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    3DS Max Unknown Lines

    Don't worry, those lines are just connecting the hole to the rest of the mesh. You will have those in various places no matter what. If you want to move them, I suggest using the cut tool to create a new edge that spans across the taxiway between the edge of taxiway or other holes in the...
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    FSX Transparent window, but transparent internal walls too when I look throught the glass

    I think in this case it would be easier to simply check the double-sided material option on the material in MCX or in the texture options in 3DS Max. This should force the textures to show regardless of what angle you see the walls at. However, you might have to play around with the transparency...
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    P3D v2 Transparency issues

    I suppose I should have updated this a while ago (actually, I forgot I even made this thread, but anyhoo...). It took me a lot of experimenting, but I figured out I needed to tweak the material settings a bit differently from what they would be for FSX. Mostly has to do with using z-bias and...
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    FSXA Help with volumetric grass

    I'd suggest creating/editing the mipmaps manually in GIMP or Photoshop, and applying a sharpening filter to each one to reduce the blurring.
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    SketchUp to?

    How are you creating the taxilines, and what program are you doing it in?
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    FSXA So how do I make these windows?

    If it's anything like Max, it'll add a bunch of extra vertices around the new cuts. This is unavoidable and will need to be cleaned up manually (unless there's a method which does it automatically. If there is, I guess I've been doing it the hard way for a long time...) Sent from my...
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    FSXA So how do I make these windows?

    Well, it helps to know what program you are using, first off (I'll assume you're using either GMax or 3DS Max). Create a spline with the shape of the window, then add an edit poly modifier and extrude the surface out to the width of the aircraft. Select the fuselage, then go to the compound...
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    Texture Processing

    I use the GIMP DDS plugin. Quality is somewhat better than what you get with DXTbmp, and you can export it directly.
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    SketchUp to?

    In my experience, Sketchup is too limiting compared to full-featured 3D packages (ie: you don't have fine control over polygon subdivision, texturing is pretty basic, animation is a nightmare and I'm not even sure it can transfer to MCX). As for Gmax, that program is long dead, and in my...
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    Misaligned Textures

    Start by re-importing the resulting BGL in MCX, does the texture mapping appear incorrect there? Does this happen with other objects as well, or is it just with this building?
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    GWX(Get Windows X)

    Windows 10 beta user here. Definitely upgrade from 8.1 when you get the chance, not only are the controller issues no longer present, but I've noticed a marked increase in performance on the new OS (I'd say it's a solid 10-15% gain).
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    FSX Animation Software

    I think you can do basic modeling with Sketchup, but if you're serious about it then you should look into 3DS Max (expensive) or Blender (free, but a steeper learning curve, in my opinion).
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    FSX Sunshine Coast Airport- YBSU

    Personally, I'd recommend modeling them separately, but then use the attach tool to combine them into a single mesh once you have them textured and finalized. Also, I would instead create them by enabling viewport rendering on the splines (this makes it much easier to edit the shape of the...
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    FSX Default B737 Model

    Definitely try doing a repair. Make a backup of your install first though because it may overwrite files that are modified. Also...I'm just curious, what was the addon that did the damage?
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    P3D v2 Colorado Springs Airport (KCOS)

    Update -- 18 May, 2015 First update in a long time! Geez, even *I* was starting to think this project was dead! (It was just, uh, sleeping...) Anyhoo, things got slow-going again in April due to school commitments (and because Kerbal Space Program 1.0 came out...oops), and work ceased...
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    FSXA Guess the project

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    FSXA Guess the project

    Is it bigger than a loaf of bread?
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    FSXA Guess the project

    Okay, I know how to figure this out...is it an animal, vegetable, or mineral?
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    FSXA Guess the project

    It's an unidentifiable polygon. 10/10 would guess again.
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    P3D v2 Default runway covers ground poly, GPW layers not working.

    Okay, I think I've got something. It appears that P3D does something kinda screwy with textures using alpha channels. It seems you have to disable everything involving z-writing or z-testing to get them to display properly, while it appears textures that don't have alpha channels can use these...
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