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MSFS20 Custom aerial image not showing up in the Sim

Jakob.D029

Jakob.D029

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Hi there,
I am modeling and improving an airport in the Scenery editor (EDLI). Unfortunately the aerial image of the airport has been taken turing a really hot summer and all the grass on the ground got burned.
Therefore all of the grass is yellow and ugly. I tought, why not update the aerial image for the area and dug a bit into the topic of CGL files. Yesterday I tried out a tutorial on YouTube by "Flying Theston".
But my aerial image does not show up after following all of his steps. I have also read the entire article about CGLs on the Wiki. Still nothing is working. Implementing the CGL into my main project also did not help.
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
The aerial images I got are from our local cadastral office and are free to use under CC-BY 4.0.
Here is a link to my project folder: https://mega.nz/file/vnoVlQZL#UapAMEYDJN5UitsCJQEQ44acoCJ5H859W-GrTp4cSgc
Thanks!
 
I'm not sure how things went wrong, but I do know what went wrong. Your tiles are in the wrong location. Here's and example tilename you have in your package sources: 3020213202210212311.png

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As you can see, that quadkey would be located between the southern tip of Africa and Antarctica. Not having the original sources, I couldn't correct the problem. Thequadkey should be something like 120203102003210202.png
 
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Thanks a lot! It really helped me.
I started all over again with the aerial image this time it actually worked!
I think QGIS was the problem. There were some settings that broke a few things. After uninstalling it and installing a newer version, it finally worked.
The new aerial images look great.
There is only one smal catch: Where there is grass in some areas of the aerial image, the Sim detects it as dirt.
Is there a way to change it from dirt to grass?
 
You could try an apron or poly over the area with a grass material. Play with the transparency and colorization of the material. The sim interprets green as grass. Maybe someone else can chime in and give a better option? Or you could alter the color of the source before you split it into tiles?
 
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