SBuilderX video tutorial part 1

[@goldenaviationreal]

Hello, I have successfully installed SBuilderX, but on their website, the plugins are unavailable for download. I also need to fill in some directories. Would you be able to help me sir, please? Thanks and have a great day.

[@CaptainNav]

It has been a long time now with SBuilderX, I am not a specialist and I don't have access to the plugins, etc....

[@aviationpear2147]

Great but any scenery builders for p3D and X plane or at least how you can convert the scenery for newer flight sims

[@CaptainNav]

As far as I know, SBuilderX is an old tool. For MSFS20, we will have to wait....

[@aviationpear2147]

Captain Nav Well alright. I think SbuilederX works with p3d

[@CaptainNav]

Yes I think so...👍

[@faizalste9233]

Hi, I just installed SBX after installing Prepar3d, and somethings arent working correctly. When I start SBX, it gives me prompts which say the following: -Check your Polys.txt file! -Check your Lands.txt file! -Check your Waters.txt file! -Check your Bridges.txt file! I'm currently unable to show the background in SBX. When I navigate View > Show background, the text for "Show background" is greyed out and I can't click it. Why is this? Initial FSX Settings: --------------------------------- Full Path to Flight Simulator: C:\Program Files\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4 - (in RED) Name of the Simulator: P3D Shp2Vec.exe, Resample.exe and ImageTool.exe: (unable to load folder where these items ACTUALLY are) BglComp.exe and BglComp.xsd: C:\MSFS\FS Design Tools\SBX315\Tools - (in black) Shp2Vec.exe, Resample.exe and ImageTool.exe: (unable to load folder where these items ACTUALLY are) --------------------------------- I noticed that it says on that dialog box that "The following tools should exist in the SBuilderX/Tools folder.", so I copied the files(Shp2Vec.exe, Resample.exe, ImageTool.exe, Shp2Vec.exe, Resample.exe and ImageTool.exe) from the P3d subfolders into the SBuilderX/Tools folder. After this, the FSX Settings dilog box looked like this: --------------------------------- Full Path to Flight Simulator: C:\Program Files\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4 - (in black) Name of the Simulator: P3D Shp2Vec.exe, Resample.exe and ImageTool.exe: C:\MSFS\FS Design Tools\SBX315\Tools - (in black) BglComp.exe and BglComp.xsd: C:\MSFS\FS Design Tools\SBX315\Tools - (in black) Shp2Vec.exe, Resample.exe and ImageTool.exe: C:\MSFS\FS Design Tools\SBX315\Tools - (in black) --------------------------------- Thanks!

[@georgekoulakian1640]

Hi there, your video and explanations are great. the issue I am having is, installing the SBuilder. Itried downloading directly in to C: directory, and tried to also download in to the program files, and no luck. the problem is when i am clicking to open the SBuilder program, i am getting an error box "some SDK tools are missing in the ..\SBuilder\Tools folder and FSX SDK could not be found in the computer Some BGL files can not be generated" when I click ok, another box pops-up with "SBuilder -FSX Settings" where there are 4 Full Path fields. I tried to fill these path fields, with no luck. Any can assist please!

[@CaptainNav]

Hi George, I am afraid this looks too difficult for me, lol. I think you are right to install SBuilder X on the C drive, otherwise you get Windows permission issues. Do you have the FSX SDK installed on your computer?

[@naijapilotxmax6006]

All the files sbx is asking for are in fsx sdk

[@kinglimpang8067]

i am getting an error box "some SDK tools are missing in the ..\SBuilder\Tools folder and FSX SDK could not be found in the computer Some BGL files can not be generated" SAME!!!!!!!!!!!

[@CaptainNav]

+King Lim Pang Is thw FSX SDK installed on your computer?

[@kinglimpang8067]

Captain Nav Yes. I have both FSX steam and P3D in my pc. I even go to the FSX folder and copy the SDK folder and paste it next to SBuilderX. Still no luck.

[@peterflowers1252]

This program is close when I am use, Help please

[@pilotaleth]

Hi, I have a big problem. I've just installed SbuilderX and when I open it, it shows an error saying that some sdk files are missing. How do I fix this?

[@CaptainNav]

I am not sure to be honest, sorry...😕

[@theliger1980]

Make sure that you install SDK on your pc. You can find the SDK setup in Fsx CD 1 or 2. There SDK1 and SDK2 Make sure to install them. You can find guide in wikipedia website for installation and others also after installation of SDK files that will open for you Scenery tools in FSX menue. Hope this will be helpful.

[@matheotrouille9085]

Hey ! Your tutorial is great and very useful !! But I have a problem and I hope your will help me ^^ When I click on View I can't click on "showbackground", he's white, why ? Does I forget to setup something ? at the start of SbuilderX I have to set some folders, but, I don't undderstand wich, and where there are... Can someone can help me ? Waiting for your help bye !! (Sorry for my english, I'm French ^^ )

[@CaptainNav]

+Math TR I am not really sure why. Do you have the Google Earth tiles in place?

[@corsicaship55]

I've the same problem

[@markkeresztessy9414]

I have the same problem too

[@naijapilotxmax6006]

I installed it perfectly well on C drive and I get no errors. But my issue is that any time I create a a tiles map from sbx, I don't always know where it is saved.

