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Recent content by Larry S

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    AI heli and elevated pad

    Just tried it and it appears to work just fine. Now to figure out when the orig designer had an ai heli at that pad so I can verify I didn't break his stuff.
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    AI heli and elevated pad

    I won't be able to play with it until later this afternoon - wouldn't an invisable airport still raise the ground elevation? I didn't try that 'cause I assumed...
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    AI heli and elevated pad

    OK- so I'm 99 percent sure it can't be done, but I'll ask anyway. Made a scenery upgrade for an an existing scenery. The designer of the original scenery put an ai helipad on a small island. I have created a gmax version of that island and put a gmax helipad on top of it at about 20 meters...
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    transparent problems

    OK - no, there is only the one object in the MDL file. It is centered.
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    transparent problems

    I'm sorry Arno. I'm not sure I understand the question, but then I've always the first to admit I'm not the brightest light in the harbor :o. If you are thinking that bird and any other objects are part of one bgl, the answer is no. I can remove the bird's bgl file and the same thing...
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    transparent problems

    Thanks Arno. I went into hierarchy and set the pivot point to center to object. Then made sure the pivot point is centered on the grid in gmax. I made a much simpler version of the object. This is just a box with no top or bottom, only 4 sides. The left image is with opacity at 100...
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    transparent problems

    I was beginning to suspect something along those lines. This object would not look right without seasonal textures, so it's a showstopper. Time to sit it aside and play with other stuff. Thx for the reply.
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    transparent problems

    I'm working on a small bush type object, and having major issues. This is going into FSX, but needs seasonal textures so I'm doing it in FS9 gmax. If I just assign a transparent texture, it comes out like image 1. You can't see the aircraft (or any other objects behind it) behind it. I...
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    FSX Gmax animation

    Since I kind of gave you partial info, and wanted to see what I was missing myself , I made a simple rotating box so I could see what needed to be done. It does need the tick18_ name so call it tick18_door or something like that. With the animated part selected go to fstools and open the...
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    water refections

    And found the answer to this too. Just a simple case of turn water detail/effects to max. Duh.
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    FSX Gmax animation

    Been too long. I'm getting back into scenery after about a year - amazing how much stuff you forget. Seems like in FSX there was also a setting in the animation tool, but rather than make your problem worse trying to remember, I'll just shut up and let someone get you the right answers.
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    water refections

    In some screen shots I look at, I see what I assume are custom gmax objects reflecting in the water. Mine don't reflect. I've searched the sdk, but I will admit I'm SDK challenged (I have a terrible finding what I want). Is this possible, and if so can someone direct to where it's...
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    FSX Gmax animation

    I'll throw out a thought, if memory serves. I think you need to name the animated parts tick18_ , like tick18_door1 and tick18_door2 etc? Been a while, so I may be totally off base. If so, sorry.
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    couple dumb questions

    Been away for a while. Did some searches on seasonal textures and it appears we still have to do that in FS9 format? - bummer. Sooo, I have an animated object that would only show in spring and summer. Any way FSX to control that, or still FS9 for that as well. Assuming it's FS9, any way...
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    effects editing tool

    Still trying to get back into design after a long absence. I edited the dll.xml (attached) file and now have a tool menu in FSX which shows object placement tool and fx tool. The object placement tool runs fine. Fx tool does nothing when I click on it. Any idea what I'm doing wrong...
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