Scenery Design - Getting started

[sasquotschi]

Hey there,

i'm new to this part of Flightsimming. But not new to 3D Modelling.
I want to add some buildings to my hometown Münster in Germany for FS2004. So here are some questions for the beginning:

1) i make the buildings in GMax right?
2) how to put them in FS2004 (wich tools do i need)
3) how to disable the autogen objects for the edited area?
4) is any tutorial for all this available?
many thanks for your help!

 

[scruffyduck]

check this page - there area lot of tutorials on GMax

http://www.scenery.org/tutorials.htm

 

[arno]

Hi,

1) i make the buildings in GMax right?

Yes, that would be a good option.

2) how to put them in FS2004 (wich tools do i need)

You need the GMax SDK for FS2004. Point its installer to your GMax folder and then start GMax with the shortcut from the FS2004 gamepack.

3) how to disable the autogen objects for the edited area?

That is done automatically when you place a custom scenery object. Sometimes the problem is that too much autogen is gone, but never the reverse .

 

[sasquotschi]

thanks for your help. but after having Gmax and the fs2004 SDK installed i still have a lot of problems...

Here is what i did:

-modelled a simple square like test building
-exportet it via gmax to test.mdl and test.xml file.
-then i edited the .xml file to look like this

<SceneryObject lat="52 07.59" lon="07 43.15" alt="0" pitch="0" bank="0" heading="0" altitudeIsAgl="TRUE" imageComplexity="NORMAL">
<LibraryObject name="2529E9444352135C37E779A5EA5BD71F" scale="1.0" />
</SceneryObject>

-after that i added the mdl file to anew library in "Library Creator XML 2.0.2.0" and exported it to a .bgl file in my FS2004/AddonScenery/Scenery Folder.


But the Object does not appear in my FlightSim2004


so whats the Problem?

 

[arno]

Hi,

Are you sure that the GUID in the library and the GUID used in your placement XML are the same?

And I assume you have two BGL files in your scenery folder as well? The library BGL and the placement one.