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can't get a patch of grass to show up

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I'm missing something here. a simple step most likely.

We have one concrete pad we don't want to show up. I want to cover it with grass. If I delete the file where this pad is, many other items go away also, which we'd rather not go.

So- with Xbuilder I thought I'd cover just the pad with some grass. I can't seem to get a polygon to have grass with it. The only thing I've ben able to do is use the land tool. The pad still shows up.

I'm attaching an sbp file. It shows txt Please change it back to sbp after download. Tell me what I am missing.

BTW- no matter what I do I cannot get 'background' to show up when I right click the work space. When I go to file-map- I can see the word baqckground but it is dimmed out. Bob
 
No file attached.

Concrete pad from where? If it's a part of an airport file (AFX, ADE or FSXP) a land class file will display over it.

To have a background from one of the Sat services use the View menu option. Adding a Map is if you had already made one and saved it.
 
Ok, I see what you did. And I think I know what you're trying to do, kinda.

First, are you designing this for a photo scenery environment? If so, there's not much you can do.

Within the SBX file you attached you're trying to place land class tiles, where you should be attempting to draw a land class polygon. That's why you have the four BIG green boxes sitting in the display. These are 1.2km land class tiles.

But getting back to the concrete pad that you don't want to show up. Is it part of a photo based scenery or part of an "AFCAD" type file? If it's part of an AFCAD file you should edit the file to remove the concrete apron. If you're working with photo based scenery..., that's a whole nother ball game. And a whole new set of skills, new tools, new compilers that need INF files. Bottle of aspirin!
 
Lance- Thanx for the reply. Yep It coud very well be a photo thing. So we're probably stuck for the drinks unless I just take the whole file. It is not an afcad file (afx). I can cover the pad in question with an apron but the color of grass I'm stuck with does not match the surrounding grass very well.

I even tried to raise th el of the file I made, thinking it would sit just above the pad's el and therefore show up. Neat idea that didn't work! :) haha

In this case I don't think it is worth getting into another can of worms or asprin bottle. Bill and I will just bag this or fiddle with it minus the file in question.

The file is EGPH_groundFSX.bgl which is in the scenery sub folder of UK2000scenery\uk2000EDINBURGHFREE which is a free version of the paid version of this scenery.

Onward and upward. I did find a few tutorials on Xbuilder. I'll go study those to gain a bit more expertise so when I have a question it won't have to go like this - (car analogy) - Lance- ok Bob step on the brake. Bob- What's a brake? :):):)
 
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