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FSX Applying mesh to new island?

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I am currently making Malta photoscenery. This small island beetween two bigger ones is not included in default FSX at all, and thats why when I covered it with photoscenery its completely flat. However I have my own custom mesh which should also cover this island installed, but I don't know what I need to do to make that mesh apply to this area too?

Picture about what it looks now:

http://i45.tinypic.com/2h2e1kj.png


Thanks for helpers now beforehand :)
 
Don't understand, you made your own mesh but don't know how to apply this to the scenery ?, Can explain better how you create the mesh, greetings
 
The area between the two islands is covered in water in FSX, correct? That water has an elevation of zero and will override any mesh, default or addon.

If you want the little island to appear where the photoscenery shows it to be you must remove the default water for the area and readd new water with the area of the little island left cut out. Only when there is no water forcing everything down to sea level will your mesh help to form the terrain for the little island.
 
Pvjinflight said:
How exactly can I prevent this from happening, not sure how to add water back to those areas outside island.
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If you prevent it from happening you will have no little island. What happened is what is suppose to happen. Now fire up SBuilderX and start making new water polygons to outline your area covered in land that you want to be water. It can be a bit tedious, but for an area that size it should not take a lot of time.
 
The new water is bad defined and not match with the coastline,..I guess. but if all the geo data is correct should match. but you are keeping in the good track. I work with FsxKml so don't know how Sbx work.
 
Pvjinflight said:
Though I wonder if there is any kind of way to fix these things where water goes uphill on coasts:
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You need to ensure that your hydr-poly exactly matches the coast.

However, your mesh doesn't fit the photo-textures so you will get cliffs.
 
Its Comino island, beetween two biggest islands of Malta. I am using 30m ASTER mesh, I don't know if there is any better sources available...
 
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