Problem with the CAT Tool

[Mikock]

Good day!

Today I work firsttime with the Cat Tool, because I want to crate an animated Gate for a A320. I have read the manual, but I have a big problem:

Always when I browse the "..._0.asm" file, and I click on OK, then comes a
"runtime error: '53'"

File not found

Where is the mistake?

 

[Horst18519]

Do you mean you try to run cat with the 0.asm-file? Don't use the 0.asm-file but the *.asm-file. Then it should work fine.

 

[nickw]

Yes, but I must ask arno to change the code so that error actually makes more sense.

 

[Mikock]

Oh, great, now it works fine.

Before I had take the _0.asm file, because in the text tutorial for frequencies he also works with it.


But now, when I will compile the test.asm file in the BGLC9 Ico, then does nthing happen!No bgl file will be created!

 

[Horst18519]

You read Arnos great manuals, do you?

Cat tweakes the asm-file and compiles it into a mdl right where the original asm-file is.

 

[Mikock]

Yes, I've read his nice manuals.

After compiling my object in the Cat Tool, I have follwing files in my dir:

test.mdl (new compiled from cat)

test.xml

test.asm

test_0.asm

test_cat.asm

test_cat_0.asm


Now, which file have I to compile with the BGLC_9.exe?

Thanks for your great help!

 

[Horst18519]

the test.mdl is the already compiled file - cat does that for you.

All you have to do is place the mdl in your scenery with objectplacerxml or any other programme and compile the scenery.

 

[Mikock]

Then I have an understanding Problem.

CAT has save the animation infos in the asm files?

Why should I then compile the mdl and the xml file into a bgl file? Or save CAT the information for the animation also in the mdl file?

Now when I load the xml file in OP, I compile it to a bgl file, but after installing in the FS, i cannot see anything on the place .

 

[Horst18519]

OK, step by step:

cat tweakes the asm-file. This file is compiled into the final mdl-file. You can do this with bglcomp or let cat do it for you.

The mdl-file is used like any other mdl or api, that means you place it in your scenery whereever you want. Place it for example with objectplacerxml at the long/lat you want it and compile the xml to a bgl-scenery-file.

Of course you must put an entry into the scenerylibrary of FS if you create a new scenery.

 

[Mikock]

Hi!

I have tried it again. Here my results:

When I compile the xml file in OP, I will see nothing in the FS.

But when I compile the xml file with bglcomp.exe i see my object, but when i set the nav2 frequency to 112.00, which I have choose in Cat, i do not see any movement of it.

 

[Horst18519]

Seems to be a false entry in OP.

How did you enter the nav-freq in cat?

It should read "1200h".

 

[Mikock]

I have choose following option:


For CAT:

- animation condition enabled
->condition
-> Dist to Refpoint: 0-500

- animation trigger enabled
-> condition
->NAV2: Minimum: 1200h; Maximum: 1200h

-input file: test.asm


In OPlacer XML:

- open test.xml
- set lat/lon/hdg in properties
- compile to BGL
- following Message comes:

- taking bgl file, install it into dir: \FS9\Addon Scenery\Scenery\

- start FS -> FS is initialising the Scenery on startup -> but no object on the place

 

[Horst18519]

Well, you can't see the object, when there's an error message in the compiling window. Are you sure you typed the correct lat/long and the right GUID?
This seems to be no mdl-problem but an error of placing it with Objectplacer.

 

[Mikock]

Here is the whole display of the OP.

In the right, there are the coordinates!

 

[Horst18519]

Did you place the mdl by reading the lat/long directly from FS? Then there can't be a syntax error in the lat/long.

Can't say at the moment where the error is, but if you can't fix it, send me your file and I'll have a closer look.

 

[Mikock]

Hi!

I have it.

I found the mistake, I have forgotten to fill in the mdl file in the OP directionary . Now I see the object on the right place, but without animtion.

So I have made again the complete process, and then I found this not nice message after compiling to mdl in the CAT Tool:

I think, there is the mistake, because then the CAT cannot create a new mdl file, and so the animtion cannot start in the FS with the frequency, which I have set in the Tool, but I have again no solution .

 

[Horst18519]

In order to help you I should see the complete error message.

 

[Mikock]

Here is the whole Error Message:

Starting compilation...

Microsoft (R) Flight Simulator BGL Compiler Version 8.00
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1981-2002. All rights reserved.

Assembling: D:\gmax\meshes\test_cat.azm
D:\gmax\meshes\test_cat_0.asm(1528) : error A2006: undefined symbol : _local_varbase_1
LOCAL_BASE_32(4): Macro Called From
D:\gmax\meshes\test_cat_0.asm(1528): Include File
BGLC: Error!

Compilation ready!

 

[Horst18519]

Hmm, this is getting too difficult for me...

Seems like you made an animation which FS can't cope with. Did it work fine without cat?

(That is, of course, the first thing one should try ).

 

[Mikock]

Hmm, this is getting too difficult for me...

It does not matter, you have helped me great today .

But I cannot understand, what do you mean, with the try to try to work without CAT.
When I will not use CAT, I have only a static scenery, or?

But the sense of cat is to animate the scnery object, with a animation in gmax, in the FS.