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Hi All,

I just joined here so please be kind if the answer is obvious! ;-)

Anyway I have 2 different commercial sceneries that need some attention.

The first is from UK2000 and needs some objects correcting and updating, the other is Aerosoft (sim wings I think) and needs the apron parking adjusting (graphics as well as afcad) and new 'dirt' texture to add between the runway and taxiway/apron.

The question is how do I proceed to do this? I already tried to open the bgl's in ADE and it won't work.

Any advice at all welcome.

Skywatch
 
skywatch said:
Hi All,

I just joined here so please be kind if the answer is obvious! ;-)

Anyway I have 2 different commercial sceneries that need some attention.

The first is from UK2000 and needs some objects correcting and updating, the other is Aerosoft (sim wings I think) and needs the apron parking adjusting (graphics as well as afcad) and new 'dirt' texture to add between the runway and taxiway/apron.

The question is how do I proceed to do this? I already tried to open the bgl's in ADE and it won't work.

Any advice at all welcome.

Skywatch
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Well when you say ADE won't work what do you mean? That does not tell us anything - did you get an error message? Did ADE crash? or did nothing show up on the screen?
 
Hi Jon,

Thank you for the reply.

Firstly, this might have been misinterpreted as having a go at ADE itself. It isn't that way at all. It's just the one thing I found on the web that looked like it would do what I needed. It could very well be something I am doing as I only got the program this week!

Anyway, I am using FS2004 scenery that I would like to update and improve.

The error is 'failed to load MainForm.load data' and failed to load MainForm.loadfile'. Then nothing shows on the screen.

I have tried this with a number of .bgl files and the result is always the same. I am using version 1.47.07 of ADE.

Will ADE actually allow me to alter commercial scenery?

Thanks for the prompt support, I am impressed! :-)

Skywatch
 
skywatch said:
Hi Jon,

Thank you for the reply.

Firstly, this might have been misinterpreted as having a go at ADE itself. It isn't that way at all. It's just the one thing I found on the web that looked like it would do what I needed. It could very well be something I am doing as I only got the program this week!

Anyway, I am using FS2004 scenery that I would like to update and improve.

The error is 'failed to load MainForm.load data' and failed to load MainForm.loadfile'. Then nothing shows on the screen.

I have tried this with a number of .bgl files and the result is always the same. I am using version 1.47.07 of ADE.

Will ADE actually allow me to alter commercial scenery?

Thanks for the prompt support, I am impressed! :-)

Skywatch
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There is generally no reason why ADE won't load any bgl file that has been created for FS9 or FSX provided that it is based on the SDK for BglComp.
 
Hi Jon,

Another Wiltshire resident I see ;-)

Anyway, do you have any idea as to why I get the error message that I do?

If it helps I am using xp sp3 with the latest updates, 2Gb ram and dual core 2.2Ghz AMD processor.

Thanks

Skywatch
 
skywatch said:
I have tried this with a number of .bgl files and the result is always the same. I am using version 1.47.07 of ADE.
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It depends on the type of bgl. If it contains only ground images or buildings it won't be possible to load it directly into ADE. If it is an airport facilities file, it will be possible to open it in ADE.
 
Hi, everybody !

I tried to reproduce this error message, which happen when I try to open an object BGL file or VTP and exclude BGL files made with SBuilder, but not a scenery file, even those made with AFX (last versions of both softwares).

Hope it helps.

JCP
 
Thanks for the input so far people, nice of you to try and help me out here. :-)

I just thought that maybe if I could convert the bgl to xml I might have another route to the same finished result. So I downloaded BGL2XML and run that on the same files.

BGL2XML gives the error BGL ID 1 not correct on all the files I have tried.

Maybe this will help someone work out what is going on here?

Skywatch
 
skywatch said:
Thanks for the input so far people, nice of you to try and help me out here. :-)

I just thought that maybe if I could convert the bgl to xml I might have another route to the same finished result. So I downloaded BGL2XML and run that on the same files.

BGL2XML gives the error BGL ID 1 not correct on all the files I have tried.

Maybe this will help someone work out what is going on here?

Skywatch
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Then the files are not compiled using BglComp and may well be created using older tools and techniques or perhaps contain only terrain elements as suggested above
 
Thanks for all the replies so far!

So then, let me put a new question to you all. How do I open and modify the files I have to get the results I would like?

Cheers

Skywatch
 
skywatch said:
Thanks for all the replies so far!

So then, let me put a new question to you all. How do I open and modify the files I have to get the results I would like?

Cheers

Skywatch
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The only UK2000 files you can modify are the airport facilities files, the names usually start with AF.
 
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