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SBuilderX and Landclass draw order

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fightingpenguinz

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Hi all,

I am using SBuilderX to place some landclass around a scenery I am developing. But I run into issues when it comes to the layering of the landclass. They appear in the correct order in SBuilderX and in the TmfViewer, but in the sim they are not in the correct order. I am not using any 3rd party landclass scenery, just default. I have used FSXKML in the past and did not have the issue, but I think SBuilderX makes selecting the landclass textures a lot easier. Has anyone else had this issue?

FSX SP2, Win 7

-Cliff
 
Some screenshots

Here are some screenshots showing the problem at hand. The triangles on the right show the incorrect draw order in the sim.

SBuilderX v 3.13:
SBuilderX313.jpg

TmfViewer:
TmfViewer.jpg

In the Sim (FSX):
FSX.jpg
 
Go into SBuilderX and hit File | Export as SBX, then zip that SBX file up and attach it in another post.
 
Here it is. I tried making the same test using FSXKML and I had the same result. Looked good in FSXKML and in TmfViewer, wrong order in the sim. I took another look at one of the tutorials and it looks like in the screenshots that they are not overlapping the landclasses, just making them all separately next to each other. I've continued on with that approach but would like to know if the layering is effective in the sim, or more hit or miss?
 

Attachments

The display order of polygon FSX vectors in the sim is random in nature, as told to us by the Aces team long ago. Rather than overlapping the polys, you'll have to trim them to make them butt each other.

Dick
 
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