Comments on: WED 1.6b2 available now

By: Stephen Kruse

Stephen Kruse — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 16:28:21 +0000

In reply to Stephen Kruse. P.S. I am using WED 1.5 at the current time but am switch to 1.6 beta to see if there's any difference there.

By: Stephen Kruse

Stephen Kruse — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 16:27:11 +0000

New user to WED as of about a month ago. One thing that has been problematic for me is the .agp files for many of the objects. They utilize a base ground texture that rarely (i.e. never) matches anything you’d be using the object for. I have worked around this by exposing the building .obj file in my libraries.txt file but this makes the scenery non-standard since the recipient would not have the modified libraries.txt file on their system and this would also make the scenery not acceptable in the gateway.

Is there a way to expose the .obj files for the buildings that would work both for the gateway compatibility as well as the end users themselves?

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:33:58 +0000

In reply to Michael Maar.

In the map view the all lines and forests are only represented by a symbolic outline, this display is pretty much unchanged since WED 1.0.
The real-time preview of the textured items in the “preview pane” only (!) was extended in WED 1.6 to include lines and forests.

And as to the why – because no one else has come forward and coded it up 🙁

By: Michel Karam

Michel Karam — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:40:19 +0000

In reply to Michel Karam.

BTW this is the results I got from the Library replacement techniques:

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By: Michel Karam

Michel Karam — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:38:43 +0000

In reply to Keyton.

As a test for a future scenery, I used the Library replacement techniques Ben talks about for the Middle East (Beirut) and it works.

I created about 60 generic concrete building blocks typical of the area there. I suppose Brazilian cities have similar architecture for urban residential blocks 🙂

I learned the techniques from this scenery :
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/35829-australiapro/

However the area that is affected by the library replacement, is defined by a small map of the world a bitmap where you draw white pixels in the areas where the changes are done.

I learned there is a way to define coordinates for the area but I not sure if the coordinates make the replacements only for a small area, like a city for example).

Cheers

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:46:57 +0000

In reply to Jennifer Roberts. Perfect, thank you!

By: garyb

garyb — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:08:19 +0000

In reply to garyb. it's ok now!

By: garyb

garyb — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:06:02 +0000

In reply to Jennifer Roberts. This takes us to version 1.4 of the manual. Is version 1.6 available?

By: Michael Maar

Michael Maar — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 16:49:20 +0000

Hi,

Just wondering… Why is (.lin) lines not visible in wed? I only see the vector line but not the artwork. I do not remember if this was possible in the past, but it would make it a lot easier to see the result if it was visible in wed. The only way to see it at the moment is to load up XP and reload the scenery every time I need to see the result.

I do not consider this a bug – I was just curious…

/Michael

By: Jennifer Roberts

Jennifer Roberts — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:59:24 +0000

In reply to Rodrigo.

Thanks for letting us know. We just migrated our site and it looks like you found the spot where it didn’t work quite right! It should get fixed today.

Update: It’s now fixed. WED manual available here: http:/manuals/wed/