Tutorial - Coast-Line-Maker V1.1 (1st release)

© Iain Murray, 2003


Please refer to the Coast-Line-Maker Instructions before working through this tutorial. For basic troubleshooting information for Coast-Line-Maker, please see README.TXT.

The first commercial scenery to utilise Coast-Line-Maker is ScotFlight's "Scotland Scenery V1.0", which includes the scenery areas shown in this tutorial - for more information on this scenery, visit the ScotFlight main page.


Making a sample coastline with Coast-Line-Maker V1.1

The best way to use Coast-Line-Maker is as follows; we will follow the procedure through with an example to correct the position of the existing coast around a new airport. The following screen shot shows the new airport (which is correctly positioned) but it is partly in the sea as the default coast is in the wrong place:

     


Another Example

Here is a more complex example of Coast-Line-Maker in action ... here is the River Tay near Perth, Scotland:

However, the "lake" in the foreground should join to the river estuary (middle distance), and also have an island in the middle of it! Also, the road crossing the river in the centre of the picture incorrectly goes up the cliff and along the ridge! Below is the Coast-Line-Maker screen for this area, showing all the changes made. Note the red and blue lines, which are the correct coast / road positions (these were drawn onto the background map manually). At right, the road deviates in order to meet up with the existing road segment off to the east. A small number of land polygons have been used to cover the existing river where it is wrongly placed, and a series of water polygons trace out the new course of the river. The black crosses show where existing road has been cleared, and the blue crosses where a stream segment has been cleared.

And here is what the area should look like in FS; the river is corrected, island added, and the roads now skirt round the hill (river coastline segments have been used, rather than beach with waves):


Acknowledgements and Legal Notice

Thanks to many subscribers to the AVSIM scenery design forum (especially Richard Ludowise) for helpful comments made in the forum, or to me directly. Without these comments, writing Coast-Line-Maker would not have been possible. Thanks also to Richard Ludowise for permission to use his include files (which are in the public domain) within the Coast-Line-Maker package.

The Coast-Line-Maker program is distributed as Freeware but remains © Iain Murray, 2003, all rights reserved; it may not be distributed commercially by any means without the express written permission of the author. Any sceneries created using Coast-Line-Maker are the copyright and property of the scenery author, but where such scenery is published (either commercially or as Shareware or as Freeware), the scenery author should acknowledge the use of Coast-Line-Maker in its creation; as a courtesy, the scenery author should also inform the Coast-Line-Maker author of publication.

Coast-Line-Maker should not harm your computer or any data stored on it but, if you imagine that it has, the author accepts no liability.


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