Hello at all.
I`m new in this Forum,German and 74 years old.
But my brain works fine.
I`m able to make all I need for FS9.
Gmax and FSDS are without secrets.
Often I make new airports for myself.
I`m a friend of special aircrafts.

My problem is to fill special airports with special
parking aircrafts.

Ok, I can make it myself but I think that`s crazy.

Here are a lot of aircrafts,I would like them.
I know the way to let them as static in cfg and then reserved parking places
in   AFCAD and Ai.
But this is a long long way to do that.

I think there is the easier way.

FSDS convert the modell in xml and bgl.
Max convert the Modell in xml and mdl.

I make a flying Modell at first without all animations
and special things for flying aircrafts.
Convert to the 2 lines xml and bgl.
save it and then I make the animations.
So I get both.

Is it crazy to wish that from other developer
to add this two lines ???

There is another wrong thing.
The bmp names.

There are developer,making static aircrafts.
Mostly for FSDS ( ez library ).

Aircrafts has 1 Folder within all other folders.

Static don´t accept this.
Textures must be in the texturfolder for all objects.
(Addon Scenery / Texture )

If I download different static aircrafts,it don`t work
because the different textures has all the same name.
fuse.bmp,wing.bmp and so on.
There must be different named for each aircraft.

The way over FS library has the same negative result.

So I must rename all textures and 
new  lay on the different parts.
A lot of unnecessary work.

What do you think?
Is there something wrong in my mind? :-D

regards

nandi

Hello.
Thanks that you would help me.
But the way with AI is unecessary complicated.

If I have the bgl for FSDS
or Xml and mdl for Gmax
( It´s not necessary that they move themself in the scenery.)
I can set these files  as staticobject in less then 5 minutes where ever I want in the scenery, without any trouble.

It´s so easy with FSDS.
Start FS9 into the airport,I want.
Key Y and move to the place where the static shoud be.
Key alt and select in the menue FSDS.
A list of all static objects appears.
Choose my object,
It appears in the scenery.
Save.
Done. :-D
Later if I want no more the staic in the scenery
it´s the same easy way to delete.

I can set the stacic exactly.
Distance,alt,heading,scale with sliders.
Specialy I see what is going on,while I set the static.
That´s not possible with RWY12 or AI.

No surprises if I start FS again.
No trouble with AI.

regards

nandi

nandi wrote on Feb 12^th, 2010 at 4:34am:

You don't say which An 225 this is.

The sound is aliased to the folder name of the aircraft you wish to use the sound from. The folder name of the FS9 default Boeing 737 is b737_400 so alias=b737_400\sound is correct.

nandi wrote on Feb 12^th, 2010 at 6:51am:

Hi nandi. As I said earlier the panel and/or sound are aliased to the folder name of the slave aircraft. The Aircraft.cfg entries have nothing to do with it. Aliasing the sound.cfg of 3rd party jet aircraft to the default b737_400 is very common & goes right back to FS98.

Unless it's different in the German version of FS9 I can only suppose that you've changed the folder name of your FS9 default Boeing 737 to 737-400.

nandi wrote on Feb 12^th, 2010 at 7:49am:

Please don't change those Aircraft.cfg entries or you'll mess up your 737. The title= line is the name recognised by AI traffic. The sim= line points it at the AIR file in use - Boeing737-400.air

The aliased sound.cfg is pointed at the b737_400\Sound folder NOT the Aircraft.cfg.

I tried the An 225 posted here http://www.simviation.com/fs2004jets103.htm
Sound.cfg is aliased to b737_400\sound & all works as advertised.

No idea what the problem is with that Cessna 310. Where did you get it?

nandi wrote on Feb 13^th, 2010 at 8:24am:


I can't believe anyone would release a model that was so far out-of-scale... 

Hello.
Here the link .


http://www.simviation.com/simviation/download.php?ID=3018

Fictional Style Cessna 310
TM_Cessna 310.zip

Page 166

Long time ago I wrote to the developper but got no answer.

Regards
nandi

Hello.
Here another one.

EDDB_FS9.zip

The taxiwaysigns are confuse middle on the taxiway.

Regards
nandi

nandi wrote on Feb 21^st, 2010 at 5:29am:

Hi Nandi,

What I normally do is that I use an external converter to convert feet to meter, and as FR Bill said, you set up your Gmax as 1unit =1meter. Thus for example you want to draw a box of 20ft x 20ft x 20 ft, I use an external convertor, and convert 20 feet to meters. Then in GMax I enter 6.096m 6.096m x 6.096m. Make sure all the values you enter into GMax is converted to meters, that way you can never mix them up or get confused. There is ways to work in feet in GMax, but if you want a simple proven way, you can follow this guideline. I hope this answers your question?

So, Fr. Bill - I take it that means no easy cubits ?

Hello.
To see the hole pictures move sliders.


Let´s come to the end.
I tried  some different thrings.

All you wrote is right, if you mean  Max.
If I have feetdata I must at first change the unit to feet.
Then I can put the feetdata directly to Max and specvially I see that the unit is feet !
Before converting I change the unit to meter and all is correct.

I`m a German and we work mostly with FSDS. , because easier and quicker and all is possible as in Max
and important, German language.

But in FSDS is a bug .
In FSDS you can change the unit also as in Max.
That`s the bug.
You never should be able to do that.
There must be a warningwindow or better no way to do that.
In the instruction is it declared, but if you work also with Max, in hurry
like me,it`s forgotten.

What happen in FSDS.
I get a window to write the data in it.
I know, I have changed in feet like in Max
I write the feeddata and ok.
Nothing ok.
I don`t notice anything, but FSDS takes the data as meter.
In the FSDS windows you don`t see the different.
If ready and convert in unit meter, you see that as the big cessna.

Regard

nandi

Nandi.  In FSDS, you set your program preferences (File Preferences) to  model in meters of feet.  The "System unit"  of 1 unit=1 meter is handled internally.

There is no bug.


When you import a source file that was modelled in feet and your program is set up to model in meters, you will get a dialog box asking you to make the conversion or not.....


Even if you import a model in meters and leave it unchanged, the plugins menu inlcudes a "ScaleProject"  utility to convert the model from one to the other.




nandi wrote on Feb 24^th, 2010 at 6:04am: