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What Irritates you about ADE?

That is on the list for the current beta Roby....... In any case you can find it by checking to tooltip for the Airport Reference Point now.
 
jvile said:
In the approach mode a Terminal_Waypoint can be added on a precise heading and DME from any type Navaid. The Guideline is a draw device with headings and DME so you do not have to manually enter any values for calculation.

Select the Guideline from the top menu bar buttons (looks like a ruler) and click on the VOR. Now drag the mouse crosshair in any direction at any distance and ADE will show the DME and heading in the upper left corner.
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That's how I do it now. I copy the coordinates of the VOR, paste it into the Guideline, and edit the length and heading, then manually move the arrowhead to match the magnetic. But if it was all automated. ... :)
 
"In any case you can find it by checking to tooltip for the Airport Reference Point now."
Good to know (overlooked that one). Thanks, Jon.
 
I remembered one more thing - when you add a library BGL file to the LOM, it should use the text file (used by Rwy12, Instant Scenery, etc.) to provide meaningful names, rather than names like TRG_Library.BGL_001, etc. That way thumbnails are not so critical.

Here is an example of a text file:

BF10034A4639D88B921330A19E3B16FF airstairs blank
7CB9795E49D7C6E37E83C4AD78134D9C airstairs American
2C152C40492BF2066A5E958E514D9530 airstairs Pan Am
45188A904ED6419D0BE3DBA03B94411D airstairs TWA
E5817F674863489D90D6DC999E148CE3 airstairs United
CBDD14E84A9CA94213312F9B5D7DD96F airstairs Western
9D110E6D419B62BFC741CE80391F8B66 airstairs Braniff
A0C835C34C0C481E32852E9F907B04B2 airstairs Capital
B6584CCD40A188D38550A4BCCC3F91EE airstairs Delta
6519E94849EEC83FE1E36191F8651C6D airstairs Eastern
DBFF6CF64CF5D3813F2CA485F02EC522 airstairs National
43C2976B4D1AD87B77F10C93D2D5C766 airstairs Continental
CF3150F14A23D00D273338832ADF77F7 airstairs SAS
81D2B9594AA9B330D9D34A83AABF59BA airstairs Japan
79B14A53491D253A9DCCCAAF87A3B2B6 airstairs Northwest
E304828640BFE0E12B74BE8B0452B176 airstairs Air France
B0DC6541423A91A4A85129A064CF17BC airstairs Aeronaves de Mexico
F2F4A84841DE7BAFB73484827E76CE45 airstairs BEA
5196F02C4450B88EAFD7FAAADB9C9F3A airstairs QANTAS
4FEF52BB48D7D35A193E7C8336C9C0BB econoline stairs

The text file is kept right in the same folder as the BGL file, with the same base name but a txt extension.

Thanks,
 
Instant Scenery comes with a program called Library Maker, which will create libraries. I use Library Creator XML, though.

But that's not what the text file is used for. It's used for creating the list of library object names in the main IS display, instead of using the GUID when there is no text file present. So it's for display only.

Hope this helps,
 
This is related to FS9 models as I recall since the FSX and P3D models can have a name embedded.
 
Yes it is. And the majority of addon library objects are in FS9 format.
 
Helli said:
Could it be that Roby ("robystar") has an alias ("raymk")? :oops:
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It is strange but sometimes I don't feel quite like myself but as far as I know I haven't morphed into 'robystar' even though his words are identical to mine!
 
Yes, it is strange. Sometimes I don't feel quite like myself either but as far as I know I haven't morphed into 'raymk' even though his words are identical to mine!

Roby

PS: I forgot to put in the quotes:D.
 
robystar said:
Yes, it is strange. Sometimes I don't feel quite like myself either but as far as I know I haven't morphed into 'raymk' even though his words are identical to mine!

Roby

PS: I forgot to put in the quotes:D.
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Never thought that echoes could occur in an online Forum! :stirthepo
 
Attempting to open an airport .bgl file which includes the airport 'afcad' along with associated airport scenery - I get the dreaded message 'this file does not contain an airport' even though it does exactly that!
I only want to make a few parking spots.
 
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John Hubbard said:
Attempting to open an airport .bgl file which includes the airport 'afcad' along with associated airport scenery - I get the dreaded message 'this file does not contain an airport' even though it does exactly that!
I only want to make a few parking spots.
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Can you send me an example please John? I am not aware that this should happen - ADE generates bgl files with the airport and the scenery and I have never encountered this issue when reading the bgl files back into ADE.
 
OK I am away from my office now until tomorrow evening. I will check it when I get back.
 
That seems to be an invalid airport bgl. Neither ADE nor Afcad2 nor AFX will open it

MCX can read the models from it.
 
The airport you want to make changes to was not designed with an airport editor. It is a very old airport bgl that was compiled with SCASM.

This is what some of the runway code looks like in your LSGS.bgl prior to compiling the .sca file to a bgl file.

Area( 5 N46:13:10.79 E007:19:41.71 30 )
LayerCall( :L000020 24 )
Jump( : )
:L000020
Smoothing( 1 )
Runway( N46:13:10.80 E007:19:41.71
Alt 482.5
Heading 253.6
Length 6562 ; in feet
Width 131 ; in feet
Markers 3F
Id 25
Lights 14
Surface 1
Threshold 0
ThrOffN 820
ThrOffF 820
ExtN 0
ExtF 0
StrobesN 6
VasiBarsN 8
VasiSpaceN 400
VasiDistN 2067
VasiSideN 79
VasiSlopeN 3.5
VasiBarsF 8
VasiSpaceF 400
VasiDistF 2067
VasiSideF 79
VasiSlopeF 3.5

You would need the original designers code to make changes to the parking spots and then compile using SCASM.
 
Hi John

I have looked at it now and. of course, George and Jim are correct. This is a bgl file created prior to FS9 using tools and source which is not understood by ADE (or AFCAD/AFX). That is the reason that ADE says there is no airport in the file. As far as it is concerned it can't find anything that it understands or recognizes in the file. A tool like FSSC or Airport For Windows might understand it - but it can't be translated directly into ADE.
 
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