Static Aircraft Model Maker - making the scenery ready for release

[ScKevin]

Hey guys, I have now successfully created my static aircraft with Static Aircraft Model Maker. (Thanks for that wonderful tool!) I have also add it to the scenery via Airport Design Editor (the in-built scenery adder didn't worked for me, maybe I have something wrong or I don't know)!
There's now another .bgl created in my scenery folder!

Now if I want to upload my scenery to avsim.com or so, what folders/files do users need to see those static aircrafts?

Do I need only the .bgl created by ADE, or aswell the .bgl-file & the .txt-file & the texture folder of my model, which is situated in my folder
<FS9 Root folder>\scenery\Generic\

I hope someone can help me out of that hell!

thanks for replying and have a good day!
Kevin

 

[gadgets]

The .bgl and the texture folder. You'd be wise to include instructions about the texture folder. This configuration is unusual for scenery.

BTW, please ensure the author of the aircraft has given permission for the model to be uploaded.

Don

 

[ScKevin]

Just one question, which is in my opinion very dumb, but I really want to ask her:

You said the .bgl & texture folder. The texture folder is ok, that is this one:
<FS9 Root folder>\scenery\Generic\Texture\TIS

but with the .bgl I don't understand:
is that now these .bgl:
<FS9 Root folder>\scenery\Generic\scenery\TIS.bgl

or is the one generated by ADE:
<FS9 Root folder>\Addon Scenery\Real ELLX\scenery\AF2_ELLXa_OBJ.bgl

I don't know so I'm asking, I shame myself for that question sorry :S

greets Kevin

 

[gadgets]

You must provide tyhree items for scenery to be displayed: model, position and texture.

If you used ADE to place the model, then the ADE file will contain the positioning data. Presumably the other bgl file you mentioned contains only the model. So, both are required.

If you use the SAMM placement tool, the bgl file it generates contains both the placement information and the model.

Don

 

[ScKevin]

Ok thanks!
Just one more question. When using the Static Aircraft Model Maker scenery adder. When I set the altitude and don't want to edit it, although the real altitude is around 320meters what do I have to enter there?

I always get an error that the altitude is the wrong format, also if I'm not editing that field!

greets Kevin

 

[gadgets]

Please be more specific. In what program/field are you entering altitude? What progarm is issuing the error message? If SAMM, what is the specific error message you are receiving? If you want the model on the ground, why are you entering an altitude at all?

Don

 

[ScKevin]

Ok you are now maybe thinking that I'm kidding you, but it isn't like this. After restarting and after a second try, everything worked like it should be!
The model is on the airport but only approximately around 100-200 Meters away from the position it should. I have to get the correct coordinates so it will be more precisely. What I've done? Well tried it first, then it didn't worked always got that error message with the altitude problem. Then I thought: Shit, let it be! I went to eat a "Bouchée du poissonier" and now it worked (only that the coordinates are wrong, but that is my fault)! If I always need to go to eat such a "Bouchée", then I will gain a lot of weight in the upcoming weeks/days

So far, thanks and if I occur the problem next time, I will directly post it here!

greets Kevin

 

[n4gix]

"Mouthful of fishmonger?" I'm assuming that's a literal translation and that the actual meaning is "bite of fish."

 

[ScKevin]

"Mouthful of fishmonger?" I'm assuming that's a literal translation and that the actual meaning is "bite of fish."

Look here, hope that helps

greets Kevin

 

[n4gix]

Look here, hope that helps

greets Kevin

Actually, I was poking a bit of fun at the misspelling of the French...

...which makes a world of difference in the translation!

"Bouchée du" without the ending "s" means "Mouthful of..."
"Bouchées du" with the ending "s" means "Mouthfuls of..."
"Bouchées de" means "Bites (of)..."

"poisson" means "fish"
"poissonier" means "fishmonger" (one who sells fish)

"Bouchées de poisson" is "bites of fish" (which are the filling for the pastry shell).
"Bouchée du poissonier" is "Mouthful (of) fishmonger"

What a difference a couple of letters make in meaning!

All of which points out something that's bothered me for years. There are quite a few people who insist on using "text speak" even when writing in English, which makes it horribly difficult for international members who perforce must often use something like "Google-Translate" to understand some technical post.

For example, "u no wt i m33n m8?" 'translates' into French as the meaningless: "u aucune poids je m33n M8?" instead of what was meant
"Savez-vous ce que je veux dire, camarade?"

 

[ScKevin]

Sorry but that's not real french
That's Luxemburgish-French. In our country that meal is named "Bouchée du poissonier". If you go to a shop you get that, if you call it elsewhere, then nearly nobody understands you! And I didn't know that someone really wanted to know how I got worked my Static Aircraft Model Maker, but try it out and your SAMM will work afterwards

I think a forum lives from that "misleading" language. I love for example to search/look in french-african forums because they use so much of misleading words which I also don't understand while I can speak French!

P.S.: You can post a photo of your "Bouchées de poisson"!
P.S.2: If you want I can aswell visit you and then I will taste your "Bouchées de poisson"! If you want I will then cook your mine

 

[n4gix]

Sorry but that's not real french
That's Luxemburgish-French. In our country that meal is named "Bouchée du poissonier".

<snipped for brevity>

P.S.: You can post a photo of your "Bouchées de poisson"!
P.S.2: If you want I can aswell visit you and then I will taste your "Bouchées de poisson"! If you want I will then cook your mine

Oh, I see! That's like the sometimes subtle differences between Hochdeutsch, Suissedeutsch, and Österreichischedeutsch (High, Swiss and Austrian).

Plattdüütsch is yet another, which used to be "Low German," but more closely resembles Dutch or Afrikaans.

German (Hoch Deutsch)
Alle Menschen sind frei und gleich an Würde und Rechten geboren. Sie sind mit Vernunft und Gewissen begabt und sollen einander im Geist der Brüderlichkeit begegnen.

vs.

German (Plattdüütsch)
All Minschen sünd frie un gliek an Würd un Rechten up de Welt kamen. Se hebbt de Gaav vun Verstand un Geweten un schüllt sick as Bröers in de Mööt kamen.

vs.

English
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Then there's Yiddish, which is a form of "German" that mixes Plattdüütsch and Hebrew, sounds mostly like Plattdüütsch, but is written in Hebrew!

While in school in Leysin, Switzerland since English was my first language, most of my science classes were in Hochdeutsch and my humanities in French. That's a brutal way to force students into mastering second and third languages - fast!

Over the past few days I've encountered a young fellow in my flightsim.com forum who has been asking questions in very fractured English. When it became clear that he's French, I asked him to post what he wanted to ask in French...

...which unfortunately turns out to be WORSE than his fractured English!

The very next time I make Bouchées de poisson I'll be sure to take a photo! By the way, before I began studying French, I would never have ordered "poisson" from a cafe menu, because it looks too much like the English word "poison!"

 

[ScKevin]

Hehe ok nice. I had to study Luxemburgish, German, French and if you are in the classic school also Italian and/or Latin.
I can speak Luxembourgish, French, German, Netherlands, Italian, Portuguese and now I'm learning Russian. A lot of work but I'm handling all those languages more or less good...

And please post a photo from your meal!!

greets Kevin