BTW: AFAIK, Arno has not implemented his own proprietary "
compiler" in MCX or any of his other FS utilities, and instead uses MSFS / LM-P3D SDK compilers, BGLC / BGLC_9, and SCASM to maintain as much compatibility as possible with the FS run time display engine for each targeted FS version BGL output type.
SCASM coded airport-specific (non-G-Poly) objects compiled into
ex: airport "stub" BGLs continue to be used by some FS developers for FSX who have advanced knowledge of legacy methods, to achieve things which are not yet possible- or are otherwise difficult to implement- via BGLComp XML methods.
Regarding Ray's inquiry as to ADE having an ability to import Just Flight's Traffic X and Traffic 360 scenery files with names like "AF2_LIMN.bgl" and "AFX-FADN.bgl":
IIUC, as Jon indicated, most of such BGLs are already able to be processed by ADE's feature set, and even though BGL files bearing such file name prefixes are indeed compiled using proprietary compilers, the final BGL format written by those proprietary compilers is SDK-compatible, and thus readily de-compiled and processed by ADE, some of Jon's other FS utilities, and FS utilities by other authors ...including some by Don Grovestine (aka "gadgets").
FYI: Decompiling legacy format SCASM / ASM -compiled BGLs and then processing the *.SCA / *.ASM source code has a separate and often highly-complex work-flow involved which may require extensive editing of source code to disable conditional display implemented via poorly-documented default SDK- and un-documented custom end user specified- variables in output files that sometimes contain tens of thousands of lines of data.
It will be interesting to see whether Jon is ready / willing / able to implement a robust mechanism to successfully import non-MDL-based 3D objects, airport objects, and perhaps terrain objects, from legacy SCASM / ASM source code compiled into BGLs ...to a greater extent than Arno has thus far made possible (...in current 'publicly-available' versions of MCX).
But, I believe we all wish Jon abundant success with this 'mission' - should he choose to accept it.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible
"
- Your mission Dan/Jim, should you choose/decide to accept it, ...
- As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape/disc will self-destruct in five/ten seconds. Good luck,
"
GaryGB