YSCN Camden Airport Photo Scenery

This is the README file for "YSCN Camden Airport Photo Scenery", by Barry Drake (a.k.a "Dr Ropeless").

YSCN Camden is an X-Plane 10 custom scenery package. It is intended to be an enhancement to the scenery package VOZ, for Camden airport (YSCN), Holsworhty airport (YSHW), The Oaks airport (YAOS) and VFR landmarks in the vacinity.

Prerequisites

YSCN Camden is designed to work with the following

VOZ is installed (additional AussiePaks are not required, but may be used)
OpenSceneryX is installed
X-Plane 10

VOZ can be found at http://web.me.com/broberts03/Scenery/Scenery/Scenery.html. Follow the link to the "Aussie Scenery Packages".

OpenSceneryX can be found at http://www.opensceneryx.com/.

Note that YSCN Camden includes references to VOZ objects. VOZ objects have not been generally made available to developers, but YSCN references them with permission from Baz Roberts. YSCN will work without VOZ but some buildings will be missing.

Synergies

Consider getting the excellent scenery:

"YSSY Sydney Airport Photo Scenery" found at http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=16986
"YPAD Adelaide Airport Photoreal" found at http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=17893
"Glenelg, South Australia - Near YPAD" found at http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=18226
"YPPF Parafield Airport and Adelaide City" found at http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=18715

I also recommend the Vehicle Library Extension, found at http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=16812.

License

YSCN Camden by Barry Drake (a.k.a "Dr Ropeless") is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/. A copy of the licence is provided in the file licence.txt.

The tree texture files are used with with permission of Andras Fabian. A copy of the licence is in objects/trees/tree_textures/readme.txt.

The grass texture files include modified artwork from Simon W., used with permission. More information is available in objects/grass/readme.txt.

The custom windsocks are modified X-Plane resources with copyrights owned by Laminar Research. These objects cannot be sold or used with any flight simulator appart from X-Plane. More information is available in ISDGLibrary/Objects/windsocks/README.txt.

Car and truck objects used with permission from Jeff M. (Joyfulsongsters) and Cami de Bellis. More information is available in objects/VehicleLibraryExtension/readme.txt.

Enjoyment of YSCN Camden may require prerequisites such as those listed above. Each prerequisite may have its own, separate licensing terms.

How to install

To install:

remove any old installation of "YSCN Camden Airport Photo Scenery" from your custom scenery folder
unzip and place folder "YSCN Camden Airport Photo Scenery" in your custom scenery folder
"YSCN Camden Airport Photo Scenery" must come before VOZ in the "scenery_packs.ini" file.

Features

What this package provides:

accurate airport layouts for Camden (YSCN), Holsworthy (YSHW) and The Oaks (YOAS)
integration with X-Plane 10 autogen scenery
custom ATC routing
high quality night textures and HDR lighting
custom YSCN control tower and building, modeled on the real one
custom YSCN Phoenix Aero Club hangar, modeled on the real one
custom YSCN BP fuel bowser, modeled on the real one
custom YSCN NDB towers and hut, modeled on the real ones
custom YSCN ground texture, derived from orthophotos (with gritty detail)
YSCN glider strips are not treated as runways
YSHW has correct radio frequencies
custom windsock objects, modeled on the real ones
custom cones objects, visible on approach (broad LOD range)
accurate taxiway and other signs, modeled on the real ones
grass areas (strips, apron and taxiways) use custom ground texture
additional airport clutter is included (fences, trees, 3D grass, static cars and aircraft)
custom ground texture for Mayfield VFR approach point
custom ground texture for Bringelly VFR approach point
accurate 2RN radio tower

A log of changes is available in changelog.txt.

Known issues

There is a defect in the global scenery mesh which creates a half metre step in the asphalt GA parking area.
The Nepean river to the East of the airport is missing from the global scenery mesh.
To implement the custom NDB, the global NDB_2 object is remapped to an empty object. To my knowledge this is not creating a problem but it may in the future.
The autogen to the North creates some trees that bleed into the farm field. The trees cannot be removed without removing the nearby autogen road and dwellings.
Many buildings could benefit from some remodelling.
Some buildings are missing.
Night lighting needs more improvement.
Individually planted trees have slightly different lighting characteristics compared to those in forests.

Thanks

This work would not be possible if it were not for the many who have contributed, both directly and indirectly. Thanks go to

Baz Roberts for making VOZ and AussiePaks available, and for supporting this package
Members of the ISDG for their knowledge and help
Ben Supnik for making WED available, providing online instructional material, and answering my dumb questions at the X-Plane.org forums
Simon W (at http://xplane10.wordpress.com/) for the tutorial material in "Simmo's Scenery"
Marginal for providing SketchUp2XPlane
Andras Fabian for making tree textures available
Jeff M. (Joyfulsongsters) and Cami de Bellis for making car and truck objects available
Simon W for making grass textures available
the folk at Google for providing Sketchup
the folk at Nearmaps for providing HyperTiles.

The future

I am happy to recieve both positive and negative constructive feedback. If you notice any issues, please let me know.

Extras

Additional information can be found in the directory extra.

Contact

Please contact me at http://forums.x-plane.org/ member Dr Ropeless if you have any feedback on this package or if you would like to collaborate to improve it.