• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

How to do grass edging

S

sydney2006

Messages
101
Country
australia
Hello Everyone,

I would like to add some grass edging to my scenery (like in Flightscenery Portland) however I do not know how to do it. Could some please tell me how to do it?

Regards

Aaron
 
Hi Aaron,

Are you trying to do that with FSDS, as you posted in the FSDS forum? Or is this more a general question of how you could do it?
 
In that case I think you can best create some extra polygons for that grass edge and apply the texture on it you want. But be aware that FSDS output is not optimized for ground polygons, so you will have to tweak the resulting code for get it to display properly.

With FSDS3 this would even mean that you have to run the X file through the Fs2002 MakeMDL to be able to get real ground polygons.

So it might be easier to not try this in FSDS and use a tool that has been designed with ground layouts more in mind.
 
If you mean the grass edge as in the screenshot below then you need to create a plane and then give it a doubled sided texture.

David
 

Attachments

  • grassEdge.jpg
    grassEdge.jpg
    19.6 KB · Views: 831
Yes I do mean the grass in the screenshot. How do I make the new plane? and does the texture transparent or just normal?

Aaron
 
Hi,

Create the plane in FSDS (4 sided Ngon?). Texture it with your grass texture. For the FS texture, format it in DXT1 (with alpha channel). In the alpha channel the grass should be white and anything else should be black. If you are using FSDS3 the material name should start with DS_ so it is double sided.

Hope this helps,
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top