Culzean Castle

[GHD]

If I have "MissingLibraryAlert=1" in my FSX.CFG and if I start at EGPK (Prestwick) I get a warning that (dc017e53-b9a4-4036-afcb-1cef166a9c02) is missing.

Searching my scenery areas, I find that the library is FSX\Scenery\EURW\scenery\glasgow.bgl and the placement of the castle is in FSX\Scenery\0501\scenery\OBX46120.bgl:

<SceneryObject
lat="55.3525231406093"
lon="-4.7875240445137"
alt="0.0M"
altitudeIsAgl="TRUE"
pitch="0"
bank="0"
heading="333.489990234375"
imageComplexity="NORMAL">
<LibraryObject
name="{dc017e53-b9a4-4036-afcb-1cef166a9c02}"
scale="1.00"
/>
</SceneryObject>

Both EURW and 0501 are active in the scenery library.

If I inhibit these areas and copy the library to a new scenery area for a German airport,and add a placement at that airport I get the same warning that the Castle is missing.

However, if I extract the model and import it into the ADE airport file, it appears.

At its real position in Scotland, it is invisible, at Eschendorf, it is present in all its glory:



but only if the model is included in the ADE bgl.

Can anyone offer an explanation as to why this might happen?

 

[hairyspin]

I know the castle quite well and that ain't like it at all. Perhaps a German impostor?

This is the real thing, jawohl!

 

[GHD]

Perhaps that is why it is frightened to show its face

 

[jvile]

George

Its there at least what FSX thinks it looks like. I cannot tell you why the GUID does not play well. There are many one off's in FS and each one is a case by case issue.




There are several ways you can get the castle to show that I know of and there could be others. Using ADE add and place the castle to the right of where the stock castle is located (see pic below). Add the model to the ADE model list (i think you did already).

In my pic you can see I added a small flatten and exclude autogen (castle on flat ground and remove some small houses that looked out of place) where the stock castle sits. You can see the ADE scenery object to the right of my flatten so based on my picture bury the ADE Castle (uncheck Altitude is AGL). We need the ADE added castle to drop to the sea level floor (out of sight) and I also set complexity to the max.



So we drop the ADE added castle to SL and the stock castle will pop up (in theory). We need the textures so go to the 5 glasgow_Culzean's and COPY out of the EURW\Texture folder to the Global\Texture folder.

If you do not want to use ADE then compile XML to a bgl with placement and library like this

<SceneryObject
lat="55.347029119"
lon="-4.774673689"
alt="0.0M"
altitudeIsAgl="FALSE"
pitch="0"
bank="0"
heading="0.0"
imageComplexity="EXTREMELY_DENSE">
<LibraryObject
name="{dc017e53-b9a4-4036-afcb-1cef166a9c02}"
scale="1.00" />
</SceneryObject>

place in a active folder AND be sure to COPY the textures into the Global\texture folder.

We are not using any part of the add Scenery Object, Library or Textures. We are hiding all that at sea level so FS will make the stock castle appear that is in the Glasgow bgl and EURW\Texture folder

 

[GHD]

It is not that I wish it to show, I wish that there is no warning of a missing object which is obviously in the scenery search path:

 

[GHD]

I have no explanation for this, but you nudged me in the right direction Jim.

I added an exclusion rectangle at the castle and placed it in the Prestwich scenery area (near the top of the sceney list) and the warning now doesn't appear.

 

[jvile]

EDIT-------------

I cross posted


FS will see the stock library object GUID after you add a 2nd castle and hide it in the ground. I call it shock therapy since the 2nd castle forces the stock castle to display.

I had the same error as you loading EGPK with the MissingLibraryAlert=1. If you only want to fix the error then use the exclusion rectangle on the stock castle and it will not show up.

Another option is to decompile the glasgow.bgl, delete the following XML ModelData lines of code, remove the .mdl then Save/ compile.

<!-- GUID {DC017E53-B9A4-4036-AFCB-1CEF166A9C02} -->
<!-- Glasgow_Culzean -->
<ModelData
sourceFile="F:\glasgow_04.mdl"
fileOffset="0"/>

 

[jvile]

I have no explanation for this, but you nudged me in the right direction Jim.

I added an exclusion rectangle at the castle and placed it in the Prestwich scenery area (near the top of the sceney list) and the warning now doesn't appear.

My exclusion rectangle differed slightly from the way you did it.

I have no explanation either regardless of how the exclusion was pathed. I'm going to leave the castle in my scenery since it is FSX default.

 

[GHD]

I had the same error as you loading EGPK with the MissingLibraryAlert=1.

But you saw the model? I didn't.

 

[jvile]

I did not see the model either. I went to EGPK and then slewed down the coast to your lat lon. There was no castle. I added a 2nd model to FSX using ADE and then buried it out of sight. This caused the stock castle to appear (after I copied the textures) and the MissingLibraryAlert error message no longer showed on startup of FSX.

 

[GHD]

Weird.

 

[GHD]

This is ridiculous. It works fine on my XP FSX, however, on W7, even with the exclusion, both FSX and P3D report the Castle as missing.