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...or the art of catching yourself out :)

I have just spent a pleasant half hour trying to figure out why taxisigns added using ADE to my test airport do not show up in the decompiled bgl file while those added to another airport do.

It all comes down to the algorithm used to assign taxi signs to an airport. As we know there is really no link in the Bgl file so we have to figure it out ourselves.

I use a method suggested by Winfried that involves creating a bounding box using taxipoints and if the reference sign is inside this box the signs get added to the airport. Works pretty well unless you forget to add some taxipoints around the airfield first :o :o :o

OK so I now have to go figure why adding an Ndb causes the airport to disappear all together......ho hum who would be a programmer working on FS scenery ;)
 
Hmm, in FS9 it was quite straightforward, in the <Airport section, add a sign:

<FSData version="9.0" xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="bglcomp.xsd" >

<Airport ident="EGVA" name="Fairford"
lat="51.682167" lon="-1.790029"
magvar="3.20" alt="285.889F"
city="Fairford"
state="Gloucestershire"
country="United Kingdom">

<TaxiwaySign
lat="N51 41.0406"
lon="W1 46.9602"
heading="358.6"
label="d[E']"
size="SIZE3" />
<TaxiwaySign
lat="N51 41.0369"
lon="W1 47.1282"
heading="178.6"
label="d[/E]"
size="SIZE3" />

etc.
etc.


</Airport>

</FSData>


Note, this was an entirely separate bgl from that containing the afd information.

George
 
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It is the same now George. The issue is not that the Bgl will show the taxisigns but that in the Bgl file they are not associated with the Airport. To get the Xml back as you wrote it we need to use some tricks to find which signs in a big pool of signs belong to which airport :)
 
scruffyduck said:
... in the Bgl file they are not associated with the Airport. To get the Xml back as you wrote it we need to use some tricks to find which signs in a big pool of signs belong to which airport :) ...
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Umm, i guess i dont understand the problem ? :confused:

As far as i know, in the bgl files, the various taxi subrecords are subrecords of their airport records. So there is no explicit association (e.g. a link "owner airport"), but an implicit one.
 
Hi Millka - no the signs are in a separate set of records and have no link in the Bgl file to the Airport record.
 
If its any consulation Doug has the exclusion of taxiway signs in SP1 working properly now.

I had to upload a new KSAV to AVSIM because once I added SP1 the signs were duplicated all over the airport do to my bgl. That required 2 new excludes of taxiway signs and getting rid of the exclude for the reference sign.

Let me kmow if I need to be doing something on this end that will help you in matching the record area of signs to the proper airport.

EDIT I meant to say in the first line taxiway signs not taxiways (corrected)
 
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Thanks Jim

At the moment that seems to be working fine provided that I remember to put in soe taxi points.
 
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