NL-2000 AIRPORTS ONLY


Like many of you, I downloaded the NL-2000 package, a beautiful scenery of the Netherlands. Yet flying with it, the framerate was way too low to be able to handle a jet at Amsterdam-Schiphol.

Browsing the FlightSim website, I found a file by Arno Gerritsen (team-member of NL2000) describing how to only install Schiphol Airport from this scenery.

I started experimenting with this file following its desciption and it worked. There was only one problem. One of the files to be used from the NL-2000 package was the "exclude"-file, the file that erases all other scenery in a certain region. This NL-2000 exclude file excludes all the other scenery in the Netherlands as it covers the whole of the Netherlands.

So I tried to make separate exclude files for every airport in the NL-2000 scenery using the exclude-function in Airport 2.6.

My system is a pentium2 350mhz with 320mb ram and a 32mb video card, and framerates went up to around 10.

In this file you will find all the exclude files needed to install only the NL-2000 Airports, and a list of the Airport-bgl's needed for the airports.

The .jpg files are screenshots of the various airports in the default scenery.

YOU WILL NEED NL2000V2.ZIP TO USE THESE FILES.

INSTALLATION

Download and install nl2000v2 into a temporary directory.

Create a new directory in your ..\FS2000\Scenery directory named NL-2000 Aiports.
In this directory create 2 new ones called "Scenery" and "Texture.

Like this: FS2000
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--Scenery
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--NL-2000 Airports
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--Scenery
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--Texture

Copy all the "_exc.bgl" and ".xcl" files in the NL-2000 Airports Scenery directory.
Copy all the .bgl files on the bgl-list included in this zip file from the NL-2000 scenery into the Nl-2000 Airports directory.
Copy the whole texture folder from NL-2000 scenery into the NL-2000 Airports texture folder.
Locate your Scenery.cfg-file in your main fs directory and add the following lines:

[Area.XXX]
Title=NL-2000 Airports
Local=(path to your fs main folder) ..\FS2000\Scenery\NL-2000 Airports
Active=TRUE
Layer=XX
Flatten.0=0,N53 44,E03 13,N53 44,E07 28,N51 20,E07 28,N51 20,E03 13
Flatten.1=114,N51 20,E05 30,N51 20,E06 10,N51 03,E06 10,N51 03,E05 30
Flatten.2=375,N51 03,E05 30,N51 03,E06 10,N50 40,E06 10,N50 40,E05 30

The "XX" must be replaced by the next sequencenumber in your scenery.cfg file (i.e. if the last entry reads 60, then the xx must be replaced by 061 and 61)

The NL2000 scenery can be found at www.nl-2000.com.

Start your FS and enjoy.

For any questions or comments mail me: Hoof54@zonnet.nl

By Eric van Hoof

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