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Local vs. Global Libraries

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Local vs. Global Libraries -- SOLVED

I am creating a static aircraft for me to place in my custom scenery. Actually, I have already created it. But I cannot get it to show up in Instant Scenery 3 unless I select "libraries not available in this area". It gives me warnings that these 'local" objects won't work (since they are only supposed to be used at certain geographic locations), but at least it does now show my library.

So, my questions is two-fold: 1) Why did SAMM 2.108 make a limited-local library? Other aircraft models I created with 2.106 worked just fine. 2) More importantly, how can I tell SAMM 2.108 to make a global library for my aircraft?

Thanks!
 
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I don't really know why, but I noticed that in addition to the BGL file being in the directory I specified, it was also present in SAMM2018/Libraries/name of plane/Scenery. So, I copied that one (which was slightly larger in size) to my FSX scenery folder, and now it works!

So I guess I'll change my question: Why does SAMM 2108 save more than one BGL file in more than one place? And why does one work and the other (in the location I requested) not?

But the bottom line is: I got what I wanted -- SAMM is a great tool!
 
SAMM doesn't "know" anything about local or global libraries. (That's an IS "thing"). SAMM saves your model to the library you designate.

This aspect of SAMM's operation hasn't changed in "many moons", certainly not since 2.1.06.

As for why you found a copy of your library in SAMM's library folder, you must at some point have directed SAMM to save the library there (perhaps by not specifying another location.) If you don't need that copy, you can delete it.

Don
 
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