• 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.

P3D v5 Updating Scenery Footprints

Tim Collins

Tim Collins

Messages
565
Country
unitedkingdom
Hi Jon. I've noticed that as I update a scenery library I'm using in a new project, the footprints of the building groups in the library do not update with the changes I am making to the models. That means I'm having to fire up the sim to see where the new or adjusted models are being placed. I note from your Help pages that this was flagged up as an issue when detailed footprints were first instigated. Did it ever get fixed? Or will I have to somehow allocate new GUIDs to each library item in MCX to force ADE to draw new footprints?
 
How does an update to a scenery object need a new footprint, without becoming an altogether new object?
 
I'm constructing groups of buildings in SketchUp, and the groups keep expanding. However, the group names stay the same and MCX presumably keeps the same GUID for them each time I recompile for ADE and P3D. I found that if I changed the name slightly, a new GUID was issued and then ADE drew new footprints, so it's all good.

To explain visually, the picture shows the scenery as it currently stands (RAF Ahlhorn, West Germany, around 1957). The buildings depicted are in 3 or 4 groups with one mdl file per group.

Screenshot 2021-11-10 232224.jpg
 
Great, could you not just add new models that comprise the additional detail?
 
Yeah, I could have done but having started down that path I decided to stick with it. The buildings use quite a few SketchUp components that I made, so doing it in groups felt like it was quicker. Whether it was or not, who knows?!
 
There is an option in the Model List to generate footprints

1636615068682.png


If you have the models in a library in the LOM then you might use Update File

1636615258406.png
 
Thanks Jon - I was aware of references to the Update File tool, but could never find it! The buildings are indeed in a Library.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top