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FSX Airport custom terrain

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I'm currently working on an airport with ADE and GPE and all is going well. Looking ahead, I'm wondering how people create some of the great terrain we see in the "islands" between taxiways, runways and such. Generically, this is where the airport background shows up. I've seen some airports, however, with much better textures and, in some cases, 3d stalks of grass (!)

I know how to do a nice texture for these areas with GPE. I was wondering what other suggested methods there are, especially those that accommodate seasonal changes.

Thanks!
 
UnitedExpress4180 said:
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Maybe you are asking the wrong question???

Nothing says an airport background has to be a (for lack of a better term) single polygon. It can be multiple polygons, all of the same elevation. And they should not intersect, I believe. The areas "inside (?)" the polygons can then be something else. Kind of like a donut's hole.

Flightbeam's Denver would be a good example where the airport's elements (runway, aprons, taxiways) are set to a flatten and the land not of those types gets handled in a different manner.
 
Huh, somehow I hadn't thought of trying that. For some reason I thought it could be done by placing new flattens on top of the existing one, each set to a lower elevation, but I suppose that explains why this method never worked. I'll give your recommendation a try.
 
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