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Hi everyone,

I'm a new user to both the forum as well as the FSDS program. I have managed to get the preferences section of the program set up, after much frustration, so the scenery can be converted to a .bgl file. However, it never makes it to the location that I have specified in FSX. I have tried the following inputs and only one of them has worked.

1. Keep the coordinates as defaults and go to that location [FAIL]
2. Change the default coordinates [FAIL]
3. Save the game at a specific coordinate and load the coordinates from the saved game file [SUCCESS!]

I know the default location is KSEA but nothing shows up there. I have tried to place the water tower that the help file has you make to get you started. I've also tried placing a plain 10 x 10 x 10 cube and that doesn't show up. It's only once I save the game at a specific location will it work properly. Does anyone have any insight into how to fix this issue? This is a fascinating part of FSX that I have just begun getting into.

Is the folder that I place my .bgl files wrong (addon scenery folder)?
Is there a setting I need to enable / disable?
Or is there a patch/ update that needs to be installed for this feature to work properly?

Thanks for any and all help!

-ButtahNBred
 
The bgl file should go into Addon Scenery\scenery and any related textures into Addon Scenery\texture. Make sure that you have the image complexity in FSX set to at least the same as the object - so if you create an object with NORMAL as the image complexity (the default I would expect) then also make sure that you have set at least that in your scenery settings in FS.

Also make sure that FS is not running when you add or change that bgl file.
 
Check also your coordinates. Negative value for longitude position west of Zulu.
 
scruffyduck said:
The bgl file should go into Addon Scenery\scenery and any related textures into Addon Scenery\texture. Make sure that you have the image complexity in FSX set to at least the same as the object - so if you create an object with NORMAL as the image complexity (the default I would expect) then also make sure that you have set at least that in your scenery settings in FS.

Also make sure that FS is not running when you add or change that bgl file.
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Thanks! The objects just started showing up in FSX. I had everything setup correctly, I guess I just needed to restart my computer. Also, what do you mean by image complexity and FSX set to at least the same? How do I know the complexity of an image and what it corresponds to in FSX?
 
ButtahNBred said:
Thanks! The objects just started showing up in FSX. I had everything setup correctly, I guess I just needed to restart my computer. Also, what do you mean by image complexity and FSX set to at least the same? How do I know the complexity of an image and what it corresponds to in FSX?
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Well whatever program you use to place the object should have a property to set image complexity. This is a level at which objects are shown or not shown in FS. If you have an object with an image complexity of NORMAL, but set the overall display value (image complexity in Scenery Settings in FS) to say SPARSE, then your object will not appear. Change FS to NROMAL or higher and it will show. This is designed to help people with lower spec machines by not displaying all the objects.

Image complexity runs from VERY_SPARSE to EXTREMELY_DENSE
 
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