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Diamond mines

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Any suggestions on how I can go about this:
I'd like to put in a few diamond mines- the surface ones with a large deep crater. Typically they are 500m deep and a few Km in diameter.

The ones I have looked at usually have a pond in the bottom, so my first try was using KLM-FSX to create a deep but small lake. The results are not great because the rim diameter of the crater is too large.
 
Yeah ive only thought about this hypothetically....

I can see three options...each of which has its problems: You are unfortunately limited by the resolution of the mesh and the settings applied to that mesh (resolution and complexity) by the user.

You could make a hole using a series of flattens but the results will be very dependent on the users mesh settings.

You could use a water polygon which will cut a hole irrespecitve of mesh user settings I think? But, if you use a water polygon it has to be textured water?

One possibility may be to add a flatten over a fairly large area set at the lowest point of the mine, then actually place a 3D model of the mine to 'fill the hole'?
 
I'm going to go for that last option. The 3D model seems most reliable. Since my last post I have spotted 3 other mines in the area, and there must be more in places like South Africa.
 
Just had another thought- You can create a new VTP polygon definition in your terrain.cfg which drops the local terrain under the polygon while adding a texture?
 
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