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Hello Jon,

I used the newest rendition of ADE to install a military beacon on top of my airport control tower. It worked fine for a couple of days and then disappeared. The only change made was adding scenery using Instant Scenery.

Once it disappeared, I reopened the airport bgl file using ADE and I could still "see" the beacon. I deleted it and reinstalled the beacon and recompiled the airport it hoping that would correct the issue. No luck. I have double checked the GPS location and altitude and it is where it should be, but I still don't have a beacon.

Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?

Jim
 
tgibson

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Did you happen to add any scenery very near to the beacon? It is an effect, and can be affected by the presence of objects nearby. Usually underneath the beacon is OK though.

The other thing that can happen is that due to a bug in FS, in cloudy weather the beacon will vanish when the background behind it is only clouds. Try looking down on it from above and see if it appears.

Hope this helps,
 
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Hi Tom,
Thank you for replying. There really isn't any scenery nearby. As you said there is scenery below it, but there was before it disappeared as well.

Any idea how to correct it? I have tried deleting it, and reinstalling to no avail.

Jim
 
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Jim,
can you move the beacon to another area in your airport, somewhere out in the open if possible,
lets see if you can make it appear at your airport in another position,
doesn't matter where and then see if it appears,
also consider it may not be compiling into your airport bgl now!
 
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Hi Ray,

Good suggestion and I tried it. No beacon shows up anywhere. I made sure I was in a open space with nothing around.

Can you tell me how to make sure it compiles correctly please?

Jim
 
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strange! how did it show before?
basically ADE needs to know what the beacon is, and you also need the textures for it to show in a texture sub folder,
is it something you have added, like a model or is it something from instant scenery?
if it is a model then you need to point ADE to where it is to add it to the ADE model list,
can you tell us what the beacon is...........
 
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Ray,

Ray: strange! how did it show before?

If I understand what you are asking me, the beacon appeared and rotated correctly. The beacon I used was the ADE Beacon military version from ADE version 1.55.4820.30502. I am sorry if I am not answering your question. It showed up in ADE (as it does now) and I had it set to Extremely Dense.

Ray: basically ADE needs to know what the beacon is, and you also need the textures for it to show in a texture sub folder, is it something you have added, like a model or is it something from instant scenery?

Ray, I attached a copy of the files in my KSBD folder for you to review. Is there a file I should be directing the beacon into? If so, how would I do that?

I don't know if this helps, but I also note that my approach lights are not working as well. I saw where Jon indicated there may be an program issue with lighting. Could this be my problem as well?

If the ADE beacon won't work, do you know here I could find a rotating beacon, or is there a way I can somehow extract the ADE beacon and use Instant Scenery to place it?

I have also attached my airport file if you want to view it. Please understand it is a first effort...grin

Jim
 

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Lane Street

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You have the beacon set to Extremely Dense.

That means it will not show up unless your Scenery Complexity setting in the sim is Extremely Dense.

Beacons should be set to Very Sparse so they always show.

I tested your file and the beacon shows at Extremely Dense.

cheers,
Lane
 
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Lane,
You were exactly right. What a foolish mistake on my part.

Thank you very much for your help!

Jim
 
Lane Street

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Happy to help.

Like I always tell the kids, "you learn more from your failures than your successes".

Remember when working in ADE to keep the setting on top to Extremely Dense so all objects show up in the display.

When placing objects, which is different, each object gets it's own property.

cheers,
Lane
 
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Great to find this answer!

I'm new to FSX and ADE coming from CFS2 and FSSC after a lull of several years. It's been quite an adjustment but things are beginning to click. I had this same no-show beacon problem and thrashed for a couple of days before I found the answer on FSDeveloper. I would have never figured this out on my own. Thanks to all who contribute.
 
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G Gentry said:
I'm new to FSX and ADE coming from CFS2 and FSSC after a lull of several years. It's been quite an adjustment but things are beginning to click. I had this same no-show beacon problem and thrashed for a couple of days before I found the answer on FSDeveloper. I would have never figured this out on my own. Thanks to all who contribute.
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