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FS2004 VTP not covering depending on texture

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Can someone explain to me why a VTP poly with texture from Classes textures covers a lake but the same VTP poly with texture from Assembled textures does not?
Please....this is very confusing.
 
You need to include a zipped example of the SBuilder files ( export SBX file ) so someone could look at them. Just guessing, you need to set the VTP layer number higher.

Dick
 
Indeed I should have done that right away.

Here are my KGSO files.
I tried layer 20 and that didn't help.

I tested on poly #20:
  • Moving it over a wooded area show the expected texture which is some green grass.
  • With assembled texture there is a weird reaction to the underlying land class. If it's on top of fields/small town or city it will turn to brown (dirt like)
  • With class texture it will show the proper texture
 

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Hi Patrick.

If you change the types to Classes, rather than Assembled, I think the problem goes away. There are equivalents in the Classes.

FS9 had some problems with AB polys ( Airport Backgrounds ). The Assembled types have a mind of their own. I remember Holger Sandmann did some experiments with these a few years ago. The Assembled types change appearance with elevation, slope,season... and have some blending abnormalties.

At any rate, the problem lies with FS9, not SBuilder. All the layers can be 9.

Dick
 
Sorry for the late response, I missed your post.
Thanks for the input. Yes that is what I had discovered on my own after losing some very long time experimenting and getting all kinds of weird terrain reaction with the polys.
 
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