MSFS SDK Beginning to End including Custom Model

MSFS SDK Beginning to End including Custom Model

[@mustang60348]

When you setup your project, what paths did you set for output of your Modelib and BGL assets. In the last update ASOBO changed this. They have to be the following Modelib - scenery\world\scenery\ BGL - scenery\global\scenery\

[@ashmanmedia]

hmm thank you for this input... tried this tutorial last eve ... Just really wanted to place a custom object no airport. So BGL was just to exclude existing stock object. POLYGON and ArtProj - modelib was for custom object and texture. is it ModelLIB or 2 l's? Checked the SDK comparing folder structure. build was converting PNGs but not moving the glTIF objects.

[@mustang60348]

@@ashmanmedia The name of Modelib, doesn't really matter in the sense that it can be anything you want. I just followed what I type first :) MODELIB , one L. Build does not move anything to the community folder, it just creates all the folders and files in the Packages directory, you have to move the folder (contained within Packages) to the Community folder yourself if you want your project to be there when you reset the sim.

[@Nassault]

"Now, if I build...." *frantically looks for inspector*. I feel you man. I feel you. Thanks so much for this!

[@speedwulf3838]

Thank you so much! I,ve struggling just because of the BASIC saving issues... Once in FS again nothing appeared Now i got it!!

[@michaelhughes4643]

great videos, thank you. i wish you had a lot more viewers for these, people would really benefit from your walkthrough. I could also copy you click for click, i couldn't sneeze at the same time but i'll work on that.

[@mustang60348]

Thank, I am glad to help.

[@therealpoody7485]

Just seen this after I commented on your last video!

[@gregmaule7006]

Hello! thank you for doing this. QUESTION! everything has worked out as far as loading the airport. my problem is the runway of the airport has pulled ground surface up, pulling water as well so it looks bizzare and is not functional. Is there a way to put an airport runway in which just lays on top of the generated terrain? THANK YOU!

[@mjbrand7572]

Does the exclude polygon exclude other Airports? I want to build my version of an existing airport. Thanks, great video too!

[@Laka19474]

Hey. Thanks for your video. Great work. Question, i created an airport with buildings of other addons. I see everything correct. But if i share my folder of my own airport with friends, they don't see the airport completely due to the fact that they don't have the other addons installed, were i took my buildings. Is there an easy chance to import these buildings and objects to my own airport folder with SDK. Thanks for an answer 💪

[@pixvizstudio]

Fantastic work, very informative. Thank you! It would be great if you can solve some Error occured when following these tutorial!! how can i contact you!??

[@jimchilderhose6465]

I have followed your instructions but it continues to fail. As a former PP, I flew to my home grass strip, CPF4, and when I went there in MSFS2020, there was a steep hill to get to the hanger area. In reality, this is a level field. I am using SDK 0.10.0 and was wondering if there are changes that are causing my entry to fail. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I love Nova Scotia, was in the RCAF at Debert and lived in Truro.

[@haddadsfinx9774]

Thank you you are doing a great job i have a question. Is there any way to convert p3d ground photomaps files in bgl format to msfs20 ?

[@mustang60348]

I have not done anything with ground maps yet. Sorry.

[@haddadsfinx9774]

@@mustang60348 OK Keep it up sir

can you make a video on how to add custom cokpit and interiors??

[@daadood100]

Hello Mustang you tutorial is ok, but I keep following the same folders in the same order that you have with the object and texture of the model I save it and build the package, I still dont see the models in the list under scenery to load to the editor what could I be doing wrong, or anyone else that have able to figure it out please help Thank you

[@69ChevyGarage]

No matter what I do or change, when I am trying to load a package from blender I click load in editor SIM crashes every time

[@southcalsceneries1819]

perhaps the mesh of the objects you are carrying may be too heavy.

[@daadood100]

Hello Mustang there is a new version of SDK as you probably notice, if you are working on the SDK, if you do will you create new video how to put a custom model in flight sim with the SDK 0.12.00 it is quite different, there is a section at the begining when setting up the project it ask for the asset group name and assets group file do you have any idea what that is ?

