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XML and effects help please

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Hi,

I am relatively new to scenery design having only toyed with Airport v3 prior to a couple of weeks ago and am a little confused by the new style of scenery creation. I am slowly working through my tutorials on Gmax however, I am also attempting to create some effects and have a couple of questions.

First of, reading through the Special effect SDK notes, it states I can alter the xml file for effects placement using notepad which, I have done. I can only save it as a txt file though. How do I convert it to an xml file that bglcomp will recognise?

Secondly, how do I make an effect repeat itself, preferably randomly but, if not at alloted times?

Thanks
 
Hi,

fin10 said:
First of, reading through the Special effect SDK notes, it states I can alter the xml file for effects placement using notepad which, I have done. I can only save it as a txt file though. How do I convert it to an xml file that bglcomp will recognise?
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Sounds like your are hiding your file extensions and in that case notepad has the bad habbit to make everything a text file. You can show your extension by chaning a setting in Explorer. You can find it in the Tools menu and then "Folder options", "View" tab. There is an option there to hide known extensions, remove that check. After that you should be able to change the TXT into XML.

Although BGLComp might also be able to compile a TXT file, as long as the text in it is valid XML.
 
As far as the repeating effect, what are you try to make as it would be easier to point you in the right direction.

Dave
 
Thanks for the replies,

I am attempting to make flak/explosions however, I have just succesfully made the bgl but, when I try and view it in FS, FS crashes. I get a bleack screen and then it goes back to desktop. I am now confused. I think I have done everything correctly.
 
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Hey Fin,

Im not sure if you solved your problem yet but actually ran into the problem again. Im not sure if it makes a difference but when i used image tool to convert my texture to dxt1 format and create the mipmaps, i created the mipmaps first...then converted to dxt1 format and i had the crashing to desktop. All i did was re-open image tool, changed to dxt1 format then i created the mipmaps like i usually do and the problem went away.

Dave
 
Thanks,

I tried again and for some reason it worked no probs. Don't know what caused it.
 
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