************ 1959/1963 Las Vegas Scenery **************

by Mike Stevens and Tom Gibson

Version 2, 9/2021, for FS2004 only.  Adds ground equipment and oilspots.

Support available at the CalClassic Discussion Forum:
http://calclassic.proboards.com/board/3/calclassic-discussion

Installation instructions are near the bottom of this file.

NOTE: This file, AI traffic, and lots of classic airliners can be 
downloaded free from Tom Gibson's California Classics at - 
http://www.calclassic.com/ 

Have you watched the movie "Oceans 11" featuring some of the Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra,
Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford) and wished you could 
go to Las Vegas when going to Vegas was cool?  Would you like to watch them perform 
at the elegant Sands Hotel and Casino, and then head over to some of the other famous 
casinos of the era to see performers like Don Rickles, Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman, 
Buddy Hackett, Jerry Lewis, Mae West, Eartha Kitt, Louis Prima and Keely Smith, 
Phyllis Diller, Mamie Van Doren, Liberace, Lucille Ball, Bobby Darin and Judy Garland?

Well, we can't help you (grin).  But we did the next best thing and created this
classic Las Vegas scenery to help you get in that mood when flying into KLAS.  If you
stroll down Las Vegas Boulevard (Highway 91) you'll be able to see our tribute to these
great stars of this classic era.

We've produced this scenery to backdate the Las Vegas area as it was in 1959 and
1963. We've added new GMAX buildings for the airport terminals as well as the hotels
and casinos on the strip and downtown.  These objects also include such landmarks as 
Vegas Vic pointing the way to the Pioneer Casino, the pool at the top of the Mint tower, 
the old Las Vegas Convention Center, the horse racing track, and many others.  Also 
included is the Union Pacific train depot, with the City of Las Vegas getting ready to 
depart for Los Angeles (a total of over 100 custom GMAX objects!).  

The casinos include some of the great names in Nevada gambling.  The first strip hotel,
the El Rancho, burned down in 1958.  The second hotel was the Last Frontier (renamed the
New Frontier by 1955), with a cool "water sculpture" out front.  Next came the Flamingo in
1947, with the rotating Champagne bottle (the first moving sign on the strip).  The 
Thunderbird opened in 1948, with it's colorful bird motif (imploded).  The Desert Inn opened
in 1950, with the golf course right next door (imploded).  The Golden Slipper opened in 1950 but 
changed it's name to the Silver Slipper, even though the shoe outside was still gold (torn down).  
The Sahara opened in 1952, and features a colorful sign as well as camels.  The elegant Sands 
was opened in 1952, and was the home of the Rat Pack (imploded).  The Riviera opened in 1955, 
and was the home of Liberace for many years.  The Dunes (opened 1955) continued the "desert" 
theme and featured an Arab Sultan on top of the entrance.  The 1962 tower was the tallest 
building in the state of Nevada (all imploded).  

The Hacienda opened in 1956, and is the resort furthest to the south of any
of the strip hotels in this era (imploded).  They also owned Hacienda airlines, soon to 
be included in the CalClassic AI Traffic package. Then in 1957 the Tropicana opened, with 
it's elegant tulip fountain out front.  The Stardust opened in 1958, and was the largest hotel 
in the world back then with a thousand rooms (to be imploded in 2007).  The Landmark was completed 
in 1961, but didn't open until 1969 after Howard Hughes had aquired it.  Therefore it is not lit at 
night in this era.  It's space age design is hard to miss, although it's not on the strip proper 
(imploded).

We have also been able to bring this classic Las Vegas alive with new scenery animation
techniques never before available in CalClassic scenery!  If you look carefully you will
see a globe and several signs rotating, a rocket ship revolving around a marquee, neon
lights flashing, chase lights going around, Vegas Vic pointing the way, and most impressive 
are the colors that swoop and dive around their signs!

Please note that you may see some flashing (light/dark) of these animated signs at dusk and
dawn - this is an unavoidable consequence of this animation technique.

Refer to the Flight Plans.txt file in the FS2004/Addon Scenery/Vegas 59 folder for "tourist" 
flights from real timetables of the era.  They will allow you to tour the scenery.  For your own
flight plans refer to the Flight Planner.txt file for details on using the FS2004 flight
planner.

If you do not have another airport texture addon, we suggest that you download and install 
airland1.zip from AVSIM or elsewhere.  It increases frame rates while adding detail to 
the concrete and asphalt aprons, taxiways, and runways.

We've also included new parking to allow the AI aircraft to taxi correctly at the 
new (old!) airports. 
 
AI propliner traffic matching this scenery is available separately from 
www.calclassic.com (AI Aircraft page).

Airstairs object originally by John MacKay, simplified for AI use by Tom Gibson. Thanks again!

This scenery uses the Rwy12 Static Objects Library, as well as the people library from
Geoff Williams and Martin Strong, and the ESDG Ramplight library from Bill Leaming (all 
included in this package).  Their readme files are included in the main CA59 folder.  
Wonderful job, guys!

Produced using SceneGenX by Tom Hiscox, GMAX by Discreet, ExcBuilder by Paavo Pihelgas, 
Ground2K4, FSTFlatten by Steve Greenwood, and Rwy12 Object Placer by Seev Kahn and Israel Roth.
Airport surfaces created with AFCAD2, by Lee Swordy.  Thanks to all!

