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Taxiway DrawSurface

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I am wondering if this is honored by FS? I modified ADE to only show those taxiway surfaces that have this flag set to true - most disappeared inlcuding a whole lot that I am sure should be there.

Or is there a bug in SDE so that I am misreading this information :o
 
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scruffyduck said:
I am wondering if this is honored by FS? I modified ADE to only show those taxiway surfaces that have this flag set to true - most disappeared inlcuding a whole lot that I am sure should be there.

Or is there a bug in SDE so that I am misreading this information :o
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I just checked EHAM using ADE, but i don't find any taxiways dissappeared.
can you please explain what you meant exactly.

regards
Bert
 
Hi Bert

Sorry to be clearer the current released build of ADE will show all taxiways. It does not look at the drawSurface Flag.

However when I only draw taxiways where the drawSurface Flag is set to True then I am missing most of the ones I think should be there. This is either that FS is not honoring (making use of) this flag, or more likely that there is a bug in SDE somewhere and it is not reading the flag correctly from the Bgl file.
 
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Hi Bert

Sorry to be clearer the current released build of ADE will show all taxiways. It does not look at the drawSurface Flag.

However when I only draw taxiways where the drawSurface Flag is set to True then I am missing most of the ones I think should be there. This is either that FS is not honoring (making use of) this flag, or more likely that there is a bug in SDE somewhere and it is not reading the flag correctly from the Bgl file.
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Are the "missing" ones on aprons?

-Doug
 
Hi Doug

No not all of them. I think I am mis-reading information. Presumably FS does make use of the DrawSurface and DrawDetail Flags?

EDIT

OK as far as I can tell these are ignored by FS
 
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Hi Doug

No not all of them. I think I am mis-reading information. Presumably FS does make use of the DrawSurface and DrawDetail Flags?

EDIT

OK as far as I can tell these are ignored by FS
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I'm almost certain FSX makes use of DrawSurface. I added support to our data pipeline for this attribute. Most of the taxiways in our database flagged NoSurface (DrawSurface=FALSE) are apron paths, with a few vehicle paths and holdshorts thrown in. Very few apron paths are excluded from this group.

Try drawing a hard-surface apron path across some grass somewhere and see what happens as you toggle DrawSurface.

-Doug
 
OK Thanks Doug I will test that out.
 
Doug

As far as I can tell, after some tests, the drawSurface and drawDetail flags are ignored by FSX.
 
scruffyduck said:
Doug

As far as I can tell, after some tests, the drawSurface and drawDetail flags are ignored by FSX.
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Interesting. I know the drawDetail support got cut, but I was pretty sure drawSurface worked. Thanks for trying - I'll throw it on my heap of stuff to look into.

-Doug
 
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