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How to make invisible runway?

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apollon01

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Hello,

Does anybody know how to make an invisible (100% transparent) runway in FSX Planner?

Thanks for your insights

Milan
 
Try making the width zero or as small as you can get it. If you cannot set it to zero then also set the surface type to match the underlying surface as close as possible
 
Invisible Runway - Solution Found

Well... after some playing around and asking some people I found a solution how to make a runway invisible in order to show the photo scenery "original" below it.

I decided to modify the default ice runway texture and to add full transparency to it via the alpha channel. Then I used the ice runway for the airport.

It works. But I can imagine some flaws:
1) Of course it modifies all the ice runways in FSX. It is a tweak to default textures.
2) It may mess up with some AI traffic as the planes may be limited to certain surfaces only (and not ice).

Anyway, for me it works just fine. I am using the transparent ice runway texture for the grass runways only and my AI GA planes (using Traffic X) do not seem to have any problems with it.

Hope that helps other people trying to solve the same riddle.

Regards,

Milan
 
Hi Folks

Just to clarify -
SDK - Compiling BGL - Runway
Note that runways specified with a width less than 2 feet are not rendered
(the minimum width that can be specified is 1 foot).
Click to expand...

HTH
ATB
Paul
 
hmmm...

I tried that too as some people suggested to shrink the runway to minimum width but it was still rendered as a thin line (at least the grass runway, I did not check for other surfaces).

Will give it a try again.
Thank you!

Milan
 
OK, tried...

...with no effect. There is still a thin line which is clearly visible (see the screenshot).

Have you tried what you recommend? Does it work with you?
Thanks

Milan

2feetft0.jpg
 
Hi Folks

apollon01 -
I don't use FSX Planner.

However,
your screenie appears to possibly show a 1 METRE wide runway,
(it's certainly wider than 1 foot).

Ensure your XML runway section uses width="1.0F"

i.e. F for FEET

HTH
ATB
paul
 
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just tried to edit the xml directly to 1' and it works just OK :)

FSX Planner does not allow from the GUI anything thinner than 2'

thanks a lot!

Milan
 
apollon01 said:
just tried to edit the xml directly to 1' and it works just OK :)

FSX Planner does not allow from the GUI anything thinner than 2'

thanks a lot!

Milan
Click to expand...

We put a 2 foot minimum on the runways in FSX Planner because it you entered zero it made it impossible to select the runway again. This will be adjusted in the next version, allowing for zero width runways.
 
yes, I noticed this with the taxiways

btw. it seems that if the runway width is 1' it is both invisible and selectable

thanks for a great tool!

Milan
 
Hello,

As a former SceneGenX user ;) now using FSX planner something great which is missing is the ability to select an object from the list of objects in your airport ...
so when you loose something below something else you can still select it :)

regarding invisble runways, how about not writing them at compile time ?

I did for my heli ony aiport as FSX do not allow me to render the proper look

regards
 
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