Pier Glass Aviation Scenery South County Q99 FS 2004.

Introduction.

Here is my version of what I think the PGA FBO and surrounding areas may well look like at South County in FS 2004. You dear pilot may well have other ideas and thoughts which in a way makes PGA as unique as it is. If there is something you don't like then go ahead and move change or delete it, this is all fiction after all.

Background.

I was far too many years ago now to recall a pilot within a very select VA called Bay Area Charter. BAC was the forerunner to what is now PGA and it was three of those BAC pilots Myself Shawn and Michael who when BAC closed unexpectedly suddenly banded together and got PGA off the ground [excuse the pun], with a web site, pilots roster and written missions. PGA since then has risen to great heights and has for some while been in the doldrums; and the PGA we see today based at South County is a rise phoenix like from the ashes, but it is still the same old lying cheating stealing gang of reprobates you are ever likely to meet.

Scenery.

This scenery is made using Abacus EZ Scenery with a default [out of the box] installation of FS 2004.  There was no Mesh, Landclass or any other third party Scenery installed, this way it ensures hopefully that it should work on everybody’s machine.  The way this system works is that it allows the user to make, adapt or download sceneries that are made in a standard texture and bgl file format [EZ Scenery] and share them with others and providing you have at least the basic default FS 2004 installed correctly and follow these instructions this and any other sceneries I make for PGA in FS 2004 will work for you.

I have designed this scenery to be interactive for you the pilot. Of course you can just land or take off from South County but I encourage you to explore the scenery, there are things for you to do and discover and should you be anywhere near the place on most Friday evenings..............well that is for you to discover.

Disclaimer.

This is the standard disclaimer I see everyone else adding to their Readme so I thought a good idea to do it myself. There should be no files that you use or download for this scenery that should harm your computer in anyway however if they do and your computer explodes in a huge and uncontrollable fireball during which you receive such horrific injuries that you are unable to work for the remainder of your miserable life and your dog leaves home then you only have yourself to blame for installing this PGA Scenery, you should know by now what PGA are like, it is all your own fault, tough luck mate.

Installation.

READ THIS VERY CAREFULLY.

You should see three folders named One Two and Three [as well as this Readme]. It is only the contents of these folders that you are going to move into other folders within FS 2004 and not the folder named One, Two or Three themselves.

First an apology, in an effort to enable you to have all of the required textures as I can make sure you have you will need to download one large file, this is a once only and any other scenery I may make for PGA you will at least have the textures for [I hope].

Step 1. Go to Flightsim.com and download and install the following file, it is an exe files and just follow the installation instructions given. The file title is FS2004 EZ Scenery Libraries EXE by David Grindele and it will give the most up to date compilation in one go of all scenery objects as at April 2010.

ez_1.zip

Step 2. Look in FS / Scenery / Namw / scenery and locate file AP915180.BGL [all the files should be in a numerical order from top left to right]. Once you have located this file re-name it to AP915180.BGLbak. Now move the file AP915180.BGL from Folder One and move it to FS / Scenery / Namw / scenery. This file corrects the yellow taxi way and runway markings and corrects and adds runway lighting and aircraft parking lighting and adds other lighting at South County.

Step 3. Move the two files, Q99_ADE9_PF.BGL and ezq99.bgl from Folder Two to FS / Addon Scenery /scenery. Q99_ADE9_PF.BGL removes all default FS2004 scenery and buildings from Q99 and ezq99.bgl puts all the EZ Scenery in. 

Step 4 In Folder Three you will find an Exe file called AbacusEZLibraries. Run this file and install it, just follow the installation instructions. This adds the default Abacus EZ Files and Library to FS.

That should be it. Apart from the installation of the one file from Flightsim.com there is no need to add any scenery via FS, when you next start FS it should build its own scenery. 

Uninstalling.

If you wish to uninstall this scenery then follow these steps.

Step 1. Go to FS / Addon Scenery / scenery and locate and delete the two files, Q99_ADE9_PF.BGL and ezq99.bgl.

Step 2. Go to FS / Scenery / Namw / scenery and locate and delete AP915180.BGL and rename AP915180.BGLbak to AP915180.BGL

Any texture files you downloaded can stay and will do no harm at all.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT BLURRIES
A Few Words about Texture Formats
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Scenery objects typically consist of a model (the shape of the object) and the textures that we use to "paint" the model. These textures can be saved in a variety of formats, each of which has slightly different properties. (Some formats allow for transparency, some are more compact, etc.) It appears that certain texture formats are more likely to cause the blurries to occur.
 
PLEASE NOTE that because the scenery objects are made by different authors is very likely to use different texture formats. If you are using scenery that was created using objects by different authors, you almost certainly will have a mix of texture formats in that scenery.

If after installing this scenery following the instructions you may [or may not] find that at times the scenery of South County goes into a ‘Blurry’ state. If this is the case with you then there are three small files you will need to download and install. These are updated texture files and they are formatted as follows:

* DXT1
* With MIP maps
* With Alpha Channel

Go to Flightsim.com and the three files you require are by Sidney Schwartz

FS2004 Texture Update 1 for SS Scenery
FS2004 Texture Update 2 for SS Scenery
FS2004 Texture Update 3 for SS Scenery

ss_textures_update_1.zip

sstexturesupdate2.zip

sstexturesupdate3.zip


When you unzip each zip file you find multiple zip files, unzip each file to

FS / Addon Scenery / EZ Scenery Library / texture


The Old Man.
January 2011.
