Global AI Ship Traffic V1 for FSX and P3D News and Support

**Ganter** · July 22nd, 2020, 02:02

Thanks for your help with this Gary.
The .bgl file is included in the Global Ships Traffic v2 that this thread is about.
I downloaded that program you suggested and pointed it to the folder I have the file in but it doesn't seem to see it/ load it.

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Oh hang on a minute - I've got it working now. I chose wrong folders for source and destination.
It's making sense now thanks.

Managed to open the .kml in a flight planning app as you can see - the course takes the boat straight into one of the solent forts. I just need to shift that over a bit.

Blame Orbx England as the forts are not there in default scenery.

**Ganter** · July 22nd, 2020, 11:33

Having decompiled the .bgl I can't see any LAT/ LONG Waypoints at all in the /txt/ csv files and yet the .kml file shows the course - all the way from Plymouth - up the channel and in to Pompey!

What am I doing wrong?

Please help.

***jmbiii*** · July 22nd, 2020, 12:53

What is the name of the .bgl you are using?
I will look and see to adjust the plot if I can know the name.

You can also open the .kml in Google Earth and adjust it yourself (if you have GE).

**Ganter** · July 22nd, 2020, 13:10

Originally Posted by jmbiii

What is the name of the .bgl you are using?
I will look and see to adjust the plot if I can know the name.

You can also open the .kml in Google Earth and adjust it yourself (if you have GE).

The sailings are spread across multiple .bgl's. Each one represents one of the fleet - they're not in convoy in a single .bgl.
Lusty in one, then Duncan, then Dragon, Then a couple of other earlier destroyers then Ocean bringing up the rear.

I tried to edit the .kml in GE but could not find a way to do it.

Thank you so much for looking at this.

***jmbiii*** · July 22nd, 2020, 13:54

Jim,

Unzip the attached file and replace your .bgl with these.
The RN should make it into port

Joe

**Ganter** · July 22nd, 2020, 14:26

Originally Posted by jmbiii

Jim,

Unzip the attached file and replace your .bgl with these.
The RN should make it into port

Joe

That is why this forum is the best place ever for Flight Simulation (and Boats!).

Joe, a thousand Thank You's.

Jim

***jmbiii*** · July 22nd, 2020, 14:42

You are welcome.

**Ganter** · July 23rd, 2020, 00:11

Lovely old and new there.

Here we are this morning. Obstacles avoided!

I'm going to try and get my head round editing the .kml as there berthed positions are a bit screwed up. The two D45's end up colliding. That's my challenge for today.
Again, many many thanks,

**Ganter** · July 23rd, 2020, 09:45

Joe,

Gary,

Your help and advice has led to a whole new set of skills that I've kind of been getting the hang of today and will go on studying and hopefully become conversant with.

Watching the convoy manoeuvre in and out of Pompey today according to courses set in .kml files, converted to .bgl, and timings, etc, has been great.

Isn't this a wonderful hobby and what a great place SOH is.

Thank you both so much,

Jim

**kl791** · July 23rd, 2020, 10:51

Originally Posted by Ganter

Joe,

Gary,

Your help and advice has led to a whole new set of skills that I've kind of been getting the hang of today and will go on studying and hopefully become conversant with.

Watching the convoy manoeuvre in and out of Pompey today according to courses set in .kml files, converted to .bgl, and timings, etc, has been great.

Isn't this a wonderful hobby and what a great place SOH is.

Thank you both so much,

Jim

Hi Jim,

Would you mind sending me the corrected files for inclusion in a future update? Sorry for not seeing your posts yesterday, but happy to see it solved.

Henrik

And ps...
Just found this little video on youtube including ships from the project and also other sources including ODG.

And pps...
Plenty of new ships are on their way...

**Ganter** · July 23rd, 2020, 12:26

Hello Henrik,

Not sure how to upload files to SOH.

Thank you for your wonderful work.
Not sure if this has worked.

***jmbiii*** · July 23rd, 2020, 12:52

Originally Posted by kl791

Hi Jim,
Would you mind sending me the corrected files for inclusion in a future update? Sorry for not seeing your posts yesterday, but happy to see it solved.
Henrik

Henrik,
Bear in mind the changes I had made and those of Jim are with respect to ORBX scenery. They may not be workable for the generic FSX or P3D scenery. You have very successfully produced routes for the thousands(?) of your ships. Be careful not to fall down the slippery slope of "make it correct for all simulators and all variations of scenery".

