Remove streets and buildings from FS2004 scenery?

[biggiraffe]

Hello!

I added the old Sky Sailing airport (K8Q7), near Fremont California, to FS2004 using Airport Design Editor. But the airport is pretty much impossible to see from a distance because the whole area is covered with housing streets and buildings, whereas it was undeveloped back when Sky Sailing existed.


Is there a way to remove all the "development" to the left of the north/south freeway without making it look like the same mono-colored spot where the airport sits?

Thank you,
Kurt

[Tom/CalClassic]

You need to use a program like SBuilder to change the landclass of the area to something more rural. I have a tip on using LWM Viewer to do that.

calclassic.proboards.com/thread/6907/use-lwmviewer-fs9-landclass-editing

[biggiraffe]

Thank you, Tom, I will try that out!
Kurt

[biggiraffe]

Hello! I've gotten LWM Viewer to run, but it can't see my airplane position in FS2004. It did build its database from the scenery. ADE, AFCAD, and FS Global Real Weather all work fine via FSUIPC so I don't know why LWM Viewer is having problems.
Thank you,
Kurt

[Tom/CalClassic]

You have to do things in the exact order I state to get it to work right. And it only works once per session.

[biggiraffe]

Hello!

I finally resolved my problem with LWM Viewer -- if you don't run it as Administrator, it won't connect to FS2004. In fact, now I can make SBuilder and Exbuilder connect, also, which I could not in the past. AFCAD and ADE have always worked fine and so I must have set them to automatically run as Admin and totally forgot about doing that.

Take care,
kurt

[Tom/CalClassic]

Glad you got it working.