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Terminal Buildings

Jeff

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Does anyone know where I can find a fairly large terminal building for placement. Perhaps even a list of FS9 terminals so I can shamelessly file off the serial no. :rotfl: and add it to my 'port.
I saw Arch's list of SA airport terms, but I doubt they'd work in Canadian territory due to region locking. Would it be easier to decompile a stock Can. airport and find the terminal listing to use it?
Reg: Jeff
 
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Jeff:
Those terminals are all very generic looking. You could use them anywhere. In fact, I've looked at the ones in Canada and they look pretty much like the ones in South America. The only reason they are models instead of just generic buildings is because they are more complex shapes than a simple rectangle. Just stick the list I posted in a Library, and you can plunk one down in Timbuktu. I doubt Microsoft will mind. They are not like the Empire State Building which was a one-off model made for a specific site. Although I have done that also....but just for my own enjoyment.
 
It's on this forum.....under the title quick terminal buildings. There is a brief description and location for each one, so you can check them out.
 
Thanks Archie, I'll do that then!
Continuing down that thread, could there possibly be a problem with 'copyright infringement' if I use one of these terms. for the VA I'm designing the airport for, since all members will necessarily have to have a copy of the airport?
I can't see there being a problem, as the only people who use it will have paid for FS9 to begin with and MS has never seemed to fuss too much over such things.
Still....Bill has more money than most countries, and I'd hate to get on his bad side! :yikes:
Jeff

BTW-I'm a newbie as far as scenery...um..well, I can't call it design since I haven't actually 'designed' anything except the basic airport layout itself. I've just used other peoples objects to populate it, and once I've finished I'll give the credit where it belongs.
I digress! :rotfl:
Should the lat-long co-ords of the original terminals be included in the library?
I'm probably asking a dumb question, but I've never created an XML library, or even used Arno's Library Creator before. Heck, I'm still fumbling around with XML's!

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of ignorance....

Or perhaps: Abandon hope, ye who enter here!
 
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It appears that terminal buildings may indeed be region specific Arch.
I tried plunking one of the SA terminals from your post down on my airport and no go.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<FSData
version="9.0"
xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="bglcomp.xsd" >
<SceneryObject
lat="N49 18.6723"
lon="W124 29.5720"
alt="0.0000M"
altitudeIsAgl="TRUE"
pitch="0.00"
bank="0.00"
heading="0.00"
imageComplexity="VERY_SPARSE">
<LibraryObject
name="1db1d8a2de944589832fc9cab54eda7e"
scale="1.00"/>
</SceneryObject>
</FSData>

This is one of the large Panamanian term.'s with jetways and it didn't show up although it seemed to compile OK. I'm so raw, it might be that I made a format mistake in the XML, but if I did I can't spot it.

Jeff
 
Yes....they are somewhat region specific. There has been a lot of discussion in this and other forums about that very thing. A lot of guys smarter than me haven't quite got the whys and ifs figured out yet. I tried placing one in Australia and it didn't work. But when I placed the model in a library, it worked just fine. Arno's library creator is real easy to use....but if you like, I can post the code for the one I did...you can change the guid number and the coordinates for your airport....but you will first have to decompile the original BGL to extract the model for the library. Since I have already extracted all of those models, you can email me at owen(at)stx.rr.com and I will send you the model you want and even put it in a library for you.
 
That would be wonderful Arch.
I thought that I could just find the BGL for an airport, decompile it, and get the model data I needed: unfortunately the filenames for stock FS9 airport BGL's seem to bear no resemblance to the airport's actual name!
This annoys me a bit. For a company that depends on people like yourself, (and Arno and many others on this site and other sites) to add the 'missing elements' in a simulation that they designed, they could have made it just a touch easier.
I certainly don't mind learning something new, but having to 'decode' just about everything that they originally designed into the program is beginning to make my hackles rise! :mad:
Still, I suppose if it was easy, anyone could do it!
Even me.
Jeff
 
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