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Object Placement program

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Folks, I've used rwy12 and SceneGenX for non-airport object placement, but I am looking for something more sophisticated. I want to be able to click and drag my objects, and easily access my own custom objects. What else is available (payware fine)?EDIT: This is for FS2004; I'm using XML, so it's fine if I just get code fragments I can cut and paste into my main code.Jon

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Hi Jon,I don't there is much else, for the new XML code only Rwy12 and SGX are there at the moment.Maybe you can try SBuilder, but I am not sure if it allows you to place any object (I think only library objects).

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Hi Jon,maybe I misunderstand what you're looking for but what I do is to write XML code directly. All I need is the sim running with TCalc2004, then I slew to the position, adjust the heading, and copy & post both into my XML code. Doesn't get much simpler than that. And I can add effects, biases, change the scale, etc. as needed.The only obvious limitation is that objects that depend on a placement relative to another object, i.e., boats at a dock, will need to be placed in two or more sessions: dock first, restart, then boats.Cheers, Holger

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Hi Holger, yes, that is what I am doing now (although using Rwy12 to get the position and heading). But I find that I usually need to iterate to ensure accurate relative object placement. I have a number of relative objects, which means restarting sessions as you say, then a couple of refinement iterations. I was hoping there was a quicker way.I was not aware of TCalc2004, I'll take a look at that, thanks.Jon

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