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"ASD 2.0 is quite an improvement on ASD 1.1, which was a great program in its own right.", P.C. via Internet

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ASD - The Standard for Scenery Design

Since it was first released more than two years ago, Airport & Scenery Designer has earned its place as the software of choice for novices and advanced professionals alike. If you ask flight simmers what tool they used for scenery, you'll find the overwhelming choice is Airport & Scenery Designer.

For beginners, the ASD Wizard creates a starting point for new scenery in just a few mouse clicks. Now you can use Airport & Scenery Designer to easy add your own "home" airport.

For advanced and professionals designers, Airport & Scenery Designer's enormous capabilities lets you choose the right tool for adding the perfect scenery element. Whether it's runways, approach lighting, roads, rivers or mountains, Airport & Scenery Designer can handle it. You might say: "There's no more powerful software in the world for creating your flight sim world".

We're now pleased to announce a major update to Airport & Scenery Designer. ASD delivers these brand new features and significant improvements that put new state-of-the art scenery techniques in the hands of everyone:

 

Great Designer Features

For FS2002

Experienced designer Steve McClelland explains how he uses Airport & Scenery Designer for his FS2002 and CFS2 scenery design projects. To read and/or print this paper ASD_FS2002.pdf, please click here (350KB).

  • Scenery Import - transparently add runways, taxiways, rivers, roads and more into the elevated mesh terrain in the FS2000 world.
  • Altitude Enhancement - The ability to create flattening polygons within the scenery .bgl file structure, making the use of the flatten switch in the FS2000 Scenery.cfg file unnecessary.
  • Scenery Import - Ability to load and visualize the flatten polygons in the default FS2000 scenery.
  • Coastline Enhancement - More robust coastline tool uses default FS2000 scenery coding to flatten and draw coastlines.
  • Texture Viewer - An enhanced texture viewer to use .bmp format images.
  • New Macros - and enhancements to present macros, to take advantage of the new night lighting capabilities and .bmp texturing in FS2000.
  • Buildings - simplified tool for adding new-style buildings.
  • New! - Elevated Mesh Terrain - easily adds authentic, realistic, textured mountains, rolling hillsides and more.
  • New! - Automated Entry of Elevation Data - conveniently imports USGS elevation data for USA (about 200 points per 2 square miles) and for other geographic areas (at about 30 points per 2 square miles).
  • New! - 3D Scenery Library - adds an extensive library of 200+ custom 3D scenery "macro" objects
  • New! - Airport and Facility Directory - automatically updates the AFD to include the new scenery areas
  • New! - Map View - conveniently displays the elevation of surrounding tiles for quicker adjustments
  • New! - Tools - coveniently handles heliports and windsocks with built-in tools
  • New! - Global Changes - quickly apply changes to individual parameters of feature groups e.g. textures or color
  • New! - Complex Objects - adds support for large scenery objects e.g. complex static aircraft
  • New! - Updated SCASM Compiler - adds support for larger memory model; floating point math; includes license for commercial use
  • New! - Pilot Controlled Lighting - adds PCL to airports; add authenticity by turning airport lights turn on and off
  • Improved! - 3D Scenery Map View - easily organize, view, add and manipulate 3D scenery objects. Works with both the ASD 3D Scenery Library or your own custom SCASM-format macros
  • Improved! - Airport View - precisely position objects from overhead view
  • Improved! - FS Performance - inserts optimization techniques for maximizing frame rate
  • Improved! - Usability - dozens of other user-requested improvements for better accuracy, convenience and ease-of-use

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Title Platform Item # ISBN # S.R.P. Media Available
Airport & Scenery Designer

Windows 95/98/ME/XP

S371

1-55755-371-8

$39.95

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