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SBuilderX315x64 Compiler problem

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I am attempting to compile a set of roads I added to a scenery I'm working on. About 2 weeks ago I added a shoreline to give some wave action in certain areas and that compiled just fine. Move ahead two weeks and I get this error message:
"SbuilderX can not Export RDX_Tangier.shp!" I checked the FSX Settings tab to ensure the paths are correct and all tools are present and they are.
 
Hi Ed:

Is this file already inside SBuilderX "\Shapes" sub-folder, and was it 'locked' by Windows during BGL compilation ? : :scratchch

[SBuilderX315 install path]\Tools\Shapes\RDX_Tangier.shp

GaryGB
 
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Turns out this is a mute point since I was wanting to add a road system on photoreal scenery. Not possible.
 
Hi Ed:

Were you wanting to add just the Freeway Traffic to the custom photo-real road images ?

If so, those CVX vector Freeway Traffic objects will show through to the top of custom photo-real aerial imagery.

If you wanted to add visible CVX vector object road textures, one would have to create a full transparency Blend Mask grayscale value for the custom photo-real road images, to reveal the underlying CVX vector road texture instead of the custom photo-real road images themselves.

Hope this helps. :)

GaryGB
 
Actually Gary, this was for Tangier Island, Va., whose main mode of traffic is generally Golf Carts, Trucks along the docks and an occasional car or two, so it wasn't so much the traffic as it was a better visible road system. I simply chose a color similar to the few good areas I found and then did a vector line system in Paint Shop Pro as a layer. When I was done I made it very slightly transparent, merged the layers and the roads show up much better now, but not as though they are pasted on top of the photoreal.
 
Excellent idea for another method, Ed ! :)

Certainly that vector feature in Corel PaintShop Pro is a good way to do that. :idea:

Ironically, as I typed my latter post above, I was thinking about how one might otherwise do this as a Vector "Path" in Corel PhotoPaint or Corel Draw, then merging it with the Raster layer via a Mask in a multi-layer aerial imagery source file. :scratchch


GaryGB
 
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