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Trioer, You are one of the nicest human beings I've ever met on Avsim. I'm still at this AI thing but I have so many candles burning right now I doubt I'll accomplish it. 10-15 years ago, I was very familiar with all this AI stuff using WOAI and TTools as I had an unlimited time to devote to it. But after having built (2) different simulators, the latter a motion sim, I think my 62 year old brain is fried. Us simmers are a unique crowd. We have to learn html, if we want to document our accomplishments for others to learn on a website, XML, if we want to build gauges, LUA, to make various sound components trigger, etc. etc. I even took up scenery design and offered up to the community close to 10 different airport upgrades. The most demanding for me was C+/EPL to program all the lights, sounds, switches, etc. to integrate with my simulator. 2 college courses at 50 years old and help from Ralph Robinson (EPIC), I finally conquered my dream some 13 years later. Anyway, I spent the last 3-4 days downloading basepacks, repaint textures etc., working off of your very nicely written tutorial. I move the textures to the model file and edit the aircraft.cfg to reflect the texture additions. But then I draw a blank on how to make the flight plan accommodate these additions. My friend, I'm officially throwing in towel and giving up. 😃. My initial intention was only to update the Delta planes. But I feel my brain is toast. I simply wanted to write you and thank you for all the time you spent articulating great responses & posting links to accomplish what you were trying to educate me on. That is a huge amount of your personal time taken away from you to draft these responses. I want you to know I thoroughly appreciate it. Honest to God I do. Thank you Trioer, Michael (Mitch)

Wow. Seemed like an honest and straightforward question to me. As you list yourself as a moderator, I would expect more. If there was a justified reason for the response then I apologize. Andrea, the suggestions Hans (hjwalter) provided you is spot on. Nearly all payware scenery addon's are usually accompanied by very good installation instructions? Mitch

Yes, I have a fully operational version of FSX on the same computer I use FS9 on. I have no concerns over the copyright issues as I have no intentions of selling it or bundling it as freeware. I only want to know how to convert it so I can simply use it on my own PC. There are many freeware FSX sceneries that I would like to convert for my own use. Nothing more. But I do not know the process, or the software tools I need to accomplish it.

I've done some searching on this subject and it appears it can be done successfully in some instances. More curious why folks haven't done this and made it available on sites like these. I'm speaking of freeware versions with original author's permission of course Michael (Mitch)

Hi Al. Not sure. Its being designed for FS9. Maybe? I honestly do not know as I do not use FSX.

Bud, I have to be totally honest with you. RSW got the best of me. I spent well over a month trying to track down an issue which always caused a CTD during climb out north of RSW. It irritated me so much I almost gave up. Didn't matter what I did, there would always be a CTD once I headed north outside of the airport. I could never repeat the problem with the default airport. I searched during that month everywhere. Never could find a concrete explanation of what was going on. I wanted so bad to recreate this scenery for FS9 as I vacation a lot in Naples and fly into RSW. I finally waived the white flag............... Sorry

😉 You are awesome. Thank you Greg!!!!!

Hello all; Great news!!! I have heard back from David and KABQ is continuing development. I am so excited and the images are awesome. In my opinion, this release will surpass our "KJAX 2019 Edition". Look at the screenshots and judge for yourself. Small details such security fences, etc. are modeled in detail. This is wonderful news.......... Mitch Screenies: Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Image 6 Image 7

Steve, good news. Read new thread! Mitch

Oops, ignore the link inserted within the LevelD version of the code.

Father Bill, Sorry. Calling upon your knowledge AGAIN. I'm trying to read variables in flight sim and have them display on the HUD I previously informed you about. I am attempting to display "AP" on the HUD when autopilot is engaged. The code I used: <Element> <Visible>(A:Autopilot master, bool)</Visible> <Position X="10" Y="10"/> <Text="Yes" X="18" Y="9" Length="2" Font="Arial" Color="#00FF00" Adjust="left"> <String>AP</String> </Text> </Element> DOES NOT WORK. - Well actually it does on default FS2004 aircraft. However, I'm using the commercial LevelD-767 software which has it's own SDK. Again, with the default FS2004 aircraft it works perfectly. BUT on the LevelD-767, "AP" does not display when autopilot is engaged. Hitting the "Z" keyboard button, which does control the autopilot master on both aircraft versions, only makes "AP" flash but remains off on LevelD-767 aircraft. Some background: Our simulator uses a completely different programming language to interface all our hardware such as, lights, switches, toggles, sounds, radio frequencies, annunciators, etc. etc. This interfacing program was written by Ralph Robinson (EPIC CARD) specifically for our simulator. And this interfacing program was written to read and write based on the information within the LevelD-767 SDK. With all this said, perhaps attempting to read a LevelD-767 variable is not possible in XML. I do not know. I've tried this code pulling info from the LevelD-767 SDK: <Element> <Visible>(LVLD_AP_MASTER,enum)</Visible> <Position X="10" Y="10"/> <Text="Yes" X="18" Y="9" Length="2" Font="Arial" Color="#00FF00" Adjust="left">LevelD-767 SDK <String>AP</String> </Text> </Element> AND MANY VARIATIONS similar to this code. The best I could get was the same result I got with the FS2004 SDK. Hitting the "Z" keyboard button, which does control the autopilot master on both aircraft versions, only makes "AP" flash but remains off on LevelD-767 aircraft. So my question to you is......... Is this possible or should I scrap this plan? I am attaching the LevelD-767 SDK variables file in case you have extra time to evaluate this issue. Respectfully, Michael LevelD-767 SDK FILE

