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Editing Polygons Landclass
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The problem is not SBuilderX.
If you make a new landclass bgl ( using resample ), the new textures will replace the originals for that BGL. This is not true for the vector polygons that still use the terrain.cfg settings.
Unless your polys are covering a large area, you might be better off just making photoreal for those areas, and using a blendmask to define the 'polys' that will show. You can use a paint program to 'repaint' or stamp textures onto an image, then turn it into photoreal. This is one of the weaknesses of FSX... you can't used named textures for polys.
The process sounds harder than it is. You may need to add some SDK tool skills, as SBuilderX won't exactly do what you want.
Dick
If you make a new landclass bgl ( using resample ), the new textures will replace the originals for that BGL. This is not true for the vector polygons that still use the terrain.cfg settings.
Unless your polys are covering a large area, you might be better off just making photoreal for those areas, and using a blendmask to define the 'polys' that will show. You can use a paint program to 'repaint' or stamp textures onto an image, then turn it into photoreal. This is one of the weaknesses of FSX... you can't used named textures for polys.
The process sounds harder than it is. You may need to add some SDK tool skills, as SBuilderX won't exactly do what you want.
Dick
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Hi there,
actually, FSX will use your custom textures for the polygons if you also have a "base" landclass file that covers the same area. For example, the base landclass file could cover the area with forest and then your polygons would depict urban or agricultural areas. Basically, this means that you need to have custom textures (and autogen annotations) for all those classes.
(Unlike FS9, FSX doesn't go into a "memory leak" situation if your landclass project has a texture subfolder without the corresponding texture sets. In other words, in theory your base landclass file wouldn't need to call custom classes and your polygons should still show up correctly. I've never tried that "mixed" approach myself though, always worked with complete custom texture sets.)
Cheers, Holger
actually, FSX will use your custom textures for the polygons if you also have a "base" landclass file that covers the same area. For example, the base landclass file could cover the area with forest and then your polygons would depict urban or agricultural areas. Basically, this means that you need to have custom textures (and autogen annotations) for all those classes.
(Unlike FS9, FSX doesn't go into a "memory leak" situation if your landclass project has a texture subfolder without the corresponding texture sets. In other words, in theory your base landclass file wouldn't need to call custom classes and your polygons should still show up correctly. I've never tried that "mixed" approach myself though, always worked with complete custom texture sets.)
Cheers, Holger
