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Water Not Showing from Google Earth?

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Hello all, my first post, and hopefully I won't be bugging you too much in this forum. I am having a little bit of a problem. I am trying to get the Google Earth Poly into FS X. I have successfully covered the state I am working with, build it properly with FSX_KML, but however, no water shows at all what so ever. It has excluded the bays, lakes, and rivers. I know I'm doing something wrong, can someone help me out here? Thanks! :confused:

John Thuot II
KSFZ/KPVD
 
You don't really give much info there.

You must export your polygons out of GoogleEarth as .kml files. Are you getting that far?
 
Captainjohn said:
Yes I am....I'm able to even compile the BGL file from that. I don't know what's happening. I have exported the .KML file by doing a "Save As" function. I still don't get the right results.
Click to expand...

Are you tagging a polygon that you intend to be water as "Hydro_Polygons_Generic_Ocean_Perennial" (or whichever water poly you want?).

That is the next step.

And yes, posting your kml file would say a thousand words...
 
KML file attached....

Hey all, as requested by popular demand, here is my KML file. Hope you can all help out....This is copied and pasted from it. Thanks!

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<Icon>
<href>http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pushpin/ylw-pushpin.png</href>
</Icon>
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</Style>
<Style id="sn_ylw-pushpin">
<IconStyle>
<scale>1.1</scale>
<Icon>
<href>http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pushpin/ylw-pushpin.png</href>
</Icon>
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</IconStyle>
</Style>
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<styleUrl>#msn_ylw-pushpin</styleUrl>
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<tessellate>1</tessellate>
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John Thuot II

writer and creator/producer of Contact Flap's Flap at 1380.0. Check out http://www.captainjohnfsx.net and http://www.flightsim.com for Flap's Flap articles....
 
Lance,

When you wrote "Did you mean to set the whole state as an airport baackground?" I think that is what I was doing wrong. I am going to try again and leave that blank. I'm actually planning something really nice if I have the time for it with FS X. I'm using R.I. not only because it's where I live, but because it is a smaller state. So what you're saying is, I shouldn't have an airport background thing on there at all, is that what I'm correct to assume? Thanks again for your help!

John Thuot II

writer and creator/producer of Contact Flap's Flap at 1380.0. Check out http://www.captainjohnfsx.net and http://www.flightsim.com for Flap's Flap articles....
 
I think (but can't tell for sure) that your goal here is to do a scenery of Rhode Island, or at least give it more accurate shorelines and islands.

Actually, that's not a "beginners" project, given the multiple islands there in the bay.

The way *I* would start this project, would be to load the relevant cvx****.bgl file into TMFViewer program that comes with the SDK. This is your starting point, because as Lance indicates, the FSX world is entirely land, with water polygons over it.

So, what you need to do with RI, is look at TMFViewer and see which existing polygons you are going to have to exclude. Then, make a poly with the coordinates that touch all of the polys you want to exclude, and tag it with something like "Exclude_Hydro_Polygons_Generic_Ocean_Perennial" or whatever hydro type Microsoft used there by RI.

Then you'll also have old SHORELINES to exlude there as well. So you'll have to create polys for those also, and tag them with "Exclude_Shorelines_Generic_Ocean_Perennial" or "Bay_Harbor..." and so forth.

THEN...you will have all land where the bay and sea is at Rhode Island. So now you can begin placing your custom Hydro polygons in.

That's where your GoogleEarth really comes in handy, and the kml file you exported.

As was said, you really have tackled a BIG complex thing here, and RI is not something I would start off with. Actually you could start with it, but start by looking at a much smaller area, such as around Block Island. Load the relevant cvx***.bgl file into TMFViewer and that's your starting point for any FSX_KML project.

Hope this helps you get a start on what you're trying to do. Think smaller...at first.

You can build ALL of this into one single large kml file. You have to do some cutting and pasting but it pays off in terms of the number of files FSX has to read and parse, and also organizationally.
 
Thanks Rhett.....maybe I will start something smaller. I changed my area to the northern part of the state where I live, so I'll hopefully be able to tell the difference. Thanks again! I'm going to give it another whirl......and thanks for the tip with the TMF viewer....

John
 
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