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First steps in GMAX with FS2004 gamepack

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Gorchi

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Hello guys!
While resting after finally creating Slovenija 2004 scenery, which was made in FSDS2.x for FS2002&2004, I have decided to learn gmax. I tried MS tutorial for its house which nicely exported using those coordinates, but when I try to put the house somewhere in Slovenija, nothing shows. I also created simple cube (5x5x5m), put some material on it (without textures) but I still can't see my object.
In XML I put coordinates from Flight Simulator, with lat. and lon. both positive and without N/E signs. Also altitude is AGL was set to yes and to na + specified height, still nothing.
I have been searching for posts on Avsim's forum and here, nothing found. Does anybody have a clue, have I forgot to set something?

Thanks in advance and best regards,
 
Hi Goran,

Maybe a stupid suggestion, but did you not forget to remove the comments in the XML file around the placement code? This has happened to most of us :D.

Also make sure that you entered the coordinates correct, the first time I put a minus wrong and ended up looking for my object on the wrong place.
 
Stupid question allowed, happened to me also in the normal Delphi programming but unfortunatelly this is not the case. Here is the XML file:
Code: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<FSData version="9.0" xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="bglcomp.xsd">

	<!-- Sample object placement.  Remove comment markers to place object east of 34R at Sea Tac. -->
	<!--
	<SceneryObject lat="47 25.89" lon="-122 18.43" alt="0" pitch="0" bank="0" heading="0" altitudeIsAgl="TRUE" imageComplexity="NORMAL">
		<LibraryObject name="8ADFC7F1445ED75C91918B8F3DA1C421" scale="1.0" />
	</SceneryObject>

	-->
	<SceneryObject lat="46 25.48" lon="15 59.08" alt="0" pitch="0" bank="0" heading="0" altitudeIsAgl="TRUE" imageComplexity="NORMAL">
		<LibraryObject name="8ADFC7F1445ED75C91918B8F3DA1C421" scale="1.0" />
	</SceneryObject>

	<!-- Inclusion of model data.  Use the 'Name' of this object to place --> 
	<!-- it in other locations.                                           --> 
	<ModelData name="8ADFC7F1445ED75C91918B8F3DA1C421" sourceFile="test2.mdl" />
</FSData>
I guess this object should show at position N46 25.48, E15 59.08 which puts the object at the sport airfield Ptuj (near LJMB, about 15nm SE). Any ideas? :(
Regards,
 
Hi Goran,

I tested your file and it works fine here.

But I also noticed that I had to turn of your scenery first (might be logical as your scenery was on a higher layer then my test folder, so the excludes would exclude the object).
 
Success!

Argh!
Yes, that was it! I put it into addon scenery but on Ptuj I have small excludes because of autogen. Stupid me :banghead:
Thanks, now let's proceed to another lesson... :teacher:

Best regards,
 
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