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lightblueyonder asked TheJoelster4549 edited

If loading a BGL in the editor causes immediate freeze, check this:

*This is only relevant if you have custom materials/textures in your project.*

This may be quite obvious for a lot of people, but I ran into this issue and Googling yielded not much help, and I discovered this by accident while rebuilding the project again from scratch. So at the cost of looking like an idiot, here's a quick tip.

If your MSFS permanently freezes (but not crash) as soon as you click "Load in Editor" for your BGL scenery asset group and all the sub-menus pop up, make sure you have loaded your MaterialLib FIRST. I had custom materials and did not click the "Load in Editor" for my MaterialLib first, hence when I loaded the BGL scenery, the sim froze. By loading in MaterialLib first, I mean wait until it is all loaded and check in the materials editor. The sim has a chance of freezing otherwise.

If there are solutions around this, I will update the post with the most current and elegant solution.

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TheJoelster4549 avatar image TheJoelster4549 ·
Unfortunately this didn't fix my issue, although mine is a bit different, as when I load in my BGL my sim CTD's once all the objects in the object window show up. I removed the MaterialLib and ModelLib from my project and the issue still persisted, so I have narrowed my issue down to something in the BGL. I sent my project file to Asobo via a private comment, but I don't think they've seen it, since that post is buried under a lot of new posts. Hope this fix works for others though!
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lightblueyonder avatar image lightblueyonder TheJoelster4549 ·

Firstly, try putting back the MaterialLib and ModelLib. When you load MaterialLib, open each custom material in your project, click "save", then close it. Then try to load your BGL into the editor.

If that doesn't work, check your ground polygon list. Backup the .xml file, and then delete all the entries between <aprons> and </aprons>. See if the problem is resolved.

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TheJoelster4549 avatar image TheJoelster4549 lightblueyonder ·
Both those solutions definitely helped, because instead of CTD'ing immediately, I was able to move the camera around for around a minute, however, unfortunately it's still crashing.
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