• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

FSXA Library Object (doesn' t show)

hotelfox

hotelfox

Messages
213
Country
germany
Once again I tried to make use of a Library Object and so far didn' t manage to make it show up at the selected destination.

I' m talking about this small hangar for GA aircraft.

library_obj_01.jpglibrary_obj_02.jpg

It is part of the PHLI Lihue airport scenery and thus stored in the Scenery directory 0003 within the file OBX05240.bgl

I managed to save the file in the Library Object Manager. No problem to put the object into the airport scenery I'm currently working on (EDSZ) either.

library_obj_03.jpg

But when I start FSX the object doesn' t show up. I already tried to solve the issue by copying the OBX05240.bgl into the directories
- Addon Scenery
- Global
- World
with no success ...

In the manual I found the hint 'There are ways to make these fully accessible but in some cases this involves moving textures and in others modifying the source .bgl file (which is not recommended!).'

So moving textures might be the solution. But which one and where do I find them?

Is there anybody who can help me? As this kind of hangar can be found on numerous GA airports I guess that many users might be interested in a solution which would make this particular object accessible.

Thanks for your help!
 
We have found that objects from the OBX files show up only in the area covered by the folder they are stored in. As a result you can use them anyware in that geographically restricted area but not outside it. Copying the bgl file will almost certainly not help. FSX will perhaps become confused as to which copy of the object to use.

The only certain way we know is to extract the mdl file and either use it directly in ADE or to put it in a new library bgl file that is located in a global scenery area. In either case you will also need to find the textures.

The latest version of Bgl2Xml GUI now allows the extraction of mdl files (or you can use BglAnalyzeX).
 
Jon

Let me try and explain this when dealing with OBX bgl's


@hotelfox

Since you are using a

<ModelData
sourceFile="Autogenerated- {33979E4F-BF6C-4D24-9FDA-ACE289E092F8}.mdl"
fileOffset="0"/>

that is found in any OBX type file you do not need to find a Texture. All OBX scenery objects that are considered ModelData are Global and do not fall with in the same class as a AREA type ModelData (SAME, EURE, etc. some call geo-locked)

The reason is because any OBX bgl does not have a sister texture folder so the GUID must call the texture from a global file source. The global file folder source for all OBX modelData is the FSX Main Texture Folder

Here is your OBX hanger at 2 different airports.




 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top