A synopsis of the scenery:

We have included two sceneries in this package, 1959 and 1963.  In 1959 the old terminal on the
west side of the airport was used, with the new terminal under construction.  By 1963 the
new terminal on the east side of the airport was in service, with the old terminal used for
charter operations like Hacienda Airlines.

The famous Las Vegas Strip is also modeled, with the hotels and towers added after 1959 included
in the 1963 version.  Look for all the little motels too!  The downtown area is modeled as it was 
in the late 50's/early 60's in both versions.

Here is the order of airlines at the 1963 terminal (parking appears to have been random at the 1959
terminal):

From North to South, counterclockwise:

United
Western
TWA
Delta/National
Pacific
Bonanza


PLEASE NOTE:  

A.  Either the Vegas 59 *OR* Vegas 63 scenery layer should be active, NOT BOTH.  
You will get the entire scenery either way, just customized for that year.  The 
instructions below activate Vegas 59 and not Vegas 63, but you can use either one at any time.  

B.  The CalClassic Core, CalClassic Landclass, and Static Objects Library scenery layers 
should be active in both 1959 and 1963.  You never need to disable the Static Objects Library
layer in any case.


INSTALLATION

This EXE installer will NOT create a Start Menu entry, registry entry, uninstall program
or anything else, other than copying the relevant files to the proper folders.  You may
install to a temporary folder by pressing the ... button and copying things by hand if you wish.

1.  Quit FS2004 if running.

2. ***IMPORTANT*** Download and install the scenery libraries contained in the Classic Scenery Libraries v4 
(file 1, version 4a and file 2) or later compiled by Wolfgang Gersch, if you have not done so already.  
They are linked on the CalClassic Scenery page: http://www.calclassic.com/scenery.htm

3.  Double click the SetupVegas.exe file to start the installation.  Press the Run button at the warning screen. 
If it doesn't find your main FS2004 folder automatically (the one with fs9.exe in it), press the ... button 
and browse to it. Follow the instructions to install.

NOTE FOR NEXT STEPS:  If you have already installed some of my scenery packages, 
you may have at least some of the required scenery layers installed.  If so, skip that 
step.

4. Start FS2004, and go to the Settings/Scenery Library choice on the 
opening screen.  If you are currently flying, press Escape (Esc) and then End 
Flight to get to this screen. Look at the top portion of the list.  If there is no 
CalClassic Landclass area listed there, click on the Add Area button.  Double click the 
ADDON SCENERY folder.  Click the CalClassic Landclass folder once.  Click OK.

5.  If there is no Vegas 63 area listed there, click on the Add Area button.  
Double click the ADDON SCENERY folder.  Click the Vegas 63 folder once.  
Click OK.  Click the red check mark to remove the check from the Vegas 63 box.  

6.  If there is no Vegas 59 area listed there, click on the Add Area button.  
Double click the ADDON SCENERY folder.  Click the Vegas 59 folder once.  
Click OK.

7.  Scroll down by dragging the scroll button on the right to the Las Vegas Aerial
Photo layer and uncheck it.

8.  If you have any addon scenery for Las Vegas, uncheck the scenery's Active box 
to inactivate it.

9.    Click OK.  Quit and restart FS.

10.  If at the main screen, choose Create Flight at the left, select desired items, and
press Fly Now.  Choose Options/Settings/Display.  Under Scenery Objects set the
Scenery Density to Dense or less (setting to Very or Extremely Dense will display modern
jetways at default airports outside of Vegas ).  Also, set the Autogen Density to Dense or 
Normal (any higher will display thousands of telephone poles in odd places at the Vegas  
airports); this will also simulate the less dense cities found in the era.  Click OK.

If you have a less powerful computer and you get low frame rates, try setting the Scenery 
Density to Normal or lower.  This will remove detail objects and improve the frame rate.

11.  (Optional) If you want white taxiway lines AROUND THE WORLD, rename the 
taxiway_marks.bmp file found in the FS2004 TEXTURE folder to 
taxiway_marks.bmp.yellow.  Then copy the taxiway_marks.bmp file found in 
the FS2004/Addon Scenery/Vegas_59 folder to the FS2004 TEXTURE folder.  Restart
FS.

If you want yellow lines again, rename this current taxiway_marks.bmp file to
taxiway_marks.bmp.white, and rename the taxiway_marks.bmp.yellow file to 
taxiway_marks.bmp.  Restart FS.

12.  If you later want to fly in the modern era, just go into the Scenery Library 
(Settings/Scenery Library) and uncheck the Enabled box next to the Vegas 59, 
Vegas 63, CalClassic Core, and CalClassic Landclass entries until the red check 
marks are removed to deactivate the 1959/1963 scenery (do not deactivate the Static
Objects Library layer).  Click on the checkbox for the Las Vegas Aerial Photo 
layer to reactivate it.  If you have white taxiways, revert to yellow by renaming the 
current taxiway_marks.bmp file in the FS2004 TEXTURE folder to taxiway_marks.bmp.white, 
and rename the taxiway_marks.bmp.yellow file to taxiway_marks.bmp.  Check any inactivated
addon scenery areas for Las Vegas.  You must restart FS after you do all of this.

Reverse this process again to go back to 1959 (or 1963).  Remember to check EITHER
the Vegas 59 or Vegas 63 layers, NOT BOTH.

NOTE: This file, AI Traffic for this scenery (and the world), and lots of classic 
airliners can be downloaded free from Tom Gibson's Classic Airliner web site at - 
http://www.calclassic.com
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Now the legal stuff:

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