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Changing the"solid green" runway skirt

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Hi, I really enjoy working with ADE, but the airfield "Skirt" it makes for the runway is too "solid looking" its exactly like the lousy looking FSX default runway "stamp looking" ground. Can this be changed to a more subtle pasture??..it really makes the airfield grounds one does look like something glued to the ground!!!!...Thanks
 
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Solid, I would recommend to use the "transparent" texture. Select grass and then click the checkbox where it says "transparent".
 
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Desdichado....Thanks, But There is no button to check that says "transparent" on the texture!!!!!...or am choosing the wrong "grass".
 
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solid....runway - edit!
 

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The transparent button does not appear unless your bglcomp version is from the acceleration expansion package.
 
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As Ed says transparency is only supported with the later BglComp versions for FSX.
 
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ADE does not handle FS2004 terrain polygons or lines. You need to use a program like SBuilder for that.
 
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scruffyduck said:
As Ed says transparency is only supported with the later BglComp versions for FSX.
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And where do I get the "later BglComp for FSX"??? for my ADE does not support the transparency thingy!! Once I install the later BglComp, will ADE Provide the Transparency option automatically???
 
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Do you have FSX-Gold which comes with acceleration or did you buy FSX Deluxe and then purchased acceleration at a later date?
 
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ADE does check for the version of BglComp. However if you update the SDK then ADE will probably not offer the latest one. Because of a fix we needed to make to bglcomp.xsd to get transparency to work in FSX ADE copies BglComp.exe from the SDK. However if it is already present then it will not try again. You should manually copy the later bglcomp.exe from the SDK into the FSX sub folder inside the ADE main folder and replace the one that you find there.
 
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jvile said:
Do you have FSX-Gold which comes with acceleration or did you buy FSX Deluxe and then purchased acceleration at a later date?
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I bought FSX DeLuxe and later addred Accelerator...where do I get the latest SDK?
 
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It's on the Acceleration disc,
I think you have to remove the SDK from the deluxe version first, there's a thread on how to add the SDK somewhere on this site if i remember correctly,
you cant get it wrong as the Acceleration SDK install will tell you as well what to remove
 
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