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Complete Thumbnail Pack for Version 1.30
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Just to show my ignorance ...
How does one go about making thumbnails? I have some other scenery libraries that I'd like thumbnails for but I'm not sure how to go about doing this.
Sorry if this has been covered before, I'm too lazy to search.
In ADE there is a screen capture function that allows you to make thumbnails. However this is probably a slow thing for large libraries.
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Hi Jon,
Somehow objects from thumbnail pack won't show up on FSX, they did appeared on the Afcad when I highlighted each object . I did save and recompile the airport.
Let say I added SanFran.bgl, all the thumbnails showed up, I chose and added
presidio3, , save and recompile, exit. Start FS, go to airport, only objects from buildings.bgl, generic.bgl,autogen.bgl showed up but not from SanFran.
Am I missing one step?
Jimmy Vuong
Hi Jon,
Somehow objects from thumbnail pack won't show up on FSX, they did appeared on the Afcad when I highlighted each object . I did save and recompile the airport.
Let say I added SanFran.bgl, all the thumbnails showed up, I chose and added
presidio3, , save and recompile, exit. Start FS, go to airport, only objects from buildings.bgl, generic.bgl,autogen.bgl showed up but not from SanFran.
Am I missing one step?
Jimmy Vuong
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First make sure that you have the image complexity in FS is set to extremely dense. If that does not solve it then maybe you are trying to use the objects outside their geo-locked area?
yes! the step you are missing is now to add the textures for the building
if you have put the building in any airport other than the airport they came from,
as Jon said they are probably the Geo locked buildings.........
so you could try this:
you need to search the "Sanfran" texture folder for the "presidio3" textures
then copy and paste them into the "global" texture folder
if you have put the building in any airport other than the airport they came from,
as Jon said they are probably the Geo locked buildings.........
so you could try this:
you need to search the "Sanfran" texture folder for the "presidio3" textures
then copy and paste them into the "global" texture folder
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It is possible to move them but I think it involves decompiling the library and then extracting the relevant mdl file into a new library or use it directly in something like ADE.
For the sake of clarity no ScruffyDuck utilities extract mdl files. We took the view that this is where the copyright lies for designers. However other tools such as BglAnalyzeX will extract them.