Many airports fail validation immediately after download for varied and understood reasons ( later/better version of WED and extra rules) However one I come across is the deprecated or private Xplane resource e.g. lib\airport\navaids\vor.obj (there are obviously many other objects). If the objects are in everybody's version of XP A.why can't we use them and not have to worsen the airport before we improve it? B why doesn't the gateway allow them to remain i.e. pass validation/upload C. can all these be moved into Laminars Lib in the library Pane window
In general, we remove very old art assets, or ones that cause issues. For example, we have deprecated art assets labeled with "AG" because they are auto generated scenes, so there are multiple layers of scenery data in them. We don't have a way to customize how they show up with WED so scenery artists shouldn't use them. You can see what happens with one of these resources here.
We try to hide problematic assets from the available library as we find them so they will no longer be used. A side effect is that old versions of scenery need to be updated to meet the new rules when they are modified at all (so they are forward compatible).
The ICAO code is placed as the Airport name.
The correct airport name is: Zakynthos International Airport "Dionysios Solomos"
Jennifer Roberts December 5, 2016 9:07 AM
I went ahead and changed the Gateway page but this will also need to be updated in the scenery pack itself and re-uploaded to the Gateway.
zzap September 21, 2017 11:46 AM
Thank you Jennifer, I'll check and try to repair, asap.
zzap September 21, 2017 5:11 PM
airport corrected
Many airports fail validation immediately after download for varied and understood reasons ( later/better version of WED and extra rules) However one I come across is the deprecated or private Xplane resource e.g. lib\airport\navaids\vor.obj (there are obviously many other objects). If the objects are in everybody's version of XP A.why can't we use them and not have to worsen the airport before we improve it? B why doesn't the gateway allow them to remain i.e. pass validation/upload C. can all these be moved into Laminars Lib in the library Pane window
Jennifer Roberts September 21, 2017 9:13 AM
In general, we remove very old art assets, or ones that cause issues. For example, we have deprecated art assets labeled with "AG" because they are auto generated scenes, so there are multiple layers of scenery data in them. We don't have a way to customize how they show up with WED so scenery artists shouldn't use them. You can see what happens with one of these resources here.
We try to hide problematic assets from the available library as we find them so they will no longer be used. A side effect is that old versions of scenery need to be updated to meet the new rules when they are modified at all (so they are forward compatible).
zzap September 21, 2017 11:47 AM
I'll check everything asap