Japanese version

First, I write the situation of the sceneries I made.

There are many problems, so I have no energy to test all sceneries...

scenery	situation	comment
Tokyo transportation (MS)	If many of detail versions are installed, FS and Windows98 are frozen sometimes.In the detail version, road/railroad connection is not smoothly without Flatten switch, and installation of many files is not allowed. The position of Akihabara and Kanda-gawa river in MS default scenery has not adapted to the position of my MS version. In the light version, if you see from a distance only, it is OK without Flatten switch.	For Tokyo MEX & Yamanote line, I make for FS2000.
Tokyo transportation (TW)	Resolved by FS2000 LAGO-Tokyo enabler I made.	For Tokyo MEX & Yamanote line, I make for FS2000.
Animated Yamanote line train	Rail connection is NG without Flatten switch. Train car is OK in tm1, but flying in tm2.	I integrate it to Tokyo transportation scenery.
Yokohama scenery	Night lights are NG	resolved
Fireworks in the world	All fireworks are NG	resolved
Cherry blossom texture	not testing yet	I maybe test.
Nagano Olympic Ski Jumping	FS is frozen immediately.	This is the same situation of Tokyo MEX detail version. I'm tired.
Notsuke peninsula	not testing yet	I will test soon.

I am exhausted by writing this situation. If I will have an energy, I will test in detail.

There are not only problems but also good points in FS2000. It seems that there are many good points in a long range viewpoint. You will find nice horizon, nice clouds, good rain and thunderstorm expression, and there are even sun, moon and stars in your first impression. I write here the other thing which harms me the most in previous FS systems.
This is after all, a display limit and hysteresis effect, like I wrote here. Now, this report tells us that in FS2000, everything else is done after drawing elevated terrain, through the Z-buffer. Further, I saw the writing that the limitation of scenery buffer (256K or 512K) is now gone at some BBS. Watching my Tokyo transportation (TW version), I can see Yoga and Ueno even from Haneda. In previous version, I could saw only Heiwa-Jima vicinity and with heavy hysteresis effect. In FS2000, this problem is eased dramatically. But, FS and Windows 98 are frozen after installation of many files of detail version of Tokyo transportation MS version, and NAGANO Ski-Jumping. And in Yokohama scenery 2000, sometimes when FS2000 scenery engine have to calculate many things, for example zooming out, not only FS2000 but also windows freeze. I think this is because operation around Z-buffer etc. is performed not only in FS2000 but also in Windows components like DirectX. Resource management of Windows98 is very poor, I hate it... Wow, I try Windows2000, and it's wonderful ! No freeze occurs ! It is worth to upgrade to Windows2000 only for this reason. Great....??? I speak it or not ?, but intrinsically, the OS should be stable from the first ?? ---> Microsoft...mmmm. I don't want to talk about this article more, it is a bog...
Next good point is gotten from a look of the road and the foot of Tokyo MEX. In previous versions, the perspective relationship among the objects is not maintained in many cases even if I designate the perspective relationship by using ReferencePoint (SM). Therefore, I often have used many GoIfVector (SM), VectorJump (SCASM) commands in PerspectiveCall routine, and have forced to designate the perspective relationship. In other words, if I do not force to designate, the perspective relationship is reversed in case of being viewed from a reverse direction. In FS2000, it seems that the relationship is maintained even if I do not force to designate. If this is confirmed, it will bring great advantage for scenery making. It seems that, the affair that restriction of the scenery buffer is gone means the same situation for being used the Z-buffer. This affair probably brings an advantage that we can express the perspective relationship correctly designating ReferencePoint only.
Next is small thing. In previous versions, animated Yamanote line train of Tko_tm1.bgl is not able to be stopped its animation. Now in FS2000, we can stop it by pushing "P" key only.

Now it's main topic. I write the problem actually.

LAGO Tokyo scenery problem
-- phenomenon -- LAGO Tokyo in FS2000 has a problem for displaying textures. It's OK for viewing texture of satellite photo and aerial photo from high altitude. But it's NG for viewing texture of detail aerial photo from low altitude, it looks like a board of one color.
-- solution -- Resolved ! The code which is used in LAGO Tokyo causes the problem. I make the enabler fixing this problem. Click here !

RefPoint absolute altitude designation
-- phenomenon -- RefPoint( 7 ) (SCASM) causes display error by Elevated mesh terrain system of FS2000. Details is described here.
-- solution -- RefPoint( 2 ) (SCASM) must be used. But it seems that this is a hard work to replace all RefPoint( 7 ). And I don't confirm yet that Tokyo MEX and Yamanote line will be displayed correctly using only this method. Some trouble may occur at the connection point of the roads. Flatten switch may be not avoidable.

Dynamic scenery problem
-- phenomenon -- Yamanote line train cars in Tko_tm2.bgl made of dynamic scenery are not displayed at all.
-- solution -- This is one of FS2000 bugs. The FS2000 update file can fix this. But the cars of Tko_tm2.bgl are flying. Because this is a problem around RefPoint( 2 ). I integrate animated Yamanote line to Tokyo transportation scenery.

Night lights problem
-- phenomenon -- All constant colors for night lights in texture cannot be used at all. All of night lights using texture is not shown. And night lights without texture (for example Polygon_4 (SM)) is not shown in the morning and evening. Night lights in Yokohama scenery and morning / evening lights of station platforms of Yamanote line train are not shown.
-- solution -- It is described here too. This article tells us that command likes shaded can light well. I wondered if transition from day to night is expressed well, but it seems OK when I use LoadBitmap command of SCASM.

