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Llondon

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GSX pro jetway customization
« on: November 23, 2023, 07:01:47 pm »
I have tried many airports to customize jetway to change to glass. How do you modify jetways?
I do not see any options to modify the jetway.
From Website
GSX comes with hundreds (more than 300) different Jetway logos for many airports around the world, each one available in multiple models (Metal, Metal Corrugated, Glass) which are selected automatically by airport and region, all available at the same time, because we supply the program with more than 900 individual sceneries to replace Jetways worldwide. The GSX Configuration Panel can be used to exclude specific airports from Jetway replacement.
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Re: GSX pro jetway customization
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2023, 01:04:21 am »
You quoted the website but, there's nothing in that description that ever suggests you can customize jetways. 

In fact, the two sentences "are selected automatically by airport and region" and "because we supply the program with more than 900 individual sceneries to replace Jetways worldwide", mean exactly the opposite.

Maybe you assumed this because you knew how GSX works in FSX/P3D but, the way GSX Jetway replacement is done by GSX Pro in MSFS is completely different than P3D. There, we had SODE, which allowed to create custom Jetways on the fly, completely bypassing the default Jetway system in the sim.

In MSFS, since there's no SODE, we use the default Jetway system, and provided GSX with a set of replacement files that has been pre-built based on default airports data, so they can't be edited like in FSX/P3D.

With 3rd party sceneries, the issue is even more tricky, because possible legal issues would come into play because, to do something like you are asking (adjusting a 3rd party jetway in a 3rd party scenery) would require creating a new adjustment scenery, which would involve decompiling and recompiling something based on 3rd party data, something that even if it might technically legal (and not everywhere, Europe has different regulations about decompiling than the US, for example), it might not something 3rd party developers might be happy with.

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Re: GSX pro jetway customization
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2023, 04:46:27 pm »
Thank you for the clarification. Many users including myself edited jetways in P3D to change jetways to glass. This for users however maybe not realistic creates a more immersive experience. Perhaps in future users may choose glass or have a list of airports that are selected to be configured with glass.