FSXA Taxiway Centerlines

[FrostySoftware]

Hello,

I have been following the Taxiline creation tutorial on the wiki (http://forum.fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=Taxiline_creation_with_GMax) , which works fantastically, but I have a question about intersecting taxiway lines.

I have a tileable texture, which has a yellow center and two black lines either side. This works fine for a single line but when another intersects it, one black line will remain over the top of the original line.

Is there a technique not covered in the tutorial for taxiway line intersections?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[EdGeneer]

I would think there is NOT an automatic way of doing this. how would gmax do anything other than what its told, which is to tile your texture correctly along the loft.... it does not care about black and yellow interaction within the texture... thats YOUR eye saying its wrong....

now, that said, the only way is to make a poly with the exact interaction mapping the 'joint' and adding the lines to the edge of it, meaning you have to create each junction manually and just loft to the edges of your poly lining them up, and thus getting the desired look you want... tedious, but gmax is not going to smooth the black edges any differently that what you told it to do which is to tile it sequentially...

you would need to make each 'type' of junction like you would completing a model train track layout....

 

[jdberg]

Hello,

I have been following the Taxiline creation tutorial on the wiki (http://forum.fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=Taxiline_creation_with_GMax) , which works fantastically, but I have a question about intersecting taxiway lines.

I have a tileable texture, which has a yellow center and two black lines either side. This works fine for a single line but when another intersects it, one black line will remain over the top of the original line.

Is there a technique not covered in the tutorial for taxiway line intersections?

Thanks,
Steve

You can use transparency for the black lines inside so the ground can be seen instead of the black color. So you can easily overlap the lines.

Jörg

 

[FrostySoftware]

I would think there is NOT an automatic way of doing this. how would gmax do anything other than what its told, which is to tile your texture correctly along the loft.... it does not care about black and yellow interaction within the texture... thats YOUR eye saying its wrong....

now, that said, the only way is to make a poly with the exact interaction mapping the 'joint' and adding the lines to the edge of it, meaning you have to create each junction manually and just loft to the edges of your poly lining them up, and thus getting the desired look you want... tedious, but gmax is not going to smooth the black edges any differently that what you told it to do which is to tile it sequentially...

you would need to make each 'type' of junction like you would completing a model train track layout....

Well explained, thanks