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P3D v5 Removing objects in ADE

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In a freeware scenery there is a static aircraft that I would like to remove as the real static aircraft was recently moved to a different location and I wanted to mimic this move. I do not see this static aircraft in the BGL.
I have added the same static aircraft and was able to move it where it is now located. The original static aircraft does not appear in the ADE. So now, I have both the original static
aircraft and the ones I've added, I have on F-11 too many and I need to remove it somehow. I tried the exclude option and it is still there. I can see my static aircraft I added in ADE.
If I use ADE load static objects, the only ones I see are the two static aircraft I added. Don't know what method was used to add the circled static aircraft, perhaps whisplacer or some such.

This is for P3D V5.3 HF2

The static aircraft were once gate guards and have been repurposed.


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Interested in any suggestion on how to remove the one static aircraft (circled)


I have the AD4 file if needed.

Thanks,
 
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You can try using a small exclusion rectangle centered on the static aircraft object and set to exclude all. This may do the trick.
 
I tried to respond with the conversation option and not sure how to "follow" it. So I will post here as well. The object I want to remove doesn't show is ADE; Yet is does in P3D5 How it was added I know not.
Here is an overhead shot (P3D V5.3) of the area that shows the one static aircraft I wanted to remove. I have tried to add exclusions in that area and had no luck. Perhaps I didn't do something correctly.
I am also attaching the ad4 file for that scenery. I don't know how to find that conversation I started earlier so its floating around here some where. I hope I can find it again.

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No scenery guru here, but possibly mention which freeware scenery you are working on?
Some scenery developers do include into their package pure objects bgl's, and/or placement only bgl's. As far as I could find, ADE can not read these bgl's, when they do not contain airports.
Possibly this static aircraft is placed by an other bgl than the AD file.
Hope this might help... ;)
 
PhilK said:
No scenery guru here, but possibly mention which freeware scenery you are working on?
Some scenery developers do include into their package pure objects bgl's, and/or placement only bgl's. As far as I could find, ADE can not read these bgl's, when they do not contain airports.
Possibly this static aircraft is placed by an other bgl than the AD file.
Hope this might help... ;)
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KNQA - Millington -
 
This scenery was originally done for me by an acquaintance that passed away a few years ago. It was not compatible for P3D V5 so another person helped in converting it to where it would work in P3DV5.
I cannot contact the person who made some of the changes.
 
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Anything else in the KNQA scenery than the KNQA_ADEP5_IJP.bgl? I see no hangars, control tower, or other scenery objects in the ad4 file...
 
The static aircraft you want to remore is part of KNQA_lib.bgl.
However, I do not know where placement of this f11static object is located.
Possibly KNQA.bgl to be reworked to exclude the included f11static, and keep the other objects.
Hope this helps
 
Thanks for giving me the clue as to what file the F-11 was in. It also contained the gas station sign. I was about to ask if you knew how to separate the two obj file inside that bgl.

For now I have the sign back and the spare F-11 is gone. Is there a way to add a bgl to to ADE? That KNQA_lib.bgl had two obj files inside it, one was the sign and the other was the F-11.
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I am travelling and will not be able to look at this for a couple of days. However I will say that the bgl file that contains the exclusion rectangle needs to load after the bgl file containing the static aircraft placement otherwise it will definitely not work.

This article explains how the order of loading of bgl files affects what you see

 
I did use ModelConverterX to check content of various files.
KNQA_lib.bgl in fact contains 2 x watertowers, 1 x windsock, 1 x animated US flag, the static F11, a flagpole and the Philips sign on top of a pole.
However, I am just a barefoot with ModelConverterX and have even less than basic knowledge with this software.
I have not yet tried to remove an object from a "multi-objects" bgl, but have already "exported" objects (which will give a mdl file) that I recompiled into an individual bgl, but I have never included placement into such object bgl, only using manual placing into ADE.
 
A huge barefoot moment...
Just found the solution with this post on AVSIM forum!
One more step in my microscopic knowledge about MCX!

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In ModelConverterX, on the second line just to the right of the green back/forward arrows is an icon for the scenery objects editor. Click on that, it opens a list of the objects in the bgl, and allows you to add or remove objects. Remove the jetway objects in the editor, then export it back out as an FSX bgl file.
Regards

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Except that here, you will remove the f11static object, and export the scenery back out as a P3D v4.4 bgl file

It works OK on my P3D5 latest opus...
 
I tried that suggestion and it works for me. Something else I have learned about MCX.

Thanks for the info.
 
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I am travelling and will not be able to look at this for a couple of days. However I will say that the bgl file that contains the exclusion rectangle needs to load after the bgl file containing the static aircraft placement otherwise it will definitely not work.

This article explains how the order of loading of bgl files affects what you see

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The problem has been solved for me. Thanks anyway Jon.
 
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