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Polygon Tool & Object Placer

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Hi,

1.I have been working on an airport which contains trees in side the boundaries. I used the polygon tool and added a land class to the airport, but the trees and water are not showing. Is this because the trees are inside the airports boundaries?

2.The second problem I have been having is with the Object Placer. I built a model using sketch up and I added it to a bgl file. The library manager allows me to place this building but it does not appear in flight sim.

Any help is appreciated!

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-Jeff
 
1.I have been working on an airport which contains trees in side the boundaries. I used the polygon tool and added a land class to the airport, but the trees and water are not showing. Is this because the trees are inside the airports boundaries?
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The airport background poly is usually set to exclude autogen so you I think would need to exclude the default one and create another that does not cover the area for trees. Either that or include library object trees

2.The second problem I have been having is with the Object Placer. I built a model using sketch up and I added it to a bgl file. The library manager allows me to place this building but it does not appear in flight sim.
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Have you put the bgl file containing the objects and the related textures into an active folder in the flight sim?
 
If you are using photo-textures, landclass will not be displayed. You need to use Autogen Annotator.
 
scruffyduck said:
The airport background poly is usually set to exclude autogen so you I think would need to exclude the default one and create another that does not cover the area for trees. Either that or include library object trees
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How do I go about editing the background poly? Am I able to do this through ADE?

scruffyduck said:
Have you put the bgl file containing the objects and the related textures into an active folder in the flight sim?
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Where is the folder that I put this in? I was curious about this earlier because I wanted to know where to put my objects so they appear in the object placer tool from the SDK.

Golf-HotelDelta said:
If you are using photo-textures, landclass will not be displayed. You need to use Autogen Annotator.
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I am not using photo real textures, but if I wanted to how do I go about doing that?
 
How do I go about editing the background poly? Am I able to do this through ADE?
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Unfortunately you can't see the stock airport background in ADE. However if the airport has a fence then that is a good indicator. Otherwise it is a guess unless you use TMF Viewer to establish where it is. George can probably help better here than me.

Use the Poly tool to create an approximate rectangle that cuts where you think the airport poly edge would be. In the dialog select Exclude General For the Type and Airport Backgrounds for the Tag. Compile it an make sure that the CVX Bgl file goes in the same active folder as the airport Bgl file. Run FS and see if the airport is now covered in autogen!.

Finally you create a new airport background to fit the area you want excluding the areas of land class.


Where is the folder that I put this in? I was curious about this earlier because I wanted to know where to put my objects so they appear in the object placer tool from the SDK.
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Simplest is to put the Bgl file containing the object in Addon Scenery\scenery and any associated textures in Addon Scenery\texture.
 
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