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how to display objects of a bgl object library?

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Hi,
I want to convert some FS9 Airports to P3DV5, and I am seeing separate object placement bgl's that refer to other object libraries, however the objects of those libraries cannot be displayed in MCX. Is there a way to display or extract those objects out of a library of an old FS9 bgl file?

Thanks
 
Hi,

Do you mean that when you load the placement file those objects do not show? That's normal as MCX will read only that BGL and those objects are not part of it.

The only function that combine different libraries and placement files is the scene builder wizard. But that will make a single object out of all of them, not sure if that's what you want.

It should also work if you just convert each library from fs2004 to p3d.
 
If you load the library BGL file into MCX, you can use the green arrows at the upper left to move between objects. To convert the entire library, simply choose export scenery and choose the P3D BGL file type. To extract a single object from the library use export object and choose P3D MDL file. Then place the MDL file into a new library using a program like library creator X.
 
Hello, not exactly. I want to find the lightpoles of the airport scenery e.g. for old FS9 airports in order to add dynamic lighting effects to the objects, but it seems the lightpoles are part of some object libraries, of which the single models cannot be shown in MCX, I only can see the GUID, but not the models themselves, so how can I have them displayed so that I can edit and convert them as single models bgl?
 
We would probably have to look at the light poles to see what the problem is. We don’t have enough information so far.
 
So when you select the light pole from the library you get an empty object in MCX?
 
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