so i figured out how to get a groundpoly in as a projected mesh however it doesn't seem to be using the reflective normal and Combined texture i created for it .When i place the groundpoly as a regular scenery object the reflections appears alright as you can see in the picture on the left but the one on the right is a projected mesh with the same object and its not reflecting at all. Any thoughts on why? (yes i know its too shiny was just testing it out)
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MSFS20 Projected Mesh not using PBR material
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mendiola_loyola
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I have also created a projected mesh with a model including two overlapped flat rectangles. Only the top rectangle looked good.
Have you tried using multiple objects?
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I would appreciate a tutorial of this if you make it work
i actually found out from reading the SDK and analyzing some other scenery that only normal maps are supported for the projected mesh at this time, The combined maps cant be used yet
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If possible can you please describe how you got the projected mesh working because mine keeps sinking into the ground. Many thanks
untick the snap to ground and snap to normal and it should work,Also make sure the object is completely flat in blender
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Many thanks, will try that. What about layers, are there any Z/bias settings like fsx/p3d?
Yes you can set the Layer order either in blender or 3ds max in the flightsim material propeties where it says draw order or after placing the objects in the sim click on the projected mesh properties and you can set the different layers as needed,Id suggest doing it in the 3d tool first as personally its tedious for me doing it in the sim
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Did not work for me
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Yes I did rebuild it and reloaded the sim. Here's my object https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16sUR4HE01fKvWWDTB5ZRqfRZr-dx6Jef?usp=sharing
wait are you trying to place the object over an Apron? IF so that actually wont work, The layer order for the projected mesh ONLY works in relation to other projected meshes it doesnt actually go above anything else ,So it wont draw over an apron,line or runway even if you give it a higher layer order,Its the most annoying thing ive seen so far in the SDK
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Oh wow, so that’s the catch. Interesting. How does ORBX and other developers make their aprons then, because on their screenshots you can see a transparent layer of default asphalt so that puddles can render
the puddles are done by
the sim automatically puts those puddles.ORBX from what i saw in EGLC they made everything using the Sim Materials ,You can actually achieve a lot by playing around with the different materials and their properties,Only downside is that if youve already created the ground poly in 3DS MAX youll have to create it again in the sim
the sim automatically puts those puddles.ORBX from what i saw in EGLC they made everything using the Sim Materials ,You can actually achieve a lot by playing around with the different materials and their properties,Only downside is that if youve already created the ground poly in 3DS MAX youll have to create it again in the sim
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I haven't been able to figure this out yet but yes it does seem you can do alot with the in-sim materials and aprons especially. In fact it seems like you could build a "ground poly" in the sim for your airport layout with separate layers for base layer, lines/markings, oil stains, tire marks, etc. I have actually done some of this. One thing I was trying to do was a custom ground "No-Taxi" marking on the pavement. I found a texture with the taxi markings on it in the sim however I didn't find a way to map a part of the texture so that only my chosen letter shows up. So then I thought that I must need to create my own material and I have not tried that yet. I am assuming if I make a "No-Taxi" transparent texture then I can put it down on an apron and then have my ground marking. But I am also wondering about what if I want to do multiple ground markings like that but keep them all in one texture? I have seen multiple runway markings with the red background at airports and surely they aren't using one texture file for each of those markings. I am kinda rambling on here but any thoughts about this or experience already with doing something like this?
Yh im also wondering about this,i tried creating my own material and using numbers but for some reason anytime i place the number as an apron it ends up inverted,I dont really get why the Sim does this ,im gonna experiment tomorrow and see exactly how to achieve the correct ground markings
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You have to flip the textures vertically in Gimp before exporting them. I managed to have ground texture texts showing the right way with that method. Hover for now I cannot still figure out how to pick a specific set of letters let's say in the middle of a texture. So I had to place individuals numbers on their own textures each for my gate numbers.
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Default in sim materials are nice indeed, but I need to figure out a way to import my own lines/draped markings because the default set is quite limited. Despite being easy to place, making default lines all by hand takes quite a lot of time compared to standard ground polygons made in blender/max, what’s also more important is that you lose a bit of precision with that, lines can be quite messy, default developer camera does not have an orthographic option, which is bad.
Actually if you create a line for example and double click it in the scenery editor it takes you into an orthographic view over the line,you can do this for any object.After that just move around normally with the camera. And yes i do agree its much easier to create these things in 3ds,I looked at your object and evn though it had no texture there was no reason it shouldnt have worked in the sim when exported