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How do you name your textures/objects?

Geiger.Daniel

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Hi all.

After looking at some addon sceneries from different designers, I stumbled upon file names like A201.bmp for a building texture or A201.bgl for an object.

I give them names like t1.bgl or t1.bmp to define that these files belong to terminal 1, because I think it's better to use names that allow you a bit to read out, what this file includes.

But what about A201.bmp or *.bgl? Personally, I can't associate anything with this. No chance of saying, it's a building or a car. So how do you handle this? Are you giving names, that allow flightsimmers a bit to read out, what a file includes or do you use names that say nothing about the content? Or do you have some kind of grid and you say "Building z is located in grid A4 and it's the fifth object with a bgl, so i name it A45.bgl"?


Hope to get some input from you all. Greetings.

Daniel
 
Hello,

Of course I give the file a name that describes the content of the .bgl or .bmp, because once converted the .bmp into a DXT-file for example there is nothing to see than an icon like all the others.
Codes like 12345.bmp are too weird... however, it looks more professional if the scenery is ment to be released.
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Greetz. José.
 
Maybe it looks more professional... but it's not user-friendly. For example if you have to search the whole scenery-folder to find the bgl where ststic aircraft are in, it's just stupid. Why not call it static-aircrafts.bgl, so the user can spot it with one look and can deactivate it?
I find it very useful if programmers give reasonable names for both bgl and bmp. The FS is kind of an open source program, so it should be rather natural that the addon-market is too. :)

I find it most difficult to create GUIDs for api-macros. :D
But for scenery and textures, for now I only had to use less than 100, so it's still easy to overview. If you use hundreds of textures it may be useful to create names with numbers and not just "the-hangar-thats-behind-this-other-hangar-next-to-the-tower-at-the-northwest-edge-of-the-apron-at-night-1.bgl" :D :D
 
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Hi Daniel,

For most of my projects I use the last two letters of the ICAO ident as the first letters of the texture. This is because they are part of a bigger scenery (nationwide) and that makes it easier to see to which airport they belong.

After that I use something that describes the texture. For example by refering to the hanger name or calling it simply tower for the control tower :). If an object has multiple textures I add things like door, roof, etc in the name as well.

The only problem for user of the scenery might be that I usually do this in Dutch, so it could still become abacadabra to most :). Here are a few examples:

StHangaar3Deur.bmp
StHangaar1Muur.bmp
StTorenRaamBoven.bmp
 
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