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Can't create background for new runway

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I have been trying, without any luck, to create the airport grass for the airport expansion for rwy 10/28 at Atlanta (KATL) in FS2004.
I have gone through ScruffyDuck's SBuilder tutorial successfully (and understand it) and one other tutorial that did essentially what I wish to do, at another airport (KCLE). Just out of curiosity, I expanded the texture poly quite a way out from the airport border, and doing so results in a band of the grass texture surrounding the airport, but nothing on the airport. In searching this forum I spotted this statement by Jim Vile: "Make sure the airport poly you are trying to replace is not one of the airports listed in the Scenery\Cities folder." I do believe Atlanta is one of those airports. How is this handled? I have attached a screen shot.
 

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Hi,

The default airport you are looking at does not contain a background poly, it contains an aerial image. It is not possible to place VTP polygons on top of such an aerial image, that is why you don't see it appearing.
 
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Is there any way to modify this airport to provide a background for the new runway that is similar to the rest of the airport? AFCAD will place the runway/taxiways, etc. but having them sit on top of the aerial image is not very realistic.

EDIT: I believe I found what I must do...remove the Atlanta Scenery from the Scenery Library (uncheck it). Doing that uncovers VTP texture polygons for the airport base.
 
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I guess another option would be to find the textures used for the aerial image and paint the new runway into it by hand. They way you can keep the detail of the photo at the rest of the airport. But it will be slightly more work of course :).
 
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That would also require "painting" the underlying grass, as well as taxiways. I'll just have to explain in the instructions (to my VA members) to be sure to remove the Atlanta scenery from the scenery library. Thanks for your help.
 
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