http://gateway.x-plane.com/airports/page

Nice! Let's see...

 

Are we supposed to download Airports here, or is it an upload tool and the content gets rolled into official updates?

That's what I was wondering too.....

You can upload airports built by you under the lego system of LR, but you must register first.

You can download any airports available without registering.

 

See: 

 

 

http://developer.x-plane.com/?article=airport-scenery-gateway

 

 

Chuck

Nice! Let's see...

 

Are we supposed to download Airports here, or is it an upload tool and the content gets rolled into official updates?

It's can work either way, really. You can choose to download lego-brick airports from the Gateway early if you choose, or you can wait for their inclusion in future official releases.

 

EDIT: Oops, beaten to it.

It really kind of stinks that you can't use any third party library objects, cause I've got a killer KMKE.

 

Tom

Tom that defeats the purpose of the gateway, the Lego brick files are small and lightweight perfect for mass distribution.

 

Asking people to download third party objects to make an official release work is asking for trouble from a support perspective. Especially if that third party changes anything in the package....

http://developer.x-plane.com/2014/09/the-gateway-lives/

 

It’s official:

August 28, 2014, Columbia, South Carolina

. Laminar Research is pleased to announce the release of its Airport Scenery Gateway, as well as an updated and improved version of its airport scenery tool, World Editor 1.3. The Airport Scenery Gateway can be accessed on the internet at 

http://gateway.x-plane.com

 and the new and improved version of World Editor is available for download at 

http://developer.x-plane.com

 under Scenery Tools.

The Airport Scenery Gateway was created to facilitate the populating of X-Plane with 3D airport sceneries that are consistent in quality and appearance, error-checked, and will work with a standard installation of X-Plane 10. During the past several months Laminar Research has received hundreds of airports designed by World Editor users. World Editor is an airport scenery creation and editing tool for Laminar’s X-Plane 10 that allows the typical X-Plane user to create airport scenery.

By establishing an internet gateway for scenery submission, it is now possible with World Editor 1.3 for users to automatically submit airport scenery contributions directly to the Airport Scenery Gateway. X-Plane users can visit the Airport Scenery Gateway to search for airport scenery submissions. The scenery can then be immediately downloaded into X-Plane 10 before it appears in a scheduled X-Plane update.

Read more

 from this press release.

A few notes:

• If your airport is not already in X-Plane 10.30, please use the Gateway to share it via WED 1.3; do not send it directly to Robin.  At this point Robin should only be getting navaid patches.  You must use WED 1.3 to upload to the Gateway!
• The airports that are already in 10.30 are uploaded by ‘WEDBot’, which is an account we used to transfer our existing collection into the Gateway.  As users share data, we will start to get good attribution; I think this is important because we will know who to contact to sort out issues with airports.
• If you could not upload an airport due to a missing ICAO, we are working on this now.
• We are working on a Linux build of WED 1.3 and will post it as soon as we resolve the chaos of shipping a working app on multiple distributions.  mroe has done great work to make Linux happen.
• We will periodically ‘roll’ shared airports into X-Plane via point releases to the sim.  I do not recommend collecting a huge pile of Gateway custom scenery packs; they will simply conflict with newer data from X-Plane when it comes out.  The ability to download a pack directly from the Gateway is meant for authors who want to view the state of a pack and possibly modify it.  The gateway is not meant to be a scenery file sharing site.

Finally, I think this has been discussed before, but…custom scenery authors:

Always put exclusion zones around your custom airports!  

Even if there are no 3-d buildings at an airport today, they may appear in the next update.

With the Gateway open, 3-d is going to appear quickly!

Merged this topic with the other post. Thanks for the information

This is more for scenery developers to create lego brick airports that can be rolled into X-Plane releases so we can stop seeing naked airports. I'm looking forward to that.

There should be a method to select and download scenery files in a batch mode. There are currently over 800 files on the DB, with  a potential of over 25000 airports over the world. Not to mention duplicates from other developers to decide upon, so downloading them individually would be problematic at best if you want to populate the XP world.

There should be a method to select and download scenery files in a batch mode. There are currently over 800 files on the DB, with  a potential of over 25000 airports over the world. Not to mention duplicates from other developers to decide upon, so downloading them individually would be problematic at best if you want to populate the XP world.

 

I noticed that also.

I need to read up on the tutorials and start working on KPHL.  I actually think this will be fun.

Thats not the intended use of the gateway, according to Ben Supnik.

 

The intention is to only download aiports that you want to work on to improve them (otherwise you would have to follow a very cumbersome protocol to isolate and extract them into WED from the global airports file).

 

For the average user the idea is to wait a few weeks, until all the uploaded airports are rolled into a new update to X-Plane.

 

Jan

I need to read up on the tutorials and start working on KPHL.  I actually think this will be fun.

 

Suggestion: Pick a smaller, less complex airport and work your way up. I have done several hundred airports, and only now feel up to the task of doing bigger airports.

 

When doing big airports, WED gets complex quick, plus you need to do repetitve tasks a lot, this can lead to boredom quick, unless you are fast with what you are doing.

 

Just my 2c.

 

Jan

Yeah true enough.  I will probably do something like KPNE first or something.