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TOWER Position !

mad_schatz

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Hi !

Is there any way to change the place/height of TOWER camera in FS9 ?
I tried to change it by AFCAD. But nothing changed. Does anyone have any idea ?
 
Gday Mad, i find it easier to decompile the BGL from AFCAD and edit the XML by hand, i use Dicks TCalc2004_V2 for obtaining my Lat Lons.

you just need to either Add or Edit this section of the Code for the location and Altitude !

<Tower
lat="-12.260639154185"
lon="131.232535069808"
alt="6"/>

and then recompile the XML code with BGLC

rgds Jeff

p.s. i use bglx120.zip from avsim to decompile the BGL file but im not sure if this has had an updated version.
 
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Hi Jeffs

I've tried the way you said. But I can't make it work. I decompile the AFCAD bgl file that stores the airport information. With tcalc_v2 I've found out the positions of the place where I want to put my TOWER. According to these parameters I've changed the XML file. And also according to BGLX.DOC file I've done some changes on bglcomp.xsd file.
I've managed to compile the scenery. But Tower camera seems to stays where It was.
No change of the place of TOWER view camera .
Is there any other suggestions ?
 
JeffS said:
...i use bglx120.zip from avsim to decompile the BGL file but im not sure if this has had an updated version.
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Yes there is, version 1.50, you can find it on http://www.cpinf.net

Maybe you have another file regarding scenery (eg, older version (fs2002 maybe) of airport and facilities data, and maybe, just maybe, it creates problem with tower viewport). I had similar one, fs2002 scenery, with fs2004 afcad. All worked well, except doubled taxiways and runway (one appeared above another), and tower position could not be changed. But other scenery, same situation as above, but there was no problem with changing tower viewport.Confusing :confused:, i admit, and still have no solution for it.Yet :scratchch
 
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Mad, is it possible for you to post the BGL in zip format so i could attempt to alter it and send it back to you ?

Pixxel, thanks for the link for the update !

rgds Jeff
 
Humm, that is interesting. I just changed the tower view of an airport in AFCAD yesterday and for me it worked fine.

But when testing my airport I always start up FS where I last quit it, so that was on that airport already. So Damien might have a good point here.
 
Tower Problem Solution !

Hi Everybody !

Like Damien Moriarty said, problem was loading same saved game file . When I created new flight of the same airport I saw that the TOWER view was updated :D .
It's strange :stirthepo :eek: . Anyway thank you all for your help and ideas.

Thank you very much.....
 
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