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problem with line width

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pierrot1951

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Hello

I'm presently redrawing streams and rivers (after shorelines and islands) on Madagascar. For wide streams, I used slopy water polys; it's a long job for slicing, due to variations of elevation and winding. But the result is rather good, with streams following correctly the valleys and not jumping over hills as we can often see in FS!
For other streams I want to use simple lines, tagged as "Stream Line Perrenial", with progressive width, for instance from 5m to 20m at mouth.
No problem with that, but when compiled, installed and displayed in FS, all stream lines are similar, apparently with the same width. Is this problem due to FS, or could you help me to fix it?
Thanks for answer.
Pierrot - FMEP
 
The line width within SBuilderX only applies to it's display properties, in SBuilderX. The lines that you draw reference entries in the Terrain.Cfg file, which controls the display properties in FSX, such as a vector line's width. Absent any additional entries that are added to the Terrain.Cfg file you will see similar results, no matter your settings in SBuilderX.
 
LCSims said:
The line width within SBuilderX only applies to it's display properties, in SBuilderX. The lines that you draw reference entries in the Terrain.Cfg file, which controls the display properties in FSX, such as a vector line's width. Absent any additional entries that are added to the Terrain.Cfg file you will see similar results, no matter your settings in SBuilderX.
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Hello,

Yes the width of lines has no effect on "vector lines". In addition to the display properties, the width of line also applies to textured lines (flat or fence type, a feature that is not very well documented and, possibly, of little use) and to extrusion bridges.

Kind Regards, Luis
 
Additionally, lines in SBX can be "Convert to Poly' witch will make thin polys of lines drawn, with the width set by SBX.

So you can draw water lines ( actually polys ), for example.

Dick
 
Thanks for answers; as I feared, width for line display can't be adjusted. So, I must keep on using polys! Thanks for suggestion concerning converting line to poly; I'll test it as asoon as possible.
Use of lines with different widths should have been very convenient, because it doesn't need elevation data.

Pierrot - FMEP
 
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