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What Irritates you about ADE?

Hi Scruffyduck,
As I think most people are having this problem:
The problem is: I've created a FlattenExcludeAutogen polygon and a FreewayTraffic vector.
When I compile them, I just get the in the CVX the polygon drawed, but don't get the freeway traffic line at all.

Is there a fix for this?
 
Golf-HotelDelta said:
My pet whinge is about Lists->Taxi-links.

Why are "Index" and "Name#" included whereas markings and lights do not appear?
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Space? So you would leave out index and name - I see that, it would need 6 columns to display lights and markings I think
 
Dayou said:
Hi Scruffyduck,
As I think most people are having this problem:
The problem is: I've created a FlattenExcludeAutogen polygon and a FreewayTraffic vector.
When I compile them, I just get the in the CVX the polygon drawed, but don't get the freeway traffic line at all.

Is there a fix for this?
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Unfortunately this has been a problem with ADE since the start. Freeway traffic does not work. I use third party code to generate terrain features and unfortunately neither the author or the ACES team could figure out why it didn't work. At some point I need to replace the third party code with my own, but I am not sure when
 
scruffyduck said:
Space? So you would leave out index and name - I see that, it would need 6 columns to display lights and markings I think
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There is plenty of space for another 10 columns. You could also remove "Comments":



Or, how about right-click on the header bar and "Select Columns" ;)
 
Or, how about right-click on the header bar and "Select Columns" ;)

Now that is an interesting one George - I will add that to the list :)
 
Hey, we are (here at the least) in the FSU (the FS Universe) and not in the Disney Universe.
As for George's comments, I regret to say I do agree once more with what he says:(.
it is not a complaint but a suggestion because it could come in handy some time.
Roby

PS(so that you know it is me): do not forget, Jon, that the list > gp_objects does not center on the gp_object any longer. That makes it hard to find it back if you have a lot of them.
 
I have the one about the non centering GP list Roby and it is right next to the one to allow users to select columns. I assume that y'all would want ADE to remember the columns you want to see between sessions?
 
Hi Jon,

No, the columns should be pertinent to the kind of things you would want to show up. Difficult once more to explain but say you would want some more info on links, then the links should not show up the same kind of listing choices that for instance the aprons or the objects would have.
 
I think it would be convenient if we can click on airplane marker and there is a drop list menu what you are going to add to this position: node, parking, or mdl object and those object takes coordinate of airplane maker (not the cursor) . It would be precise object placing like the way ObPlacer does. Dragging over airplane marker is not accurate enough.
 
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jtanabodee said:
I think it would be convenient if we can click on airplane marker and there is a drop list menu what you are going to add to this position: node, parking, or mdl object and those object takes coordinate of airplane maker (not the cursor) . It would be precise object placing like the way ObPlacer does. Dragging over airplane marker is not accurate enough.
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That is a good idea. I will add that to my list and see what I can do. However in the meantime you could select an object and use Move to Aircraft from the right click menu - that is accurate to place something where the aircraft is.
 
jtanabodee said:
I think it would be convenient if we can click on airplane marker and there is a drop list menu what you are going to add to this position: node, parking, or mdl object and those object takes coordinate of airplane maker (not the cursor) . It would be precise object placing like the way ObPlacer does. Dragging over airplane marker is not accurate enough.
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I use "M" to place a marker at the aircraft position, add an object then copy/paste the marker coordinates to the object.
 
Yes George, I did that too. But I don't think it is convenient enough, you need to copy coordinates twice lat and long.
 
jtanabodee said:
Yes George, I did that too. But I don't think it is convenient enough, you need to copy coordinates twice lat and long.
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There is a copy coordinates option in the Right Click Menu but perhaps that is only with the ProKey
 
Hi,

My pet peeve is that ADE is not displaying what displays in FS2004 (it's not WYSIWYG). Here is a small macadam apron in ADE:

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and here is the same apron in FS9 (not the same color at all - FS9 uses Concrete for Macadam aprons):

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Also, runway marking are not the same. Here is what is displayed in ADE when you turn on Fixed Distance markings (nothing appears):

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and here they are in FS9:

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You asked... :)

Hope this helps,
 

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It would be nice if we could adjust the color, or at least the transparency of ground polys on the ADE display.

This will make it easier to line them up with background images.

Or did I miss this somewhere?

cheers,
Lane
 
My two pet peeves (I know you asked for one) are:

1. When clicking multiple taxi links (the lines between the dots) to make them straight, if you misclick one, you have to start again from the first link. It is quite frustrating when you have many small links to click.

2. When you assign an airline to a parking spot and it changes from default green to purple (for example), you cannot make that new color have any transparency.

3. As a bonus pet peeve, when you move your mouse over the edges of a background image, the border highlights a bright thick pink line. It's nice when you are moving the images around, but it should be disabled when the image is locked or something.
 
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