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USGS DATA MAP HELP
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Thanks again Jim, that did it!!!
I guess I was expecting wow when I installed the .bgl, but the results were disappointing. I must have done something wrong.
Here are three images, first is the scenery with the elevation bgl, notice the dropoffs on the sides of runway. Second is default fsx, third is photoreal without the elevation bgl.
In real life there is a very narrow valley towards the right, and hills on both sides making it a very challenging approach which I wanted to recreate. I was hoping a good mesh would do that. Maybe my mesh is full of mistakes.
I guess I was expecting wow when I installed the .bgl, but the results were disappointing. I must have done something wrong.
Here are three images, first is the scenery with the elevation bgl, notice the dropoffs on the sides of runway. Second is default fsx, third is photoreal without the elevation bgl.
In real life there is a very narrow valley towards the right, and hills on both sides making it a very challenging approach which I wanted to recreate. I was hoping a good mesh would do that. Maybe my mesh is full of mistakes.
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looks like you have to exclude the flatten and create a new one which is more tight around the airport.
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Hi Dave, love your work btw. I thought so by reading some posts, so I went to ADE and created a terrain polygon, selected "exclude specific - Airport backgrounds flatten" and created a cvx bgl, I then put that into my Culebra scenery folder, but it did not exclude the default flatten. Was that not the correct approach?
Is there a file I need to delete in fsx related to Culebra that contains the flatten in question?
Thanks, Bernardo.
Is there a file I need to delete in fsx related to Culebra that contains the flatten in question?
Thanks, Bernardo.
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I found something in SBuilderX: A polygon named Exclude_specific_Terrain_Type and then select AB_Flatten.
Maybe this one works.
Maybe this one works.
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I've always used "Exclude_All_Airport_Boundaries" in SBuilderX, the ADE equivalent would be "Exclude general > Airport Backgrounds". It looks like the vertical smeared edges are gone though so I wonder if there's a natural depression in the mesh there? You could open your mesh .bgl in TMFViewer and take a look.
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Ok!! making progress here. For some reason I kept getting an error message trying SbuilderX related to the fsuipc, so could not try that approach. Then tried your path in ADE Jim, and it seems to have done the job. This screenshot is with the flatten exclusion applied, but without the mesh I created for Culebra, but now it closely resembles the true topography. I guess whats left is for me to create a flatten for the airport area. Thanks!!!
