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I understand what you are saying Jon.
So if I want to expand my knowledge and skills in your opinion I should be looking at the BGLcomp section.
How do I go about getting this under my belt.?
However Jon I must admit that there are some bits of SBX I have not been able to understand. I have had some help from Luis F-T and 1 or 2 others but it is still not clear. I have to be careful what I say as Luis might read this and I certanly don't want to appear disrespectful or rude. So it is possible that I might find KML more to my liking.

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Go to your FSX SDK folder then into SDK then Environment Kit and then Bgl Compiler SDK (yes it is well hidden :)) in that folder your should see the bgl compiler.html This contains the basic information we all use to create scenery using BglComp. Don't worry too much about the actual XML but you might want to take a look at the Airport section and the description of attributes found in the yellow boxes. This tells you more or less what each part of an airport contains and you might recognize some of the stuff from the ADE property dialogs. In effect when you set a property like runway number of apron surface in ADE you are creating or changing one of those attributes. What ADE does when you ask it to compile your airport is generate the XML needed from the elements and values that you have set and pass that to BglComp to create your airport.

Hopefully this will help increase your knowledge of why things sometimes happen.

Final warning :) I need to repeat that the SDK documentation is not always 100% correct. It is a big job to keep it up to date as FSX evolves and sometimes it is a bit off. We know where most of the problems are by now though :D
 
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Have found that.
But already I am missing something, WHERE do you actually do the "building" what do you have to open.?
I understand that in ADE you "open" a stack aorport or creat a new one. I can do that but what do you open in to use SDK??

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Sorry Richard you do not open anything. If you want to 'use' the SDK and my suggestion was that you didn't do that then you would write your XML using either Notepad or an XML Editor and have BglComp compile the resultant XML file. My suggestion is that you look at the SDK documentation to increase your understanding of what is going in
 
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Jon, I don't really understand what this is all about so will stick with what I do understand, relatively speaking.
This is what I mean by having a step by step guide,it's all very well reading but if you don't understand what you are reading it doesn't make any sense.

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Fair enough - you can certainly manage without it
 
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