{"id":5,"date":"2012-12-02T01:40:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T01:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opalsky.com.au\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2015-01-01T16:39:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:39:33","slug":"utilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.opalsky.com.au\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"Utilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Click here for my new beaut Airport Scenery Search<\/a><\/h3>\n

I don’t know about you, but I have found it hard to find scenery packages at times. The Org has a whole bunch of scenery that is not too hard to search, but there are other sites scattered across the internet with some really good quality scenery freely available to any X-Planer who wants to use it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I thought I’d try to build a database of airport codes (icao\/faa\/location id etc) and related links to scenery. Of course, this means trying to find scenery packages, and adding the links to the database. You can suggest a link to some scenery if you wish, and if the scenery is hosted at a trusted domain (ie: x-plane.org and a few others), it will appear immediately as a registered link. Otherwise the link text will appear, but I will need to ‘approve’ it to make the link active.<\/p>\n

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Click here for a Airport Scenery Tracker<\/a><\/h3>\n

The idea here is to let others know what scenery packages you are building, or have built and submitted to Laminar as part of the Global Airport Scenery effort. This is to try and avoid two people building the same airport, and to give an idea of what is let to do.<\/p>\n

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Click here for a Scenery Manager for X-Plane Custom Scenery<\/a><\/h3>\n

MD5: 4b3229de0c820f59f203865ee3030782 Click here for a brief manual<\/a><\/p>\n

WINDOWS ONLY! (Sorry mac people, although the Mono project<\/a> may help you)<\/p>\n

Custom Scenery Manager. Helps you manage and install custom scenery for X-Plane.<\/p>\n

INSTALL: Download into a directory and run XSceneryManager-Setup1.4.exe to install. Select File\/Scan to load all the custom scenery data. Explore the available options.<\/p>\n

24-Dec-2012: BETA 2. add scenery installation management (drag & drop a file on the app\/show disabled scenery\/enable-disable scenery with right click)
\n1-Jan-2013: BETA 3. Now has an installer! RSS scan added. ‘Robustness’ code added. Logging added.
\n13-Jan-2013: BETA 4. Added a couple of goodies to make me happy.
\n14-Jan-2013: BETA 4. Scenery Scan fix.
\n15-Jan-2013: BETA 4b & c. Fix for lat\/long scan in Germany. Fix for KML with spaces. Fix ‘Enable’ bug.
\n20-Jan-2013: BETA 4d. Added XP10 scenery_packs.ini management.
\n22 April 2014: RC1. Refined a few bit and pieces. Added a window to display a list of installed custom libraries. Added drag & drop to XP10 scenery_packs.ini management window. Added ability to ignore Global Airports.
\n23 April 2014: RC2. Fixed a bug when no duplicates found. Added a little more error handling and logging. Added a view filter. Added a DSF browser, which can also export some KML to show regions your custom scenery covers.
\n30 May 2014: RC3. Fix potential crash when package manually removed. Improvements to Manage Load Order window (drag & drop etc)
\n2 Jun 2014: RC4. Fix heading calculation bug. Display radio (ATC) info.
\n18 Jul 2014: RC5. Fix problem where ATC in some Global airports is missing the description
\n2 Jan 2015: 1.5RC2 Fix bug in Manage Load Order, add row numbering<\/p>\n

Previous Releases:
\nAirport Scenery Manager RC5<\/a>
\nAirport Scenery Manager RC4<\/a>
\nAirport Scenery Manager RC3<\/a>
\nAirport Scenery Manager RC2<\/a><\/p>\n

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Click here for a Ground Traffic co-ordinates Helper<\/a><\/h3>\n

WINDOWS ONLY! (Sorry mac people, although the Mono project<\/a> may help you)<\/p>\n

GetGT. Helps you extract co-ordinates for Marginals Ground Traffic X-Plane plug-in.<\/p>\n

INSTALL: Download into a directory and run extract the getgt.exe from the zip to a handy location.
\nHelp available here<\/a><\/p>\n

3-May-2013: 1.0. Initial release.
\n12-May-2013: 1.1. Added a file-open dialog for those who cannot drag & drop
\n25-Sep-2014: 1.2. Can now add GT commands to nodes in WED, making it easier to manage and edit routes.<\/p>\n

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Click here for a Windows DDSTool Helper<\/a><\/h3>\n

MD5: 40b1ed36d6195e3f83575bd43ddeeabe<\/p>\n

WINDOWS ONLY! (Sorry mac people, although the Mono project<\/a> may help you)<\/p>\n

DDSit. Helps you use the DDSTool from Laminar, an essential tool for orthophotos and other textures.<\/p>\n

INSTALL: Download into a directory and run the DDSitSetup.exe. It contains 3 files: the UI exe, DDSTool.exe and a config file.<\/p>\n

5-Sep-2014: 1.0. Initial release.<\/p>\n

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I am happy to receive any suggestion you feel may improve the tools.<\/p>\n

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