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Problem with airport heading and makemdl 2002

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DeltaRomeo

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Hello,
The airport I want to create has a heading of 82.790001. However, makemdl rounds it to 82. I then change it to 83 since it is the closest whole number but it of course it ends up not being perfectly aligned with the ground textures.

What can I do?
 
If it were me, I'd rotate it in GMax to the desired heading and export on a heading of 0.00 or 360 if you wanted to use the autogen tweak.

David
 
DeltaRomeo said:
How do you set the heading in Gmax?:confused:
That would definitely help me.
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Rotate Z, or right click on the rotate button and adjust the z settings. It will be in degrees just like the sim. You will still have to fine tune from there but should be close. When you export leave the makemdl heading alone and do all adjustments in gmax.
 
Alternatively, you can tweak the heading contained in the .asm file to any value you want.

The simulator uses pseudodegrees expressed in hexadecimal format, so unfortunately, you can't just type in 82.790001 and expect it to work.

First, take your heading in degrees and divide by 360 and multiply by 65536:

82.79 / 360 * 65536 = 15071

Then convert to a hex value:

15071 = 3ADF

You can use the Windows Calculator to convert the value (from the View menu, choose "Programmer" mode. Type in the decimal value then click the Hex button. The hex value is now displayed)

Change the following line in your .asm:

INSTANCE_CALL OBJECT_0_BEGIN, 0, 0, 0F3CEh

to

INSTANCE_CALL OBJECT_0_BEGIN, 0, 0, 03ADFh

Regards,

Nick

***EDITED because you don't need to find the reciprocal before continuing with the other steps.
 
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Hi,

Hex means hexadecimal. If you put the calculator of Windows in scientific mode you can do the conversion with it.
 
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