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Creating lakes
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Fire up SbuilderX, make a polygon tagged Hydro_Generic_Lake_Perennial, set the elevation, export a .bgl.
All contingent upon whether you have SBuilderX installed and working it could be a 5 minute job or a week long job, lol. You need the SDK installed, it's version must match the sim version (FSX+Accel = Accel SDK required), download & install SBuilderX, SBuilderX has a bit of a learning curve, etc.
All contingent upon whether you have SBuilderX installed and working it could be a 5 minute job or a week long job, lol. You need the SDK installed, it's version must match the sim version (FSX+Accel = Accel SDK required), download & install SBuilderX, SBuilderX has a bit of a learning curve, etc.
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Biggest thing for me when I first fired up Sbuilder (9) was "whereinthehellami syndrome", so when you get it working go to the area where you want the lake in the sim, then start SBuilderX, start a new project, then choose View > Show aircraft from the SBX menu. That'll center the sbuilder map (or lack thereof) where you want to do your work. Then choose View > Show background and SBX will download some imagery for the area. Now you can see where you are.