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Making markings and dirt

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Hello all,

I am trying to build my first scenery with Sketchup. But I still have some questions about the groundpoly part.
I managed to make an apron with textures and export it to FS9, but now I want to add some taxiway markings and dirt.

Here is a screenshot:
sketchup.png


I placed my taxiway marking in a seperate layer called "markings". But when I draw the lines, sketchup will split up the shapes that it will cross (in my screenshots I removed all those lines).

My questions are, is this the right way to do the markings and how does the export will go when I use texture with Alpha layers (transparency)?

Regards,
Ruud
 
Hi Ruud,

To prevent this splitting I group all elements of one layer before drawing on another layer. And if it's transparent in Sketchup it will be transparent in FS.

BTW You have to check 'export selected objects only' in the export settings of SU to not always export the whole scene.

Cheers Volker


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