Merging two scenery files

[Harold]

Howdy folks,

Does anyone in here know how to merge two scenery files?

I'm specifically looking at merging Iain Gallacher's Duxford Scenery (here) and Thomas Moger's Stratic F-15 Display (here).
I've tried different things but I can't figure it out. Could it have something to do with the position of the plane? It might be covered by the hangar but how do I check this?

If anyone knows the answer or has any tips (or tools) please let me know.


Thanks!

Harold

[garymbuska]

I am not sure if you can actually merge two different scenery files with any sucess.
Because of the way FS layers scenery it will be hard to merge two areas into one with out creating two objects in the same place. So if you have two different sceneries for one area and want to make just one area out of the two, then the only way I know of would be to make a scenery that had something from each file but you will have to be carefull to make sure that two objects do not occupy the same place.
The biggest problem is to know exactly what is in the scenery and the only way to know that would be to have the source file that was used to create it,and most designers are not willing to let others have there source codes they used to design the scenery with.
Scenery files are BGL files and are compiled from a source file. I do not know of any programs that will decompile a bgl file thus turning it back int a source file that you could edit then recompile it.

[dave3cu]

Harold,

It appears the F-15Duxford scenery is faulty. The object(s) do not display, either with or without the Duxford scenery active.

Analyzing the 'F-15 Dux.bgl' file (with 'BGLAnalyze 3.1') indicates the file contains an 'exclude' but  no object placement.

Dave

[Harold]

Very helpfull to find out that the F-15 scenery is faulty. Also Gary's comment was very helpfull in understanding this problem. Thanks for the answers guys! Harold