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Official Airport to SDK project: here is a small app to help you (draft)

Many thanks for that explanation. :-)

Now I must try doing that in a HEX Editor sometime, to see if I can do this successfully. 😉

GaryGB
 
Hi there, I'm trying to open a bgl but keep getting this error. Any ideas what I can do?
 

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Cygnific said:
I hope this works as it should. Had to edit the BGL to decompile it. This is the XML from your Flightsim.to .BGL.

The problem is the *Landmark Location*
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:oops::oops::oops::oops::oops::oops:

I never got a notification for your reply in February, thank you thank you thank you!

This is working perfectly, all the layout stuff and naming schemes and so on. I'm not at a point in life where I can restart work on this, but this is such an important part of it!

So it wasn't the CGL stuff after all. Too bad Patrick Germain left the community, I'm sure for a programmer this would be a five minute job to fix in the tool.
 

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Yes I am, trying and failing so far. Inibuilds LHR for 2024
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afaik the official handcrafted airports are encrypted in a different manner exactly to stop us from meddling with it. That besides the fact that this tool was made for the MSFS 2020, and the 24 may use different encryption for its native scenery stuff.
 
Hi Patrick,
Thank you so much for your fantastic "Airport2Project" program. Rhumbaflappy recommended it to me, and it quickly solved my problem with my first scenery. I had completely lost hope of recovering the BGL objects that had disappeared from the Scenery Editor in my SDK. Thank you so much for your great work and help. Best regards from Spain. 🇪🇦👍
 
Also, there is a tool in the 2024 SDK. BglExplorer.exe that can examine 2024 airport bgls, and gives basic data for the 2024 versions.
 
Patrick Germain said:
Hi folks
Are you tired (like I am) to find your favorite airport incomplete ? (Missing taxi signs, shuffled taxi names, etc , etc).
So I wrote a small app that converts (as much as possible) an official airport to a project that you can use with the SDK to update your favorite airport.
I used it to update the airport where my fly school is based (CYHU) and I was able to correct and fix the taxi signs and taxi names.

Disclaimer: the app is based on the current (incomplete and partial) knowledge I have of the new structure of the FS2020 BGL files regarding airports. I will try to update it as this knowledge evolves. The app DOES NOT modify any file : it just creates a project that you should be able to use as is.


Enjoy !
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Amazing work, @PatrickZ
 
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