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Ground Polys.... Strange things happening...

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To make my template I use the WGS84 Geotiff, get the coordinates: flat earth by MCX's coordinate converter and use a noise overlay by chopping the image up. Simple. Worked a charm with Pensacola.

Now with my new airport something really odd happened....

The whole "airport" as a single plane in GMAX, 4000x3000m with the geotiff mapped onto it was a metre or so off at the edges... But, the exact same image, chopped up into 1024x1024 squares and pasted onto the a plane of the same dimensions with x no. of segments fits the photo scenery perfectly.

How can this happen? I assume it's with how GMAX maps a very large image across a single, large plane.
 
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Nope. One needs to use the flat earth x,y in GMAX. Even flicking between the planes shows that they're off, despite one being just a cut-up version of the other.
 
Yes, but there is the option to cut up the large polygon in ModelConverterX, which improves the "fit' to the FSX round earth model.
 
If anyone's wondering, this was down to using use source dimensions=1 in the .inf destination.
 
Okay. No it wasn't.

My plane of the background image with the image mapped across shows the image as too large as compared to the same plane cut up into 1024x1024 textures and pasted onto it. WTF.
 
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