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Aug 5^th, 2005 at 6:00pm

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I recently downloaded Raimondo Taburet's fantastic Las Vegas Photorealistic Scenery (lasvegas.zip) and added both of Ron Ezra’s autogen object downloads as well (lvautog.zip and lvautog2.zip). After installing them into my FS 2004 I have been flying around Las Vegas in awe of this excellent scenery.

While flying over Nellis AFB (KLSV) I saw that some default buildings are still present and are partially blocking runway 3L. I was curious if I missed installing some exclude files so I downloaded and installed everything again. After re-installing these files I noticed that the buildings are still there.

I tried to E-Mail Raimondo, however, both of the E-Mail addresses supplied in his Readme file are not valid.

In this screenshot you can see the buildings I’m referring to at KLSV on runway 3L --

[img]http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/Nellis AFB KLSV [1].jpg[/img]

I noticed that there were other buildings that I did not want to delete so I was thinking of creating about 3 separate exclude files for the entire length of the runway.

I tried to create my first exclude file using Exclude Builder 2 (with FS Connect v2.01 installed). I had the FS 9 running in the background with an aircraft slewed to face 0 deg. north. I used Exclude Builder 2 to take the co-ordinates Northwest corner first, Southeast corner last. Just like it says in the instructions. I had Exclude Builder 2 generate the following source code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<FSData
version = "9.0"
xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="bglcomp.xsd" >
<ExclusionRectangle
   latitudeMinimum = "36.2368134793362"
   latitudeMaximum = "36.2449058719909"
   longitudeMinimum = "-115.039789844937"
   longitudeMaximum = "-115.036663873285"
excludeGenericBuildingObjects = "TRUE"
/>
</FSData>

When I click on the ExcBuilder.bat to convert my *.xml file to a *.bgl a small DOS screen appears for maybe a quarter of a second (really really fast) and then disappears. No *.bgl file is created.

What am I doing wrong?

I noticed that other scenery authors have included an exclude command line under the scenery header in the FS 9 Scenery.cfg file. I thought about going that route also, however, I cannot get more than 1 scenery exclude command line to run per header. Would this be a better way and is there a procedure for making 2 or 3 exclude command lines to run per scenery.cfg header?

Happy Flying -- And may your main wheels always touch down first!&&&&Dave F.

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Reply #1 - Aug 12^th, 2005 at 3:21am

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Heya all,

OK since nobody has answered this post I figured one of two things were going on:

1.) You folks were saying "Dave, you're an intelligent guy, do some research and you'll find the answer".

--or (Most Likely)--

2.) You folks were saying "Dave, you ignorant slut. The answer should be obvious".

So I looked over the info in the *.xml file and discovered that the Exclude Builder 2 inverted the longitudeMinimum and longitudeMaximum values. I don't understand why since I followed the Exclude Builder 2 instructions.

I manually switched the numbers in these values and tried again to compile. Again it didn't work.

I did a lot of research (especially in the Microsoft BGL Comp SDK) and I'm still stumped for the answer!

If someone can provide the answer I'll give you a Gold Star and let you sit in the front of the class!

Happy Flying -- And may your main wheels always touch down first!&&&&Dave F.

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Reply #2 - Aug 12^th, 2005 at 3:31am

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Hi Graycat, 'Fraid I can't help because Im just about to leave on holiday. I havent looked at it but there is a new tutorial on Avsim for excludebuilder2, may be worth taking a look -

http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=71534&Name=&FileName=&Author=&CatID=ro...

A similar problem came up not too long ago, Rollerball managed to fix it but it was to do with the Max/Min numbers.

Birdy

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Reply #3 - Aug 12^th, 2005 at 3:37am

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Hi Dave,

I think that there might be two different solutions to your problem.

1) I've recently started using Ian Donohoe's BGL Exclude kit (excludekit.zip, available here: http://www.scenery.org/design_utilities_a.htm) which was originally designed for FS98 but works fine with FS9. It is very simple to use - but you do have to be careful where the longitude and latitude coordinates go.

Or:

2) Use the 'exclude' switch that you can insert into the FS9 scenery.cfg, which seems to work in the same kind of way but without the intermediate BGL stage. I haven't used this approach but there's no reason why it shouldn't work. There's a tutorial here (http://www.planesimulation.com/install1.htm).

Hope that helps.

Wink

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Reply #4 - Aug 12^th, 2005 at 3:41am

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Sorry, Dave - I didn't read down to the bottom of your post, and I see that you've already tried my option 2! Try option1, though - it worked for me.

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Reply #5 - Aug 12^th, 2005 at 5:51am

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More information - see your IM inbox ...

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Reply #6 - Aug 12^th, 2005 at 12:48pm

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Thanks Birdy and Martyn- I'm at work now and am eager to get home and put these suggestions to the test!

Happy Flying -- And may your main wheels always touch down first!&&&&Dave F.

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Reply #7 - Aug 12^th, 2005 at 6:06pm

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Heya folks, I really do appreciate the help earlier.

After reading through the tutorials that you recommended I discovered that I hadn't installed the Microsoft MSXML SP2 Parser and SDK.

When I downloaded and installed the MS Parser file I went back and basically started the Exclude Builder 2 and entered the coordinates from scratch.

Everything worked like the proverbial charm.

Look folks! No buildings blocking runway 3L at Nellis KLSV!

[img]http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/B-58 at KLSV [1].jpg[/img]

A gold star for Martyn and Birdy! Well done!

Happy Flying -- And may your main wheels always touch down first!&&&&Dave F.

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Reply #8 - Aug 13^th, 2005 at 3:06am

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Excellent! Glad we could help.

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