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What to use from here...

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Good morning everyone,

I have been designing airports with ADE for quite some time and decided that the time had come to push it further scenery wise in my FSX.
As i am very comfortable learning new soft wares, i went ahead and got familiar with FS Earth tiles so i can have some photo realistic scenery of my region.
I was successful at editing the masks for the water lines, create my bgl's and have them to show in FSX.
Sadly, any lakes i have in these bgl's that were not part of the default FSX scenery is showing in brown...no water.

I believe i understand the how to fix it but unsure about which tool to use at this point in time.
If my understanding is correct, i have to create polygons to exclude the default FSX ground polygons, then on top of that, new water polygons to recreate these missing lakes.

Am i getting this right, what would be the best tool to perform such stunt?

Thank you in advance for any help provided on this matter. Truly appreciated.
 
Hello:

A few folks here use FSET, but IMHO, it would be easier if you first learn basic concepts of SDK work-flow required via SBuilderX. :idea:


FYI: I just posted a few helpful links to that type of info in this thread:

https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/steep-sided-islands.445660/#post-825526


If you wish to proceed with SBuilderX 3.15, you may also wish to review at least the first few pages of this very long, but informative thread:

https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?250762-How-to-create-photoreal-scenery-for-FSX


Feel free to inquire further if you have more questions. :)

GaryGB
 
Hi Gary,
I have completed my reading covering terrain design within FSX. As for SbuilderX... 3.14 is running ok, but 3.15 keeps on trying to download images without ever getting there.. Am i missing a config to applied to it or this the no so stable behavior people are referring to?? Thank you very much for your help on this matter. Patrick
 
Hi Patrick:

The SBuilderX startup message you allude to above can be ignored if you installed the "Full" ZIP of a working SBuilderX version 3.15 folder chain made available by rhumbaflappy with all needed files intact:

https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/sbuilderx-v315.441705/


If you are unable to find the thread containing the link for that "Full" ZIP package in the SBuilderX forum, please let us know. :-)

GaryGB
 
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