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How to add an overlay as blueprint

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Unfortunately some airports are not available (or only with bad sattelite images) in FS2020. That's why they are missing.
Google Maps in the other hand has the perfect sattelite images.

So i want to create som of those missing airports. But it's a mess to add a runway, switch back to google maps to get a climps of the "exact" position, and try to set it there as good as possible.
So i need a way to add an google maps overlay image on my airport, positioning it ones and place my objects according to this overlay (Of course all google images will be deleted when done "Copyright")

What is the best way to achieve that. Rectangles and sliced rectangled imges only allows a certain size. So if i don't want to puzzle 1000 pieces, i need a way to lay the whole image on it.
Is there a way?
 
NoteBeule338 said:
Unfortunately some airports are not available (or only with bad sattelite images) in FS2020. That's why they are missing.
Google Maps in the other hand has the perfect sattelite images.

So i want to create som of those missing airports. But it's a mess to add a runway, switch back to google maps to get a climps of the "exact" position, and try to set it there as good as possible.
So i need a way to add an google maps overlay image on my airport, positioning it ones and place my objects according to this overlay (Of course all google images will be deleted when done "Copyright")

What is the best way to achieve that. Rectangles and sliced rectangled imges only allows a certain size. So if i don't want to puzzle 1000 pieces, i need a way to lay the whole image on it.
Is there a way?
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Here's a guide on how to create custom photo/aerial scenery in MSFS. So that you can replace bing with google photos
https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/t...e-custom-airport-aerial-photo-scenery.448680/ :D

And, somebody correct me if Im wrong, but I think Google got nothing against people using their aerial images in flight sim :)
 
I got this error while building:
CGLCompiler | No CGL builder descriptor XML found in

What am i missing:

Thats the full console:
PackageBuilder | Reading F:\CURASOBO\MyAirports\EDDS_MAP\EDDS_MAP.xml...
PackageBuilder | Preparing asset groups...
PackageBuilder | Done, 3 asset groups registered.
PackageBuilder | Generating commands for package edds-map...
PackageBuilder | Preparing commands for asset group ContentInfo...
ContentInfoLister | Source directory F:\CURASOBO\MyAirports\EDDS_MAP\PackageDefinitions\edds-map\ContentInfo\ does not exist
PackageBuilder | Failed to spawn lister for asset group ContentInfo (type ContentInfo)
PackageBuilder | Preparing commands for asset group edds-map...
PackageBuilder | Ready, 1 commands added.
PackageBuilder | Starting the build...
Compiling CGL file(s)
CGLCompiler | No CGL builder descriptor XML found in
PackageBuilder | Skip mirroring due to command failures.
PackageBuilder | Skip generation of package information due to command failures.
PackageBuilder | Finished, 0 skipped, 0 done and 2 failed, took 0s088ms.
? false returned by Command=BuildPackages Comment=Rebuild the packages whose name correspond to the given filter, and for the given project (default fs-project.xml) NbParam=2 Line=BuildPackages edds-map * "F:\CURASOBO\MyAirports\EDDS_MAP\EDDS_MAP.xml" "F:\CURASOBO\MyAirports\EDDS_MAP" 1
 
NoteBeule338 said:
I got this error while building:
CGLCompiler | No CGL builder descriptor XML found in

What am i missing:
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Looks like you missed a step in the guide.
image.png


If you did this, and you are still recieving the CGLCompiler | No CGL builder descriptor XML found in, then you are missing a file that comes with the SimpleAerial example in the SDK.

To fix this add a file called CGLBuilderConfig.xml in the the direcorty YOUR_PROJECT_FOLDER\PackageSources\CGL
image.png


And inside the CGLBuilderConfig.xml paste in this:
XML: 
<CGLBuilder>
    <CGL type="SecondaryAerialImage" input="Tiles" directory="aerial_images"/>
</CGLBuilder>
 
Yes, i tryied it too.
But anytime i have the CGLBuilderConfig.xml within my CGL Folder and click on build, the complete sim freezes (crashes)

Maybe i use the wrong build type. I use scenery or custom. Aircraft and the other selectable things doesn't make any sence to me. Is that wrong?
 
Alright. Everything is like the tutorial PDF
The whole folder Packages is in Community folder.
Inside Packages is my project folder and inside this is a CGL folder (with another folder 120 in it), than there is a layout and a manifest JSON files in it, But i still can't see my scenery at the location. What am i missing?
 
NoteBeule338 said:
But anytime i have the CGLBuilderConfig.xml within my CGL Folder and click on build, the complete sim freezes (crashes)
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The sim will freeze while building the CGL asset. Just wait a few minutes :)
The bigger the aerial image, the longer you'll have to wait, it takes sometime to build.
 
NoteBeule338 said:
The whole folder Packages is in Community folder.
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You are not supposed to place the whole "Packages" folder in the Community folder. Only the folder inside the "Packages" folder. :p

As I mentioned in the start of the tutorial, you need to have experience working with scenery from before, or else you will encounter problems.
 
It's also not working vice verca.
Yes, took 5 minutes. Thx.

Maybe i should copy the directory to my C:\\microsoft_xxxxxxx\Packages folder too, because it's mentioned as output in the xml. I'll give that a try.
Do i have to restart the whole sime everytime or can i just restart the flight?
 
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Thx again, but that's exactly what i did.
The folder is named eddsmap. Within this folder is:
manifest.json [
{
"dependencies": [],
"content_type": "SCENERY",
"title": "",
"manufacturer": "",
"creator": "",
"package_version": "0.1.0",
"minimum_game_version": "1.7.12",
"release_notes": {
"neutral": {
"LastUpdate": "",
"OlderHistory": ""
}
}
}
]

layout.json [
{
"content": [
{
"path": "CGL/120/sai22.cgl",
"size": 322601754,
"date": 132433315355540412
},
{
"path": "CGL/120/sai221.cgl",
"size": 322601574,
"date": 132433316084579842
},
{
"path": "manifest.json",
"size": 271,
"date": 132433309363754217
}
]
}
]

CGL Folder [
120 FOLDER[ two huge CGL Files sai21 and sai221 both 314 MB ]
]

Maybe it's the size. Maybe it's to huge. But i need a high resolution to place my airport objects as acurat as possible.
 
Did the whole thing again. Can't see my aerial. Maybe it's underneath the surface.
Is there a better way? This one apperantly isn't working for me.
 
WOW! Just tried this. Worked perfectly first time.

Excellent tutorial Augustin. Thanks for the time and effort you and the developers of QGIS, Ortho4XP and tiles2bing have put into this.
 
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