November 23, 20205 yr I have the Arecibo Observatory .bgl for FSX/P3D and would like to either use it or create it before it's completely demolished: https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/19/21575025/arecibo-observatory-puerto-rico-decommission-structural-collapse-cable-break Anyone know the best way to get this landmark to show up in MSFS. Thanks. Jose MSFS
November 24, 20205 yr Commercial Member 7 hours ago, DJJose said: I have the Arecibo Observatory .bgl for FSX/P3D and would like to either use it or create it before it's completely demolished: https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/19/21575025/arecibo-observatory-puerto-rico-decommission-structural-collapse-cable-break Anyone know the best way to get this landmark to show up in MSFS. Thanks. Jose Hello, I would use ModelConverterX, import the bgl, then export it as gTif, and get it into MSFS via the Scenery Editor in Devmode. https://www.scenerydesign.org/modelconverterx/
November 24, 20205 yr Author 4 hours ago, leprechaunlive said: Hello, I would use ModelConverterX, import the bgl, then export it as gTif, and get it into MSFS via the Scenery Editor in Devmode. https://www.scenerydesign.org/modelconverterx/ Tried importing with MCX but nothing happens. It does not want to import the .bgl MSFS
November 24, 20205 yr Commercial Member 1 hour ago, DJJose said: Tried importing with MCX but nothing happens. It does not want to import the .bgl Yea, never tried for scenery, only aircrafts, but i saw the bgl option so i thought it would work. And via Blender with the FSX toolkit, then an export with the MSFS toolkit? Was the bgl a freeware scenery originaly, if so, would you have a link so i can have a look. Thanks Edited November 24, 20205 yr by leprechaunlive
November 24, 20205 yr Author 5 hours ago, leprechaunlive said: Yea, never tried for scenery, only aircrafts, but i saw the bgl option so i thought it would work. And via Blender with the FSX toolkit, then an export with the MSFS toolkit? Was the bgl a freeware scenery originaly, if so, would you have a link so i can have a look. Thanks Absolutely: https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=p3dscen&DLID=202541 MSFS
November 24, 20205 yr This was actually kind of fun. The guy uses a program from MIT called Renderdocs to detect a Google Maps 3D object being rendered by Windows Direct X and captures it to a file that you can import into Blender, where you can clean it up, re-model it, whatever you want. There's a companion video on Youtube that takes you the rest of the way to exporting it to MSFS 2020.
November 24, 20205 yr Commercial Member 38 minutes ago, dobee51 said: This was actually kind of fun. The guy uses a program from MIT called Renderdocs to detect a Google Maps 3D object being rendered by Windows Direct X and captures it to a file that you can import into Blender, where you can clean it up, re-model it, whatever you want. There's a companion video on Youtube that takes you the rest of the way to exporting it to MSFS 2020. Except the observatory has not been covered by Googles photogrametry. Edited November 24, 20205 yr by leprechaunlive
November 24, 20205 yr 13 minutes ago, leprechaunlive said: Except the observatory has not been covered by Googles photogrametry. I saw this model the other day. I think they took it from Google Earth. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/b43f4ec8da3e0182f97a82b99ec42f03/Arecibo-Observatory?hl=en
November 24, 20205 yr Commercial Member 2 minutes ago, dobee51 said: I saw this model the other day. I think they took it from Google Earth. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/b43f4ec8da3e0182f97a82b99ec42f03/Arecibo-Observatory?hl=en Nope, thats not, just the imagery below might come from google or any other sat sources.
November 24, 20205 yr Commercial Member So @DJJose, turns out, after an hour of looking and downloading some weird scripts and apps, there is no real easy way to convert a BGL to the MSFS format. There is some guy in a french forum that seems to be sure to have a remedy, but so far, i cant quite get his method to work. I'll have another look. Probably easier to create it from scratch actually. Edited November 24, 20205 yr by leprechaunlive
December 4, 20205 yr Author Someone heard my cries: https://flightsim.to/file/4246/arecibo-observatory Edited December 4, 20205 yr by DJJose MSFS
December 4, 20205 yr The BGL probably contains more than just the one model you want to use, you'd have to have access to the original of just that one item.
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