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MSFS20 Terraforming flattening problem

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danielezotta

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Hello guys,
after some time spent to understand how to build scenery into this new sim, I faced an issue with Terraforming flattening. It creates a wave like effect, instead of being straight. Here some pics of the effect and the rectangle profile:

Microsoft Flight Simulator - 1.7.12.0 23_08_2020 11_13_50.png
Microsoft Flight Simulator - 1.7.12.0 23_08_2020 11_10_53.png



Any help is appreciated, Daniele.
 
I believe the effect is due to the Falloff distance setting, by default it is something like 500, for sharp edges you want to put it down to zero or close to zero. It's in the Polygon Properties tab.
 
Gheed said:
I believe the effect is due to the Falloff distance setting, by default it is something like 500, for sharp edges you want to put it down to zero or close to zero. It's in the Polygon Properties tab.
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Thanks, but i already tried, it makes no difference there and strangely I can't reach 0, as in the runway properties... I don't know, maybe a limitation of the sim?
 
After I changed that value to 0 in the XML, I got this situation

Microsoft Flight Simulator - 1.7.12.0 23_08_2020 20_58_47.png


which made me think the terrain is probably represented like a matrix, so can't avoid those waves if the flattening is applied diagonally.

Daniele
 
Have you managed to set the terraform to a fixed altitude asl? I can create a polygon or rectangle and terraform with it using the arrows to lower or raise but I cannot input an exact altitude with numbers.
 
BrBlazer said:
Have you managed to set the terraform to a fixed altitude asl? I can create a polygon or rectangle and terraform with it using the arrows to lower or raise but I cannot input an exact altitude with numbers.
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You can set the altitude by setting the profile of the rectangle, as shown in the next picture

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With 1 you can change the point you are editing, with 2 you can enter the height value in meters. If you loop all the points and you set the same height to them, you will end up with a flat surface.

Daniele
 
Changing the XML value to zero doesn't seem to work for me. When I load the game the falloff reads as 1.
 
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