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SBuilder Shorelines for FS9

calypso

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After a long day trying, I finaly managed to make a lake and some new shorelines of an Island.
Shorelies show up as intended but how do I get rid of the water behind the shorelines and how to get rid of the old shorelines where they peeking out?
I tried the area fill but it didn't work.

I tried to find help over the search but all instructions are for FSX. I need it for FS9.

And may I make a suggestion for this excelent forum? How about seperating the design forums and the wiki into an FS9 and an FSX part.

 
It's been a while, but you need to make a polygon, right-click on the poly's edge, and change the type to Excl.

That brings up the ability to Add a Layer... and you probably need to add layer 8. Shorelines, roads, etc... are VTP, and require exclusions to change.

Water and land are LWM polys. They do not require exclusion. Changing the water to land requires another poly. and change it's properties to LWM, and type Land Mask. Water Mask is for water.

You can change a larger poly to Land, and then make a smaller poly inside/overlapping to make water within it.

Dick
 
Thanks a lot, that worked for the problem shown in the picture.

However, the next prob comes up:

As seen in the pix here, a tile of land is missing. I put for sure a landclass there and also the poly from the island itself is covering that area. Where does the water come from?

2.) When replacing the shorelines of an island, the part of drawing the line is easy, then (in Sbuilder)you can make a poly from the shoreline, which gives you a LWM poly that is supposed to cover the gaps of water that show up behind the new shoreline. However, this poly covers the whole island and it makes it flat in the same time. How to do this the proper way?
Can I cut a hole in the island poly to let the mountains come out again or do I have to draw a new poly from scratch, that covers only a small stripe along the shoreline?:confused:







Thanks for your help.
 
Hi calypso.

That's exactly what missing landclass looks like. And most often it is missing near the ocean areas... simply not extended far enough into the water.

You can use SBuilder to add landclass, but don't be stingy as FS9 needs a minumum of 4 tiles square to work... sometimes more than 4.

Dick
 
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