Gmax first steps and API macros , can I?

[jjcargo]

Hello people!!!!

I will venture with Gmax , I`m a little scared I`ve designed in the past with other object designers with
good results
I see Gmax kinda complex , but I definitely need
new shapes

but I am an old fashioned guy and I need to make them in the form of APIs macros format.... well the question,
any easy - fast way to produce Gmax objects as `APIs`

thanks in advance

[brittair]

Can I ask why you want to keep using API's?

I have just moved from using FSDSv2 and FSSC to using GMAX, AFCAD2 and Object Placer and would not go back.

[jjcargo]

great objects man!  especially the last one  
see ,why?  many reasons  you are right it Gmax is intimidating  and it

[bm]

[quote] If the object produced by Gmax is in a format that can be directly placed in fs2004 I

[bm]

 frame rates for todays pcs are not a drawback for using apis exept for Big Airports ..... and I can more or less design decent shapes with EOD  

In the end Gmax is much easier from a design point of view. God knows how you would make a hangar like Britt's HAS hangar in EoD but in Gmax its comparitively simple, you just need to know which buttons to press. (comparitively simple  :-X!)

Apart from anything else (and there are lots of other reasons for moving to Gmax/XML - its just better!) can you justify the effort you put into creating your airports/scenery in scasm only to have them unusable in the next FS?

[brittair]

[quote]and one of the most important thing is that the format produced by Gmax needs to be converted to.. xml ?  a process that backed me off a little  

If the object produced by Gmax is in a format that  can be directly placed in fs2004 I

[jjcargo]

Thanks for the priceless help! , the links  will be very useful
moving to Gmax  and xml is inevitable hmmmm  hope to
get the hang of it soon

cheers!