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FS2004 Taxipaths as Grass cover

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I have noticed in quite a few airports I have downloaded that airport ground cover seems to be done using taxiways set to paths, surface set to grass, width set to max 1000ft, no lights, right and left sides None and colour set to green.
Is this possible. I have tried to mimic this in ade but with no joy?

Thanks
Chris75
 
I’m not sure, but AFCAD (what we used before ADE) uses its own compiler without many of the limitations of the MS compiler used by ADE. Perhaps they used that program to create such airports. It’s still available, but doesn’t include certain things that ADE does (like editing taxi signs).

You should be able to create a grass apron in ADE to mimic this approach?
 
IMO, terrain airport backgrounds are much more realistic than using taxiways or aprons as terrain. You could use a program like SBuilder Or Ground2K4 for that, although they have a steeper learning curve.
 
Thanks Tom.

Yes I have used a grass apron but it's not quite as good as what I have seen. I shall tinker with AFCAD, used it moons ago so have it somewhere on the pc.
Many thanks
 
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