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What program can I use to relocate a static ship?

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I would like to relocate the SOH donationware Bismarck, some aircraft carriers from
the CARRIERS 2006 by Javier Fernandez, Richard Hogan, and R. A. Baum.
at flightsim.com and even the Alphasim CVN-65 USS ENTERPRISE carriers and in general static ships of various types.

I want to relocate most in the Aegean Sea--plus some other seas.

In FSX, would I need other programs to relocate static carriers or ships or the same ones that will work for fs9?

Any help would be appreciated,

Nick
 
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Hi,

To relocate scenery objects you would need to make an exclude to remove the old placement and then generate a new placement with bglcomp or an tool like instant scenery.
 
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Arno,

I want to keep the original location(s) and relocate the ship(s) to new ones elsewhere. Can that be done?

(In any case, I cannot make an exclude--how is that made?)

Do you mean the bgl comp innsidee the fs9 SDK?
 
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If you want to keep the original locations you can skip the exclude, and just make another placement BGL that places the models at the new location as well.
 
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jinx said:
Thanks

Where is bglcomp found?
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You need to download the SDK for the simulator. FS2004 and FSX have their own SDK. The fs2004 one was downloaded online and the FSX one I believe is on the disk version of FSX acceleration pack.
 
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The solutions provided by my esteemed colleagues are right on the mark. They will work swimmingly. (get it…ships and swimmingly) ;)

You will need to install the FSX SDX.

That said, I'm more of a GUI kind of guy. :cool: If I were to place static ships that were already in BGL format, I would use SBuilderX to place them. True, you would need to add the ships to the SBuilderX library - I believe there are instructions for that. If they are in MDL format, I like Arno's BGL library maker. Simple and powerful.

Being a former Navy guy, I like boats ships that move. I use AI Boat Traffic Compiler (AIBTC) - a freeware app that you use along with GoogleEarth to plot a ships movements, speed and schedule. Once you get the hand of the schedule part, it is very easy to use. Just a thought.
 
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