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FSX KLAS tower not showing....

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I am trying to add the new tower to my KLAS.

I have added the tower ("cdg tower a" -- GUID 19731a88-480f-40ae-9654-4f340f26cee7) to my library object manager. The file was found in the Paris.bgl file in "Scenery\EURW\scenery".



However, I can't get the tower object to show in the sim. I am thinking that the file (Paris.bgl) should be in the "Addon Scenery\scenery" folder as well? What am I missing?

I also adjusted the object alt with no affect.

Scott
 
Scott,
that's because you haven't added the model (cdg_tower_a.MDL) for the tower into the ADE/Lists/Models
which has not compiled into your bgl file, adjusting the alt has no effect without the model, that will only show in ADE
 
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I forgot to add,
you will also need the 4 textures for it from the "EURW" texture folder and place them in the FSX/Addon Scenery/texture folder or the FSX/Scenery/Global/Texture folder
 
glottis said:
I forgot to add,
you will also need the 4 textures for it from the "EURW" texture folder and place them in the FSX/Addon Scenery/texture folder or the FSX/Scenery/Global/Texture folder
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I found these .dds files in the EURW/texture folder:

CDG_towers_Shateton.dds
CDG_towers_ShatetonSpecular.dds
CDG_towers_Shateton_LM.dds

These are also in the global/texture folder:

CDG_towers_Shateton.dds
CDG_towers_Shateton_LM.dds


I assume these are the textures for the tower.


Scott
 
these 4 Scott

CDG_Terminal2.dds
CDG_Terminal2_LM.dds
CDG_towers_Shateton.dds
CDG_towers_Shateton_LM.dds
 
Ok, I think I've got it now...

I loaded the Paris.bgl file into ModelConverterX and found the "CDG tower a" image file. I then converted it to a .MDL. Then I added this file to the Model list in ADE.

Then I copied all the CDG files mentioned above to my addon scenery/texture folder.

Now I have to save and compile the airport in ADE and see what happens..right?

Am I on the right track?

Scott
 
Correct, the compiled bgl file should now be a lot larger than before......
hopefully you will now see the tower at KLAS.................
 
Ok, it looks like it worked. Wow, the new tower is VERY tall(!) What is a good scale to use? I have always used 1.00 as a scale for any object....

Scott
 
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