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Hey guys,

I've never really had much to do with scenery design, just using Object placer to create my own BGLs. I was wondering how hard it would be to load airport buildings into a program like FSX Planner? Is there a reason that this has never really been done? It would obviously make designing/editing an airport considerably easier.

I'm sure its got something to do with various airport scenery being stored in a seperate format and location, just wondering if anybody had an easy explanation as to why it would be so involved?

Cheers,
Kael
 
Kael

You have kind of answered your own question. Airport Facilities data is stored in APX files. These amy contain some scenery objects but they are not necessarily related to the airport. Scenery Objects are not stored inside an airport's record. Second many default objects are stored in a separate OBX file and in some cases there are special location related files (for large airports etc) that can also contain objects and in a lot of cases the OBX and city specific files contain the actual model objects themselves. The onlly way to associate these is via the location data and FSX will use the folder structure and file names to help with this

It has been done with one tool that I am aware of (Jim Kier developed it) LWM Viewer2. As far as I know that is only for FS9 and I don't think it's focus is on airport facilities. A tool like SceneGenX may be able to do this but I have not looked at it in a long while.

So to answer your question it can be done and has been done but it is not particularly straight forward. There are some other tools in development that will eventually do what you are asking.
 
KaelO said:
Hey guys,

I've never really had much to do with scenery design, just using Object placer to create my own BGLs. I was wondering how hard it would be to load airport buildings into a program like FSX Planner? Is there a reason that this has never really been done? It would obviously make designing/editing an airport considerably easier.

I'm sure its got something to do with various airport scenery being stored in a seperate format and location, just wondering if anybody had an easy explanation as to why it would be so involved?

Cheers,
Kael
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This may be done down the road in a future version of FSX Planner. However it is quite complicated to do so, and may not be necessary for all users. We are looking at this from various perspectives such as ease of use and financial to see what the best option would be regarding this.

-Russell
 
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