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FSX Default Airport Objects Disappearing!

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SOLVED! I just had to move all of the generic objects around a tiny bit and they appeared in game!

Recently I decided to make an airshow scenery for KNUQ Moffett Federal Airfield. I made the scenery, compiled to AddonScenery/Scenery, went in to check it out and... all of the buildings that were originally at the airport were gone, but all of the stuff I'd put down was still there, exactly as I'd placed it. I'm running ADE 1.66.5555 on Win 7. Any ideas as to what happened? I didn't touch the default buildings at all.

EDIT: I have just upgraded to ADE 1.67.5684
 
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Welcome. It might help us if you post (by uploading a File to a post) your ADE project File (.ad4). It sounds like you may have deleted the stock objects from the airport but without seeing the project file we can't tell.
 
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This is a modification of a stock airport, but this has happened 3 times before when i tried to edit stock sceneries. The .ad4 is attatched. Thanks for your quick replies.
 

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I compiled your project to my Addon Scenery/Scenery and it looks to me like all the stock objects including ones that you added are visible. I did get some messages about unfound objects when the airport loaded but I assumed that those weren't stock objects.
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Ok, I moved the larger hangar on the left a smidgeon in ADE and It appeared in game on a recompile. Odd.
 
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SOLVED! I just had to move all of the generic objects around a tiny bit and they appeared in game!
 
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Well without wishing to rain on your parade that may work but points to some other file set at a higher priority which is excluding stock objects. By moving them you are getting them off the location of the tiny excludes that are created by ADE to hide objects from the stock files.
 
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Well do you have any traffic or AI packages or general scenery enhancements like ORBX? You can use something like Simple Airport Scanner (http://www.scruffyduck.org/simple-airport-scanner/4584282795) to find out what might be loading after your bgl file. This article explains how FS loads files and in what order: https://scruffyduck.screenstepslive.com/s/help_docs/m/20268/l/199760-priority-matters.

If you want to use a built in version of the scanner that makes things a bit easier search for the loaded airport then we will be releasing an update containing that in the next day or so:

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So... I'm still kinda confused on how to use the Scanner. If the airport I was editing doesn't show up... Is everything well with the world? This is like drinking from a fire hose...

Also, keep in mind that this isn't the first time this has happened to my sceneries.
 
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I assume you have compiled your airport and it is in somewhere like Addon Scenery\scenery. What the scanner does is to look for all the airports in all the different bgl files that are in the simulator folders. It then uses the scenery list you can display in FS settings to sort the bgl files in the order in which they are loaded by FS. These are listed in the display in that order. Bear in mind that the first one on the list is the one that loads last (sorry if that is counter intuitive but think of it as a pile of plates being put one on another in the order specified by the FS settings. The critical thing is that your file is on the top of the heap. If another one or more are above it then they will in effect stop your version of the airport from displaying in the sim. Generally always make sure that Addon Scenery is at the top of the list of scenery areas in your Scenery Settings in FS. This means that any files in there will load after all the others and they should get to display.
 
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Ok, thanks for the explanation. My Addon Scenery is not at the top of the list in the Scenery Library, but there are no other discrepancies as far as Airport Scanner has shown. How do I move Addon Scenery to the top without unchecking other stuff above and losing some of my nice payware sceneries like FlyTampa Maarten?
 
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Oooooooohhhhhhhhh... always wondered what those were for... thanks a lot! I'll try it out.
 
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No luck, went to an airport I had worked on and compiled a while ago and even after shifting the buildings a tiny bit, nothing showed up except for the tower.
 
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