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FSXA A newbie mistake

Henry Street

Henry Street

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After making over 2 dozen scenery objects into individual BGL files, I am seeing the wisdom of creating an object library. My hesitation is that I would rather not have to recompile all the objects into MDL files.

Thinking I can create a batch file with BGL2XML, decompile the MDL files and then use LibraryCreatorXML to package them all up together into one BGL library.

Is the way to accomplish my goal of having one library file? Is there a better way? Any gotchas?

Thanks again for this great community.

Henry
 
Hi,

That should work. It can also be done with my ModelConverterX tool. There is an option to merge different files in it.

Didn't you keep the MDL files when you made the current BGL files? That's often a good idea.

Do your current BGL files also contain the placement? That part is normally not put in the library BGL.
 
Thanks Arno, after you post I found the options in MCX both for combining files and for retaining the MDL files. Any new objects I create will be added with MCX. Very helpful.

I have separated the placement BGL from the Object BGLs...I did organize that right :-)
 
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