Hi Steve, Still waiting on David. 😢

Your far from brain dead. You sir, are a legend!!! Michael

Father Bill, IT WORKS!!!! I had more time to invest in testing today. And you were right. Checking the "greater than" value and adjusting the percentage made the difference. Thank you so much. Working code below......... Michael <Element> <!-- SPEED BRAKE ARMED --> <Visible>(A:SPOILERS ARMED, bool) != (A:Spoilers Right Position, percent) 1 &lt; &amp;&amp; </Visible> <Position X="212" Y="828"/> <Text X="130" Y="28" Bright="Yes" Length="22" Font="Arial" Color="#a6bf00" Adjust="Center" VerticalAdjust="Center"> <String>SPBRK ARMED</String> </Text> </Element> <Element> <!-- SPEED BRAKE ON --> <Position X="209" Y="850"/> <FormattedText X="130" Y="28" Bright="Yes" Length="18" Font="Arial bold" FontSize="21" Color="#a6bf00" Adjust="Center"> <String>%((A:SPOILERS HANDLE POSITION,percent) 50 &gt;)%{if}\{blnk}SPEEDBRK\{nr}%</String> </FormattedText> </Element>

Father Bill, Thank you again for the reply and suggestion. I tried replacing the 10 &lt with 10 &gt and it didn't change anything. "SPEEDBRK" continues to illuminate when "SPDBRK ARMED" is selected. Playing around I also tried the following: 100 &gt, /100 &gt, 100 &lt, etc. etc. None worked. Michael

Hi Bill, You will have to excuse my ignorance but I'm not really sure what that means. Michael

Father Bill, I always enjoy your posts and yes, we old timers, have been here since the Avsim conception. Bill, I follow your posts quite often on the FSDeveloper website and have learned quite a bit about XML coding from your many examples. I enjoy reading your posts and then trying to recreate an examples you have provided. In the last 6 months I have garnered an elementary understanding of XML and the subtle differences that exist among other languages. I know........ what am I after. Well Sir, I have exhausted at least 20 hours trying to accomplish a task that perhaps is unattainable. I use LevelD-767 exclusively in the simulator. Many of the default FS variables work alongside LevelD's own coding. Variables such as TAT, OAT, Throttle, reversers, park brake, ground speed, airspeed, etc. That said, I have been unable to accomplish a small task. The task is I wish to display certain conditions on a HUD that EDetroit help me develop. I'm not trying to have the code change any settings within the simulation. Merely to evaluate and display the condition in a form of an annunciator on the hud. What I am trying to do, and to date, I have 2/3rds of the code working. I wish for the SPEEDBRAKE to show the following conditions when the lever is moved. HANDLE UP - Display nothing HANDLE ARMED - Display "SPBRK ARMED" HANDLE DEPLOYED - Extinguish SPBRK ARMED and display "SPEEDBRK". But what happens is "SPBRK ARMED" & "SPEEDBRK" display togather. URGHHHHHHHHHHH. I've tried everything. Once the Speedbrake handle is extended the "SPDBRAKE ARMED" dissapears as it should. It is just when the handle is moved to the ARM mode they display togather. Here is my code: <Element> <!-- SPEED BRAKE --> <Visible>(A:SPOILERS ARMED, bool) != (A:Spoilers Right Position, percent) 1 &lt; &amp;&amp; </Visible> <Position X="212" Y="828"/> <Text X="130" Y="28" Bright="Yes" Length="22" Font="Arial" Color="#D0FF00" Adjust="Center" VerticalAdjust="Center"> <String>SPBRK ARMED</String> </Text> </Element> <Element> <!-- SPEED BRAKE ON --> <Visible>(A:SPOILERS HANDLE POSITION,percent) /10 &lt;</Visible> <Position X="209" Y="850"/> <Text X="130" Y="28" Length="18" Font="Arial" FontSize="21" Color="#D0FF00" Adjust="Center"> <String>SPEEDBRK</String> </Text> </Element> <Element> <!-- REVERSERS --> <Position X="212" Y="820"/> <FormattedText X="130" Y="28" Length="18" Font="Ar Many thanks Father. Michael

Yup. Never too late to emphasize the obvious. Thanks Jim

Sad. Very sad.

Gwillmot, I know this is an old topic but one I might be experiencing currently. What in the world is the "Easy" button? I've checked my scenery.cfg file and see no references to roads. Mitch

This is extremely easy. Just assign your switches in FSUIPC to a function. I.e. Eng 1 Start, etc... If you need more help we are here. Mitch

Of course there is ding dong!

Wow! Thank you much. Will check it out. Mitch

Thank you as well Hans. unfortunately I I don't have time to do this for all the airports included in this package. Mitch

John, Thank you. I certainly will re-download and re-install to insure all files are accounted for. Mitch