989. It continues to provide excursions on the Ohio River from Louisville. A detailed description and history of the Belle may be found on the net at: www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/nhl/belle.htm. Search the net using "Belle of Louisville" for cruise information.
If the time is changed while observing the Belle, the Belle will restart from its base point close to downtown Louisville. It should reappear instantly but take several seconds (25 sec on my PC) to begin moving and showing effects. Restarting sometimes shows the Belle textures at low resolution and one must get very close for the textures to appear at their highest. This can be achieved by using another boat or float plane to get close to the Belle.
The file that controls the Belle's effects is named BelleOfLouisvilleEffects.fx and resides in the main FS4 effects folder. The default effects have the Belle showing a great deal of smoke and this is unreal except at startup and when racing. Should you wish to modify the smoke to begin with smoke then stop at some time later, this may be done by changing two lines in the Belle's effects file.
The first sequence of lines appears as:
// Smoke Right Stack
[Emitter.0]
Lifetime 0,0
To halt the smoke after some time provide two values following the "Lifetime" name parameter. As an example:
Lifetime 60,120 would stop the smoke at some time between 1 and 2 minutes after startup. There is a similar sequence for the Left stack. Any modifications should be duplicated for the left stack in a similar manner. The modifications may be made with a text editor such as Notepad or Wordpad.
INSTALLATION
Please follow these instructions carefully to avoid problems.
All previous releases, Lou9.0-R, Lou9.1-R and Lou9.2-R, should have been installed in that order for optimum results. It seems from download numbers that Lou9.1-R has not been downloaded and installed as often as the others. For those persons who have not installed all the releases and in the order they were released, problems may occur. The Belle steamboat may be run without any of the Louisville scenery. See further information at the end of the installation procedure.
Create a temporary file. Using Winzip extract all the files, except the File_ID.diz file from the Lou9.3-R file into the temporary file you just created. Set the Winzip option to use folder names to preserve the hierarchy of the files and folders. The temporary file should then contain the folders in the following hierarchy:
ai_BelleOfLouisville
model
texture
Doc9.3-R
effects
scenery
texture
traffic
Overwrite any files when needed.
Cut and Paste the ai_BelleOfLouisville folder into your FS2004/aircraft folder. This should also automatically move the model and texture folders and files associated with the ai_BelleOfLouisville.
Cut and Paste the Doc9.3R folder to your Lou9.0-R folder.
Cut and Paste the FILES in the effects folder into your FS2004/effects folder.
Cut and Paste the FILES in the scenery folder into your Lou9.0-R/scenery folder.
Cut and Paste the FILES in the texture folder into your Lou9.0-R/texture folder.
Cut and Paste the Traffic_LOOR.bgl FILE from the traffic folder into your FS2004/Addon Scenery/scenery folder.
You must now modify the scenery.cfg file located in you FS2004 root directory. This can be done by replacing the existing flatten data in this file for the Lou9.0-R scenery. Locate and delete the 10 flatten files and replace them by copying the following 10 lines of flatten data and pasting them where you previously deleted the 10 lines.
You may delete the temporary file and its contents now.
That completes the installation. Enjoy
For those who do not have the Lou9.0,1 and 2 series of releases you may attempt to run the Belle by itsself using the default scenery. The only files you need to load are those contained in the ai_BelleOfLouisville folder, the Traffic_LOOR.bgl file and one file from the scenery folder, AF2_LOOR.bgl. The AF2_LOOR file should be loaded into the FS2004/Addon Scenery/scenery folder. You will encounter some stange terrain and river anomolies but you should be able to view the Belle.
AUTHOR'S SYSTEM SPECS
The author's system specs are provided here. Systems with less capacity may not run Lou9.0-R and its 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 Packs 1 and 2 and updates.
FS2004 with update.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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 & 9 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 early 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.
To Lee Swordy for the use of his AFCAD v2.21 and Traffic Tools v2.00 programs used to generate cruise paths for the Belle.
To Holger Sandmann, Larry Silsbee and Allan Wheeler for their modified air, aircraft.cfg, and effects files used with their permission to display the great smoke, steam, wake and spray effects. It is difficult to know all the persons that have contributed to the knowledge contained in these files. Hopefully no one will be offended by not being personally mentioned in these acknowledgements. Holger's files provided a very useful structure and template for modification. I want to express my apologies to Holger should any portions of my files duplicate his efforts in a way offensive to him.
This is freeware and is not to be distributed for any monetary gain. Copyrights are those of this author except where noted when they belong to others. 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.
