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MSFS Attempt to correct different ground altitudes

jgarnold

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Currently there is a mismatch between water levels in one part of Green Lake, Whistler Canada (see image below) which I tried to correct with a polygon but it doesn't seem to have any effect. Is this because I need to do it with terraforming which currently is not handled by ADE?
I created a polygon to cover the area where the water levels/altitudes is and with the altitude set to 633 meters, flags "is water' set to false, 'exclude water' set to true, and water type set to lake (I had the first 2 flags reverse but the water 'texture' was wrong and only looked correct set to 'ocean'.
Any ideas?
water change_2_SIDES.jpg
 
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Hi John, the only thing that always works fine is the "snap to ground" checkbox. All other values might cause one or the other effect like yours.
 
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Hi Guido. Thanks for that info. I am assuming that the "snap to ground" checkbox is in SDK as I can't see it in Airport Design Editor which I am using with my water airport. Is "snap to ground" part of the polygon in SDK?
 
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Snap to ground checkbox in what element?
 
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Hi, sorry for the delay, I'm pretty busy these days...so the snap to ground is in almost all elements. In this case I assume it's the polygon, yes. I not working with ADE in this area as I use it for the orchestration of elemnts but the final setup is always done with the SDK in my workflow.
snapToGround="TRUE" or snapToGround="FALSE"
If there is a good position in the ADE workflow where this kind of xml code changes could be made, Sruffyduck is the write person to give an answer to this.
 
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If there is a snap to ground attribute for an element that ADE will expose that in the property grid editor. I am not sure what the default is as I am not in front of the code

Polygons are not well supported in ADE - it can create them but not read them back from Dev Mode yet so that it is best to work with them in Dev Mode. It's another job on the list to decompile the shape bgl to get back to the source in ADE
 
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