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Ground Polygon issue

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Hi all,

I've recently been making changes to my first airport project (RAAF Base Amberley, South East Queensland - Australia) as seen in the screenshots below. I've modeled a single runway to be a ground poly in Sketchup, using high resolution aerial imagery. The only issue with this poly is where the textures connect, there is the black line (obviously it needs to be there). When it shows in the sim, there are distinct lines where there shouldn't be. Can anyone help?

Thanks
PS Also, are you able to add alpha layers and night textuers to objects?

Here are the screenshots.
Sketchup:

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In FSX, just in front and to the left of the aircraft you can see the distinct lines where the textures meet:

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Some other pics if anyone's interested:

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Have you done all the runways and taxiways in Sketchup or is that just the photo underlay.......
 
Hi,

Which FS version are you using? I think the issue you are seeing is common with ground polygons. You need to adjust your texture mapping so that you don't use the outside pixel. Then you won't get the visible line.

About the night textures, I am working on a function in ModelConverterX to add them. Alpha channel are just added in the texture image itself.
 
Thanks for the reply Arno. I am using FSX Acceleration. Could you please tell me how to go about the texture mapping? When I created the polygon, I simply entered the distances onto a square and added the imagery onto the square as a texture, so I am not quite sure how to do this. Thanks
 
Hi,

From SketchUp this will be a bit tricky indeed, since you do not have so easy control over the texture mapping (not UV unwrap like function). Basically you need to make sure that the outside pixels of the texture are not used. So you map the remaining area of the texture.
 
Ok so I used MCX to convert it to a .3DS file and imported it into GMax, and unrwapped each textured section. I adjusted the UVW mapping and when I went to export it I got an error from MakeMDL (I'm using MDL Commander btw). It says:


Start! (C:\gmax\gamepacks\fs2004\RWY15)
Loading X C:\gmax\gamepacks\fs2004\RWY15...
ERROR: Invalid X file: C:\gmax\gamepacks\fs2004\RWY15.
Error!
Error!

EDIT: I made a simple box and then exported it through MDL Commander and it worked without any issues.
 
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Hi,

I also not really have an idea. The error message does not contain that much useful information. Since the X file is made by the gamepack when you are exporting, I am not sure what can be wrong with it. This is the all the content of the LOG file right?
 
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