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Landable helipad in wood
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IIRC, in FS9 and later, one must place "Finney" hardened Platform objects separately from the visible 2D model of the Helipad (just below the intended surface level of the Helipad); see GMAN's prior post and scenery package documentation explaining this.
Note as well, that hardened Platform objects may not be "Scaled" ...when placed via BGLComp XML methods.
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GaryGB
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IIRC, in FS9 and later, one must place "Finney" hardened Platform objects separately from the visible 2D model of the Helipad (just below the intended surface level of the Helipad); see GMAN's prior post and scenery package documentation explaining this.
Note as well, that hardened Platform objects may not be "Scaled" ...when placed via BGLComp XML methods.
See:
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GaryGB
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this one??
I do not recall if there is a "wooden" helipad in Gary Mills' Finney "Chopper World" set of libraries, but these are excellent 3D models:
https://library.avsim.net/esearch.p...uthor=Gary+Mills&DLID=&Sort=Author&ScanMode=0
I do not recall if there is a "wooden" helipad in Gary Mills' Finney "Chopper World" set of libraries, but these are excellent 3D models:
https://library.avsim.net/esearch.p...uthor=Gary+Mills&DLID=&Sort=Author&ScanMode=0
AFAIK, yes, that is the hardened Platform object set for FSX Helipads.
Indeed, all the "Finney" scenery objects (and the 'CrossHairs Plus' user aircraft object for scenery placement) are excellent.
https://library.avsim.net/search.ph...ry+mills&Sort=Added&ScanMode=1&Go=Change+View
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Let us go back to the problem.
The question was whether there was a wooden landable platform for heli's available. Apparently there is not.
Ergo, make your own wooden landable platform for heli's.
Some (like Gman and GaryGB) have also replied to explain the ways to do that but there has not been any real answer from Finndo in this respect.
Are we talking about FSX or P3D?
In FSX Instant scenery for placement works fine but P3Dv4 is another story.
In the latter case, ADE (Airport Design Editor) is (one of) the answer(s).
For a simple inanimate scenery object like a helipad (FSX or P3D), I would use Sketchup to make it. Just use wooden planks as a texture and there you go. Then (as has been explained before in this thread) use MCX (ModelConverterX) to put in a hardened surface and export/compile as a scenery. You end up with a bgl that you can place with IS (Instant Scenery) in FSX or with ADE (both for FSX and P3D) as long as you add your newly made bgl to the Library Object manager of P3D.
When you then (with ADE) open your airport and right click, you can add your Library object (the hardened wooden helipad) where you want it to be in your airport scenery and compile.
PS: Sorry about repeating things other helpful repliers may have said already. I just wanted to reply in my own way from the perspective of one that uses Sketchup, ModelconvertX and ADE to make and place this kind of objects in/into FSX/P3D.
The question was whether there was a wooden landable platform for heli's available. Apparently there is not.
Ergo, make your own wooden landable platform for heli's.
Some (like Gman and GaryGB) have also replied to explain the ways to do that but there has not been any real answer from Finndo in this respect.
Are we talking about FSX or P3D?
In FSX Instant scenery for placement works fine but P3Dv4 is another story.
In the latter case, ADE (Airport Design Editor) is (one of) the answer(s).
For a simple inanimate scenery object like a helipad (FSX or P3D), I would use Sketchup to make it. Just use wooden planks as a texture and there you go. Then (as has been explained before in this thread) use MCX (ModelConverterX) to put in a hardened surface and export/compile as a scenery. You end up with a bgl that you can place with IS (Instant Scenery) in FSX or with ADE (both for FSX and P3D) as long as you add your newly made bgl to the Library Object manager of P3D.
When you then (with ADE) open your airport and right click, you can add your Library object (the hardened wooden helipad) where you want it to be in your airport scenery and compile.
PS: Sorry about repeating things other helpful repliers may have said already. I just wanted to reply in my own way from the perspective of one that uses Sketchup, ModelconvertX and ADE to make and place this kind of objects in/into FSX/P3D.
These latter tasks appear to be topics for a separate thread (...and you will need to explain in greater detail what it is you want to achieve).
GaryGB
I suggest that you export from Sketchup as a Google Earth KMZ file, which automatically packages a Collada *.DAE file along with all mapped textures and a KML file within a ZIPed file format that MCX can import (...a KML ZIPed is a KMZ).
Otherwise you must gather all mapped textures inside the same folder as the Collada *.DAE exported from Sketchup when you attempt to import it into MCX.
GaryGB
Otherwise you must gather all mapped textures inside the same folder as the Collada *.DAE exported from Sketchup when you attempt to import it into MCX.
GaryGB
Yes