Danish Airfields X - Nordborg

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1 Danish Airfields X - Nordborg Add-on on for Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition Version 1.0 (FSX:SE version) Manual 2016 VIDAN DESIGN

2 Index Danish Airfields X - Nordborg.... FSX:SE display settings. Locating Nordborg Airfield EKNB... Texture Resolution... Scenery Manager.. Compatibility with other Flight Simulator add-ons.. Development tools Credits Support and contact.. Copyright Airfield Documentation. Version history

3 Danish Airfields X- Nordborg Thank you for purchasing Danish Airfields X- Nordborg! Danish Airfields X - Nordborg is a highly detailed scenery of Nordborg Airfield and the city of Nordborg situated on the island of Als in southern Denmark. The airfield (which is also named "Pøl Airfield", after the small village Pøl located just south of the airfield) has a 666x30 meter grass runway with runway direction 06/24. This airfield does not have an ICAO code, but in this scenery it has been giving the fictional code "EKNB". The airfield is privately owned but is open to all pilots during VMC. The airfield is home to Nordals Flying Club, which has 70 members. In 2014 the club will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Nordborg Airfield is located just 1.2 NM north of the city of Nordborg, which has just over 6000 inhabitants - and its own castle, Nordborg Castle. The first Nordborg Castle was built in 1152, probably by Danish king Svend Grathe (king from ). The castle was originally called Alsborg and was built on an island in Nordborg Lake. The first written evidence of Alsborg is from the end of the 12th century. From this it is known that Bishop Valdemar of Slesvig was held prisoner at Alsborg between 1192 and After Sønderborg Castle (situated in the city of Sønderborg 18 kilometers to the south) was built in 1158, Alsborg was renamed Nordborg. The present main building was built in (source: 3

4 Today the castle is an "efterskole" (independent boarding school). The castle itself is not open to the public, but you can take a walk in the garden. Danish Airfields X- Nordborg features: Highly detailed scenery of the airfield and the city of Nordborg 35 km2 photorealistic ground scenery (28 cm/pixel) with seasonal variation Seasonal change tool Custom ambient sounds Volumetric grass, flowers, custom modeled bushes Hundreds of hand placed autogen houses, farming buildings and trees High resolution building textures (2048x2048 pixels) based on photos taken on-site by Vidan Design Dynamic GA AI traffic Custom modeled objects, cars, farming buildings, warehouses, residential buildings 4

5 FSX:SE display settings The recommended graphics settings and scenery settings for this scenery are shown on the pictures below. The settings that are most important for showing the scenery in the best possible way are marked in red. In the graphics settings, it is generally recommended to keep Target frame rate set to Unlimited, Filtering set to Anisotropic and Global texture resolution set to Very high. In order to change the graphics settings in FSX:SE, go to Settings > Customize and select the Graphics tab. In the scenery settings it is recommended to set Autogen density to Dense or higher. This scenery includes a high resolution aerial image and in order to get the full resolution, it is recommended to set scenery texture resolution to 30 cm. or less (15 cm. or 7 cm.) In order to change the scenery settings in FSX:SE, go to Settings > Customize and select the scenery tab. 5

6 Locating Nordborg Airfield EKNB You can find Nordborg Airfield EKNB by selecting Free flight. Under Current location, click the Change button. On the next screen, search for the airfield by typing in the airfield name Nordborg, the city name Nordborg, or the Airfield ICAO ID EKNB. 6

7 Texture Resolution The FSX:SE tweak described below is optional. If you are not comfortable with changing the setting in FSX:SE by modifying the configuration file, it is better not to make these changes. The scenery will run completely smoothly without these changes. This scenery makes use of high resolution textures on many buildings and objects. Some of the textures are 2048x2048 pixels size. The maximum size texture that FSX:SE will load is by default 1024x1024 pixels. There is a simple tweak that will allow FSX:SE to load larger textures sizes. In the FSX:SE configuration file fsx_se.cfg, change: TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=1024 to this: TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=2048 The file fsx_se.cfg is by standard located here: C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX-SE. You may need to set Windows to display hidden files and folders to find the file. If you do not know how to set Windows to display hidden files do this, here is a guide: US/windows7/Show-hidden-files 7

