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Help needed with scenery

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I am an absolute newbie and I have managed to put a few building in my non-existant hometown, (at least according to fsx) as well as some roads and a river. I also redesigned the lake shore of the lake that feeds the river. Everything seems to be ok except I can see a line where the default shoreline was. Can I get rid of it? Any help would be appreciated.

I was also wondering if there was a way that you could produce the road network of a small town without a million little files. I did try a poly line from google earth and it sort of worked but I tried as one big poly line and of course I had to backtrack over roads and when they rendered, some of them looked bigger than the others.

Also, the tags that tell what your scenery is are fairly descriptive but I really don't know where to use the different types. Is there a manual or and explanation site somewhere?

Any help on any of the above would be greatly appreciated. In any event, I'm having fun trying out different things.

:confused::) Frank
 
Hi Frank,

What tools are you using?

Since you are editing the terrain I guess it might be SBuilderX. To remove the default shoreline I would try to add a terrain exlcude.

About the roads. You can just draw all roads you want in SBuilderX. They will be exported as one file.
 
Thanks

Thanks Arno,

I am using FSX_Kml, prefsxkml, and google earth and the necessary programs that are used by those programs. I haven't heard about the program you mentioned. I will investigate it. Thanks for your reply.

Frank
 
I guess you are using FsxKml, regarding to the first question you should use the exclude shoreline tag, you can add then a new shoreline, according to the new coasline.
 
shoreline

Hi again, I'm still a little puzzled as to how you set this up. If I make a polygon shape of a lake and I put the exclude shoreline tag on it, then add it to my fsx scenery, then I make the same file (maybe with a diff name) and tag it with water. Do I then make another copy of the same file and tag it with shoreline again. I am unclear as to the steps involved. If that's the case, wouldn't you end up with a huge mess of files in your addon scenery folder?

Hope someone can help.

Thanks again for your time.

Frank
 
There is something that is important, if you create a folder in google earth, you will make so many files as you want in that folder and export that folder as a kml file with as many polys as you want, and you will get only a file,
Another thing, if you create a new coastline, you must exclude the coastline with water, and of course exclude the old shoreline, and add a new shoreline, etc..
 
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FJ- How's your project coming along? IN SbuilderX you can have many things happening. Use a poly tosxclude shorelines, another poly or lines to draw in your roads.

In google isn't your town visible? If so, In SbuilderX you can create a photoreal. You will now have your town with roads, etc.

And since yo uare fairly new- welcome to the family. Great people here. Bob
 
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