Converting Vern Oppermans FS2004 Cranbrook Airport (CYXC) to FSX
Living in Vancouver, I am very prejudiced towards flying in British Columbia and in FS2004 we had many magnificent sceneries in the province. Vern Oppermans scenery for Cranbrook Airport (CYXC) in the East Kootenays, shadowed by the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Purcell Mountains on the west, is a beautiful flight from Vancouver or Castlegar, particularly in a Dash8.
Imagine my disappointment when this scenery would not work properly in FSX most of the buildings reproduced okay but some ground polygons were messed up.
For my own use, I have had a try at modifying CYXC to make it work in FSX, quite a lot of work to do this, using SBuilderX to resolve the ground issues, and converting an AFCAD file to FSX using ADE, a very intuitive program from Scruffy Duck.
Without going round the scenery inch by inch, most of the buildings seem to transfer without trouble, and look good.
The zip file cyxc_FSX, of which this text is a part, provides the files and instructions to modify Vern Oppermans FS2004 scenery of Cranbrook Airport (cyxc04.zip) at AVSIM, and FlightSim, to allow it to function in FSX. Vern Opperman has kindly given consent for my uploading of this patch.
To use this scenery in FSX you need to do the following two steps:
1. Remove the 2 bgl files from your CYXC scenery folder, as listed in the attached text file remove. I suggest you create a folder called removals in this scenery folder and just move the two files into there.
2. Move the three bgl files in the attached add_to_sceneryfolder folder, into the CYXC scenery folder.
Problems
Sorry but you are on your own with this modification. Please do not contact me for problems in FSX, this was produced for my own use and it does the job for me (I have Ultimate TerrainX and FSGenesis mesh) however I would like to share my efforts with you and if it works, thats just great!
Please do not seek help from Vern Opperman for problems in FSX, this patch is not his work, and I appreciate his approval for allowing me to upload this conversion patch.
Credits
Vern Opperman for the original magnificent scenery
Scruffy Duck for his Airport Design Editor program.
Luis Sa for his SBuilderX program.
By the way, I have created Vancouver International Airport for FSX, including a version compatible with the payware Vancouver+ created by Jon Patch and Holger Sandmann if you want some very dramatic flying, this payware scenery of southwest British Columbia is well worth its cost. It can be found at:
and my freeware CYVR scenery is at AVSIM , FlightSim and various other sites.
And dont forget the freeware Victoria+ (vicenh7a.zip and vicenh7b.zip) by Don Grovestine, Jon Patch and Holger Sandmann, to round out great flying in southwestern British Columbia in the Victoria area.