8 Please note: FSX:SE will revert back to the default setting of max load 1024 pixels textures when the user makes changes in display settings in FSX:SE. Scenery Manager FSX:SE but stays fixed regardless of the season. Some of the tree models and vegetation textures (grass and flower textures) that are used in this scenery do not change with the seasons in Three sets of tree models and vegetation textures are included in the scenery: fall, winter and summer. You can manually switch between summer, fall and winter textures by using the configuration tool Scenery Manager which is included in the scenery. The tool is located in the folder named Manual. C:\Program Files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\fsx\dlc\457084\vidan Design\Danish Airfields X - Nordborg\Scenery Manager. How to use the Seasons Nordborg tool: 1. Close FSX:SE 2. Run the Scenery Manager tool 3. Restart FSX:SE Compatibility with other add-ons Danish Airfields X - Nordborg is designed to be used on a standard FSX:SE installation with default FSX:SE terrain textures. The ground terrain is color matched to blend with default FSX:SE terrain textures. The scenery has not been tested with DAN VFR or other photo terrain add-ons. The scenery is tested with the freeware sceneries Denmark Map X 2.0 and Denmark Scenery 1.4 and no problems have been found. 8

9 Development tools The scenery is designed with Gmax by Discreet, Airport Design Editor by Jon "Scruffyduck" Masterson and others, SbuilderX by Luis Sá, Library Creator XML, MDL Tweaker, ModelconverterX and CAT by Arno Gerretsen (Thank you, Arno!) and Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK by Microsoft. Credits, acknowledgements, betatest Aerial Image: This product includes data from Geodatastyrelsen, orto_foraar, download. Scenery Manager (SceneryManager.exe) Orion Lyau. Dynamic windsock: Jörg Dannenberg, used by kind permission. Ambient sounds: The sound pack uses original recordings from Freesound ( "vd_bird1"sample from " cydon morning-birds" by cydon rickyjezz dog-barking-at-night-nice-reflection.wav "vd_crow" sample from " cydon morning-birds" by cydon ( "vd_cow"sample from "57790 reinsamba 1191-two-cows" by reinsamba ( "vd_dog" sample from " rickyjezz dog-barking-at-night-nice-reflection" by rickyjezz ( "vd_sheeps" sample from " zwier sheep-in-field by zwier" ( "vd_spitfire" original recording: beerbelly38 spitfire-fly-by-1 by beerbelly38 ( "vd_wolf" sample from gorgoroth6669 wolf-howl by gorgoroth6669 ( "vd_cricket" sample from dobroide night-chorus-00h-fao by dobroide ( 9

10 Betatest: Lars, Jens Peter og Ray. Thank you all! I would like to thank Jens Peter and Lars for helping me with the ambient sound pack. Support and contact If you need help with the scenery, please don t hesitate to contact Vidan Design. You can reach Vidan Design by using this address: john@vidandesign.com You are also welcome to use the contact form on the website: Or you can register on the forum: Copyrights This product, Danish Airfields X - Nordborg, is protected by copyright laws. You may install and run one copy of the software on one computer for your personal, non-commercial use. Danish Airfields X - Nordborg must not be copied, reproduced or disassembled in any way, neither completely nor in part. The product must not be published or redistributed, neither completely nor in part, in any way without the written permission of Vidan Design. It is expressly forbidden to make this product or parts of it available on websites, servers and any internet hosted domains without the written permission of Vidan Design. The dynamic windsock by Jörg Dannenberg is used by kind permission. Microsoft Flight Simulator X is a Copyrighted trademark of Microsoft Corporation Airfield Documentation: Nordborg Flyveplads Location: N E, 1.2 NM N of/for Nordborg Runway: 06/24666m x 30m grass Elevation: 15 m VOR Radial: SKP 117 /20 NM - VOR Radial ALSIE 140 /13 NM - VOR Radial ODIN 224 /43NM 10

11 Frequency: Nordborg Radio 123,5 MHz Open: VMC day period Nordals Flying Club: 11

12 Version history Version 1.0 (Steam Edition version), june