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Maybe that this is not the right place to post my idea but let me tell you:

I just downloaded Ray Smith' s version of CYVR Vancouver Intl from Scruffy Duck Download Center

Ray also featured de-icing trucks in his scenery. Some of them sit on a seperate car park and others are located on de-icing pads.

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You will probably agree that de-icing trucks are very nice but might look a little displaced 'waiting for customers' all in the middle of summer.

Is there anybody in this community who can develop some sort of season editor? I think it would be great if these de-icing trucks would disappear with the last patches of snow melting in the sun of spring and re-appear somewhen in the late fall.

I hope that you like my idea.

btw.: It doesn' t have to be an editor. If you just modify the file for the trucks themselves I' d be very happy too - and I guess many other users!
 
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Hi Jan,

Conditional display is difficult in FSX, in FS2004 it was a lot easier. Given that these objects are placed automatically by FS, I think the only way around this would be to make two versions of the BGL file that defines the airport and let the user switch them.
 
arno said:
Hi Jan,

Conditional display is difficult in FSX, in FS2004 it was a lot easier. Given that these objects are placed automatically by FS, I think the only way around this would be to make two versions of the BGL file that defines the airport and let the user switch them.
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Thank you Arno - although your answer is not the one I favour ...
 
Maybe you can explain your ideas a bit more, although I am not sure if the scenery engine allows them.
 
arno said:
Maybe you can explain your ideas a bit more, although I am not sure if the scenery engine allows them.
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Great that you got back to this topic once again!

Arno, my programming know-how is lightyears away from yours. But I think at least I have quite a logical approach to computer related issues - nothing more, nothing less.

Well - I thought, we do have seasonal changes in FSX. So there must be something which controls the run of the seasons. On the other hand we have scenery objects which generally can be suppressed by using a certain mode (sparse, normal, dense etc.)

As a result of that I considered the possibility of adding some sort of mode - maybe called 'seasonal' - to let objects temporarily appear and disappear from the scene. At the moment I can' t name any other ones as de-icing trucks and snow removal trucks. But yes, maybe also sailing boats - more likely an indication for warmer periods!

Naturally it is pretty easy creating two files of an airport, calling the one CYVR_win.bgl and the other CYVR_sum.bgl (to stick to the initially mentioned example) and just 'park' one of them for a certain period by changing the ending tag from 'bgl' to 'bgx'.

But I was looking for a smarter way ...

Thanks again!
 
You can do it with Annotator, however, you need seasonal phototextures.
 
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