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FSX Help with Island border and traffic on bridge (SbuilderX)

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Hi everybody. I'm making the scenery of RJBE (Kobe aiport, Japan). I'm almost finished with the terrain design but I've some problem as you can see on the pictures the water elevation surrounding the island is lower than the elevation of the airport but it raises up to meet the island's border (I hope you understand what I'm saying). I would like to know how to make a ramp effect for the island? I used sbuilderx to put Airport Background flatten with altitude of all the point superior to the water level without success. Also how to make freeway traffic move over the bridge that I created using the extrusion bridges?
Thanks for your help
http://img155.imageshack.us/f/rjbboverview.jpg/
http://img196.imageshack.us/i/rjbbelevation.jpg/
http://img821.imageshack.us/i/rjbbbridge.jpg/
 
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If the drop off from island to water is sharp (like a sea-wall) you won't get perfect water using just flattens. You can try sloped flattens, if it is OK not having it steep at water's edge. For your extrusion bridge, uncheck the "suppress platform" box in the properties for the line. Even then I've had trouble with traffic sometimes won't always use the bridge (check closely how the bridge end merges with the terrain).

scott s.
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Thanks for your response but What do you mean by sloped flattens? and how do I make them?
The freeway traffic is now working with your method! :)
 
I don't have much experience with them, but I know there are some devs who do a lot of work to prevent the "airport on a plateau" appearance. The basic idea is that in SBX you can assign altitudes to vertices of a polygon set to airport boundary - flatten. In my limited use I try to use triangle polygons but I guess it is possible to use more complex polygon though I'm not sure how SBX works with those. I would try with 4-vertex poly first. The problem with slope meeting water, among other things, is that it depends on the mesh slider settings that the user has. I guess another approach is to create a scenery object that represents a sea-wall. Doing that all the way around the airport would be a challenge.

scott s.
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scott967 said:
I don't have much experience with them, but I know there are some devs who do a lot of work to prevent the "airport on a plateau" appearance. The basic idea is that in SBX you can assign altitudes to vertices of a polygon set to airport boundary - flatten. In my limited use I try to use triangle polygons but I guess it is possible to use more complex polygon though I'm not sure how SBX works with those. I would try with 4-vertex poly first. The problem with slope meeting water, among other things, is that it depends on the mesh slider settings that the user has. I guess another approach is to create a scenery object that represents a sea-wall. Doing that all the way around the airport would be a challenge.

scott s.
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Alright maybe someone have found a solution. But I guess I have the same idea as your suggestion because I already made put some "gen_jetty_100m" objects using whisplacer around some points of the airport to make look bordered but it's a tedious task. Thanks again for you reply
S. Toure
 
So I found that the mesh resolution gives me what I wanted! You just have to adjust it to the max in the FSX setting and you'll get your island elevated a few meters above the sea level.
 
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