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DONALD WATERS

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I'm reworking KCHS, Charleston International/AFB to reflect the addition of BOEING's new plant in North Charleston, SC. Using ADE for additional airport items and Sketchup and ModelCoverterX for the buildings.
Those are great. My inquiry has to do with the runways. Because KCHS has painted runway markings on the taxiway in addition to signs, I was wondering if there is an effective way to duplicate that. I tried a flat plane with sketchup and converted it to a bgl. Not good, it flashed in and out awful in FSX. Not the end of the world if it can't be done, but would add a nice touche if possible. Is there a way to do It?
 
put the bgl through MCX's Ground polygon wizard.
Search this forum for "ground polygon" for additional information.
 
Thx for the tip but did not work. Maybe the runway lies on top of any ground poly and these marking are on the runway. However, I made flat plane 1 inch thick, used a texture sheet rather than default SKETCHUP color and had MCX convert it to an object again rather than ground poly and placed it on the runway. Worked, but probably not practical. too many unnecessary faces. and not that important, just my favorite airport near by home.
 
Have you looked at the ADE Custom Ground Poly function? This allows you to create lines and marking using your own or the provided textures.
 
Ok, sounds like I need to learn ADE a bit better. Being kinda busy with making the aircraft assembly buildings for the Boeing plant. The airport markings I just discovered on google earth a few days ago and were really an afterthought and maybe kinda cool. I will check that out and thanks for the info.
 
Thanks for the advise about GP but is too complicated for my dumb brain. But I did finally get the information to stop the shimmering incidental to reading the manual for the Ground Poly. When compiling my Sketchup file in MCX I set the elevation to 0.01 meters. appears to be painted on the taxiway from my aircraft in FSX and looks good. But ill have to make a ton of bgl files to paint signs on all the runways as depicted in Goggle Earth. Unless there is a way to make a large xml file covering all similar polys.
 
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