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Library Objects Naming Convention

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Is there a naming convention to name objects? (dev background here so I'm concerned with those aspects)

For example, I've distributed some sceneries and used an object named Gen_Tower_1 which I was sure was a standard object because many vanilla objects have such naming pattern (see Gen_Hangar_1 for instance)
I later found out, through user comments, that some people could not see the tower in my sceneries and after a boring investigation I traced out that Gen_Tower_1 is actually an ORBX object in the Tacoma Narrows scenery.
Same goes for another object named "Gen_Airport_Office", again an object which seems vanilla but is indeed an ORBX object.

Is there any way to detect, from within the Sim, where is an object pointing to and from which BGL was it loaded?

Some sceneries have their objects named in a proper fashion, for example 1S2_wood_planks for the objects of ORBX Darrington or KORS_windsock...but then on the same package I found an object named "fbo" that, again, I used in some freebies and some users could not see.

Conventions are important in software :)
 
None that I'm aware. Perhaps the bet solution is to make an empty duplicate of the community folder and swap that in when developing. Then you'd know any devmode scenery is default. The convention would be to prefix any addon objects with the company name... such as rhumbyflappy-gen_tower as apposed to ORBX-Gen_Tower. This would also protect ORBX from unauthorized use of their objects by other commercial developers.
 
thanks, too bad about the missing convention. It would certainly help if such a naming was enforced through the SDK when building the package.

your suggestion is a nice workaround, emptying the community folder might work.

just one observation though, objects bought from the Marketplace (within the sim) go to the Official folder. ;) (that's where my Carenado Mooney was installed, did not buy any scenery from the marketplace yet)
 
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just one observation though, objects bought from the Marketplace (within the sim) go to the Official folder. ;) (that's where my Carenado Mooney was installed, did not buy any scenery from the marketplace yet)
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Oh yeah. That's a big problem. Another case of hindsight... Asobo should have had Official, Commercial, and Community. I'm not sure you can just swap out the default Official with a default copy. It would also take up enormous disk space to do so.

I have made a backup due to Steam's flaky validation process. (It forces you to redownload by first erasing your Official folder!). Place it in the same folder with Official, and name it Official_Original. You can then swap them by just renaming them, I believe. Caution: use at your own risk. On my system, copying takes about half an hour for 90+ Gb
 
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you can disable content from the Content Manager but then you will also need to re-download after editing in dev mode.
very annoying honestly.

you are definitely right, commercial addons should have a specific folder and, possibly, their objects should not be indexed in the Library Objects when editing or, at least, have a clear marker.
nothing wrong with reusing payware stuff and even distributing freeware that refers to payware objects as a dependency, at least in my opinion. But there should be a crystal clear way to discern those objects from the regular vanilla ones.

oh well, I'll stick to trial-and-error and user debugging, common practices in this industry by now.
 
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there it is! we have the way to know where an object is coming from. ;)
 
there it is! we have the way to know where an object is coming from.
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Some will come from fs-base and others are in modellib packages. Generally we can identify which object library (bgl) they are coming from. For example

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There are 198 objects in generic.bgl which comes from here

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