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We are happy to announce the release of an update to Flight Simulator Scenery Creator: Version 1.5.6 on January17^th, 2003. Flight Simulator Scenery Creator is a simple, yet powerful, graphical editor that enables you to add additional scenery of your own design to Microsoft® Flight Simulator using a point-and-click interface. Some of the new features in version 1.5 include:

• Open GL enabled drawing for realistic texture rendering.
• New objects, including the Taxiway Line, Tower, Surface Area, Exclusion, and SCASM code.
• New dialog boxes for an better user experience.
• Special multiple object properties, now select multiple buildings and be able to change all of the properties of the buildings, not just the generic position attributes.
• Automatic snap points to line - have seamless edges between polygons and taxiway lines.
• Text fields support multiple units of measure.
• Create rows of Buildings or Macros using the Line Object.
• Export Scenery Wizard gets your scenery into Microsoft Flight Simulator quickly and with no fuss.
• Tip of the Day provides helpful hints for designing scenery.
• Rotate your perspective, but not your scenery. North does not always have to point up anymore!

The update fixes the following issues (from version 1.5.4):

• Autosave dialog pops up when opening a second instance of the program.
• Problems loading library objects in Macro properties box.
• Position of the taxiway lines shift at night.
• Random error messages when exiting FSSC after using the Cut operation on a polygon.
• A file should be added to the most recently used list when it is double clicked in Explorer.
• Paste should unselect any currently selected objects.
• Removed support for overruns with different textures until the flashing problem can be determined.
• The building repeat fields did not save values properly under the Standard (ft) measurement setting.
• Creating very large polygons/roads/etc. may sometimes give an overflow error when exporting.

FS Scenery Creator 1.5.6 will be made available through AVSIM's file library both as an upgrade and a full installation package, and can be accessed through the official FS Scenery Creator webpage, http://www.fssc.avsim.net/.