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How to know which to exclude?

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Rather than doing an Exclude EVERYTHING that would have me lose the rivers and those difficult to make items, I would like to do a more selective exclude for my islands. So basically the ocean (not the rivers) and all the landmass (soil, earth, beach).

How do I know which landclasses to exclude? is there a way to know which landclass FSX is using for a particular spot/area?
 
Apparently TMF viewer will tell you the land class being used on a particular tile.

But I'm not too sure that that is actually what you want ?!?

I don't know of too many rivers built from landclass type information - since the smallest landclass area is a kilometer wide... Maybe some of the deltas perhaps ?

Have a play with how the different excludes operate, and pick the ones you need.

Good luck,

B
 
I found a better way, just exclude as little as you can but then fill as much as you can without overflowing. Still there is always the problem at the boundary which involves quite some trial and error.

TMF does tell you which class is being used but not all the time. Sometimes it just shows you an empty dialog with no information.

The problem is that there seems to be some stranger mechanism at work. I say that because sometimes even when you specify a forest class the underlying class kind of shows up and lets you with a desertic area. I guess it just renders the whole underlying landclass and if it happens to have some desertic or unpopulated (with plantation or humans) area, then it shows up.

I am having similar problem having my houses show up. They never do even with NORMAL or MEDIUM HIGH settings.
 
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