It's been about two months or so now since I started using WED to design scenery and in that time I've experimented with most of the available features of the program and implemented several into my projects. So let's get to the scenery design of things. Lastly, and I say this as a Microsoft Flight Simulator user through and through since 2.0 on my Atari XE that I personally prefer X-Plane for general aviation simulation and night flying. It's plainly that simple and rounded out. In contrast, I convincingly know that I can put WED away for a year and start using it again right away. It was a didn't use it so I lost it scenario where I would have to go through all my bookmarks, read up on a few tutorials to refresh my memory and hope that I remembered some of the tricks that I learned for at least a couple of the programs that I was using. With very little doubt, I happily decided to work with X-Plane and I will explain why.Īlmost a year had passed since the last time that I had a moment of free personal time to work on scenery design and although I had completed a considerable amount of work on my KHWV project, restarting the work meant I would have to literally relearn all the programs and processes involved. Having already started a KHWV project for FS2004 in the past and after experimenting with WED, I had to decide for which platform to proceed with my scenery design "Ambitions". It's an uncontrolled airfield that sees quite a bit of flight training traffic and in close proximity to other airfields that conduct lots of flight training operations.Īs a long time user of FS2004, I have recently in the past six or so months started using X-Plane 9 almost exclusively, which led me to install and experiment with Laminar Research's World Editor or "WED" as it is commonly referred to. Such was the case for an airport (KHWV Brookhaven) in Shirley, Long Island that I was interested in.
In many instances, the smaller airports are covered by freeware authors but there are cases where even a not so little airfield in a relatively busy airspace or in close proximity to a large city has nothing for it to be found in any library except perhaps an updated AFCAD file.
In this thread, I will present some more information on my project, the tools I've been using, some of my views and thoughts on the process, and the overall experience.Īs any flight simmer who dwells into the general aviation side of flight simulation, the local general aviation airfields are not the places where you are going to find much detail or realism in any simulator, and there are no options for improvement unless you are willing to learn the required tools to modify airports or to a sometimes limited extent, use payware software to place objects.
I recently posted a thread about scenery design for X-Plane, with some insight into the basic programs used and a few comparisons between scenery design in MSFS and X-Plane.
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