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FSX:SE Attempting to customize an airport and set it in a mega-scenery addon

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I have been working to add detail to a local airport with ADE and having trouble understanding Terrain Polys in ADE. After many hours of reading and re-reading the manual, I am pretty comfortable that I can take a stock airport and modify it with buildings and other objects. But, I am really struggling with Terrain Polys. I am thinking I should be able to build the airport and 'set it down' on top of a Mega Scenery airport. From my struggles today it seems that I can only get the terrain Poly combinations to work on the base FSX scenery. There I can build what I want but only the runways and aprons appear when I activate the Mega Scenery. These runways and aprons sit real nice on the mega scenery but no objects appear. I understand that objects are simply textures and need to have a base to sit on. Just not having any luck with any combinations of Terrain Polys that will provide that base. I'm hoping that it is possible. The surrounding scenery around Vance Brand Airport in the Colorado Mega Scenery is so much better than the stock scenery surrounding the airport. Am I tilting at windmills? ..... still looking for the secret combination of steps. ... Jerry
 
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I have moved this thread to a more appropriate forum
 
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Photographically derived terrain, such as Megascenery, carries higher detail and is more advanced than terrain polygons, so for this and other reasons the simulator does not render terrain polygons in the presence of photo scenery. To edit photo derived scenery, you'd have to create your own scene that blends with the underlying photo and is placed at a higher scenery priority level. Below is an example of an airport I made to sit within an ORBX large area photo scenery. You can see that I chose to set my transitions to occur at the perimeter road, in most places, as opposed to using a gradual fade, which is more common.

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In actual fact, one cannot derive a photographic scenery .bgl, that is not shaped exactly like the photo it was derived from, one must use masks and transparency to conceal unnecessary areas. Here is a link to the scenery, you are welcome to explore and reverse engineer it.

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=rk= said:
Photographically derived terrain, such as Megascenery, carries higher detail and is more advanced than terrain polygons, so for this and other reasons the simulator does not render terrain polygons in the presence of photo scenery. To edit photo derived scenery, you'd have to create your own scene that blends with the underlying photo and is placed at a higher scenery priority level. Below is an example of an airport I made to sit within an ORBX large area photo scenery. You can see that I chose to set my transitions to occur at the perimeter road, in most places, as opposed to using a gradual fade, which is more common.

sendfile.php


In actual fact, one cannot derive a photographic scenery .bgl, that is not shaped exactly like the photo it was derived from, one must use masks and transparency to conceal unnecessary areas. Here is a link to the scenery, you are welcome to explore and reverse engineer it.

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=rk= said:
Photographically derived terrain, such as Megascenery, carries higher detail and is more advanced than terrain polygons, so for this and other reasons the simulator does not render terrain polygons in the presence of photo scenery. To edit photo derived scenery, you'd have to create your own scene that blends with the underlying photo and is placed at a higher scenery priority level. Below is an example of an airport I made to sit within an ORBX large area photo scenery. You can see that I chose to set my transitions to occur at the perimeter road, in most places, as opposed to using a gradual fade, which is more common.

sendfile.php


In actual fact, one cannot derive a photographic scenery .bgl, that is not shaped exactly like the photo it was derived from, one must use masks and transparency to conceal unnecessary areas. Here is a link to the scenery, you are welcome to explore and reverse engineer it.

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This looks exactly like what i am trying to do with my Mega Scenery..... Thanks... I will have a look at your work.... Jerry
 
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