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Next Update or Finish?
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I have noticed that the updates for FSX Planner have stopped. Has the work on this software finished and version 28 is to be the last or what. Just curious.
Many thanks,
Gelowims
I suppose FSX Planner is done. The equivalent to this product would be Airport Design Editor.
Nope, not done. Work is progressing, just more slowly than I would like, due to other projects. As FSX Planner is a free application, it always gets put on the back burner when a paying one comes along.
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Any gross roadmap as to when we can more or less expect a new release?
It would be nice if one could easily substitute standard airports and search default scenery objects to be placed.
It would be nice if one could easily substitute standard airports and search default scenery objects to be placed.
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A tutorial on creating approaches would be nice, so far I cannot find anything anywhere about this nice feature.
Anoter problem with the latest build is that it never remembers the settings of SDK BGL compiler and output directory. Everytime I load the program I have to reconfigure that. I installed it as Admin but use it (as every person should) in a limited (normal user, not admin) account. I have not figured out how to work around this annoying problem.
Anoter problem with the latest build is that it never remembers the settings of SDK BGL compiler and output directory. Everytime I load the program I have to reconfigure that. I installed it as Admin but use it (as every person should) in a limited (normal user, not admin) account. I have not figured out how to work around this annoying problem.
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Among the improvements I can think of to this excellent utility:
* Option to automatically load/display Google Earth or Virtual Earth background
by connecting to their service rather than having the user take a
snapshot and calibrate. The user should still be able to choose to NOT to
display the background.
* Work even when running in a non-admin account so that it remembers
the settings and properly uses the roaming facilities.
* Choosing of menu options is sometimes not responsive, as if it lacks focus.
I think this is a Java thing but I might be wrong. Pity it was not written in C#
* More friendly placement of Scenery Library objects.
* A flatten tool
* Allow the exclude tool to be a polygon rather than a rectangle that
is always oriented along the N-S line.
* Option to automatically load/display Google Earth or Virtual Earth background
by connecting to their service rather than having the user take a
snapshot and calibrate. The user should still be able to choose to NOT to
display the background.
* Work even when running in a non-admin account so that it remembers
the settings and properly uses the roaming facilities.
* Choosing of menu options is sometimes not responsive, as if it lacks focus.
I think this is a Java thing but I might be wrong. Pity it was not written in C#
* More friendly placement of Scenery Library objects.
* A flatten tool
* Allow the exclude tool to be a polygon rather than a rectangle that
is always oriented along the N-S line.
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Your last one is a limitation of FS - Exclusion rectangles can only be rectangles oriented N/S
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Sure? so far I have been "going around" that limitation of FSX Planner by doing my flatten & exclude with FSX KML and GE as my polygon maker. Unless of course I have been fooled by the tools and only part of my polygon is getting flattened or excluded.
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You are talking about terrain polygons that are compiled using Shp2Vec. These indeed can be irregular shapes. However they exclude autogen and not library objects and generic buildings as far as I know. for these you need to use an Exclusion Rectangle (compiled using BglComp) and these must be rectanglular and oriented NSEW.