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Creating islands for FSX
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Really impressive! Thanks for sharing. Meanwhile I'm doing some stuff with SBX myself. In most cases it's in the vicinity of airports nonetheless and then I tend to go with ADE. What I really dislike is the missing stability of SBX and it is really useful for photo scenery (even I can imagine some problems when it comes to seasonal effects).
There are just some things to remember: most satellite pics are copyright protected and can't be published therefore like other scenery (this might be different for the area of the US). I didn't find any sign in the Web that Google (for example) would really accept the use in most areas as they are pointing towards 3rd-party rights and high quality free sources are rare.
There are just some things to remember: most satellite pics are copyright protected and can't be published therefore like other scenery (this might be different for the area of the US). I didn't find any sign in the Web that Google (for example) would really accept the use in most areas as they are pointing towards 3rd-party rights and high quality free sources are rare.
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That looks way better
just out of interest how long did that take you to do?
I'm sure I have a month wrapped up in that but the roadway itself really only took a few hours once I figured out what needed to be done. I think I made the roadway line 3 or 4 times before I got what I wanted. That seems to be SOP when developing anything, lol. The file has over 90 sloped flattens, some for areas miles away, I just kept adding flattens throughout the course of the project every time I needed one for whatever reason. Frankly I'd rather be modeling something in gmax than playing around in SBuilder and I got so I hated that SBuilder file!
It pretty much is exactly the same thing but SbuilderX doesn't need an airport nearby and you can do some advanced stuff with your polys like:
fill to QMID 11
slice to QMID 11 (or whichever QMID level you're working with at the time)
make line (where a line is made from the perimeter of a polygon - this becomes your perfectly matched shoreline effortlessly).
set as hole (you make a hydro poly that encompases a QMID 11, make another poly that represents the island and set it as a hole in the larger poly)
convert to poly (a line 100m wide and 500m long can become a poly 100m wide and 500m long)
I would personally use AB_Flatten for sloped polys rather that Legacy_LWM_Land _Flatten. I once needed a road grade reconstructed that was built after the mesh data was sourced. I made a line 75m wide with a vertex every 100m or so. I subtracted the lowest elevation from the highest and divided by the number of vertices, then I adjusted each vertex to the height of the previous one plus the calculated value so the line made a perfectly gradual slope as it wound it's way up through the canyon. I converted the line to a polygon and set it as AB_Flatten, the elevations from the points in the line remained intact. I spent a lot of time making other sloped polys to blend it in with the surrounding mesh but the result came out quite nice I thought:
{ This is a quoted post; Jim's original image is restored for educational purposes from a FireFox saved "web page, complete" archive }
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