October 23, 20187 yr Hello, Just noticed today when going through the preview threads for the 747-8 that im missing the buildings in the airport map. Its just blank for me, but in the preview threads there are blue symbols for buildings. Anyone else noticed this? /Niklas Eriksson Edited October 23, 20187 yr by Nigge Niklas Eriksson
October 23, 20187 yr it helps telling us which airport this is. but it depends on how the scenery designer created the airport afcad and they couldnt know that pmdg were going to use this with the B748. Koen Meier
October 23, 20187 yr Author Oh isnt that obvious, doesnt the world circle around my home airport ESSA ? (Just kidding, my bad) its ESSA by ORBX. /Niklas Eriksson Niklas Eriksson
October 23, 20187 yr Commercial Member 3 hours ago, Nigge said: Oh isnt that obvious, doesnt the world circle around my home airport ESSA ? (Just kidding, my bad) its ESSA by ORBX. /Niklas Eriksson Building showing depends on how the scenery developer has developed his scenery and what is shown in his ADE file Chris Makris PLEASE NOTE PMDG HAS DEPARTED AVSIM You can find us at http://forum.pmdg.com
October 23, 20187 yr To add to Chris's exactly correct answer, most quality addon airports do not include the scenery objects in the AF file, the basic no-frills scenery that uses autogen or default objects may declare these items in the AF file but even in that case there is an option with the bgl compiler that allows the developer to separate scenery from the airport. Bottom line, don't expect to see buildings. Dan Downs KCRP
October 24, 20187 yr Author 16 hours ago, downscc said: To add to Chris's exactly correct answer, most quality addon airports do not include the scenery objects in the AF file, the basic no-frills scenery that uses autogen or default objects may declare these items in the AF file but even in that case there is an option with the bgl compiler that allows the developer to separate scenery from the airport. Bottom line, don't expect to see buildings. Thanks, yeah I was just thinking this that I havent seen buildings on hardly any airport at all. Well well its not a super important thing. Thanks everyone for clearing this out. Niklas Eriksson
October 25, 20187 yr Commercial Member Only rectangular generic buildings will be shown on the airport map. This means practically no buildings at all for add-on sceneries (since developers rarely use generic buildings) an only some buildings for default scenery (only rectangular ones). This is due to limitations of the data included in the AFCAD files. We have plans to improve this situation in the future with the help of add-on developers. Michael FrantzeskakisPrecision Manuals Development Grouphttp://www.precisionmanuals.com
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