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FS2004 GMax Runway problem

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Luca Mainenti

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Hi all, this is my first message in this Forum.

I am developing an ENSB Svalbard Longyearbean Airport Scenery totally in GMax.
All is ok with 3D buildings, animations, lights...
But I have a problem with the runway.
The runway is a correct ground polygon, but in some cases (prinipally with low eyepoint on the terrain) some parts of my runway disappears and i can see the AFCAD's runway.
The ASM layer of the base asphalt is 10, and it's at 0 on the Z axis.
You can see some screenshots attached.


Is there someone who know how can I solve this problem?
Thank you all,
Luca
 

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Hi Luca,

Did you add a flatten to the area as well? Without that only tweaking the ground polygons with the ADDCAT command is not enough for them to display correctly.
 
Thank you so much for the fast reply Arno,
I didn't flat the area.
I found I can Flat it editing the file Scenery.cfg, but is there a way to flat the area with a BGL file from XML code, as I did for the exclude area?
Thank you again!
 
Hi,

I indeed prefer the flatten to be in a BGL file, but it can not be done with a XML file. For FS2004 you need a LWM flatten, SBuilder is a good tool to make these. Or else FsFlatten is an alternative as well.
 
Fsx kml

Hi,

I use a tool called fsx kml to flatten an area.

(See http://www.scenery.org/graphical_editors.htm for the download).

To use the tool first create a kml file using google earth. To do this start up google earth and go to the airport. Select the add path tool and trace the outline of the airport, select the last point in the path and move it to the same place as the first, this then turns the path into a polygon. On the properties tab of the polygon, set the altitude mode to absolute, and set the altitude to the field elevation. Save the path as a kml file.

Start fsx kml and click the add kml button to load the previously created kml file. Set the description of the polygon to Airport_Backgrounds_Flatten_MaskClassMap_ExcludeAutoGen

Optionally you can also change the airport background by copying the polygon (using the button next to the red X) and then setting the copied item's description to an appropriate land class poly (for example LandClassPoly_Rock_Ice).

Finally build the project by clicking the build tab and the clicking the build button.

Hope this helps

- Zip
 
Nice work Luca! I've a couple of photo of ENSB airport which I took last summer, if you're interested just leave me a PM.
I'm very happy that somebody are working on norwegian airport!!
 
Again, thank you all for your opinions.
I used FSFlatten and that solved my problem;)
Ras78 I will contact you in the next hours, thanks a lot!
 
Wow, I've looked at that airport before on google earth and stuff. Talk about an island paradise! I was looking for a scenery for it. Will this be for FSX too?
 
:(

oh well... maybe i can take up modeling the airport in IQALUIT and we can have an entire set of FAR NORTH airfields :D
 
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