Reclaim/Expand land problem

[Randy92]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to reclaim some land for my Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni project.

For the re-development of the airport, the military have moved the runway and aprons almost 1 km into the sea, reclaiming land to make that possible.
Now i also want to reclaim that land in FSX.

With the new AFCAD installed in FSX, you can see that the new runway lays on the water.

No i have used ADE, first to exclude the water polys and second, to create a terrain poly around the around the reclaimed land. (Both are in the same CVX file).

After placing the CVX file in FSX, this was the outcome:

As you can see, the green airport background was the boundary in which I wanted to reclaime/create new land, but FSX created a huge area of land that i don't want.

My guess is that the problem is the water exclusion touching the default land, as a lot of different tutorials warn about that problem, like the sentence below:
"DO NOT draw your exclusion polygon too close to any default land you want to keep. The exclusion will remove ALL the water polygons from any 1km tile it touches in FSX so the removed area of water can be much larger than your exclusion polygon"

Because i am expanding land, I think the polygons will have to touch the default land.

Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

There are a lot of tutorials for creating islands, but i am not creating an island, just expanding land.

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Randy Mulder

 

[GaryGB]

Hello:

ADE certainly can perform some, if not all, of the less airport-specific FS terrain scenery modifications that you appear to want.

However, you may find it helpful, and perhaps easier, to first become more familiar with the required workflow (involving exclusion and replacement of land class terrain polygons that underlie and are adjacent to the airport), by using SBuilderX while following pertinent portions of this tutorial:

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

Although your project description does not thus far seem to involve use of photo-real aerial imagery as a form of "custom land class", use of the default land classes and airport backgrounds as textured polygons (with or without blending), is a parallel concept to the use of 'custom' land class polygons ...as discussed in the above linked tutorial.


PS: If you are also using FTX Global, you may need to utilize certain types of polygons to "successfully" exclude the OrbX substitute custom land class "Park" vector polygons before layering other replacement land class texture polygons (within a scenery library GUI Area level above other scenery covering your airport) for your own scenery.


Hope this helps !

GaryGB

 

[rhumbaflappy]

You excluded the waterpoly, which exposed the underlying landclass tile. You need to make a new waterpoly (and perhaps shoreline), which will re-mask the underlying landclass tile.

Dick

 

[Randy92]

Thank you GaryGB!

Will definitely take a look at the tutorial!

Happy holidays.

Best regards,
Randy

 

[Randy92]

You excluded the waterpoly, which exposed the underlying landclass tile. You need to make a new waterpoly (and perhaps shoreline), which will re-mask the underlying landclass tile.

Dick

Thanks Dick, will take a look at it!

Regards,
Randy