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Problem Exporting a static aircraft

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flyboy1370

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I downloaded some static aircraft, and would like to place them on the ramp in the new airport I have built. The instructions said to open the aircraft in GMax, then export to the scenery file of the desired airport. When I did this, after clicking Export, and naming the file as c130_01.bgl, GMax said it did not know how to save in this format.(See attached) What am I doing wrong? And also there was supposed to be a place to enter LAT/LONG, but I never got that far
 

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Are you using the FS2004 GMAX toolkit? If so, then you should know that there were a number of changes from the FS2002 version, which you may have used before. To start with, we don't export directly to a .BGL file anymore - we create a .MDL file, which we call using an .XML file. The .XML file is run through BGLComp.exe, and we get our BGL file. For this same reason, makemdl.exe doesn't stay open anymore, since we don't place the lat/long here anymore - these go in the .XML file.

You can do this by selecting "Flightsim Scenery Object (*.MDL)" when you export, and don't try to force it to become a BGL file when you are exporting.

I know these changes might seem a bit frustrating, especially if you have to go back and re-learn some things, but I think it's a little bit better this way, especially if you are adding many objects repeatedly (like static aircraft).

- Martin
 
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