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Change surface behavior of existing runway? (Ice to Concrete)

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Sasa

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Hi!

I didn't find a solution for the following question after some browsing in this forum and reading the SCASM docs:

What I have here is an ice resp. snow runway at McMurdo, Antarctica. The problem is that those runways are slippery like nothing else. There is absolutely no friction and the only way to stop an aircraft is be using thrust reverse. There should at least be some friction.

Because the default ice texture fits perfectly for this runway I decided to use it there instead of a runway done using resample.exe. In other words: I want to keep the texture default and only want to change its friction.

For the resample.exe runways I used some modificated landclasses the enhance the friction. ORBX seems to use taxipaths to "flatten" the apron areas.
The problem is that I didn't find anything at yet that I could put over the runway to enhance friction. I tried the following options:

  • Adding a 3D platform along the runway, which is 0.02 meters higher. Didn't work because even if you set the start locations higher, FSX always uses the actual runway altitude meaning that the aircraft always starts below the platform if there is a runway.
  • Drawing a concrete apron beneath the runway. Didn't work because the runway seems to have a higher priority than aprons (of course).
  • I always thought that there was a command in SCASM that lets us add an invisible surface, but couldn't find anything like it (always thought this is Area 16 but it aparently doesn't have a surface option).

Any ideas?

Bests,
Sascha
 
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Tejal Bernardo

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New runway and set his widht to 0.0, the runway desappear, don't know if it's what you mean, and if in this case will keep his properties.
 
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Sasa

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I want to keep the existing ice runway, just with a different surface behavior. That's the problem.
 
scruffyduck

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I would say that would need some modification to the texture used in FS for ice runways. I have no idea how that would be done since it is not my area of expertise.
 
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Sasa

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That's something I'm trying to avoid. I'm always trying to do my sceneries in a way that nothing on FSX's default files needs to be changed.
I nothing else works out here, I will do the runways with resample.exe and a landclass that doesn't cause a spray effect when taxiing. But provided that the default runway looks just perfect in McMurdo I would like to keep that highres runway texture when possible.

Bests,
Sascha
 
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