Converting Swedflights FS2004 Arlanda Airport (ESSA) to FSX
Swedflights payware scenery for Stockholms Arlanda Airport (ESSA) was one of my favourite sceneries in FS2004, and I have always enjoyed flying around the Scandinavian countries, particularly from Stockholm to Oslo and Copenhagen.
Imagine my disappointment when this scenery would not work properly in FSX most of the buildings reproduced okay but the ground polygons were all messed up.
For my own use, I have had a try at modifying ESSA to make it work in FSX, quite a lot of work to do this, using trial and error to determine which field and other scenery files to remove, 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 a bit like my own CYVR, the building textures look even better in FSX. I have had to apply some aprons to the various industrial and commercial sites around the airport; their original aprons were embedded within some of the field files I removed. Most of the buildings are there and I have not touched any of these, but the various aprons will not necessarily be correct or complete.
The zip file essa_FSX, of which this text is a part, provides the files and instructions to modify Swedflights payware FS2004 scenery of Arlanda (SWE-Pack1ver2C.exe at http://www.swedflight.com ) to allow it to function in FSX. Bjorn Harlin, on behalf of SwedFlight Design, has 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 8 bgl files from your ESSA 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 eight files into there.
2. Move the two bgl files in the attached add_to_sceneryfolder folder, into the ESSA 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 however I would like to share my efforts with you and if it works, thats just great!. Please do not seek help from Swedflight for problems in FSX, this patch is not their work, and I appreciate their approval for allowing me to upload this conversion patch.
Credits
Swedflight 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:
