Silverwings churches & power stations.

[gypsymoth]

I have FS9 with silverwings scenery & can see a lot of power station with tall chimneys & big churches liberally scattered around the world.
I have 3 or 4 by one of Heathrow's runways & a few around Bournemouth Airport that aren't there in real life. How do I go about removing them, please? Other than that, I'm over the moon with the improvement over the default scenery. Nice work!!! Thank you.

[Randy_Cain]

Hi,

I have an easy fix for Heathrow.... Wolfgang Gersch's London Heathrow Airport - 1961 package.

As for Bournemouth, I would recommend Exclusion Builder 2.0 for FS9. It's great for eliminating anything from autogen objects (this is what your talking about in this case in Silver Wings...autogenerated, not actual models of buildings that are really there). You can use this to make one building go away, or remove everything scenery/autogen, taxiway signs, trees, etc. over an entire airport. Since you can make as many of these exclusion files as you wish, just make your rectangles at each end of the runways and you should get the results your after.

The only trick to using ExcBuilder is that you have to remember when you have your aircraft in slew mode to find the coordinates where you want the corners of your exclusion rectangle, remember to make SURE your aircraft is pointed DUE NORTH! This is crucial to the success of your project! It is mentioned in the documentation, but it's importance is not, as it's only mentioned briefly and only once...as I recall. (I went through this little hair-pulling session myself when I tried it for the first time)

Heathrow comes with it's own...and I'm assuming you'd appreciate the backdating to how it appeared in 1961. Wolfgang did a great job.

Yours,


Oh, the software I referred to is available here:
www.scenery.org/design_utilities_b.htm

[gypsymoth]

Thanks Randy. The Heathrow I have is UKScenery2000 Extreme version which is fantastic with service vehicles & general traffic, etc.

When I asked my question a Sliverwings person told me they could make an exclusion thngy, but I had a HD crash & lost the info. The power stations & churches come via SilverWings scenery addon you understand?

I'll try your Exebuilder & thanks for the link.

[Tom Constantine]

The power stations and churches are part of the autogen and appear in several areas more commonly than they should. The Silver Wings (Golden Wings as well) autogen file was modified by Bill to remove very modern items like the shopping centers and fast food restaurants. I thought there was a replacement file with the churches and power stations removed but I can't find it.
Sorry.

If you are brave, you can edit the file "default.xml" in the autogen folder and remove the power stations and churches. Don't ask me for details, I'm not brave.