[@CaptainNav]

+JudeViation Uwagboe I think it is saved in the sbuilderx "work" folder.

[@naijapilotxmax6006]

Captain Nav where are you?!!!

[@CaptainNav]

+JudeViation Uwagboe ....recovering from a flight....;-)

[@naijapilotxmax6006]

FSX scenery experts didn't really concentrate much on African airports so we need to create our home airport here. ADE and SBX is da key but issues upon issues when using it

[@CaptainNav]

+JudeViation Uwagboe What airport are you trying to edit?

[@naijapilotxmax6006]

DNBN and DNAK; Nigeria

[@naijapilotxmax6006]

West Africa

[@CaptainNav]

+JudeViation Uwagboe ok, what I suggest you do is use SBuilderX313 to have your satellite picture and paste it into ADE to work on the airport layout itself.... watch my video on how to edit/create airports with ADE.

[@FunSketchMovies]

i can only set a low resolution of the map otherwise i get a error that says: could not start the acquisition of the image. What should i do? and i can't also set the bgl compilation. the program says that there are no bgl files in the map. Can you help me please

[@CaptainNav]

All I can say is that I remember I could not zoom too much on the satellite photo (the area you want to create) sometimes, it depends on the area... I can't help much more I am afraid

[@FunSketchMovies]

thanks anyway!

[@ldee247]

Hi, Captain Nav your videos and tutorials are very amazing. Does Sbuilderx work on p3dv4 if you can assist I would appreciate? Tanks in advance..

[@CaptainNav]

Thank you. To be honest, I am not really sure, I have not looked into it for a while.

[@panduwics]

When I clicked show backgroud, it showed map from ArcGis instead of Google. And I have downloaded the googleserver tile. What should I do to load background from different type of map? thanks

[@panduwics]

+PanduWic never mind I've figured it out lol :)

[@CaptainNav]

I will get back to you on that one.

[@CaptainNav]

OK no worries (I had not seen your comment)

[@naijapilotxmax6006]

Go to Edit, scroll down to preferences and click on Google satellite image or something.

[@peterherz5942]

Super tutorial!!!!

[@CaptainNav]

+Peter Herz Thanks, I am glad you like it and find it useful.

[@eastonwilliams1722]

how do you setup the initial setup before you start SbuilderX?

[@CaptainNav]

+Easton Williams What do you mean? How to install it? Just install it, I can't really remember now, but it was fairly ok. The one thing I remember is to install it in a different folder than /c because of Windows permissions. If the UAC is off, then it should be ok.

[@eastonwilliams1722]

Captain Nav I installed it in C drive and it works fine, but every time I open it it asks me for 3 directories, like vector exe, bgl file, and something else, and I have p3d so I have to put that in the top ever time, I figured out how to get the images and save them in stuff though. Also, if you can help me answer one more question, how can I get other satellite imagery servers that I can access through SbuilderX? Like for some reason I downloaded the newest server or whatever for Google Earth and it looks sort of fuzzy and low resolution, but I have Google Earth Pro and it looks perfect like super HD, is there a Google Earth Pro server or are they the same? How would I be able to get that? Because Google Earth non pro has those stupid watermarks everywhere.

[@eastonwilliams1722]

Captain Nav Also, how would you possibly make sort of a grass airfield? Thanks.

[@CaptainNav]

+Easton Williams To make or edit an airfield, I suggest you have a look at my ADE video in the "scenery" playlist.

[@eastonwilliams1722]

Captain Nav​ Also, did you use Google Earth or something else, because there are those Google watermarks all over the place... Yeah, I don't know how one is supposed to figure out how to use ADE when there isn't a manual, and the website that has it is dead, I don't have any other folders or anything in ADE.

[@BRUNOPTIC55]

Hi! Is it work for P3D? Thank you

[@CaptainNav]

+BRUNO JOURNO I think it works, but I don't have P3D, so I can't tell.

[@BRUNOPTIC55]

Captain Nav thx for your answer ! Bye

[@CaptainNav]

+BRUNO JOURNO No worries

[@nooman5918]

Can I use this on p3d?

[@CaptainNav]

+PR-71 I am not sure. It probably says somewhere whether it can be used for P3D or not.

[@nooman5918]

I mean can I use it on ADE that is set for P3D

[@CaptainNav]

+PR-71 Yeah, you probably can. Just try to create some sort of scenery, it should work on P3D.

[@nooman5918]

Captain Nav Evetytime I entrr thr position the show background is not available and I can't see anything, Any help?

[@CaptainNav]

+PR-71 It is hard to know why it doesn't show. Watch the video again, maybe you will see what you are missing.

[@naijapilotxmax6006]

I have a compaq laptop Iam using for the editing but I have a desktop for my FSX Steam Edition and a 32 inc Samsung LED screen

[@CaptainNav]

+JudeViation Uwagboe Ok, when you have edited your bgl file on your laptop, you need to copy it to the scenery folder on your fsx computer....

[@naijapilotxmax6006]

Good day Captain, do you mean addon scenery?

[@CaptainNav]

+JudeViation Uwagboe Yes, add on scenery, you are right.

[@naijapilotxmax6006]

I need help!