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Creating a "Cliff"

6maynew

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Hi all

I know everyone has faced the Cliff problem when runways are higher up than the surrounding terrain. My question is, how do I go about creating one?

Here is what I need and have done so far:

I would like to have a cliff effect on an approach to my runway, to show where the grass overrun area is. Within this area is also a Localiser object, and a fence at the end. Beyond is a road, which is needed to be at the base of the "cliff", with the cliff being only about 5m or so below the runway. I've tried to do this with a flatten polygon, but whether I make it with KML or SBuilderX, instead of having a nice flat drop, I get one that zig-zags across the polygon edge. I've even tried to add a grass apron at the end of the runway to get the effect, but the "Show Surface" option doesn't work, so the grass shows up.

Any help with this is appreciated.
 
For this kindof thing it is probably best to combine a 3D model of the surface with a flattened terrain.

So make the cliff and surrounding area using Gmax or similar and then place this in your scenery at an absolute height....you will still likely get some issues where the mesh and the model interact though.
 
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