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Ground Poly question

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I am trying to use the wizard for the first time to try it out. I am tired of the old 2002 way haha.

I have gone through Arnos video and set everything correctly along with my correct GPS and ground altitude in meters according to the AFCAD file. When I export I get no errors and the preview disappears and a bgl is made. However it is nowhere to be found in the sim?

Any ideas what I could check first?

for FSX
 
Gary, Unless you say otherwise MCX is going to put the BGL in the same folder that the model file was in. You can direct the output BGL to any folder you want and that is one of the settings that you can save for that ground polygon. Whenever you modify your model and convert it into a ground polygon again you can recall your settings once the model finishes loading. I use it every time.

Ed
 
If you have already a scenery folder for your ADEX bgl file, simply put it in the same scenery folder and it should be visible.
Jörg
 
Sorry for the late reply guys, I do have a separate scenery folder it is the one I have been using for my tutorials. It is activated as I have the rest of my scenery in there. For some reason the BGL will not show for the ground polys? Could it be that I use *.DDS textures and have the model converter read the 24 bit BMPs in the same folder I have the *.MDL file?

Here is a pic to show....

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Gary,

Your ground polygon is telling FSX to use textures that have a .bmp extension when it displays your ground polygon. You need to have bmp textures in your texture folder. You can also check the box to convert textures and MCX will use Image Tool to convert the textures to dds but you need to flip them vertically first before placing them in your texture folder. It doesn't matter which way you go. For simplicity at the moment copy your bmp textures into your texture folder and you should see your ground polygon.

Ed
 
I understood that FSX would look for DDS if it couldn't find BMP?
 
Thanks for the info Tom. I'll keep that in mind. I never suspected that FSX was that sophisticated. I should give MS more credit.
Gary, I'm glad you spotted that.

Ed
 
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