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Default ground clears out my photomesh?

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Been having fun testing with SBuilderX photo terrain making process. Really no issues but a few questions.

1) - When I compile a large area at zoom level=14 as I flew over it the photo tiles would disappear directly under the aircraft revealing the FSX default terrain textures? You know, the small radius directly under the aircraft. Doesn't my scenery have priority over the default? Is the default a higher resolution than my zoom=14?

FYI - Just captured/processed an area at zoom=15 and I did not see this issue.

2) - Something I haven't really investigated or tried yet: Can you capture just the tiles you want just by creating a boarder around an area, or maybe or using a poly shape? Or would you capture the typical rectangle area and the "carve it up" using a poly or line tool? Can you even do this?

Thx,

Clutch
 
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Default will display if the photo is not high enough in resolution to take priority. That's why I almost always say "in most cases" when mentioning photo scenery overrides default textures.. You're seeing that when you bump things up to level 15 in SBX, instead of level 14.

The Resample tool processes rectangular or square shapes. To control what is seen in FSX you create a blendmask and use that when compiling. If, when using SBuilderX, a properly made AND named blendmask is in the same folder as the source material, then SBX will include it in the compiling process. Same applies for watermask files.
 
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