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Pond Troubles

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I have been doing a series of New Jersey Airports and Pennsylvania Airports, some of which have ponds on the premises. I am also using SBuilderX to do all the Airport Boundaries, excludes and any other poly's I need. . .in particular, the ponds.

In what seems to be every case, after the scenery is complete and saved, If I go to an airport that has a pond on it, no scenery objects (I use Instant Scenery) display. If I remove the bgl for the pond. All the objects return. Thus far it has only been those airports with a pond that exhibit this behavior. Does anyone have any idea why?
 
How did you configure the polygon for the pond? Did you use Hydro_Polygons_Default_Perennial for it?
To get closer to the problem I'd make another folder under /addon scenery/ and place the pond bgl in a folder on top (or beyond) of the scenery objects in the FSX scenedb to have them separated and priorized.
You also could save the project as SBX file, open it with a text editor and check the entries and their parameters.

HTH
Mark
 
roger-wilco-66 said:
How did you configure the polygon for the pond? Did you use Hydro_Polygons_Default_Perennial for it?
To get closer to the problem I'd make another folder under /addon scenery/ and place the pond bgl in a folder on top (or beyond) of the scenery objects in the FSX scenedb to have them separated and priorized.
You also could save the project as SBX file, open it with a text editor and check the entries and their parameters.

HTH
Mark
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Hi Mark, thanks for answering. Actually I use "Hydro_Generic_Lake_Perennial". All of my sceneries are outside of the main FSX Folder. I don't really use the FSX/Addon Scenery Folder at all. Every project I do starts out as an SBX File because I open it to change the image name and also to get the longitude and latitude settings for AFX so I can adjust the background image for laying in the parking ramps and taxiways.
 
Ok, this seems to be a dead thread with no answer to the original question, so let me ask it a different way. . . .

When you make a small pond on an airport and you are using an airport boundary generated in SBX (not a photoimage ground texture), what should that water area be tagged as?
 
It shouldn't be too hard to zip up some small files that illustrate the problem, and attach them to a post.

Dick
 
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