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  1. Jay Bloomfield

    P3D v5 Excluding Airport backgrounds in P3d5

    I am not able to exclude the airport background from the stock KBTV in P3d5, no matter what exclusion polygon that is used in ADE. I've followed Jim Vile's tutorial for doing this for a number of previous P3d versions and I have never had an issue, except when the airport spanned a QMID11...
  2. Jay Bloomfield

    P3D v5 Sloped Airport Taxiway Creation

    The only change that I have noticed is if the P3d5 stock Airport Boundary polygon has shifted laterally to overlap a different QMID boundary, then excluding it may require drawing a slightly different shaped exclusion polygon in the P5 version. Also, a word of caution on creating sloped taxi...
  3. Jay Bloomfield

    Transferring P3D v4 (and earlier) project files to use with P3D v5

    A couple things to check. Are the new jetways set to "very dense" and as a result not visible with the comparable sim scenery density setting? Also are their altitudes set to AGL or field?
  4. Jay Bloomfield

    Transferring P3D v4 (and earlier) project files to use with P3D v5

    Ha! A new Pro plugin benefit!
  5. Jay Bloomfield

    Transferring P3D v4 (and earlier) project files to use with P3D v5

    Well, it's somewhat useful during the 4 to 5 conversion process, as it allows seeing the locations of all types of stock objects at once. Reversing the List process can be used to hide them all again.
  6. Jay Bloomfield

    Transferring P3D v4 (and earlier) project files to use with P3D v5

    Actually, you can see them. Open up the Exclusions List, select all and finally the Select in Display button.
  7. Jay Bloomfield

    P3D v5 Sloped Airport Taxiway Creation

    Your welcome. I'm surprised that you didn't catch that it's not possible to set Force Skip Compile for Railroad vectors. :oops: Maybe it doesn't matter, as they are probably hidden under the runways. EDIT: I just realized that Force Skip Compile is available in Raw View. Does changing the value...
  8. Jay Bloomfield

    P3D v5 Sloped Airport Taxiway Creation

    Here's an alternate method for finding the altitude of the taxiway points, without running P3d5 and taxiing around: Open the airport in ADE. I add the runway ID (for example, RWY15-33) in each taxiway point's comment section . In ADE, Draw a railroad vector down the centerline of each runway...
  9. Jay Bloomfield

    Missing autogen buildings in Prepar3D

    From a fairly old post (2013) on the LM official forums:
  10. Jay Bloomfield

    P3D v4 Florida Keys !

    I'm not sure why you copied the LatinVFR agn files, as there were already AGN.files for Key West included in the Florida Keys package. I think that all you had to do was disable the LatinVFR agn files. I could be wrong, but having duplicate agn files in two different folders probably caused the...
  11. Jay Bloomfield

    ATC Comms Does not mention Airport Name or City

    I assume that you are referring to an airport that is either not stock or has a new name. The voice pack that is supplied with the sim can be modified by the user with a payware utility EditVoicePack. You can also search online either for the app's official site or to see if someone has already...
  12. Jay Bloomfield

    An ADE Prepar3D V5 puzzle

    Take a look at the airports in APX75310.bgl. There is an airport with an ICAO code of TEST with no runways and it is co-located with WIDD, Hang Nadim Airport, Bantam, Indonesia. This was pointed out by a VOXATC user and also someone on the LM official forum. It's probably just a mistake, unless...
  13. Jay Bloomfield

    FSX:SE AI issues at a 'staggered parallel' field

    If you're targeting FSX, my suggestion won't help. Try compiling for P3d V4.5 and using the ADE file in the HF2 of that sim. LM claimed that a long-standing bug in runway use was corrected. https://www.prepar3d.com/news/2019/09/115750/ Theres always a chance by doing so that you will come up...
  14. Jay Bloomfield

    P3D v5 Sloped Airport Taxiway Creation

    Thanks. That makes sense. I haven't found a stock airport yet that uses these settings, but there might be one somewhere.
  15. Jay Bloomfield

    P3D v5 Sloped Airport Taxiway Creation

    Is the coordinate system for ADE taxiway signs, pitch = latitude and bank = longitude? Or is it something else? I assume that the clamp settings allow the taxiway signs to follow the mesh.
  16. Jay Bloomfield

    FS2004 How do I get sharp image background Google Map or others?

    You're better off using FS Earth Tiles combined with the latest Google Maps server. Search FSDeveloper for "FSET" and you will find instructions on how to proceed. The advantage of this approach is you also get a BGL file of the imagery in addition to the BMP version. The BMP image can then be...
  17. Jay Bloomfield

    ADE P3D v5 List of Sloped Airports

    That's what I wanted to know. There are only six stock airports with sloped features.
  18. Jay Bloomfield

    ADE P3D v5 List of Sloped Airports

    Thanks, I have the new ADE beta for P3d5. Your suggestion helps in reading the APX files, rather than parsing the entire scenery folder for them. The P3d5 BGL airport record has new entries for updated aprons, taxipaths, parking spots etc. with values at or above 0x00AC. Or am I missing some...
  19. Jay Bloomfield

    ADE P3D v5 List of Sloped Airports

    This is not exactly a feature request. Could someone write a simple utility that would make a complete list of all the P3d5 stock airports (and their APX file name)? It can't be that hard to do as the the utility could parse the stock BGL APX files for the specific new record types. Yeah, yeah...
  20. Jay Bloomfield

    ADE Wish List

    I also vote for this. Unfortunately, it may take conversion to 64 bit to accommodate larger high resolution images.
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