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SynthWizard Tutorial Step 1

This tutorial will take you through a step-by-step process of creating a very simple, default-CFS landscape scenery grid, ready to be used in either CFS or FS2000:

Start up TerraBuilder and make sure synthetic textures are loaded. If synthetic textures are not loaded, SynthWizard will be unavailable and grayed out in the menu. Consult the TerraBuilder Setup document on how to properly set-up TerraBuilder for the first time and invoke the loading of the CFS synthetic textures. This document can be found in the TerraBuilder PRO/LITE zip archive.

  1. Invoke the SynthWizard dialog by selecting File | Wizards... | SynthWizard...
  2. For the width of the scenery grid 1, enter 20. A strip of 20 horizontal blue squares replaces a large blue block
  3. For the height of the scenery grid 2, enter 20. A grid of 20 x 20 blue squares replaces a strip
  4. In the Area size selector 3, set Horizontal and Vertical values each to "5". As you're setting the values, thick white lines appear depicting the Area() block boundaries. (See SCASM documentation on description of Area() blocks)

What was created in this step?

  • You have constructed a grid of  20 X 20 = 400 "TexRelief" chunks. This grid will become your scenery in Flight Simulator.
  • They are grouped into 4 X 4 = 16 Area() blocks. Grouping chunks into Area() blocks helps in optimizing the scenery for better frame rates, speed and memory management.

Select NEXT  4 to proceed to Step 2.