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Scenery Apprentice
Enhance your scenery - almost instantly



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Easily add 3D objects to your scenery
 

Scenery Apprentice, is the simplest way to add 3D objects to your Flight Simulator scenery.

Scenery Apprentice is easy enough for beginners to use, yet filled with enough features to make some serious 3D scenery objects. And scenery that you make is freely distributable - other users need not have a copy of Scenery Apprentice to fly in your new flight sim worlds.

This is the perfect tool if you'd like to:

  • make a new hangar and top it onto your local airport grounds
  • design a detailed stadium to place into the revitalized downtown area
  • create an imaginary casino to serve as an easy to find landmark

How does it work?

Scenery Apprentice immerses you into interactive drawing enviroment.

You'll easily build extensive 3D scenery objects by combining basic parts from the FSDSA library.

As you work your project, you'll instantly see the changes from the Top, Front, Side and Perspective views simultaneously. You'll zoom in to magnify the fine detail of your objects.

Scenery Apprentice has an extensive set of powerful tool that are readily available from menu, toolbars and shortcut keyss.

Scenery Apprentice also gives you new ways to speed the design - parts library, constraints, texture viewing, copy, cut and paste commands and more.


FS Design Scenery Apprentice's
4-view environment is essential for effective 3D design.

Scenery Apprentice lets you choose the level of design detail. You can interchangebly edit at the point, polygon, or part level. You get unmatched control to the amount of detail in your designs.

 A Simple 3D Scenery Object

Here's Scenery Apprentice in action. Let's make a water tower to add to our Flight Simulator scenery..

1. From FSDSA's set of BasicShapes, we choose a sphere to add to our project. FSDSA conveniently displays a preview the part.

 2. The sphere is appears in the center of the screen. Here is the Front view.

Next add a tube to the project. The tube will become the water tower base. It is placed in the center of the screen.


 

3 .Next move the base until it is it is positioned beneath the sphere.



Use the grid lines to align the parts and to adjust the dimensions.

4. We change the color of the surface to a bright yellow and the changes are instantly reflected in all four views of the FSDSA window.

5. The Perspective view shows you how the water tower will appear in Flight Simulator.

A single click turns the design into an FS-compatible scenery file containing the water tower.

6. Finally, start Flight Simulator and you'll see the completed water tower.
 
How's that for a first project!

Tools for the Novice Designer

Scenery Apprentice won't overwhelm you with dozens of tools and features. Louis has thoughtfully created a program for the masses. He believes that by using the right tool, you can get the job done.



Main Toolbar


Utility Toolbar


Main Menu

Textures For Added Realism

 First make a few basic parts and combine them until you have the shape just right

Then you apply the 'textures' to your object to give it a realistic look.

 

How do you know where to position the 3D scenery object?

This may be the most ingenous 3D scenery feature ever devised.

  1. Choose an airport
  2. Zoom out
  3. Position your 3D scenery object
  4. BINGO! - you're done

 
1. Our airport ID is "KGRR".
FSDSA builds a "map" from all of your Flight Simulator scenery files.

 
2. The map is displayed in the Top view. Use the zoom in / zoom out tools to display more or less of the map's detail.

 
3. Using the map, you can precisely position your 3D scenery objects in only a few seconds. Convert is to a scenery file (BGL) and start Flight Simulator.


4. Go to KGRR airport and you'll see this "textured" terminal building sitting at the exact location indicated on the map.
Maps make the difference


Here's the map that Scenery Apprentice draws
of KGRR airport area.


Here's the same area as seen from an
overhead view in Flight Simulator

Gallery of 3D Scenery Objects 

To see some great 3D scenery objects, click here.

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 Platform Item # ISBN # S.R.P. Media Available

FS Design Scenery Apprentice

FS2002 or FS2000 and Win95/98/2000/XP

S454
 1-55755-454-4

$19

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