[@gracebyseven]

@mustang60348 Do you know of any tricks to get the custom object to show in the objects list? It's exporting just fine, textures and all, but no object.

[@gracebyseven]

Disregard. Sorted. I re-exported out of Blender and all is well.

[@gracebyseven]

Thanks. Would it be essentially the same workflow for editing an excisting airport?

[@mustang60348]

Technically you can't edit an existing airport, what you do is override an existing airport, if there is a building in the wrong place or is the wrong model, you put in an exclusion polygon or rectangle and then replace it with your model, same with taxiway or runway.

[@gracebyseven]

@@mustang60348 thanks for the reply. I had not looked at it that way, and that makes complete sense. I sorted removing default buildings, but how do we go about removing existing runways/taxiways? Or better yet, editing them if I wanted to bring in my own pavement objects?

[@mustang60348]

@@gracebyseven Just place exclusion rectabgles and square around them, then add runways and taxiways.

[@gracebyseven]

@@mustang60348 by exclusion rectangles and squares are you referring to exclusion polygons or that something else? Sorry a tad confused, so thanks for the help!

[@mustang60348]

@@gracebyseven No problem, No there are two choices for exclusion, rectangles and polygons. Polygons will exclude most things BUT not all, for example, a polygon will not exclude a custom model that is in the game from someone else but a custom rectangle will. We use polygons most of the time because it will still get rid of the generic buildings, trees etc, but if there is a 'handmade' building, it won't get rid of that but a rectangle will.

[@Hackanhacker]

when you make a tutorial stop naming all your file the same (how to confuse people) named them as you were bulding your own "serious" project in that way its obvious for us what is what ;) great vid continue man

[@insideairports7468]

Thank you for the tutorial , just one question please, i click on scenery editor for objects but the menu does not open.

[@mustang60348]

It might be minimized, is there a checkmark by scenery editor.

[@insideairports7468]

@@mustang60348 thank you for your fast answer, yes it was minimized, i will now try to make a scenery

[@cmdrquelcertoleo3408]

Thanks for the tutorial. I've exported some objects from blender using the MSFS plugin, the objects appear correctly in the Scenery Editor but the textures are missing. The strange thing is that they are being converted when building the package (I see the DDS in the output) but the objects remain all white. It must be something trivial that I'm missing but I have no clue. Any ideas?

[@mustang60348]

When you setup your project, what paths did you set for output of your Modelib and BGL assets. In the last update ASOBO changed this. They have to be the following Modelib - scenery\world\scenery\ BGL - scenery\global\scenery\

[@cmdrquelcertoleo3408]

@@mustang60348 thanks a lot for the prompt answer ;) So far I only used stock objects and never had to deal with that skeleton structure. Is it mandatory or is it mandatory only when dealing with custom objects? Additionally, I see the objects white also in the editor, not only in the sim as a package.

[@mustang60348]

@@cmdrquelcertoleo3408 This is coming up more and more, going to make a new video about this. Should be ready soon.

[@cmdrquelcertoleo3408]

@@mustang60348 got it fixed, you were absolutely right! it seems that when dealing with custom models one must absolutely respect that directory skeleton. Now I see the textures correctly. Thanks a lot, I've been dealing for days with this problem ;)

[@mustang60348]

@@cmdrquelcertoleo3408 It took a lot of people a while to figure this out.

[@FairPlays]

Hey I'm hoping you could help me out here. I just started to work on editing an existing airport and I've run into an issue where it keeps the original Windsock, AND the one i put down is flying int he wrong direction compared to the wind. You have any idea what may be happening?

[@mustang60348]

As far as keeping the original windsock, did you place an exclusion rectangle or did you use a polygon? Not sure about the wind direction though.

[@FairPlays]

@@mustang60348 I actually figured it out. The wind direction was some weird fluke that fixed itself after a restart. Also It was a polygon however I found the exclustion rectangle and fixed that. Thank you anyway.

