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Best way to place objects and add earth curvature

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Pusatboy

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Hi guys,

First of all the tools i use are:

- Sketchup (for modelling)
- ADE (for placing and compiling)
- ModelConverter X (for converting .DAE to -mdl files)

My problem right now: I want to add earth curvature to my model through the Earth Curve Tool in MCX (it has all runways in it). It didnt work. What i did then was converting my .DAE from Sketchup to a .BGL file with the Ground Polygons and with the Earth Curve Tool applied. I imported that .BGL file into ADE and it showed perfectly on the scenery. Now the problem is that the .BGL file showed on the location i entered in MCX, which is fine ofc. But my model only contains the "Terrain" of the airport. All buildings etc. need to be placed on top of the "Terrain" BGL. The problem is i cant show the BGL file in ADE. And entering coordinates is a PITA.

I really searched through all the forums here. Arno said that normally all of the curvature correction should be possible with .mdl files aswell. But that didnt work for me.

The advantage of a .mdl file for me is that i can place it in ADE and can use the taxiways to make my own taxiways "official" taxiways.

Also my .DAE file is pretty huge (around 65k triangles), could it be possible that this was causing the Earth Curvature not being applied normally?

Thanks for all the answers!

Happy Sunday
 
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