Rio de Janeiro

This scenery improves considerably (or so we think) the Rio de Janeiro area.  The details are modest, and we don't claim any artistic talents.  But we like flying around
a Rio de Janeiro that has some of the major landmarks, as opposed to a pointy Sugar Loaf.

We greatly enhanced the Jacarepagua airport, where the Aeroclube do Brasil operates.  The MS original is a just a runway with a tower in the wrong spot.
We not only made the tower and the gasoline pump appear at the right spot, but we also added many buildings, such as the proper tower and terminal building, administration
buildings, bank, radio shack, lots of hangars, the alley connecting to the highway, all taxiways, radio tower, etc.  Also added are the treed alley and the avenue connecting
to the oceanfront highway.

We also added the Redemptor.  How MS missed that one beats me.  It is like Paris without the Eiffel Tower or New York without the Empire State Building.
Anyway, this Rio has the Redemptor.

New to the scenery, too, is the Sugar Loaf cable and cable car, plus the stations.

We added some towers to the Sumare mountain.  As these towers are very visible from anywhere when you are in Rio, we thought they were important.

And, of course, we added the Rio-Niteroi Bridge, which MS just eliminated altogether from the FS2004 version.  This bridge is not a move from the original FS2002.
It is a new one, made with gmax, not perfect model, but close enough and it matches the local topography.

Authors were Newton Drumond, from Rio de Janeiro, and Fern Marques, from North Bay, Ontario (Canada)

We want to acknoledge and thank the help we received from Arno and Derek, who wrote the most valuable tutorials for the scnery programmes, and who
answered all the questions at the fora and help desk.  How they learned all this stuff is beyond me.
How they are able to explain in a way we actually understand is priceless.

Anyway, we used all the common tools such as gmax, FSSC, EOD, BGLC, FSregen, DXTbmp.  I am sure I forgot something, and I apologise.
These are valuable tools made available free for the downloading, which is absolutely fantastic.  Through those programmes, the authors make this hobby much
more enjoyable - and, sometimes, very challenging (ha ha ha ha ha...).

As we used common tools, everything can be modified, removed, etc.  If you want the original files, drop me a line at fernmarques@yahoo.com.

You can use and modify this scenery until your heart is happy.  But don't blame us if you have problems.  It worked here, and it worked elsewhere, but it
carries no guarantee that it will work in your system.  As there are no .exe files and the installation is totally manual, you can remove part or all of it with a click of the mouse.

You cannot use any of this scenery outside your own Flight Simulator, or for commercial ends.

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Installation

1.  Unzip the file Rio de Janeiro.zip (which you already did, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this).

2.  The unzipping results in a folder called Rio de Janeiro, which contains two folders, Scenery and Texture.

3.  The folders Scenery and Texture contain all the necessary objects (bgl files) and textures (bmp files) that you need.

4. You can place this Rio de Janeiro folder anywhere you like, but make sure you can find it.

5.  Personally I place my Rio de Janeiro folder in a folder called Live Scenery.  This one I place in a folder called Flight Simulator.
     And this one I place in My Documents.  This way, when I back up My Documents, I back up all the added scenery.
     So, my path looks like this:  My Documents\Flight Simulator\Live Scenery\Rio de Janeiro
     Also, my added scenery appears on both my FS versions.

6.  Now open FS, go to Scenery Library, add an area, point it to the Rio de Janeiro folder.  That's it.

7.  Don't forget to change the "Adoons" area back to priority 1, as it should.  

8.  If you have FS2002, you may have to delete the bridge (Rio_bridge_Rio_Niteroi_r8.bgl) and the docs (Ponta do Caju r2.bgl) from scenery folder.
     The reason for this is that the Bridge may not force FS2002 to delete it own bridge, and you may end up with two bridges.
     Same goes for the stuff we added to the area where the bridge lands at the Rio end.  No great loss, the original stuff will show.  But try first, no harm will result.

Thank you for downloading this scenery.  Next version will contain the girls in Ipanema.

