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Organizing a scenery project

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Seems that my previous and rather long post has proven to be too much to ask for (People are busy I know), so I'll try with a simpler question this time.

I am working on creating a scenery of an island in the Arctic. I allready have a pretty good mesh, but it needs some fine tuning here and there (especially editing the height of a few lakes). What I want to do is recreate the airport, make a bush strip, new landclass, roads and have some 3D objects thrown around to make the area come to life (harbour, farms, factories, cars etc.).

For the rough landclass editing I use EZ Landclass since I like how the landclasses are blended together for larger areas. On smaller local edits I will use polygons and "lanclasspoly" to make corrections.

How do you suggest I organise the whole thing? How many KML-files do you make? Do you make several KMLs of smaller areas or do you do the entire scenery as one big KML-file with lots of polygons? Or do you make KMLs as different "levels" (One for mesh edits, one for landclass edits, and one for objects (piers, roads etc.)?
 
I tend to try to make the KML as big as possible- that is containing as much as possible. But with the following exceptions:
Provide a seperate bgl to exclude underlying LandClass in case someone is using add-on scenery that also covers the area.

If there are complex water features, I keep them separate from the land textures. The reason is that after any modifications to the polygons in GE, the HydroPolys need elevation data amending again. Don't bother in smaller projects though.
 
64kts said:
For the rough landclass editing I use EZ Landclass since I like how the landclasses are blended together for larger areas. On smaller local edits I will use polygons and "lanclasspoly" to make corrections.
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You can also create landclass "tiles" using the LandClass tag (as opposed to the LandClassPoly tag).

The nice thing about creating landclass tiles in FSX KML is that they will be "blended" depending on the order in the KML. So you might like to cover a large area in forest and then cover a smaller area as a city. Just create two polygons in Google Earth, put the large "forest" polygon first and the smaller "city" polygon after it and FSX KML will "blend" the landclass so that you get the city landclass sitting on top of the forest polygon.

The same applies for waterclass "tiles".
 
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