Quickstart CFS Airfield Scenery Tutorial.

Creating Scenery for Existing CFS Bare-Runway Airfield

This is the Information I would have liked to have had when I
started but had to pick up the hard way.

The Following is assumed:-

	You are running CFS in Full-Screen 800x600 mode

	You have PaintShopPro (or any similar paint program
	that can load images from the Clipboard and save out
	in BMP format - Windows Paint will do)


Step 1 - Choose your Airfield

	Start CFS and go to Free-Flight
	Pick your Airfield from the "Airfield" Gadget

Step 2 - Gather Information

	Click "Fly-Now"

	Press "Alt" to bring up the menu bar then select 
	Views->View Mode->Map 
	
	Press "Y" to enter Slew mode

	Press the space bar - this re-orients your plane so it
	is pointing North.

	The red cross marks the point that will be the centre point
	in Airport

	Use the joystick to move the cross to the position you want
	as the centre point (halfway down the runway is good)
	
	Copy down the Latitude, Longitude and Altitude figures 
	displayed (eg N51*21.56` W1*14.44` ALTIT 000237 ft)
	
	Press "Y" again to come out of Slew mode

	Press "PrintScrn" on the Keyboard

	Shut down CFS

Step 3 - Get Background

	Start up PaintshopPro.

	select Edit->Paste->As New Image

	Save image out in BMP format to the folder where you are going
	to put the Airport source file for the airfield. In order to
	reduce file size and also speed up scrolling in Airport it is
	a good idea to reduce HiColor and TruColor Images to 256 Colours
	before saving.

Step 4 - Set up Airport

	Start Airport

	Select File->New

	Select Sections->General

  	Fill in the Reference Point Section with the details you gathered
	earlier. Using the example data above you would have  :

		North   51 deg. 21.56 min. 0 sec.
		West     1 deg. 14.44 min. 0 sec.

	Tick the "Compatible Europe x sceneries" box - if you don`t do this
	then roads fail to appear (took me ages to find that out)

	In the Scenery Section put the Name of the Scenery (eg Boxted) and
	set the Altitude(MSL) box to the value found earlier (making sure
	to select Feet instead of Metres)

	Finally set the Synthetic Scenery to None.

	Select File->Import Background Map. In the dialog box set Scale
	to 20 pixels/100m then browse until you locate the image you
	created in step 3

	If all has gone well the red cross on the background should be
	in the centre of the Airport layout

	Select File->Save As and save your work

Step 5 - Create

	Now you can start adding objects to the scenery. If you are using
	cfsapi to add CFS objects then Right-Click with the mouse where
	you want to put an object and select "3D Object". In the dialog
	box select "User Api" then "Select" and browse to the Macro desired.