[@floatlackey615]

I can't figure out the problem I'm having. When I try to build my project which only consists of some polygons to add water to a lake which MSFS did not put water there by default, despite being a very large lake, when I try to build the project, it says: PackageBuilder | Finished, 2 skipped, 0 done and 1 failed, took 0s052ms. ? false returned by Command=BuildPackages Comment=Rebuild the packages whose name correspond to the given filter, and for the given project (default fs-project.xml) NbParam=2 Line=BuildPackages alceslake * "F:\MSFS Addon Projects\AlcesLake\alceslake.xml" "F:\MSFS Addon Projects\AlcesLake" 1 I don't understand what I've done wrong. I've named everything correctly as far as I can tell. I can open the project, load the scenery in the editor and everything appears to be fine, yet I am getting this error. It does build a package anyway, but when I move the package into my community folder, my changes are not there. What should I do?

[@briandicks6818]

Hi I am in Dartmouth. Any chance you could share your mods for the Halifax areas?

[@mustang60348]

Unfortunately I can't as they use Google Map data and it would be illegal to do so.

[@SqlMitch]

Please help me... I'm at my wits end. I am trying to replace a poorly modeled grain elevator in Kansas with a model from a library my dad built for XPlane11. Model / texture problems, I wish I could even get that far. I have succesfully created a package that flatens the default scenery I would like to replace... works perfectly... and thank you for your help getting me that far. But no matter what I have tried, I cannot get any custom objects to show up in my package. I even dropped back to just trying to add the "SampleMyBox" object from the SDK samples. Building the package seems to work and all the new files that should be there end up being there, but when I search for a scenery object called "SampleMyBox" or "MyBox" nothing shows up. Thank you so much for these videos but please somebody I need more help.

[@mustang60348]

Did you move the package to your community folder?

[@SqlMitch]

Yes, my flatening polygon was working fine. Your post about the new Modelib and BGL output dircetories seems to have solved my issue of not being able to see my sample cube as an available object in the Scenery editor. That works now; thank you. I have now exported my model using Blender2MSFS exporter. Placed the .gltf and .bin in the Modelib under new folder and copied the textures to the texture folder. On build all everything finished without any errors... all the files compile etc. But my newly added model never shows up in the list of available objects to add to scene in scenery editor. Thanks for these videos and you're advise. Huge help!

[@mustang60348]

@@SqlMitch Did you build a proper .XML file for the new model.

[@SqlMitch]

@@mustang60348 I have now. Thanks again. Starting to get it.

[@SqlMitch]

I have succesfully imported a model originally created for X-Plane into MSFS2020. The textures don't translate quite right but at least they are there; good enough for now. Do you know why my building doesn't catch my plane's shadow or why there is no collision model (I can fly through it... I can even see the internals when I do). Thanks again.

[@stevekrubeck2861]

How hard would it to be to eliminate taxiway lights when they don't actually exist at an actual airport? For those of us who aren't familiar with SDK is it even possible?

[@mustang60348]

Place exclusion rectangles around them.

[@stevekrubeck2861]

@@mustang60348 Thanks for the reply. Would it be possible to do a short video for those of us that are SDK challenged showing the steps to do this?

[@mustang60348]

@@stevekrubeck2861 Sure, it is late here now, but I will give it a shot tomorrow.

[@stevekrubeck2861]

@@mustang60348 Wow... I, and I'm sure a lot of other people, would definitely appreciate it. SDK is a little intimidating when you aren't familiar with it. Thanks again for your tutorials on making MSFS 2020 better than it already is. It would be nice to know how to tweak the standard scenery which isn't overly accurate just a little bit. Thanks again!

[@mustang60348]

@@stevekrubeck2861 Just went in to remove the taxi lights and NOTHING seems to work, going to have to do some more research.

[@mauricemajurey9477]

As a raw beginner, I have followed your tutorial several times but always get lost in the complexity. Could I ask you to go more slowly giving the viewer time to work out how you go from one step to the other. You open some windows even before the former has full displayed. Many of us are not conversant with the SDK but do wish to learn. Kind Regards Morry.

[@Sir_vAce]

This does not work anymore :(