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    P3D v4 How do I remove trees and houses? I'm using p3dv4.5 and ADE V1.79

    That’s not how you are supposed to do this – you never replace default files. You have deleted multiple default airports in that region by doing this. You instead place the ADE files into a separate folder, listed higher than all the default layers in the scenery library. Please read the ADE...
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    P3D v4 How do I remove trees and houses? I'm using p3dv4.5 and ADE V1.79

    Create another terrain polygon, set it to exclude.
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    Why does this dialog box appear when exporting an airport from ADE? How can I resolve it? I didn't notice anything wrong with the airport after import

    I’m not sure, but you may have used a lot of vertices in some ground polygons? Some of those are perhaps being skipped. If the airport looks OK I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
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    P3D v6 Question

    If you don’t know where the registry is, you probably shouldn’t deal with it. It’s how your operating system keeps track of all the programs on your computer. You can do a Google search to learn more.
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    Airport appears in "GoTo" list after delete bgl and cache.

    Glad you found it. Whenever you change the name or the altitude of a default airport in ADE, it creates that ALT BGL file. That’s necessary to override some of the default settings.
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    Airport appears in "GoTo" list after delete bgl and cache.

    You probably have an old version of the BGL file hiding in one of your scenery folders. Do a search of your FS folder. Another possibility is that you have FSX in a Program Files folder and Windows has created another copy of the file in a protected folder after you tried to delete it.
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    MCX Developer 1.7

    It doesn’t want the latest DirectX, it wants DX 9.0c. Both can be installed at the same time.
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    Heliport or Parking at different altitude than airport. ADE 1.79 and FSX

    Glad to hear it.
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    Heliport or Parking at different altitude than airport. ADE 1.79 and FSX

    I don’t know if FSX accepts an “airport” with only a helipad in it. You can always try it?
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    Heliport or Parking at different altitude than airport. ADE 1.79 and FSX

    Airports must be flat in FSX. The only way to create an FS helipad at a different elevation is to create a separate airport at the new altitude. Since this doesn’t probably involve AI aircraft, you could just create something visual, not part of ADE. Something like a ground polygon using MCX, etc.
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    P3D v4 A simple BGL problem...or is it!

    That can mean that the object is actually in FS9 format. In that case, the solid colors turn black in FSX and later Sims. You could try exporting it into FSX or P3D format?
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    P3D v4 GP Characters

    Create a texture from the numbers above without the extra stuff, and invert the colors (white numbers on a black background). Create a polygon in a 3D CAD program like Blender, 3D Max, or GMAX. (At ground level). Texture it with the desired runway numbers. Export to a scenery BGL. (FSX or P3D...
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    ModelconverterX Drawcalls giving weird results

    There could be several reasons, here are two possibilities. If the texture is tiled in any way, it cannot be combined. Sometimes this can be even an accidental wrap around mapping of a single texture. Incompatible texture types would not be able to be combined?
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    ModelconverterX Drawcalls giving weird results

    As far as I know FS9 does not take any great advantage of reduced drawcalls. That became much more important with FSX. Of course it’s always a good idea to reduce the overall texture load, but I’ve never seen any real data that the number of textures make a huge difference to FS9.
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    animation types limited!

    Did you enter the path to the modeldef.xml file in MCX Options? That file is found in the P3D SDK.
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