This area contains a collection of Graphical Editors and is an important part of our Scenery Design Studio.
You'll also find links to a variety of Design Utilities.
AFCAD - is a freeware CAD-style program that allows you to modify the
facility data, and some of the visible scenery, used in Microsoft Flight Simulator
(FS). The facility data that AFCAD works with is used by ATC to control user and AI
aircraft at airports and to assign parking. It also controls the airport
information that you see on the map view, GPS screen, flight planner,
and start position set-up window in Flight Simulator. The visible scenery
that AFCAD can modify includes runways, taxiways, aprons, and all associated
markings and lights. More airport scenery elements will be added in subsequent
releases.
What You Can Do With This Program?
Runways, Different runways for takeoffs and landings, Taxiways, Aprons, Parking,
Airline Gate Assignments, ATC and communications, Navaids,
Helipads, Start locations, Control tower view, Shifting
airports.
What You Will Be Able To Do With Subsequent Releases of AFCAD?
Taxiway Signs, Airport structures, Exclusions and Flattening.
Note:Not for use with FS2k2, which requires AFCAD v1.4.
AFX is a powerful commercial (for profit) airport editor for
FS2004 and FSX for both novice and expert Flight
Simulator users. You can easily modify any of
Flight Simulator airports, convert your favorite
AFCADs to FSX and enhance them with FSX-specific
features, or even design a new airport from
scratch.
AFX allows you to add, modify, or remove runways,
taxiways, and paths, taxiway signs, aprons, start
location, navaids, parking spots and many more
airport features.
For FSX airports, it can add fences, moving
jetways, vehicle links and parking spots. The
utility also gives you access to FSX-specific
runway markings and other attributes.
Can import both stock and add-on FSX and FS2004 airports in the BGL format.
Connects to FS2004 and FSX using a special AFX module (included).
Allows you to to see the airport you are editing and all editing actions LIVE in Flight Simulator. This allows very easy positioning of airport elements relative to buildings, terrain features and other aspects of the scenery.
When the mouse is inside the AFX window, a second mouse pointer shows the corresponding location directly in Flight Simulator.
Reloading of scenery in FS can be triggered directly from AFX.
Displays the plane position in the AFX window.
Can lock the viewpoint in the AFX window to the plane location.
Probably the one program responsible for the explosion of new scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator,
Scenery Designer (SD) began its public life during the spring of 1996 as ScBuild 1.x. Over the next
several months, author Peter Jacobsen added several enhancements and features and released ScBuild 2.0 late in
1996. Today SD has evolved into the commercial ABACUS Airport & Scenery Designer V2.0. Airport & Scenery Designer continues to be the tool of choice for many
professional and novice scenery makers. Most of the features of Airport & Scenery Designer are invaluable for making FS2002 scenery.
From Abacus
Website: http://www.abacuspub.com/catalog/s371.htm
Airport Design Editor (ADE) is a freeware graphical design
tool to create and enhance airports for Microsoft
Flight Simulator X. It takes it's inspiration from
the excellent AFCAD2 developed for FS9 by Lee Swordy. ADE does for FSX what AFCAD does for FS9
and adds support for new FSX features such as
fences and jetways.
ADE sets out to achieve two things in designing
and enhancing airports. First to make the enhanced
airport look good, and second to make it work
properly. Airport design must address both aspects
- the visible and the invisible. The design
philosophy goes further in assisting users of all
levels to get things right from the start. Error
checking and 'common sense' are built in. At the
same time it is important to allow users
flexibility.
Note:The ADE development team has released today
4/30/08 an update for 1.25 to deal with
some bugs and also adds some significant new functionality.
Use the on-line update function Help > Check for Update.
Airport v2.60 Build 146 Full Install. Freeware program for composing scenery, especially airports, for Microsoft Flight Simulator and Combat Flight Simulator. This versions of Airport supports all FS version from 5.1 through FS2002 and Combat Flight Simulator.
Check for current patch release. From Tom Hiscox
&
Brian McWilliams.
Website: http://www.airportsupport.com
FS Architect is very easy to install and use. The
donation ware program
installs and un-installs all files automatically, detects your current
Microsoft Flight Simulator version, and installs a basic set of macro
objects that are ready to use. With Architect, you can begin building
your own airport scenery in just minutes! FS Compatibility: FS2000, FS2002, FS2004
& FSX. Works with Windows XP, XP64, & Windows 2000
The Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 is required for FS Architect v4.1.
Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributables:
.NET
Framework Version 2.0
Visual J# Redistributable
Packages
Note:FS Architect is now FREE! Please consider donating $10.00 to the
FS Architect project. Your
donation in support of the project will ensure that
the author can continue to provide new features, and a fast, dedicated,
banner-free web site.
Louis Sinclair, the inventor of FS Design Studio has added new and improved features
to the most widely used commercial design tool for Flight Simulator. Here's a partial list of
the new FS2004 / FSX features in the upgrade:
New FSX compatiblity. Use XToMDL and BGLComp tools to provide robust FSX feature set
New FSDS V3 compatibility. Use MakeMDL to maximize backward modeling capabilities
New Scenery compatible with FSX Libraries
New Enhanced boolean operations provide powerful way to cut and split parts
New Animation capabilities per FSX SDKs
New Support for using specialized textures: nighttime, lightmaps, more.
New Export to .x file format. For advanced users who want to "tweak" the .x file for XToMdl and MakeMDL.
New Aircraft Specification Sheet simplifies setup of new aircraft for Flight Simulator
Updated FSDS V2 & V3 compatibility. New version recognizes and handles earlier file versions.
Updated Unlimited Undo / Redo. Protects your model from inadvertent design errors. Roll back each design operation, step-by-step.
Updated User selectable Autosave interval. Safeguards your model from computer failure.
Updated HELP files with tutorials for making animated scenery.
Flight Simulator Scenery Creator (FSSC) is a freeware
graphical scenery creator that allows you to create scenery for
Microsoft Flight Simulator. Though the user interface is not truly
WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), the program allows you to
position your objects graphically. For those interested in precision,
FS Scenery Creator also allows you to position them precisely by
entering the relative or world coordinates manually. From Derek Leung
Website: http://www.fssc.avsim.net/index.html
Windows 98+
FS Scenery Enhancer 2004, v1.03
Download
For
Size
Description
Requries
FS2002+
60.0mb
FS Scenery Enhancer is a unique commercial product that makes it very simple to
add scenery elements (objects), animate them and add sounds to existing scenery
objects. What makes this
product special is that the whole process of scenery enhancing takes
place INSIDE Flight Simulator 2004 and not in a separate program as
was the only option to this moment. There is no code to write, no
compiling needed.
Note: Check for any available patches, to upgrade to latest version.
From Lago
Website: http://www.lagosim.com/
Note:This tool is under constant development and may well have numerous bugs.
The author would be grateful if you can help in reducing the number of bugs,
by reporting any anomalies. Compatibility with future versions, not guaranteed!
- use at your own risk.
FSX Planner is a full featured graphical editing
tool intended to allow its users to easily modify
all aspects of an airport for use within
Microsoft's Flight Simulator X, both visible and
invisible. The visible parts of an airport that
can be modified include everything from the
runways and taxiways to the taxiway signs and
windsocks and scenery objects, as well as
everything in between. The unseen parts of an
airport that can be modified include everything
from the airport services and fuel triggers to the
communication frequencies and navigation
information.
gmax is a free 3D content creation platform designed to let game
enthusiasts create custom art for their favorite titles. It includes
many powerful tools including polygon and patch editing, texturing,
lighting, and simple keyframe animation. Now included in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 Pro Edition.
Minimum install:
gmax 1.2 Installer (19MB)
gmax Help (self-extracting ZIP 15MB)
gmax Tutorials (self-extracting ZIP 14MB)
gmax Sample Textures (self-extracting ZIP 3MB)
GroundMaker is the perfect utility for creating small flat scenery
areas (6 x 6 miles). If you want to design landscapes, there are other
programs written for that purpose. With GroundMaker you get full
FS2000 compatibility. There is no need to make any manual changes to
CONFIG files in order to make your scenery work. All shapes and
objects, including world menu entries (to access your airport in FS),
exclude switches (to hide any interfering default FS airports) and
flatten polygon (makes the airport flat in order to avoid visual
artifacts) are complied in one FS scenery file. From Vincent Koch
Website: http://www.groundmaker.org/
Instant Scenery is a commercial payware tool for adding 3D
objects to Flight Simulator scenery in a very easy
way. It allows you to enhance scenery without
leaving Flight Simulator. Easily add, move and
delete objects and see the results of your actions
directly in the Flight Simulator view without
having to reload scenery every time. This allows
you to place every object correctly on the very
first attempt. And if you still don't like the
result of an editing action, there is an unlimited
undo/redo.
Seamless integration into Flight Simulator
Easy and intuitive user interface
Works with FSX and FS2004
Uses all libraries - FSX and FS2004
Advanced settings
Full Undo/Redo
FSDiscover! points of interest
Creates scenery that works for everyone
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