Suddenly in my "Eary War" install, which have built all of my Coral Sea and Midway missions on, GSL objects had activated do not show up nor will any activate now.I had the IJN Tulagi.gsl enabled when built the three Tulagi missions(part of Battle of Coral Sea) and reopened the file, GSL scenery not showing up in the harbor as before.Stock GSL scenery has been gone for a while as well but did not bother me as can use layouts and place objects to give many a more front line apperance than stock did.Issue is scenery such as that at Tulagi not showing up.Any ideas why suddenly it would not work? Solutions?
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GSL issue
- Thread starter dasuto247
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MaskRider
Tiller of Soil
Hiya,
Sounds like you might have overwritten the pre-existing object in your Tulagi gobs by adding new objects to those gobs using Martin Wright's GSLMAN.exe or else GSLEdit. If you added anything to the same gobs where your tulagi.gsl objects were located then those previously loaded objects will disappear. GSLMAN.exe and GSLEdit do not add new objects to those already present in a gob- they overwrite them. To add objects to those already present in a gob you need to use MB's build-in GSL Editor. It lets you add stuff to gobs that already have stuff in them.
Hope this helps,
MR
Sounds like you might have overwritten the pre-existing object in your Tulagi gobs by adding new objects to those gobs using Martin Wright's GSLMAN.exe or else GSLEdit. If you added anything to the same gobs where your tulagi.gsl objects were located then those previously loaded objects will disappear. GSLMAN.exe and GSLEdit do not add new objects to those already present in a gob- they overwrite them. To add objects to those already present in a gob you need to use MB's build-in GSL Editor. It lets you add stuff to gobs that already have stuff in them.
Hope this helps,
MR
MaskRider
Tiller of Soil
What you need to do is start with an empty gsl and then, using GobCheck and GSLEdit (Martin Wright's tools), add your tulagi object layout to your empty.gsl. Then save the empty.gsl as Tulagi.gsl in your main GSL folder. That way you'll have it handy to activate or deactivate whenever you wish.
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Chris,
With all of the work I've done for Europe and the Med, this is something I run into on a near-constant basis. You've had the same experiences in the Pacific.
Chris,
With all of the work I've done for Europe and the Med, this is something I run into on a near-constant basis. You've had the same experiences in the Pacific.
MaskRider
Tiller of Soil
Chris,
With all of the work I've done for Europe and the Med, this is something I run into on a near-constant basis. You've had the same experiences in the Pacific.
Rami,
Indeed yes!
Thanks for the answers.I'm not sure how it happened, don't recall adding anything over the IJN Tulagi.gsl file. Hmm. Where can I get an empty GSL file? Anyone have the stock gsl file? Need it as well. So I can start over.I had stock files saved in a zip, it's missing.May have deleted it by mistake.Also, I've been to Martin Wright's website and do not see GSL editor nor Gob check there.Where can I get them? Thanks again for the assistance.
MaskRider
Tiller of Soil
Dasuto247,
Here ya go.
Brief instructions:
As long as your path to CFS2 is the standard path these shortcuts, "CFS2 Mission Builder Empty GSL" and "CFS2 EmptyGSL", should work fine. If your path is different then edit the shortcuts to fit the path as you have it set up.
Whenever you want to work on some new scenery, use the shortcut to the "CFS2 Mission Builder Empty GSL" shortcut.
When you are done with the scenery rename the empty.gsl with your scenery name and begin the process anew with a fresh copy of empty.gsl
*Make sure when running GSLEdit (Martin Wright) that you have the correct GSL loaded.
In this case it would be the empty gsl.
You'll need to play with it.
MR
Here ya go.
Brief instructions:
[*=1]Place "Empty GSL" folder into your cfs2/GSL folder.
[*=1]Copy the "empty.gsl" file from the "Empty GSL" folder to your cfs2/GSL folder.
[*=1]Place "EmptyGSL.CFG" into your cfs2 parent folder.
[*=1]Place "CFS2 Mission Builder Empty GSL" (shortcut) where ever it is convenient.
[*=1] Place "CFS2 EmptyGSL" (shortcut) where ever it is convenient.
As long as your path to CFS2 is the standard path these shortcuts, "CFS2 Mission Builder Empty GSL" and "CFS2 EmptyGSL", should work fine. If your path is different then edit the shortcuts to fit the path as you have it set up.
Whenever you want to work on some new scenery, use the shortcut to the "CFS2 Mission Builder Empty GSL" shortcut.
When you are done with the scenery rename the empty.gsl with your scenery name and begin the process anew with a fresh copy of empty.gsl
*Make sure when running GSLEdit (Martin Wright) that you have the correct GSL loaded.
In this case it would be the empty gsl.
You'll need to play with it.
MR
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dvslats
Charter Member
MaskRider
Tiller of Soil
Hiya Dasuto247,
Lets take this one step at a time.
MR
Lets take this one step at a time.
- When you say: "I tried replacing my gsl file with the stock one, but that did not restore gsl buildings...". Are you saying that swapping in the stock GSL (ground scenery layer) did not restore any of the stock scenery objects at the stock airfields? Are you using the standard cfs2.exe shortcut?
MR
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Yes, I placed the stock cfs2.gsl file, overwriting the current one, figuring would bring back stock and could just start over.I did not have many GSL changes enabled in this particular install. Well, I have three installs on my PC, the original(mid war), early war and late.The install having issue is the "EARLY" . Path is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator 2 - Early\cfs2.exe" No issues with other installs gsl.
Enabled via the GSL man tool that came with various scenery.
MaskRider
Tiller of Soil
OK, got it. Thanks.
Well if you added (enabled) scenery objects using GSLMan to a gob that already had scenery objects installed the objects that were there first will disappear.
So you now have GOBCheck and GSLEdit from Martin Wright?
MR
I do have them
Ah, no luck.Still not working.I did have to do some editing of the scenery.cfg file to use some Midway scenery, to exclude the stock scenery there.I had finished my Coral Sea missions.I went back and was checking them over and notticed the tulagi gsl was not showing up.Now, before that stock scenery was not there either, but he GSL I added was until I changed the scenery.cfg per the instructions.I don't mind the stock GSl being gone for most part(like to know how to get it back though in case needed, of course with the tools I can edit the stock gsl yes?) Perhaps the change to scenery.cfg is the culprit?