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Hello, So I would really like pt make a fictional airport I can use as a military base. I want to put the base in the ocean and would like to make an island for the base, so it's not just sitting on water. I was watching a tutorial for scenery creation in MSFS, but it was for creating an already existing area of land and I want to build new land. So how can I go about creating land in the ocean and give it some textures?

Thanks
 
jt23 said:
Hello, So I would really like pt make a fictional airport I can use as a military base. I want to put the base in the ocean and would like to make an island for the base, so it's not just sitting on water. I was watching a tutorial for scenery creation in MSFS, but it was for creating an already existing area of land and I want to build new land. So how can I go about creating land in the ocean and give it some textures?

Thanks
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Add a polygon with option exclude water, you need to try the different water types to know what will work for the area, when water disappear you can add an airport and aprons to texture the ground (or another polygon with a texture) and everything else
 
Here is an island airport military base, Zhubi Reef Naval Air Station, that although very real, does not exist in the default MSFS. It's been constructed as Mamu described, you're encouraged to explore and reverse engineer it.


zhubi-reef-naval-air-station-ufpF0.jpg
 
mamu said:
Add a polygon with option exclude water, you need to try the different water types to know what will work for the area, when water disappear you can add an airport and aprons to texture the ground (or another polygon with a texture) and everything else.
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Thanks, but will that just create a flat piece of ground on the water? I want the terrain to be flat on top but be raised up a little like an island
 
Once you have remove the water
You can use terraforming, with a polygon or with a rectangle
Adding a heightmap to the Rectangle will let you literally draw mountain and valley, like painting on a canvas

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mamu said:
Once you have remove the water
You can use terraforming, with a polygon or with a rectangle
Adding a heightmap to the Rectangle will let you literally draw mountain and valley, like painting on a canvas

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Thanks for the help, I will give it a try.
 
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