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compile many bgl to one bgl file ??
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As far as I know, you'll have to decompile the information in the .bgl files using something like BGL2XML or similar, combine the data all into one file, making sure to delete repeated information, if any, and sticking to the format set (you can look in the FSX SDK help file), then recompile the text file using BglComp.exe in your SDK folder. Make sure to save the file as a .xml file when combining the information.
However, I would keep it as separate files to make sure that no information is lost, especially if it is a stock FSX file. If you compiled the 15 .bgl files, then no information should be lost.
However, I would keep it as separate files to make sure that no information is lost, especially if it is a stock FSX file. If you compiled the 15 .bgl files, then no information should be lost.
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What sort of data is in these files?
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Hi all,
thats all in the files, the ground Polygones from FSX_kml.
There are in one file for the island the coordinates from new poly "beach" and "towns" and so on.
It was not so big at file to file.
but, there are to many little files between 1k to 3k....it was better when this all in one bgl file.
All the islands are beside at north sea. Exp. EDWG,EDWJ,EDWY,EDWB, and so on...and EDXW.
At orginal FSX all this islands without beach and correct ground polys!
I have correct this with google Earth, and the islands shows better !
I can to do this also with ADE, but with google earth goes this for me faster and very easy.
i must not corrected the ground position from the Polygone at google. He shows me dircetly at g. earth.
"saiarcot895"
thanks for your tip, but it was a complexed work, when i decompile, and write a new xml File....there are too mistakes after to do this. The xml file write programm shows me not all mistakes.
And when i compile this new XML File to bgl....then i have...
a wrong bgl file that shows me not what i have make with FSX_kml in FSX.
The way is to complexe that i make no mistake !
Better was a tool, there i can`t make mistakes.
Regards ULI
i have insert here a kml file and the bgl file ....for your show what there was in the files.
Rename the .txt file to .kml file
Hi all,
thats all in the files, the ground Polygones from FSX_kml.
There are in one file for the island the coordinates from new poly "beach" and "towns" and so on.
It was not so big at file to file.
but, there are to many little files between 1k to 3k....it was better when this all in one bgl file.
All the islands are beside at north sea. Exp. EDWG,EDWJ,EDWY,EDWB, and so on...and EDXW.
At orginal FSX all this islands without beach and correct ground polys!
I have correct this with google Earth, and the islands shows better !
I can to do this also with ADE, but with google earth goes this for me faster and very easy.
i must not corrected the ground position from the Polygone at google. He shows me dircetly at g. earth.
"saiarcot895"
thanks for your tip, but it was a complexed work, when i decompile, and write a new xml File....there are too mistakes after to do this. The xml file write programm shows me not all mistakes.
And when i compile this new XML File to bgl....then i have...
a wrong bgl file that shows me not what i have make with FSX_kml in FSX.
The way is to complexe that i make no mistake !
Better was a tool, there i can`t make mistakes.
Regards ULI
i have insert here a kml file and the bgl file ....for your show what there was in the files.
Rename the .txt file to .kml file
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I'm not that fanmiliar with FSX_KML, btu it seems that if the kml files were in the same folder, they would compile as one BGl, as I recall.
You'd be better off asking in that forum, so I'm moving it there.
Dick
You'd be better off asking in that forum, so I'm moving it there.
Dick
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Hi,
I moved your post to the terrain forum, as it is related with terrain scenery. Decompiling to XML will not work for these, as there are no decompilers for terrain BGL files.
I am not sure if you can combine the different terrain features in a single BGL, I think it would require the SHP files for SHP2VEC to be merged.
I know that MS uses different BGL files per type of line or polygon in the default scenery. So it is not too bad to follow their approach.
I moved your post to the terrain forum, as it is related with terrain scenery. Decompiling to XML will not work for these, as there are no decompilers for terrain BGL files.
I am not sure if you can combine the different terrain features in a single BGL, I think it would require the SHP files for SHP2VEC to be merged.
I know that MS uses different BGL files per type of line or polygon in the default scenery. So it is not too bad to follow their approach.
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Here's a thread indicating one BGL made from many KML files in one Google Earth folder:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3777
Dick
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3777
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Combining bgls to one file
If I understand your question, all you need to do is organize all your kml polygons into a separate folder, then save your folder as a kml file. Submit the folder to a build and you will get one
bgl. I have one bgl with excludes, water polygons landclass polygons of various types, roads, bridges, etc.
It is just a matter of organizing your folders into groups that each require the same tag.
If I understand your question, all you need to do is organize all your kml polygons into a separate folder, then save your folder as a kml file. Submit the folder to a build and you will get one
bgl. I have one bgl with excludes, water polygons landclass polygons of various types, roads, bridges, etc.
It is just a matter of organizing your folders into groups that each require the same tag.
If you create a single KML file then FSX_KML will create a BGL for vector scenery and another for landclass "tile" scenery.
Google Earth supports virtual "folders" within a KML so that you can organise your KML into seperate parts, eg a virtual "folder" for landclass tiles, another "folder" for vector scenery and so on...
So if you have multiple islands, towns, beaches and you want to put them in a single BGL, create a single KML file in Google Earth with all those islands, beaches, towns etc. When you process it with FSX_KML you will get a single BGL created.
Google Earth supports virtual "folders" within a KML so that you can organise your KML into seperate parts, eg a virtual "folder" for landclass tiles, another "folder" for vector scenery and so on...
So if you have multiple islands, towns, beaches and you want to put them in a single BGL, create a single KML file in Google Earth with all those islands, beaches, towns etc. When you process it with FSX_KML you will get a single BGL created.
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