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Hi Nick,

Good suggestion, but I think we should not try to imitate the very good FAQ on the AvSim Scenery Design forum. It would be a waste of time to write a similar document.

Also give it some time. I have not even finished transfering all of the tutorials from the forum :D. I am sure more people will start contributing later on.
 
For the record... I find the FAQ on avsim only "ok" :) But I see your point.
 
Ah, there is a new FAQ on AVSIM.... very good... :banghead:

No reason that we cannot have something simular here.
 
Hi!

Well, since I´ve been working a lot with LC lately, I thought I might jot down a few notes on this in the Wiki. But what is required? I do not use the SDK tools, but SBuilder instead, would it be ok to describe that process? It is already covered in the help of SBuilder, but can be explained "better".
And the new Avsim FAQ, is it the one in pinned to the top of the Scenery Design thread?

/hans
 
Yes, you can add whatever you feel would be helpful to others. Ping myself or Arno if you need help creating a new section.
 
Hi Hans,

As Nick already said, please do so. There is absolutely no rule about which tools to use. Any article that can help another scenery designer (so whatever tool he is using) is welcome.
 
Something that helped me, but then got buried likely in forum posts, was when we first worked out the xml syntax for scenery. Folks posted working snippets of code for stuff like windsocks, buildings, exclusions, fuel areas, etc.

I'm happy to admit I create my new xml from cut and paste from standards rather than new typing, xml is simply too intolerant of syntax errors and my typing is too unreliable.

Does anyone know of a pre-existing xml code sample content somewhere. If not, lets start one.

Bob Bernstein
 
Just a little something that might want to be mentioned and im sure that most of us now this already but perhaps help the newbies from bangin there head alot with effects is.....

That when using Gmax and attach tools to attach an effect to an object....you will need a second object also in the scene or else you will get an error trying to convert to mdl and get an error.

I know i had this problem when i first fooled around with effects and perhaps might ease some frustration with a beginner.Hopefully i stated this that people can understand but if it can be written to be more reader friendly...please feel free

Dave
 
Ok, started writing a little - at work, which will not work once the details kick in - but, boy am I new to this system! Nick, Arno, please feel free to move the text as suitable! :)

EDIT: Ok, I removed my text, as I cannot right now figure out how to place the guide/tutorial as a separate page. I can search for a subject, but not create a new page, using the method mentioned in the index-page.

/hans
 
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Hi Hans,

Can you maybe be a bit more specific about what you tried to do?

When you search for a page that not exist (you need to use the : symbol to give the categories) you should see a button to create this new page.
 
Hi!

Well, I started writing, but found that it was perhaps not so good to have the entire text directly in the Tutorials startpage, so I thought I´d add a new page under the section Modifying the Landclass. However, even if I am logged in, if I do a search for f.ex. lwmviewer (:lwmviewer or : lwmviewer), a name not found in the wiki, there is no button "Edit this page" in the displayed searchresult page. :banghead: As usual, I might be missing something! :)

/hans
 
Hi Hans,

You need to search for the full path, you are not allowed to create new articles in the root. So for example search for:

tutorials:mesh scenery:lwmviewer
tutorials:gmax:something

Then you should be able to create a new article.
 
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