Fireworks problem
-- phenomenon -- All fireworks made of only dots and lines are not shown at all.
-- solution -- It is described here too. This article tells us that DotPt (SCASM) command cannot be used and Dot (SCASM) command must be used. DotToPoint (SM) command cannot be used too. When I use Dot command, it can shine but the light is not clear enough suitable for fireworks. Likes line command cannot be found for lighting at night. After all, this problem is not solved at all. (About Dot, it seems that the Micorosoft second patch enables DotPt (SCASM). But Line is NG as before.)
..... anyway, I resolve this problem by not using dot and line but using only ShadedPoly, it's really primitive method. The quantity of data is very huge, but the result is good.

The other points
This is a kind of taste, there are some places where I don't like in FS2000 default scenery. Please look following pictures. All pictures are north heading (Heading = 0 deg.).

Shinagawa intercity. It is good to be made even low height buildings, but direction of all buildings are turned 90 degree respectively. And position relationship among buildings are broken up.

This is Akihabara. Only messy buidings, is it correct ? It is reasonable that Tokyo is only messy place from a viewpoint of western people....
And, Sumida river and Arakawa river flow between Akihabara and Ueno park. It is a pity of submerged people at Okachimachi vicinity...

This is Mt. Fuji... This shape of the peak is not acceptable for Japanese, I think... (It is too hard, even 50 more years passed from last war ??)... It seems clear that coarse terrain data is adopted mechanically.
** Microsoft releases terrain SDK now. This SDK enables getting altitude data from map data (e.g. USGS) easily. Further, Mr. Murakami develops a program mem2raw.exe (Goto "“ú–{ Terrain ƒV�[ƒiƒŠ Part 1 ŒöŠJ" from his page. He has opened it only in Japanese page.). This program can convert Japanese 50 m mesh data made by Japanese the Geographical Survey Institute to raw format which is able to be handled by terrain SDK. That is, we can convert all Japanese territory to 50 m mesh scenery. Please look at the shot of Mt. Fuji at above Mr. Murakami's site. It's very nice to be shown top of the mountain in detail. After I look at this shot, I wonder if the future of conventional scenery with Flatten switch is.
I write briefly at a separate page about a concrete method for making terrain scenery.

** Microsoft announces Train Simulator now. It is not terrain but train. In Train Simulator, terrain scenery system the same as FS2000 will be adopt. It is understand that the beauty of Mt. Fuji in terrain scenery is worth looking at not only from the sky but also from the ground. (It is also understand that Odakyu line is selected for experience both of beutiful Mt. Fuji sightseeing and commute hell in the train in Tokyo.) And not only running the train but also getting on the train for the sightseeing, that is, it is nearly the same "strange way for enjoying FS" I insist in my site. Further, "the train" at last. I just finish Yamanote line for FS2000 version at last, how fast in the progress of the world is. The trend of Train Simulator will affect my Yamanote-line scenery, so I must keep an eye on it.

Tips for scenery designers
This is an information for scenery designer. There are items on Scenery Library of FS2000, that is "Cache size" and "Empty cache on exit". It means that FS2000 doesn't read scenery every time, but uses cache. And if we check the item "Empty cache on exit", cache will clear at the time FS2000 is terminated....I expect, but the CACHE is NOT CLEARED. It may be a bug of FS2000. For clearing cache certainly, you must clear the CACHE folder in FS2000 folder by hand. If you feel "Working of FS2000 is funny in spite of changing texture.", you should doubt here. The cause of delay of the release of Yokohama scenery 2000 is the huge quantity of texture, and further time consuming by this cache problem. (And it is another cause to make my PC hardware upgrade. On the year end, I changed CPU and added DRAM without changing mother board. I played with changing CPU of main machine from Celeron 366 to Pentium III 500E, and sub machine from K6 233 to K6-2 500 respectively. DRAM are added 128 each, and FSB are changed from 66 to 100M in both machines.... I didn't play clock-up because my network was not work well. Oops, gets off the subject...)
"Cache problem" is the same situation for rimnet cache server problem till last December, I don't feel good for the "cache". (But Pentium III 500E is fast by working of "cache", it's good matter....)

This item looks like my personal circumstance article. Anyway, because the scenery engine is renewed at FS2000, using SceneryMAKER is not so good selection, I think. I have to change compiler SCASM for making dynamic scenery as writing here. About section 9 scenery also, SceneryMAKER is not so good from now on.
Abacus site tells us that they provide FS2000 compatible softwares already; ASD2 for Section 9 scenery and FS Action ! for dynamic scenery respectively. The sites for writing FS2000 compatibility are written by persons of Abacus. I can imagine that there is close relationship between FS2000 development team and Abacus. Anyway, I feel that a full renewal is needed for me including scenery design environment. It seems not so easy work...

Flight Simulator 2000 Update
MicroSoft site. There is a Flight Simulator 2000 Update file. In March, the second update file is released. If you will install only this second patch, the first patch is not required. The fixed point by this second patch is that shadow of the objects appears at last. The characteristics of the shadow is different from one of FS98. In the place where a lot of road units of Tokyo MEX exist, some shadow doesn't appear sometimes. On the contrary, the shadow appears even on the detail texture of LAGO Tokyo scenery not like in FS98.
The second patch has been uploaded now after being gone from the site once. It seems that a problem of dynamic scenery display in the day and the night with shadows is fixed.
The patch for FS2000(J) is released at last. It contains the feature same as second one in English version.

In LAGO Tokyo (for FS98) and Yokohama scenery 2000, Flatten switch is required for flattening in the Scenery.cfg file. I hope that I'd like to do flattening without this troublesome switch, and try to make a Flatten file which flattens a predetermined area. But unfortunately, I cannot succeed in displaying correctly at Tokyo International Haneda airport vicinity and Tokyo reclaimed land area. This is my experiment file, please check it if you have an interest.