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NoZWrite and ground polygons

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Hi all,

I need some help, as I am confused. By default the GPW sets the NoZWrite material attribute for the ground polygons. It is doing this for many years already and I think in the past we figured out that this is needed for the P3D MDL ground polygons to work fine.

When implementing the PBR materials recently I have updated the preview and it does now use the NoZWrite attribute as well. But that is giving me issues with the rendering of the ground polygons now.

So a quick question, is the NoZWrite really needed for ground polygons? What is the latest consensus on that along scenery developers?
 
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It's in MCX, in the preview. The output to the sim has not changed.
 
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But it matters to me, as now you can't see the layering in the GPW correctly in the preview :)
 
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Hi,

I have found a solution now, so in the next development release it should work correctly again.
 
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