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API Scasm with FSX ???

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Hello

It's my first thread in this forum...
I did the French airports sceneries of "Scenes Regions Nord".
I began this work during 2002 and the majority of them was compiled SCASM with EOD and Groundmaker.

Now I use Gmax but I would be very disappointed to rebuild all with the xml format, I think it will be a crazy work...

So I installed the FSX demo and did some tests. I was happy to see that my EOD or FSDS v2 macros located in the Caribbean was read by FSX :D .

However the night textures (bmp or DXT”_lm”) are not visible :confused: . I don't understand why and I continue to test.

So if you did some tests with macros Scasm and FSX I'm very interested by your comments...

Thanks by advance

Christian

http://perso.orange.fr/christian.dupriez
 
christian said:
Now I use Gmax but I would be very disappointed to rebuild all with the xml format, I think it will be a crazy work...

So I installed the FSX demo and did some tests. I was happy to see that my EOD or FSDS v2 macros located in the Caribbean was read by FSX :D .
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Isn't the API macros that cause sensible frame drops in FS9 ? :confused:
Cause if that's the case in FSX maybe a redesign could be neccesary anyway specialy if that the new XML format will be more powerfull :rolleyes:
 
Isn't the API macros that cause sensible frame drops in FS9 ?
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yes. The frame drops is sensible with a large scenery. But the most of my sceneries represent small airfields and in this case the drop are no significant (non significant to rebuild with Gmax..;) ).


Cause if that's the case in FSX maybe a redesign could be neccesary
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Yes, I agree for the large sceneries, but not before I will be retired... hi

Ch
 
christian said:
yes. The frame drops is sensible with a large scenery. But the most of my sceneries represent small airfields and in this case the drop are no significant (non significant to rebuild with Gmax..;) ).
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Then I guess it make sense keeping the old models. :)

I didn't have the chance to try FSX, unfortunately, as I don't want to install XP SP2 :duck:
 
I don't want to install XP SP2
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Microsoft will stop supporting SP1 at the end of October if I recall correctly. After that there will be no security updates for SP1.
 
Hi,

we spend as long as possible using SCASM Libraries. And we also made small Airfields in southern Germany. But we found out that it makes a big difference using XML libraries. So maybe it makes sense to start redesigning. Your customers will be glad.

Your night textures might not work, because the use of nighttestures ist done completely different in XML. In SCASM you defined the season or nightlighting at the poly where you put your texture to. IN XML you define the Texture in a TextureMap in the beginning. Here you have to decide if you want to use Night or season Textures...

I still did not find the time to try some things in the demo :scratchch
 
However the night textures (bmp or DXT”_lm”) are not visible . I don't understand why and I continue to test.
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The second FSX demo shows the night textures.
But it's not yet perfect. Its let see through the FSX objects which are located behind.

Let us the final FSX version... hi

Christian
 
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