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Dynamic Scenery

biggard

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Hey guys,

I think this has been asked, how does one go about making dynamic objects. An example would be a bus running from terminal to terminal or cars on a highway in the flight-path. Keep in mind that I am relatively new to g-max, and I know nothing about gmax animations or CAT. A tutorial would be nice, but right now any advice helps.

David Biggar
david.biggar@gmail.com
 
Hi m8,

Are you really living in San Fran ?
A great place ... i was in Sausalito and Napa Valley 10 years ago - sigh ...

Okay - i don´t know if there are better ways , but I myself use FSDYN! -> the !-Sign is in the name
it is freeware and very nice and easy - you need fltrec9.dll too which is freeware too.

You take a car or bus or ship or heli - must be an "aircraft"-Model in Fs9 - but there are many many at avsim or else ...

then you start at the point you want in FS9 and activate START REC in the alt-Menue in FS9 ( which of course is from FLTREC9 ! )

After your desired action you press END REC and ... BASTA ...
You compile it with FSDYN! - ( if you want one time or forever loop and else ... blabla )

thats it ! a BGL is created - put it in a directory and add it to the scenery in FS9 - TADAAA !

Greetz from Stuttgart / Germany

Enzo
 
I actually live in Napa, and a quick question, does it then display the vehicle that i used in the recording?

David
 
Hi

What do you use to convert the MDL to a format FSdyn can use. I cant figure out how to attach the model to the Recorded path.

Can I use Fs2004 MDL's or do they have to be Fs2002 MDL's

Stevo
 
Okay, so I made the recording, but I have no idea what to do! :banghead: Do you have some more instructions?

David
 
hi

I tested it ONLY with FS2004 - you select an aircraft - or what else - in FS2004 and load the scenery where you want it.
Then you record the action that you want to do - for example drive a big circle with a ship on a lake or fly some circles with a plane over an airport.

OK - after that you have a XXX.dat in the FS9 directory.
Now you must start FSDYN! and choose this file -
then you are asked which Aircraft or boat you want to assign to - standard is CESSNA - then you are asked Step2 i think ... if it should be one time or circle or else ... in the last step your new BGL is created.


Strange when you fly with an aircraft and compile it with a boat hehehe , flying dutchman -effect , lol ( is it Arno ? ) grin ...

Greetz -

Enzo
 
Hi,

I think the BGL that is created is from the Section 15 dynamic scenery. In that case it does not display the aircraft you used for the recording. That is just to record.

There are a few default objects that you can choose, for example the Cessna or a Learjet. If you want to use your own models, you will have to make a dynamic library. This can be done using the Fs2002 GMax gamepack and then a little source tweaking.
 
Hi

Is it possible to keep the source files from FSDYN? or is there a way to decompile the BGL it creates?

Arno and when you say tweaking, is it as easy as changing the GUID number for the model then recompile, or it there more to it, I'm not that good when it comes to tweaking, Thats why I use your tools ;) .

Stevo
 
Hi,

I am not sure, never used the tool. But you can make it with normal SCASM code, so maybe BGLAnalyzer is able to decompile such BGL files as well.

For the tweaking, I don't know all the details, because I haven't used that kind of dynamic scenery for ages. But on the AvSim forum there has been some discussion about it. Basically you need to make a library with FsRegen and then make a few changes to the ASM of the library itself, to make it a dynamic library instead of a normal object library.
 
Hi,

Is this program worth for FS9?, me every time that I give to start, he puts on the screen in black and does the FS9 fade, when I pull up the FS9 does he give me an error and does he tell me that the bookstore fltrec.dll is not compatible with FS9.

Thanks
 
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