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I have been using a payware program called Flight Sim Architect by Doug Pouk to create my footie stadium scenery. The program lets you place API macro objects as well as .mdl objects exported from GMax as well as some other stuff, photo ground textures being one.
The trouble is, the program is so darned flakey its difficult to use. It crashes, the object and texture libraries generate duplicated entries and de-selecting one object to move to another is a real pain.
Are there any other programs out there that let you import and place both API macro objects and GMax .mdls?

And as a second question, can you place a group of mixed tree such that it looks like a small woods, (e.g. define a polygon and populate it with trees for example) without placing them individually?

Thanks in advance

Jeff
 
About the tree question,
Yes you can. With Scruffyduck's Library and Object Manager you can use the scenery maker and do many things such as make long fencelines accurately or place thousands of trees in an area at once! It's a great program and I thank him much for creating it.

Here is his site:
http://www.scruffyduck.co.uk/scenery/lom_downloads.html

As for using MDLs, what I do is just take a MDL, convert it to a BGL file for use in EZ-Scenery. Or you can use LOM, once again, such a great program.
 
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Hi Jeff,

I think SGX should also be able to handle both API macros and MDL files. But personally I don't like the user interface of it much. Since I am using the Fs2004 gamepack of GMax for my models (and thus the MDL files), I hardly ever use API macros anymore. So I use an object placer like ObPlacer XML to place my objects.
 
Thanks for the replies.

I guess I'll persevere with the tool I'm currently using until I've finished the project and then start afresh with something else.
Scruffyducks LOM and SM look really useful but I need to learn a bit more about libraries first.

I agree with the comment about APIs, but still find them useful as there are a few generic models around, e.g. cars, trees and so on in API format.

I've been making my own collection of cars, trucks and buses and have about 20 odd mdls thus far. Once I've got enough I'll discard the APIs.

Well, got to get back to my scenery, I have to create my own backdrops as I stupidly failed to realise that photo-textures made using Google Earth would be copyright and non-distributable :alert:
 
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