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Flatten question - end user?

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If I remove the default flatten area for my airport from the FL927170 file so I can generate a new flatten bgl, how do I translate this change to the end user? Do I send the updated FL927170 file to them as well as my new flatten file BGL?

If I create a new one with, lets say, Flattex or FSTflatten, and create a Flatten.bgl file to put in the scenery folder of the add-on will this override the default flatten?

Just a little confused about how to get the flatten I want into the final product and to not disturb the end user's original files etc...

I am going to give my preliminary scenery files to a friend for testing and I want to make sure I am not corrupting his system and that he sees what I see on my system...
 
Hi,

It's not a good policy to modify the original files.

If your scenery works well in your computer without such a modification, certainly will behaviour properly in your friend's computer.

Regards,

José
 
My concern is that I was having issues with the default flatten as well as the default AFCAD file. I may try to find a way around it....

But, I just loaded the scenery files for my new scenery on a different computer and my flatten file I created as well as my exclude file but are not working on the new computer...I have trees in weird places....it works on my main computer...wouldn't that suggest that the default flatten and / or exclude is overriding my files?
 
You should be able to overwrite the default flatten without too much trouble, there are only a few cases in which you can't get around editing the default files. But this should not be such a case.
 
Agree the ideal situation is if your new flattens can coexist with the default ones. Unfortunately, in many cases the default flattens are too big, causing a problem when higher LOD mesh is used. In this case, the only realistic alternative, if you intend to release the scenery into the wild, is to replace the entire LOD 5 default file with one that you make, asking the user to backup the default file and remove it, or provide an installer which can do it for him. Sbuilder can append all the original flatten file, but that probably isn't appropriate for a released file.

Of course, this doesn't solve the problem of two developers releasing flatten replacements for the same area. The fix for that I guess is FSX.

scott s.
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