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Paavo:
Hi Umberto,

I am working on a scenery that features drive-through parking like is common in smaller airports. This means that aircraft taxi in from one direction and taxi out to the other on their own power. To replicate drive-through parking with AI in FSX and Prepar3D, a relatively complex AFD layout that takes into account AI pathfinding algorithm has to be used:



Such layouts are far too complex for GSX to understand and follow correctly, especially as far as follow-me vehicles are concerned.

Would it be thinkable to add support for simplified, tailored-for-GSX airport layout files?

For instance, when scanning BGL files, GSX would ignore contents of EETU_AFD.bgl if the folder contained EETU_AFD.gsx. The gsx file would be nothing but another file in BGL format, but containing simplified layout and renamed to avoid it being loaded into the simulator.

Support for tailored-for-GSX would no doubt be a niche feature, but it would greatly expand the flexibility of airport layouts with regard to AI traffic.

streichholz:
Can I ask you what airport this is?

virtuali:

--- Quote from: Paavo on September 16, 2014, 05:42:23 pm ---Would it be thinkable to add support for simplified, tailored-for-GSX airport layout files?

For instance, when scanning BGL files, GSX would ignore contents of EETU_AFD.bgl if the folder contained EETU_AFD.gsx. The gsx file would be nothing but another file in BGL format, but containing simplified layout and renamed to avoid it being loaded into the simulator.
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That could be theoretically possible, but it's really a feature that wouldn't interest many people: of the users that design AFCADs, which are already a tiny minority of all users base, we are discussing about a subset of it, which are AFCAD designers wanting to use unusual techniques, and amongst them, the even smaller subset of those willing to supply an additional AFCAD ( = working twice ) JUST for GSX use.

I think working to add a feature that would probably interested a couple of people, is not a very efficient use of our (very limited) resources, which are entirely tied up to add new features to GSX that will be used by everybody.

Paavo:
I see your point that it would have few users, but isn't this balanced by the triviality and simple nature of such feature?

It probably needs nothing else than a minor change in the function that opens BGL files - namely, the addition of a simple check to see if same file (but with another extension) exists, and if it does, loading that instead the original BGL file.


streichholz - the pictured layout is from Tartu airport (EETU) in Estonia.

virtuali:

--- Quote from: Paavo on September 17, 2014, 02:49:11 pm ---It probably needs nothing else than a minor change in the function that opens BGL files - namely, the addition of a simple check to see if same file (but with another extension) exists, and if it does, loading that instead the original BGL file.
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That seems to be possible, we'll look into it.

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