MSFS Placing a perimeter fence

[Augustin Winther]

Hi!

Anybody know if there's a easy way to place down a perimeter fence? The only solution I have found atm. is to place down a fence scenery object one after the other, which is very cumbersome :/

Cheers!

 

[evilnando]

I dont think theres the capability for it yet, no handcrafted airport features such a think afaik (just a collection of smaller fences

 

[scruffyduck]

Hi!

Anybody know if there's a easy way to place down a perimeter fence? The only solution I have found atm. is to place down a fence scenery object one after the other, which is very cumbersome :/

Cheers!

It would be an object called boundary fence. It's not an object but part of the airport record. There are also blast fences. They would be places bt drawing lines and clicking vertex points

 

[Augustin Winther]

It would be an object called boundary fence. It's not an object but part of the airport record.

Can't find it in the in-game DevMode unfortunately. Seams like there's some stuff not yet included in the DevMode tools, that really should be there. Noticed COMs where missing as well, had to add them manually to the XML file, which isn't that cumbersome, but when it comes the the boundary fence, well, typing out every pint would be a lot of unnecessary work

I guess I could use ADE to create the border fence on a P3D airport, and copy and paste the border fence object from that XML file to the MSFS2020 XML file?

 

[scruffyduck]

you could use xml from another sim as you suggested. You can right click on the object and select Show XML. You should be able to select and copy the code from the window

 

[Augustin Winther]

you could use xml from another sim as you suggested. You can right click on the object and select Show XML. You should be able to select and copy the code from the window

Awesome, I'll try that. Thank you for your help!

 

[Augustin Winther]

UPDATE
So I tried to copy the boundary fence xml code from ADE into the scenery xml file. The scenery compiled with no errors regarding the boundary fence, but unfortunately no fence is showing. I tried with a couple of different objects as the GUID for the boundary fence without luck

 

[WildLynxPilot]

Noticed COMs where missing as well, had to add them manually to the XML file

Could you give a hint on how and where to add the COMs? I am making an airport in Finland (EFPR) that does not exist in MSFS but haven't found out how to add ATIS and reporting frequencies.

 

[Christian Bahr]

Could you give a hint on how and where to add the COMs? I am making an airport in Finland (EFPR) that does not exist in MSFS but haven't found out how to add ATIS and reporting frequencies.

You mean adding a frequency? Somebody wrote this in my forum here: http://forum.bahrometrix.de/viewtopic.php?f=51&p=3598&sid=c8b9e76d373515267822c2760a52e763#p3588

But the text is in German

 

[BrBlazer]

You mean adding a frequency? Somebody wrote this in my forum here: http://forum.bahrometrix.de/viewtopic.php?f=51&p=3598&sid=c8b9e76d373515267822c2760a52e763#p3588

But the text is in German

Hi Christian

Do you happen to know how to add the ground services to the atc? Is it the same way as the frequencies? The small airport I'm test working on does not have any ground services option in the atc list.

Kindly,

Blazer

 

[WildLynxPilot]

You mean adding a frequency? Somebody wrote this in my forum here: http://forum.bahrometrix.de/viewtopic.php?f=51&p=3598&sid=c8b9e76d373515267822c2760a52e763#p3588

But the text is in German

Excellent, thank you! No problem with German. But I am a little confused with the UNICOM / MULTICOM - should I use MULTICOM as type on an airport without air-trafic controller? Two of the airports I am working on are non-controlled and have ATIS and a reporting frequency.

 

[WildLynxPilot]

Added MULTICOM and ATIS frequencies, but they do not show up in them sim. Have to investigate further...

 

[FlyingsCool]

UPDATE
So I tried to copy the boundary fence xml code from ADE into the scenery xml file. The scenery compiled with no errors regarding the boundary fence, but unfortunately no fence is showing. I tried with a couple of different objects as the GUID for the boundary fence without luck

Any progress on the boundary fence? I hate how naked airports feel without their boundary fences.

Any chance this could be split into two threads?, I'm interested in both subjects being discussed, but comm frequencies doesn't have much to do with boundary fences.

 

[Augustin Winther]

Any progress on the boundary fence? I hate how naked airports feel without their boundary fences.

Nope, just have to wait untill this gets added to the game. Atm. u have to place down fences manually

 

[Mick01]

Regarding fence objects I have been doing this.... Place two fence objects in line, then select both and hit 'dupicate' and then you place this next two in line to make four,
then select these four and repeat duplicate to make eight, then sixteen etc etc for what ever amount you need to speed up placement and get a straight line.

Multiple selected fence objects (in line) can be maniplated together with Gizmo. You can also put a line of created objects (fences) into a group folder in editor for easy reselection of a fence line.

Not exactly what we need but a sort of 'workaround' which hastened my fencing layout...

 

[WildLynxPilot]

Yes, I have been doing that, but for a perimeter fence around a big airport with many different angles on the fence it is very tedious...

 

[GaryGB]

Hello:

Perhaps Don Grovestine (aka "gadgets") might be abe to adapt his FenceBuilder utility to utilize input via MSFS-2020 SimConnect and/or FSUIPC7, with the additional option of processing *.XML and *.SHP files ...to generate airport boundary fences as 'flat' 3D objects (that are therefore essentially 2D and which may have a more limited performance hit at run time in-sim) ?

FenceBuilder Pro

Afraid that trespassers will enter your private little airfield? Or that your virtual cows will seek greener virtual pastures? Or maybe you just want to make the entrance to your airpark look a little friendlier? So you need walls, fences, barbed wire even, or just a low row of flowers!Don...

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GaryGB

 

[=Hollywood=]

Could you draw a vector line and use scenproc to place the fence parts along the line at intervals (if you can figure out the length of each fence section and then in FS2020 I think it can clamp to ground, but may need manual x,y,z tweaking to follow terrain.