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Best way to create ground polygons for MSFS

Thanks for the additional responses! Based on this I went ahead and as a test converted an older poly I made for P3D for MSFS. It's still rudimentary because I just put in a flatten to see what would come out, but overall I'm very pleased. Definitely a million times easier than it was in P3D:
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V-Pilot said:
I am the OP and I have mostly switched to Projected Meshes. I can work in blender for hours without having to worry about the buggy SDK interface. Some things I still add via SDK, mostly aprons.

I just wish the parameters of the material will work on PMs. If I change the albedo color, opacity, etc on blender, it does not affect the Mesh. I would have to change that in the png directly and that is when creating aprons is a little easier.

The best quality for the materials is seen by setting terrain LOD to 400. That is how I capture the screenshots for my products, but it compromises performance. I don't think to date, there is a PC powerful enough to run Terrain LOD at 400.
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What's " The OP"? Optimus Prime? like, I'm the real OG, you better look out! lol

I'm pretty new at all this. Been making custom, PBR textured buildings in blender, but I've only ever used the default aprons and played around with material libraries a little for the lettering. Sorry for the naivete of this question but are both PMs and ground polys considered planes made in 3D software like blender?

I think my workflow is more suited to peacefarm's method with layered aprons except, where on earth do you guys find appropriate textures? Most of the texture sites I go to are geared towards architectual interior design. I'm having a hard time finding cracked runways, asphalt, concrete, etc. Also, has anyone shared a good runway marking texture set?

Thanks for any help that can be provided on resources.
 
OP (original poster/used to refer to the person who started the topic in forums or discussion boards)

PMs are basically the same as Ground Polys. I believe it's just terminology differences between simulators. They can be modeled in blender as planes.

Texture heaven, CG Axis, texture can, are examples of websites where you can find textures. Some are payware. I use Google to look for specifics then go from there. For example, I search "Asphalt PBR"
 
Thank you OP!

Do you or anyone else know of a good resource for ground markings, e.g. thresholds, numbers, touchdown, etc. , or do most make those themselves in photoshop?
 
ViolinPilot said:
Thank you OP!

Do you or anyone else know of a good resource for ground markings, e.g. thresholds, numbers, touchdown, etc. , or do most make those themselves in photoshop?
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We make ours ourselves since we make payware products.

I believe flightsim.to has freeware libraries to use with freeware addons
 
OP, when you're making runway markings, are you still using sources like ariel views from Shutterstock/GettyImages? Curious if you're still using sources or literally starting with a blank canvas in photoshop and have some advanced skills there as a texture artist as well.
 
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I make ground polygons in blender. I import an aerial view with blenderGIS to use as reference and start adding planes with textures we have made in Photoshop, illustrator or GIMP. (Numbers, signs, colors, etc)
 
Thank you OP. I had just came to the same conclusion and am trying it out for the first time now. Man, blenderGIS sure takes a lifetime to download tiles when you cover an entire airport, Lock it, then zoom in to maximize the detail. Thank you for your direction. projected mesh seems like the way to go!
 
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