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well for some time now I've been looking for a site with info on making scenery I would love to make my own addon scenery for an airport i downloaded the programs but havnt installed yet is what info or is there any tutorials i can use to learn how to make this stuff? I'm brand new at it hoping to learn :) thanks

-Nate
 
thank you very much, and yes I'm talking about fs9.
 
You might also want to take a look at the FAQ in the AvSim scenery design forum, it gives a good overview of all aspects of scenery design.
 
alright im trying to model a simple house in g max i got it all done i think textures on and thats it right? i try to save like a tutorial says but i cant save as a .bgl what am i doing wrong?
 
ya what i ment was that i can only save as a .gmax or export as a .p3d what am I doing wrong?
 
Now you're crossing over into unknown territory for me. I use FSDS and don't know squat about gmax. The gmax gurus will have to answer that one :)
 
alright thanks ill have to look into that to if its not to expensive
 
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Hi!

You need to install fs2004 gmax Gamepack SDK
first then you can export to a Flightsim
Scenery Object (.mdl) file and then to a
(.bgl) file using the fs2004 BGL Comp SDK
and the (.xml) file that gmax Gamepack generates.

But you must first remove the comment markers
in that (.xml) file before you run it in bglcomp.exe
and you must also decide where in fs2004 world
you want to place your object. So you must also
change the latitude and longitude coordinates
in that (.xml) file. When you have done this you
just drag the (.xml) file to bglcomp.exe and drop
to create a (.bgl) file for fs2004.

You can download the both Software Development Kits
at: http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulator/fs2004_downloads_sdk.asp
 
Hobby_Developer said:
Hi!
But you must first remove the comment markers
in that (.xml) file before you run it in bglcomp.exe
and you must also decide where in fs2004 world
you want to place your object. So you must also
change the latitude and longitude coordinates
in that (.xml) file. When you have done this you
just drag the (.xml) file to bglcomp.exe and drop
to create a (.bgl) file for fs2004.
Click to expand...

Just be aware that if you create a BGL which has location data (lat/lon) associated with the object then that object will become geo-locked in that position. As an alternative you can use a tool such as Library Creator XML to create a scenery object Library from your mdl objects, They can then be placed using one of the different FS9 object placement tools.
 
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