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Adding runway surface painted position signs (numbers)

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I hope this is the right place to ask....... I want to add some surface painted positions signs (Numbers) as shown in attached pictures.


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This is image of runway that I want to add the red markings. I have a scenery texture that has the number(s) but not sure if or how to use it.
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I found this interesting FAA doc concerning airport markings aids and signs.


https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html/chap2_section_3.html

I have a dds file with the runway numbers I want to use. How can I use this dds file with the numbers?


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Create ground polygons using that texture. ADE Manuals folder, ADE-GP manual, Adding New Textures.
 
Sure....as I am trudging thru this verbiage I am reminded of something I haven't used since 1960....

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I was able to find something slightly more lucid then..... read chapter#/verse# in manual referenced

In link below:
I get to step #5 (post # 10) and the program blows up - I can't click on the sides till they turn orange. So I can't get past step 5. I was able to select the texture shown ^ with numbers.
I can click on the purple icon and draw a square, the ADE opens and ask what texture I want to use, I close ADE to make the square more precise and
the program closes. All gone...did this process a few times till I got tired of doing it over and over for no gain what so ever.

JFTR - I use Win 10 - And P3D V5.3 HF2

https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/surface-painted-taxiway-direction-signs.443957/
 
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The GP editor is a sub-program within ADE. If you close ADE, you lose the GP Editor as well. Step 5 refers to the ground poly as created in the normal ADE screen. Every active object, including polys, ‘lights up’ orange. Once you’ve made it the active object, you can return to the GP Editor and continue from Step 5. Don’t close ADE!

All that said (and that guide you’ve found is largely from Tom, who answered above, Jon, the author of ADE, and Don, the author of the GP Editor, so the info is good), you may be better creating your own textures and importing them into the GP Editor, as Tom suggests.
 
Tim Collins said:
The GP editor is a sub-program within ADE. If you close ADE, you lose the GP Editor as well. Step 5 refers to the ground poly as created in the normal ADE screen. Every active object, including polys, ‘lights up’ orange. Once you’ve made it the active object, you can return to the GP Editor and continue from Step 5. Don’t close ADE!

All that said (and that guide you’ve found is largely from Tom, who answered above, Jon, the author of ADE, and Don, the author of the GP Editor, so the info is good), you may be better creating your own textures and importing them into the GP Editor, as Tom suggests.
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I was able to import the texture I wanted to use i- The GP editor box opened and I selected the texture I wanted to use then went to the next step which was to edit the shape of the box until the side turn orange
which never happened. Was not able to go any further.
 
I create all my runway markings in Sketchup; export and create a bgl for them in MDCx. That way they are not images and do not flicker or are incompatible with Photoreal Scenery. Sketchup 2016 is still free if youloook hard enough to use in Windows 7; You CAN use the free version of Sketchup 2017 free in Windows 10. There is a lot of free help online as well.
 
tgycgijoes said:
I create all my runway markings in Sketchup; export and create a bgl for them in MDCx. That way they are not images and do not flicker or are incompatible with Photoreal Scenery. Sketchup 2016 is still free if youloook hard enough to use in Windows 7; You CAN use the free version of Sketchup 2017 free in Windows 10. There is a lot of free help online as well.
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I already have the runway numbers in a dds format. It's just trying to integrate them into ADE or MCS ,,,,, which ever.
 
Butch1 said:
I hope this is the right place to ask....... I want to add some surface painted positions signs (Numbers) as shown in attached pictures.


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This is image of runway that I want to add the red markings. I have a scenery texture that has the number(s) but not sure if or how to use it.
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I found this interesting FAA doc concerning airport markings aids and signs.


https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html/chap2_section_3.html

I have a dds file with the runway numbers I want to use. How can I use this dds file with the numbers?


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Would I have to reverse these numbers first?

Signs_Red.jpg
 
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