CITY OF MANCHESTER - For FS2002
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This scenery package adds buildings to the City of Manchester UK
I haven't been to Manchester for many years so this has been pieced together from maps, pictures and word-of-mouth. So please excuse any errors.
Several office, hotel and public buildings have been added to the city centre (including Piccadilly Plaza, Strangeways, Town Hall, GMEX, Arndale Centre, Bank House & Portland Tower). Also 3 sports grounds have been added (i.e. the two Old Traffords and the Commonwealth Games stadium).
My intentions are to add more detail to some of the macros and incorporate new buildings/features. However I'm a) out of ideas for the moment and b) running a bit short of time, so I thought it best to put this out in a semi-finished state.
Please send any comments, complaints or requests for additional buildings to
david@vanguard2.freeserve.co.uk and I'll see what I can do.
To install:-
Unzip into the scenery folder of FS2002. e.g. if your FS2002 is installed in the default location, unzip to c:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\FS2002\scenery. This will create a sub-directory called manchestercc. This sub-directory, in turn, contains the scenery and texture sub-directories.
Then add the scenery area to the FS2002 scenery library.
Although there are 2 ways of doing this, my preferred method is to edit the c:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\FS2002\scenery.cfg file directly.
*** Where Area/Layer is your next available number, and Local points to wherever you have installed FS2002
KNOWN ISSUES:-
1. Despite night textures (*_lm.bmp) files being included, they don't show up an night for some of the buildings. I know what the problem is but I haven't had the time to delve into the SCASM code to fix it yet.
2. Maine Road hasn't been included in view of MCFC's move to the City of Manchester Stadium. If any die-hard fan really wants this included let me know.
3. Anyone got a picture of ICL West Gorton? I wanted to include this but couldn't find a resource on-line.
Thanks to the guys on UK Scenery for taking a look at this for me - esp. David Greenhalgh for his support and maps.
