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Recent content by spotlope

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    MSFS20 Trouble setting a SimObject value based on two variables

    Ant for the win! Your version worked a treat. Thanks so much! I have learned something new this morning, and I've barely even had my coffee.
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    MSFS20 Trouble setting a SimObject value based on two variables

    Hey thanks, Rick. I think the difference between this scenery simobject and an aircraft is that the roll and pitch animations for a joystick are actually separate anims, requiring a separate single-variable value for each, so not really comparable. Anyhoo, I tried ChatGPT's version. Same thing...
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    MSFS20 Trouble setting a SimObject value based on two variables

    Thanks! I gave that a go, but it doesn't work either. I'm starting to wonder if we can even evaluate two variables in a SimObject.
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    MSFS20 Trouble setting a SimObject value based on two variables

    Thanks for the input, Dick! Unfortunately, no luck with that syntax either.
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    MSFS20 Trouble setting a SimObject value based on two variables

    Hi guys, For some reason, I'm stumbling over this code. I've got an air conditioner unit that I'm trying to add to my scenery. The idea is to have the blades spin only when between certain hours (08:00 and 18:00), and only if the ambient temperature is above 20c. So far, I haven't been able to...
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    Time to Retire

    Have a great retirement, Jon! Thanks so much for all you've done during your long FS career. You've helped a whole bunch of us scenery devs immensely. Enjoy some well-deserved time off!
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    Video Tutorial Series for Creating Scenery with Blender

    It's looking good. Got downtown Dallas inserted into MSFS and it looks really nice. All the modeling for KDAL is done, and about half the texturing. We're just beavering away on that now, trying to get it looking as good as possible. Man, things look beautiful in MSFS.
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    P3D v5 P3Dv5 bridges not excluding

    Hi everyone. As of P3D 5.3, I can't seem to exclude extrusion bridges at all using exclusion rectangles. For instance, here's an exclusion I made for the Glenn Jackson bridge at KPDX. It compiles fine, but does nothing to remove the bridge now. Has anyone else battled this? <?xml version="1.0"...
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    P3D v5 Placing spotlights - workflow

    Ah, I re-read his instructions and figured it out. Turns out I had the 64-bit version of Java but not the 32-bit. Whisplacer will run with the 64-bit, but it won't connect to the sim. Problem solved!
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    P3D v5 Placing spotlights - workflow

    I'm having trouble getting Whisplacer to find P3Dv5. I installed it today, got the current JRE, and it seems to run fine. However, with P3D running, it says it can't find the simconnect port. Did you guys have to manually configure the ports, or did they just work?
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    Video Tutorial Series for Creating Scenery with Blender

    Could it be that you don't have a tile server set up in your SceneryBuilderX settings? You'll need to choose one in order to show background images.
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    Video Tutorial Series for Creating Scenery with Blender

    We're targeting MSFS for sure, but most likely P3D as well.
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    Video Tutorial Series for Creating Scenery with Blender

    The current exporter for Blender seems to work great, so that should be no problem. As for KDAL, it's in an advanced state of development. We were waiting for a good 737 for MSFS before releasing, but now that PMDG has targeted this summer for theirs, we're moving ahead on completing it. There...
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    Video Tutorial Series for Creating Scenery with Blender

    Oh, for sure. I've built several airports in Blender 2.9x. The differences are mostly in the Blender interface, but all the techniques still work.
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    Video Tutorial Series for Creating Scenery with Blender

    Absolutely! 3DSMax is a fine tool, so if you don't mind the high cost, it works great. Blender is easily its equal when it comes to sim design, though. And it's massively more advanced than Gmax.
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