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Good question, I would say anybody interested in making some kind of addon. Whether it is an entire airport, an aircraft or just put your own house in the sim. But this indeed leads to the question what level of knowledge do you expect from people participating. Should the presentations be aimed at novice users or more at experts? I guess we might need to have a mix of both.

Over at the FSDeveloper forum there is a discussion going if we should try to organize an online conference for FS addon developers. I put a little more information in a blog post, it also includes a link to a survey where you can indicate if you like the idea and what you would like to see covered by such a conference. So let us know if you think this is interesting. http://www.scenerydesign.org/2012/12/a-fs-developer-conference/

Over at the FSDeveloper forum there is a discussion going if we should try to organize an online conference for FS addon developers. I put a little more information in a blog post, it also includes a link to a survey where you can indicate if you like the idea and what you would like to see covered by such a conference. So let us know if you think this is interesting. http://www.scenerydesign.org/2012/12/a-fs-developer-conference/

Hi, I don't know what SimSavvy is, but the water and blend masks need to be in the same bgl as the photo scenery. So making them separately won't work as far as I know. You also can't add them to existing files, so you would have to start from scratch.

Hi, You could try to load the x file in modelconverterx, it might be able to read it and process it and then export to mdl.

Hi, When making the night texture you would in general darken the whole texture, except the parts you want to light up. Send from my phone using Tapatalk, so excuse the short sentences and possible typos

Hi, In that case you need to go into the material editor in ModelConverterX. For each material that needs a night texture you can add it. It is adding to the "nightmap texture" slot. After that you export to MDL.

Hi Bryan, What tool did you use to make these objects? We would need to know that, to tell you how to add the night textures to the model. And of course you need to make the night textures as well, but that's quite obvious.

Indeed, the animations are lost on export to gmax and have to be added again. Send from my phone using Tapatalk, so excuse the short sentences and possible typos

Hi,Looks like a problem with transparent textures to me. That is often a problem with FS2004 sceneries in FSX. The only solution would be to update the objects to FSX specs.

Hi,If you are working for FSX only I would suggest that you check the WhisPlacer tool. It is a nice object placement tool.

Hi Chris, EZ-Scenery is mainly used to place 3D objects. So you will not find that many objects that enhance the ground for it. These are usually made with different techniques.

Hi Randy, To include all the libraries is not really a good advice. If users end up installing the same library mulitple times in their FS that can give a number of problems. First it can take a lot of harddisk space, secondly it will result in multiple objects with the same GUID. This can lead to issues, since you don't know from which library the object is actually taken. If the developer decides to update the library later it will also be a nightmare to do so. So the common practise for scenery developers is to point the users where to get the libraries, but don't include them in the distribution.

Hi,What MDL Tweaker II does at load is take the serial number of your C drive and use that as an ID to determine if you have accepted the license already or not. Could it be that there is something with your computer setup so that it can't access the C drive?

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