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FSX My Landclass polygon won't show

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I redesigned a whole island and everything seems okay, it shows my coastlines, my scenery objects, etc. The problem is that there were some parts that shows that puffy forest that looks nice from high altitude but from low altitude you don't see any tree (or just a few despite the HIGH setting).

I think a few days ago it shows more trees in that particular area where my objects are, now I placed through it a Dirt 1 Lane Undivided Median (given there is not Trail form in FSX) and now I only see the puffy background on the ground but no trees.

In trying to remedying the emptyness I drew a polygon in that area (within the hole) and marked it as LC_Tropical_Rainforest but that seems to make no difference.

How can I get it to recognize my Tropical Rainforest? or do I have to go around planting trees by hand (individual tree objects)?
 
If the landclass is the 'tropical rainforest' with the very big trees and your landclass polygon is quite small, then only a few trees will show since the trees are so big.
Remember also that placing your Dirt lane will suppress autogen trees under it (+ a small distance from it).

Some other options are: Find a landclass which also uses the ground texture ("puffy forest") but which uses different, smaller, autogen trees or, as mentioned, supplement the autogen with hand placed trees (but be aware these can have more of a performance drain)
 
I finally got my island to display but even though it is a big island I noticed that even by placing the Tropical Rainforest across a large expanse, when I fly in FSX with near max settings (dense to very dense) I see no trees, just the landclass background with flattened tree tops but not a single standing tree. This does not seem normal, even in my old scenery for the same island I could see many trees showing up.

Does it perhaps has to do with the Exclude All Terrain Items? It is currently showing as Poly #1 out of 37
 
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