Opinion on Abacus EZScenery

KevinJarvis · Post by **KevinJarvis** » 09 Jan 2008, 01:56

Does anyone here us EZ Scenery by Abacus? I've been looking at this lately as I just can't seem to master RWY12 for some reason..lol.

I see there are many library add-ons available.

I guess I'm just trying to justify the cost as I really don't spend much on add-ons with all the good freeware stuff available.

Although I once had Lago's FSScenery Enchancer but can't seem to recover my key from them anymore.

Thanks for any input.

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 09 Jan 2008, 02:58

Kevin if you are looking to get into scenery design, and you just can't quite justify the cost of buying EZ Scenery, I recommend giving SBuilder a try. Now I will be the first to admit, that this can be a difficult program to get all set up, gather all the necessary downloads and get working in the first place. But....................but when you do get it working, it far outpaces any other scenery design program available. Especially considering it's freeware. There is also a SBuilderX already available for FSX, so it is forward compatible, again it too is freeware.

I use SBuilder for all my scenery since it not only allows you to place objects from a library, but to create ground textures, photoreal ground textures, roads, rivers, lakes, islands, you name it. The learning curve is steep but that's what people like me are around for. So far I've yet to convince anyone around here that SBuilder is as good as I say it is. Heck I probably had it for a year or so, before one day sitting down and vowing to get it up and running. Once I did, the sky was litterally the limit.

So if you want, it's available on avsim for free along with 5 tutorials to get you started. I'm always around for questions.

KevinJarvis · Post by **KevinJarvis** » 09 Jan 2008, 03:38

Thanks Mike,
I'm going to give SBuilder a try and see how it goes.
I guess $29 for a good Abacus product is not all that bad, not that I'm being cheap or anything. I just prefer to give the freeware designers a chance before anything else.

jetmax · Post by **jetmax** » 25 Jan 2008, 19:18

I have been using EZ-Scenery for a while now and love it. It is pretty simple to use and has met my needs. However if there is a free program that does the same thing, try it first.

Cheers

ricktk · Post by **ricktk** » 26 Jan 2008, 22:17

Well if going to pay for an scenery library object placement utility, you would be better to get Flight1 Instant Scenery, which is FS9 and FSX compatable. EZ scenery only runs on FS9.

Post by **gsnde** » 20 Feb 2008, 21:34

Absolutely, Rick.

Instant Scenery is the successor to EZ Scenery, done by the same programmer. As the newer version and coming for the old and current FS version it is the clear choice. I had the old one and use the new one, they are basically identically.

Cheers,
Martin

flyerkg · Post by **flyerkg** » 09 Mar 2008, 23:04

Hi,

I enjoy using this program. I find it very simple to place, and adjust objects. Every so often I run into a snag with either the file preview or the object itself and if I select to view certain objects EZ Scenery will close on error.

Keith

foufure · Post by **foufure** » 25 Mar 2008, 10:12

I'm also using EZ-Scenery. It's a fine utility. Faster

I'm designing the airport ground with afcad, and after, placing objet by category using EZ-Scenery.

I'm doing different BGL for each category ( Shelter.BGL, Forest.bgl, Vehicle.bg.....)