• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

Scenery objects available to Missions.....

D

drdavid

Messages
118
Country
wales
I'd really like to put the small, general purpose GCDAM scenery object into a Mission. I've installed FSAddon's FSX Mission Editor and it seems to work fine for simple stuff, but I can't find the d*mn dam! I know the object in question is in the FSX\Scenery\Global file - its name comes up in the Texture list and I've placed it previously using InstantScenery - BUT - I can't seem to find it in the drop down list in the Scenery Object list when I edit the Mission in FSXME. Doh!

Any pointers on where the FSX Mission derives its list of objects - and where the file is, so that, just possibly (???) I can add the desired object to the list?

Thanks in advance.....

Cheers - Dai (Wales UK).
 
Missions use the same libraries as custom scenery. The dam is in the scenery library, you just need to search through it. Don't know the name at the moment, maybe hoover*...
 
I also have FSXME. I see they have specific dams in there under Global, Generic & Vehicle libraries:

LDM_BlueMesaDam
LDM_CrystalDam
LDM_MorrowDam

You are looking for something more general?

You know, somewhere I had come across an application that actually shows all these objects so you can see what they look like. I'll see if I still have that handy.

Ripcord
 
Thanks, Guys - I tried each of the 'LDM' dams but they are, I'm afraid, not like the GCDAM as found in the normal FSX 'Global' scenery file - B*gger it! :mad:

Like I said, it seems that the Mission 'interpretor' (if that's the right definition), uses a slightly different file set-up. Many of the scenery items are the same - but, the GCDAM isn't there.

I guess I'll just have to place the required scenery object in a seperate 'Addon Scenery' file and load that into FSX rather than try to get the Mission Object Placement to do it. Unless, of course, you can think of another way.....;)

Thanks again - Dai. :cool:
 
I think GCdam stands for Grand Coulee Dam. It may be geographically locked. If you decompile the BGL file, you can give it a new GUID number and use it.
 
Thanks for your suggestion, Archtx - I tried the bgl decompiler but, unfortunately, the output listing had no 'object names' in it, so I couldn't cross reference the GCDam object.

Anyway, I've used another dam - not perfect, but better than no d*mn dam!! ;)

Cheers - Dai. :cool:
 
Thanks, Jeap - like I said, the 'GCDam' is in:

Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Scenery\Global

but, apparently, neither the Mission Placement Tool nor FSXME use this file - they use a similar, but smaller, set of objects selected from it and, possibly, stored under a different filename. That's the rub, I'm afraid - I just don't know what the filename is, where it's located or how to get the OPT/FSXME to 'point' to it.

Anyway - onwards and upwards - thanks for your suggestion!

Chees - Dai. :cool:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top