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Help With SimDirector.

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So I recently found out about SimDirector and want to use to add some buildings into the scenery but running across a couple of problems. If I try to run SD from within P3D it gets stuck on loading at 37%. If I run it on its own I can get the program to load but can't get the catalog to load. I waited over 20 mins with no luck. I have the Orbx Libraries and made to sure to add them to the P3D scenery library so don't know why it's not loading.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
 
J I have the same issue with P3DV5 Professional. A check of the P3D forums produces mixed results, it seems to depend upon the number of addons you have. I have a lot of scenery added in (ORBX) plus stuff from FSX that works fine and cannot be replaced anyway. It is effectively useless for me at the moment. I used to use Instant Scenery to create non airport scenery but that was 32 bit and does not work in 64 bit. ADE only does airports and SBuilder is to large scale, so I was really hoping that this feature would be the answer here.

I have waited 45 minutes with it stuck at 57% and eventually killed the whole process using task manager as the P3D was completely unresponsive to any dialogues.

Even at its worst FSX with instant scenery would only take 10-15 minutes with some 700 scenery addons to come good. It seems to me that P3D is trying to load virtually every object or texture before sim director will function, seems to me they need to fix this because ignoring scenery building - how can you use this tool to create missions in P3D if this is what happens. I guess we wait upon LM to fix it or something.
 
BendyFlyer said:
J I have the same issue with P3DV5 Professional. A check of the P3D forums produces mixed results, it seems to depend upon the number of addons you have. I have a lot of scenery added in (ORBX) plus stuff from FSX that works fine and cannot be replaced anyway. It is effectively useless for me at the moment. I used to use Instant Scenery to create non airport scenery but that was 32 bit and does not work in 64 bit. ADE only does airports and SBuilder is to large scale, so I was really hoping that this feature would be the answer here.

I have waited 45 minutes with it stuck at 57% and eventually killed the whole process using task manager as the P3D was completely unresponsive to any dialogues.

Even at its worst FSX with instant scenery would only take 10-15 minutes with some 700 scenery addons to come good. It seems to me that P3D is trying to load virtually every object or texture before sim director will function, seems to me they need to fix this because ignoring scenery building - how can you use this tool to create missions in P3D if this is what happens. I guess we wait upon LM to fix it or something.
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That's too bad but glad it's not just me. All I really want to do is add maybe like 5 buildings to the area around Area51 that I can use for target practice. Is there another program I can do this with?

Thanks
 
Guys, P3D V5.3 (I am using HF2) resolves all these issues - catalog loads very quickly (even with loads of items in scenery.cfg), model placements correct, import of group items now correctly placed, etc. Like yourselves, I found the SD concept of placing scenery to be good idea but its perf and faults made it useless. P3d v5.3 SD fixes all this.
 
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