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Boundary Fence

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I have created a shape poly of type - airport background with the flatten tag. I have put a small boundary fence along one side.

All appears fine in ADE 1.30 and the file complies correctly.

In FSX the poly and flatten appear correct but the boundary fence does not show up.

Can I use boundary fences in this manner?

Cheers

Rennie
 
Hi Rennie

Yes that should work. but you are saying that the fence is not appearing in FSX? Is it on the flatten or beyond it? Is the altitude of the flatten the same as the reference altitude of the airport?
 
I have found that FSX does not consistently display boundary fences. It depends upon the angle from my eye point to the fence and which side of the fence I'm looking at.

The fence is always there, but it does not display at times and is frustrating. This behavior is identical in default airports and those I've modified or created from scratch with ADE.
 
Jon

It is on the flatten, the poly and fence vertex are set to
53.00m.

The reference airport is 25.60m.

Fence does not show in FSX.

Reading between the lines in your reply, I suspect that
I am using this feature incorrectly as the fence is not directly
on the main airport.

Hopefully the attached jpegs make it a little clearer.

Cheers
Rennie
 

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Hmmm - well boundary fences take on the altitude of the airport. If you flatten is at 53.00m and your airport is at 25.6m then the airport is bascially below ground - I'm suprised any of it shows up. Why do you have the two altitudes be set differently?
 
Jon

What I am trying to do is add a chain link fence, for example a
small or tiny boundary fence around my house. I have modeled
my house in FSDS 3.51 and inserted in FSX.

It sits on the flatten. I live less than 1KM from CYQQ
which is at 25.6m. You have to go uphill from the airport
to reach the elevation of the house which sits at 53.0m.

I think the answer lies in that boundary fences have to be
tied to the airport altitude to show up.

I am asking your fantastic program to do something it was not designed to do.

My thought process - make a poly - type airport background -
flatten to surrounding altitude - insert fence.

See attached jpeg.

Cheers
Rennie
 

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This should all work except for the boundary fence. It needs to be associated with an airport and will be at the reference altitude of that airport. It should work if you use fence made up from library objects since the altitude of these can be set and they are usually set to be at ground level.

There are a lot of fences available though not specifically for FSX. FS9 fences should work and you can add the library containing them to ADE (version 1.30)
 
Jon

Thank you for your help.

Now I understand why they don't show up in FSX.

The only chain link fences I can find are lens ez walls & fences vol1.bgl.

I will try to add one of these as a library object.

Cheers
Rennie
 
mambad said:
Jon

Thank you for your help.

Now I understand why they don't show up in FSX.

The only chain link fences I can find are lens ez walls & fences vol1.bgl.

I will try to add one of these as a library object.

Cheers
Rennie
Click to expand...

You should be able to use that library
 
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