-
Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:
- Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
- Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
- Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
- Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
- Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
- Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.
Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.
By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.
[Sbuilder] Texture polygon under afcad, how?
- Thread starter Jessy
- Start date
Luis_Sá
Resource contributor
- Messages
- 326
- Country
Hello,
Are you referring to FSX? If yes the photo scenery will show under the afcad layer.
If you refer to FS9, the normal 5 meter/pixel photo scenery, made with resample or placed as VTP quad polygons (the last one being the SBuilder way) will also go under the afcad layer.
Best Regards,
Luis
ps: if you make "high resolution photo scenery" for FS9 with gmax, SBuilder, ...., it goes on top of the afcad layer.
Are you referring to FSX? If yes the photo scenery will show under the afcad layer.
If you refer to FS9, the normal 5 meter/pixel photo scenery, made with resample or placed as VTP quad polygons (the last one being the SBuilder way) will also go under the afcad layer.
Best Regards,
Luis
ps: if you make "high resolution photo scenery" for FS9 with gmax, SBuilder, ...., it goes on top of the afcad layer.
- Messages
- 180
- Country
Hi,
I am referring to FS9.
What I did is create a VTP for the grass to exclude autogen, next I created a poly with in the general tab Text selected. I loaded my texture, aligned it and exported them. No texture was shown ...
I have placed the texture in DXT3 in the main fs9 texture folder as well as the texture folder of my scenery. But nothing shows, even played with layer priority but nothing ...
I am referring to FS9.
What I did is create a VTP for the grass to exclude autogen, next I created a poly with in the general tab Text selected. I loaded my texture, aligned it and exported them. No texture was shown ...
I have placed the texture in DXT3 in the main fs9 texture folder as well as the texture folder of my scenery. But nothing shows, even played with layer priority but nothing ...
Luis_Sá
Resource contributor
- Messages
- 326
- Country
Hello,
The Textured Polygon will be a flat polygon. Could you try to make a flatten just to see if it shows up?
I do not remember if you can set the altitude of the polygon. That will be the thing to look up if it happens to be buried. There is also a SCASM file generated and left at the Tools/Work folder. You could "play" with that file and compile and check if it shows.
Regards,
Luis
ps: I have no access to SBuilder at the moment. Later on, I can try it and be more specific.
The Textured Polygon will be a flat polygon. Could you try to make a flatten just to see if it shows up?
I do not remember if you can set the altitude of the polygon. That will be the thing to look up if it happens to be buried. There is also a SCASM file generated and left at the Tools/Work folder. You could "play" with that file and compile and check if it shows.
Regards,
Luis
ps: I have no access to SBuilder at the moment. Later on, I can try it and be more specific.
Stupid me. In all that mess I forgot to set the poly altitude 
Luis_Sá
Resource contributor
- Messages
- 326
- Country
Hi,
I think there is no simple workaround to what you describe. These ground textured polygons are used to place extra paintings on top of the afcad layer. If you are trying to use them as a background, the only thing that occurs to me is to cut a hole on the texture. The hole will be a transparent region on the texture.
Regards,
Luis
I believe fs9 takes all the 4.8m terrain elements, and renders a terrain texture from them. then, it creates and places scenery objects on the terrain. When scenery objects are intended to lie flat on the ground, fs9 can at times get confused about what is visible to the user.
In terrain, there is the method of phototerrain, which requires a photo (optionally with night and seasons) which covers one or more LOD13 squares. this is passed to resample which then creates the bgl file and also cuts up the input photo into LOD13 tiles. A single bit (black/white) of transparency can be applied to these tiles to control where they actually show (by default, over all the LOD13 they cover). You can also create autogen annotation files for these tiles. the other option is to create VTP polygons with custom textures, using your photo as the custom texture. In this method the texture is "burned into" the underlying terrain, and also obeys the drawing order so you can get roads to draw over them for example.
The alternative to using terrain methods is to create flat scenery, which is placed at ground level. Here you have the problem of multiple objects such as runways and taxiline textures all trying to sit in the same the place, and having fs9 figure out which should be on top. FS9 has a feature of turning off visual airport data such as runways when other scenery is present. So you are kind of forced to model the whole airport surface if you want to go this route.
scott s.
.
In terrain, there is the method of phototerrain, which requires a photo (optionally with night and seasons) which covers one or more LOD13 squares. this is passed to resample which then creates the bgl file and also cuts up the input photo into LOD13 tiles. A single bit (black/white) of transparency can be applied to these tiles to control where they actually show (by default, over all the LOD13 they cover). You can also create autogen annotation files for these tiles. the other option is to create VTP polygons with custom textures, using your photo as the custom texture. In this method the texture is "burned into" the underlying terrain, and also obeys the drawing order so you can get roads to draw over them for example.
The alternative to using terrain methods is to create flat scenery, which is placed at ground level. Here you have the problem of multiple objects such as runways and taxiline textures all trying to sit in the same the place, and having fs9 figure out which should be on top. FS9 has a feature of turning off visual airport data such as runways when other scenery is present. So you are kind of forced to model the whole airport surface if you want to go this route.
scott s.
.