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BGLComp Versions

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The version of bglcomp.exe and bglcomp.xsd for FSX is obviously different than the one we used in FS9.

Not played with it yet but am I right in assuming that if I want to compile for FSX and FS9 then I will have to use the appropriate version? I guess that means that a scenery design program designed to work in both environments will need to
  1. Offer a choice of version to generate scenery for
  2. Be able to recognize that any FSX features need to be ignored if compiling to FS9
  3. loads of other things that it is too early for me to figure out.....

Given that they are both 'convenient' given the same name they obviously can't reside in the same directory :)
 
Well I have been playing around today and I can generate scenery from my Scenery Maker program using FSUIPC4 - I can generate effects, Windsocks, rotating beacons and place objects as expected. Scenery compiles fine using either the old or new bglcomp.

To get FS9 generic library objects to show up I can confirm the findings of another thread. That is you need to make copies of the generic, landmark and vehicles bgls from FS9. Change their names where they correspond to one in FSX. I created a new addon scenery sub folder called FS9 Generics. put the libraries in the scenery sub folder and the textures in the texture sub folder. Objects then appear in FSX.
 
scruffyduck said:
Not played with it yet but am I right in assuming that if I want to compile for FSX and FS9 then I will have to use the appropriate version?
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I have not looked into this, but I read that the only difference is in the XSD scheme. But I don't know if with the FsX BGLComp we can also create Fs2004 compatible files if we just prevent using the new commands. Else we would indeed have to use the appropriate version for the FS version we are compiling for.

scruffyduck said:
To get FS9 generic library objects to show up I can confirm the findings of another thread. That is you need to make copies of the generic, landmark and vehicles bgls from FS9. Change their names where they correspond to one in FSX. I created a new addon scenery sub folder called FS9 Generics. put the libraries in the scenery sub folder and the textures in the texture sub folder. Objects then appear in FSX.
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But why not use the FsX generic objects when you are working for FsX? Only for the backwards compatibility of older sceneries it might be useful to copy these libraries over. For new projects I would stick to the FsX objects only.
 
arno said:
But why not use the FsX generic objects when you are working for FsX? Only for the backwards compatibility of older sceneries it might be useful to copy these libraries over. For new projects I would stick to the FsX objects only.
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Agreed...... :)
 
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