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P3D v3 What's with all these little excludes that won't go away?!?!?!?

Brian_Gladden

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About to tear my hair (what little there is left of it) out. I load up the stock Albany NY (KALB) save it as is, then import the xml file. All over the place are little excludes on EVERY SINGLE OBJECT in the scenery. Windsocks, taxi signs and buildings. About the only thing left alone are jetways. I'm running the latest version of ADE.

Anyway, I tediously go through and delete every exclude. compile the bgl and load up P3d and.... Nothing is there!!!

I compiled before a save to make sure. When I compiled there were no excludes showing. Reload the scenery into ADE from the xml and wow! excludes all over the place again......

How do I make these go away???
 
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Hi Brian:

In this version of ADE:

Application 01.79.7475.29407
Engine 04.75.7475.29405

If I do the same thing as you describe above with the FSX SP2 stock KALB, I see no Exclusions at any time in the workspace.

ADE Menu > Lists > Exclusions = None Found

I do not have P3Dv3, but as expected, the airport was the same in P3Dv4.x when I Opened \Scenery\0302\Scenery\APX28160.BGL:

ADE Menu > Lists > Exclusions = None Found


Perhaps Jon might have some idea what is happening on your installation. :scratchch

GaryGB
 
scruffyduck

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They are clearly micro excludes and they have been part of ADE since the earliest versions. It's not clear to me what you are doing I assume loading a bgl file but you mention loading an XML file

You are not supposed to see these. They are an internal part of the way that ADE works to allow users to move and delete objects without either creating major exclusion rectangles or stock items showing through

If you remove them then you will get stock objects showing up in the airport. If you are using ADE as it is intended then you do not see them, do not need to see them and when you want to more or delete a stock object in the ADE display you select it and either move it or delete it. The micro exclude for that object stops the stock object from showing up and there being a duplicate. ADE follows the principle of file priority in the sim whereby the last loaded file trumps the ones loaded before

My advice unless you are using ADE in a way not expected is to ignore them and let them do their job. They will not show up in the project file when loaded but if you are loading the compiled bgl file back or for some reason loading XML then they will appear. Deleting them just deletes the purpose.


PS - if you use the search function on the forums

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and search for micro excludes you will a lot of posts about them
 
tgibson

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Can we ask why you are loading from an XML file and not from a saved AD4 file, as ADE is designed? This problem does not occur in that case.
 
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