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by **NZ255** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:42 am

Hi, I have been interested in getting into the scenery design thing for a while and we were at Place makers the other day, across the road from Pram airport (NZPP) so I took some dimensions, and when I got home built it up in gmax, via Robin great tutorials. It's not the most accurate building, but because your only going to see it out the side window when you're on approach, you're not going to notice it doesn't have the sticky out, rounded bits the real one does. Anyway, I've made it, and now I have a mdl file and an XML file, what do I do from there? I don't really want to have to pay for something (EZ Scenery) because it might only be a once of thing, although I would also like to model and photreal my house. B-)

Yeah

Thanks

Nick

by **toprob** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:54 am

I assume you are working with FS2004 here.
You can place it just by editing the XML file and compiling it. You remove the comment markers (and the comments) and change the lat,lon, heading to the actual location and heading of your building.
Then you compile using bglcomp, which should give you a BGL file.

by **NZ255** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:03 pm

toprob wrote:
QUOTE (toprob @ Mar 10 2008, 12:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I assume you are working with FS2004 here.
You can place it just by editing the XML file and compiling it. You remove the comment markers (and the comments) and change the lat,lon, heading to the actual location and heading of your building.
Then you compile using bglcomp, which should give you a BGL file.

Yes 2004, so I compile the XML then the mdl to BGL?

by **ashton** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:35 pm

try this Gmax xml to bgl tutorial

http://www.scenery.org/_downloads/xml_to_bgl.zip

happy modeling

ashton b

by **toprob** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:13 pm

NZ255 wrote:
QUOTE (NZ255 @ Mar 10 2008, 01:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yes 2004, so I compile the XML then the mdl to BGL?

You just compile the XML -- it references the MDL, and will combine the placement code from the XML with the MDL data into one BGL.

ashton wrote:
QUOTE (ashton @ Mar 10 2008, 01:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
try this Gmax xml to bgl tutorial

http://www.scenery.org/_downloads/xml_to_bgl.zip

happy modeling

ashton b

That's pretty useful, although he does add some steps which are not really necessary. You should be able to compile without copying bglcomp anywhere else. He also keeps his source files within the scenery folder itself, which works fine but seems risky.

by **NZ255** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:14 pm

ashton wrote:
QUOTE (ashton @ Mar 10 2008, 01:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
try this Gmax xml to bgl tutorial

http://www.scenery.org/_downloads/xml_to_bgl.zip

happy modeling

ashton b

Ah ha, thanks Rob and Ashton!:)

by **greaneyr** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:51 pm

Something I've just learnt re doing this that I should probably add. If you adjust the MDL file at all, you have to go back and recompile the XML to BGL. Even though the XML and subsequent BGL reference the MDL file, when you change the MDL file you still need to recompile for some reason. Really annoying and not like HTML where an embedded object will change on a page when the original changes.

by **toprob** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:17 pm

greaneyr wrote:
QUOTE (greaneyr @ Mar 10 2008, 02:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Something I've just learnt re doing this that I should probably add. If you adjust the MDL file at all, you have to go back and recompile the XML to BGL. Even though the XML and subsequent BGL reference the MDL file, when you change the MDL file you still need to recompile for some reason. Really annoying and not like HTML where an embedded object will change on a page when the original changes.

Whereas the XML references the MDL, they are both just an intermediate step towards a BGL. FS can't read or do anything with a MDL file, and it shouldn't be included in the scenery. So if you change the MDL, FS won't know until you recompile.
That was one of the reasons why I said this:

QUOTE

He also keeps his source files within the scenery folder itself, which works fine but seems risky.[/quote]
It confuses the issue putting anything but BGLs in the Scenery folder, as nothing else is necessary, or readable, for FS.

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