[thusrty8]

how do i position the aircraft in the airports

[topflight80]

i duno wat version it iz 4

[Jochen]

thusrty8, on Apr 6 2006, 01:21 PM, said:

how do i position the aircraft in the airports

Hi, thusrty8

I am travelling and that limits my access to the Internet. That is why I am late to answer. I am sorry.
There is a short instruction, how to do it, in the ReadMe file.

Unfortunately there is no simple way to place the objects. In X-Plane version 7 we have World Maker to position objects. In Version 8 the equivalent to World Maker in respect to scenery design will be World Editor and is not yet available.

Here is what you have to do: The packages have a positioning model, named XXX-XXX_pos.obj (example B747-400_pos.obj). This is a version 7 object and hence is visible in World Maker 7.xx. Copy this object into the folder X-Plane 8.xx\Custom Scenery\MyScenery\custom objects. Position this object using World Maker 7.xx in the airport scenery (you have to have a version 7 compatible scenery to do this). If you want to position three aircrafts, position three positioning objects.

Convert the resulting ENV file to text using ENV2CSV (Ben Supniks tools ENV2CSV and DSF2TEXT are found here: http://www.xsquawkbox.net/). Now you find under objects the position of your object.

For sceneries using the ENV format, just rename the XXX-XXX_pos.obj to the ones desired. Then convert back to the ENV format. Place the objects in X-Plane 8.xx\Custom Scenery\MyScenery\custom objects and the textures in X-Plane 8.xx\Custom Scenery\MyScenery\custom object textures\aircraft.

For DSF based sceneries, extraxt the positions and rename to the objects desired. Then transform the resulting text into the DSF overlay format. This is a bit tricky. It is perfectly described in the tutorial by tkyler: http://x-plane.org/c...out.cgi?id=7160.

Now convert the resulting text file back to the DSF format using DSF2TXT. Place the objects in X-Plane 8.xx\Custom Scenery\MyScenery\custom objects and the textures in X-Plane 8.xx\Custom Scenery\MyScenery\custom object textures\aircraft.

If this is too complicated (which I can understand) - wait until World Editor for X-Plane Version 8.xx will be released.

Jochen

topflight80, on Apr 7 2006, 02:44 PM, said:

i duno wat version it iz 4

Version 8.xx ENV or DSF based sceneries.
Jochen

[Jens Ansorg]

hi,

look here for a nice tool to place objects in DSF overlay scenery http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?s=&sho...ndpost&p=218420

and an idea that might work very well with the EDDM collection: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?s=&sho...ndpost&p=218420


Jens

[JDRBMW92]

Overlay Editor, which Jens has a link to above, is great.

I recently "discovered" this program, and I am in love with it.
You don't really have to mess around with coordinates at all, and you can just type in the airport code for the airport/area around the airport that you want to modify.

If you want to place static aircraft, download the file (there should be 2 or 3 {aircraft name.obj, and aircraft name_OBJ.png-and night lights file if applicable} in the folder). Go to X Plane 8.50/ Custom Scenery/(the specific scenery folder, and place the 1 or 2 .png files in Custom Object Textures, and the 1 .obj file in Custom Objects.

Hope this clears things up for people-
I always like to see step-by-step instructions

-JDRBMW92

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