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GP is below default RWY/TWY

Aidas Patas

Aidas Patas

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Hello everyone :wave:
Recently, I have been having this issue, where my ground poly exported via MCX is below the default runway/taxiways and even the actual taxi-lines.
When exporting, I have my altitude set exactly to the one that ADE 175 reads - 10.058 meters (also tried setting it to 10.07 - still no luck).
All my layers are > 8.
Here are a few pics.

I should also add, that the actual ground textures are transparent, BUT there is a fully opaque satellite image ground poly under it - so I do not think this could be the issue.
NOTE that the runway has fully designed GP.

Do ye think this is an MCX issue? Or is this something on my end, because no one else seems to be having this problem?

Thank you all!
Aidas
 

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Looks like a flatten issue to me. Your flattens are just not working properly. Any ORBX scenery installed here?
 
Hi,

Are you using the latest development release? I made a major change to the GPW this weekend. So it might also be a bug in there in case you are using this build.
 
tgibson said:
Looks like a flatten issue to me. Your flattens are just not working properly. Any ORBX scenery installed here?
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Nope, no ORBX. I do have a flatten, yes, but it used to work fine?
What could be possibly wrong with the flatten? I'll take a look for sure.
arno said:
Hi,

Are you using the latest development release? I made a major change to the GPW this weekend. So it might also be a bug in there in case you are using this build.
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Not sure. I think I downloaded MCX around a week ago.
 
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So, I played around with the layers and stuff. One is set to 8 (the one on the RWY side), and the other one set to 9.
It's so weird :banghead:
 

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Hi,

Which FS version are you exporting for in the GPW? For P3D uses lower layer numbers seems to work better.
 
arno said:
Hi,

Which FS version are you exporting for in the GPW? For P3D uses lower layer numbers seems to work better.
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Exporting for P3D v4.4.

Perhaps you were talking about negative layer numbers? I'll try those right away for sure.

EDIT: negative layer numbers did not help. Same thing.
 
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One possible solution: don't use GPW at all; use the convert and place object wizard for ground textures instead.
 
But in that case your polygons won't follow the curve of the earth. So the further you go from the reference point, the more they will float.
 
arno said:
But in that case your polygons won't follow the curve of the earth. So the further you go from the reference point, the more they will float.
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Yup. Unfortunately, I have no idea why the default stuff goes on top of my GP. That just does not seem normal.

Tried exporting it as a normal object, 1cm above the ground, MCX spits me in the face screaming "The given key was not present in the dictionary".. but that's something for a different thread I guess.
 
Heh.. serves me right for exporting ground poly as buildings.. Now all my lines are floating hehe :p

Looks like we're back to square one; why does default scenery appear on top of ground poly...
 
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