@ Jim - You found my PM helpful, eh ?

**kl791** · July 23rd, 2020, 13:26

Originally Posted by jmbiii

Henrik,
Bear in mind the changes I had made and those of Jim are with respect to ORBX scenery. They may not be workable for the generic FSX or P3D scenery. You have very successfully produced routes for the thousands(?) of your ships. Be careful not to fall down the slippery slope of "make it correct for all simulators and all variations of scenery".

@ Jim - You found my PM helpful, eh ?

I will test them in FSX standard, however the routes are generally optimized for ORBX Vector and diverse photo sceneries as they generally match Google Earth - that method with Google Earth however does have the flaw that small "things" in the sea tend to be omitted by Google Earth so I have had ships sitting solid on small rocks forgotten by Google but not by ORBX or even FSX standard. Anyway, somewhere in the manual it tells that you will have some stranded ships once in a while especially if just using FSX standard - e.g. for Amazonas river traffic FSX is just hopeless.

**kl791** · August 25th, 2020, 11:26

Today Knud managed to put the first of our ships into MSFS2020 - we are still far from understanding how it works, but to see one of the ships there tells us the Global AI Ship Traffic project can have a future in MSFS2020.

**Ganter** · August 25th, 2020, 13:07

This is very, very good news.
And you've done what Asobo couldn't do with the wake effects.

***Dimus*** · August 25th, 2020, 13:13

Really great news Henrik!

Lack of ships and lack of wake effects is one of the big issues imho in MSFS.

***fsafranek*** · August 25th, 2020, 13:16

Very good news indeed.

**YoYo** · August 26th, 2020, 06:10

Henrik, good news

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I didnt notice any ships or boat in MSFS with slider 50%, see this corner for MSFS http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...here-any-boats .

**kl791** · September 7th, 2020, 11:42

Marc alias Flying V has managed to move the whole package into MSFS in one go - I will test and return in the coming days, but for those curious you can find the tuto in French here: http://www.pilote-virtuel.com/viewto...id=51877&p=104
There might be some issues with a few models, but overall it seems to work.

**kl791** · September 8th, 2020, 14:18

All ships transferred today also on my computer... Most were transferred without problems, but a minor part has different issues in the mdl file. But they are moving around as they should and generally it looks good.

**mike_cyul** · September 8th, 2020, 16:36

This is great news. If MSFS2020 is missing one thing, it's your ships.

**BendyFlyer** · October 10th, 2020, 17:07

Well I finally have this amazing package working in FSX. What a delight, brings the world to life in more ways than one. I just want to say thank you to Kl791 and others and to say how much this is appreciated and enjoyed. As I tend to do a lot of flying boat simming - to get this working and to be constantly surprised but who or what turns up is just great. Today I was testing some new scenery for Madeira and had the Solent flying boat in Funchal Harbour. There was a big white portugese 4 master and several other merchantmen coming and going and the odd liner or two. Very very impressive.

A humbling experience was that I could not get them to show for a very long time and I finally found the culprit(s) several old FS9 traffic bgl's that had been lurking on my system. With them cleaned out - all appeared as if by magic. Now to see how it goes with P3DV5 (another job for another time!)

So again thank you and when the classic ships become available - add me to the list!

**BendyFlyer** · October 10th, 2020, 17:36

Yeah I know but I am excited:

JBK Short Solent FSX - Funchal Harbour (Aerosoft Madeira Scenery) Plus ORBX.

**kl791** · December 26th, 2020, 09:09

A late Merry Christmas to all... Today starts Beta Testing, not of anything for MSFS, but a complete set of around 200 ships from the sixties and routes across the world including e.g. New York, Miami, Havana, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Le Havre, Brest, Southampton for P3D and FSX..

SS Canberra in New York

Queen Mary by Erwin Welker departing New York

German Navy ships from the sixties by Erwin Welker approaching Kiel

A tug near Le Havre

Hydrofoils between Copenhagen and Malmo

**kl791** · December 27th, 2020, 11:34

Lockdown has its' advantages... Yesterday I managed to pack the Beta of the sixities Classic Ship AI Traffic and today I got back on the Falklands package working on models of the Argentinian Gearing and Sumner Class destroyers involved. First ARA Comodoro Py ex-DD877 USS Perkins.

And here a few more screenshots from the beta test of the Classic AI Ship Traffic