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Example Flatten .xml needed

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I need to level off an area for a runway. No matter what height I set it at its either under or over the ground. Worse at both ends of the runway where the plane vanishes into the ground. I`m no expert, would I need a flatten to perform this? I looked around for one I can use as a template and just change the coordinates, but to no avail. I just keep going around in ever decreasing circles. Could someone please post an example xml file I can edit, to use as a template?

My runway is];

20x800

altitude;

according to FSX map is +170, but around 46.00m seems to just hover over the ground in some places. not sure how this works.

location of airfield is;

Scarborough
54.1353 , -0.383333

Reider
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Reider said:
Could someone please post an example xml file I can edit, to use as a template?
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Flattens in FSX are not created by xml, you need to use Shp2Vec, SBuilderX or FsxKml.

George
 
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George is correct. You need to use Shp2Vec. There are some bits of XML around but basically you are compiling shape files and adding a tag to them to tell FSX what you want the polygon to do.
 
Platting fog? Is that related to grinding smoke and the upper double frammis?

Really, the easy way is FSX KML, define your poly in GoogleEarth, export as KML file, load into FSX_KML, tag it with Airport_Backgrounds_Flatten_MaskClassMap_ExcludeAutoGen and you're done.

They key is the altitudes. Your runway altitude needs to exactly, EXACTLY match your underlying poly. You mention +170 and some other meter figure. You can't have varying elevations like that.
 
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They key is the altitudes. Your runway altitude needs to exactly, EXACTLY match your underlying poly. You mention +170 and some other meter figure. You can't have varying elevations like that.
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Like Mace says, also you can set the elevation of all the vertices in your polygon using the vertices tab in FSX KML
http://fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=FSX_KML#Vertices_Tab

Or you set them in Google Earth, either way is ok.
 
gsnde said:
:eek: What on earth is this decoded to a non-mother speaker, Rhett ?
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How do you ask it in German?
Du hast eine frage? ;) I know, it's bad German.

The upper-double frammis was an imaginary device that was brought up in another popular FS Forum a few years ago...as an example of discussing something that was nonsense.

I still want to know what "platting fog" is. Is that a figure-of-speech from England?
 
Well, I went back and managed to produce the kml file, doing as above. I still get a level runway in the middle and the aircraft runs underground at both ends. Unless I`m much mistaken Jim Vile suggests the flatten will not work with the SP2 SDK, only SP1a-though I could have misinterpreted.

Platting fog is an impossible thing to do. So we use it here to describe something like that. I have COPD and sometimes get a little irritable so I apologize for that. I`m going to shelve this for now anyway. I spent too long going around in circles. Thanks all....

Reider
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I *draw* plats at my job sometimes. :) But never have platted any fog.

Yes if you want, zip up your files and one of us can look at them and see what's going on. It may be something we're not thinking of, something easily fixed. ??
 
No need to apologize, I love to learn such terms. I have guessed the meaning of platting fog. And I am fascinated by the upper-double frammis. I guess I need such a device... :)
 
If you do a google on platting fog, apart from this forum, you`ll find over here its both widely spelt and pronounced platting fog.

I`ve made a lot of progress in my efforts to complete a Scarborough Airfield. The flatten is now working, it was a fault in the kml side and my misunderstanding of how to do it. Once I went back to the start again I made up in leaps and bounds. I just put any altitude in at first, found the level and saw it was working. Then and only then did TCalcX give me the info I needed. Prior to this I still got a bit of runway in the middle and then the aircraft went underground at both ends, no matter what altitude was set..

EDIT: Got aircraft traffic flying in and out now, a couple of buildings there and some microlights flying in and out too from EGCC Manchester. Just some tidying and an increase in air traffic to do. Many thanks all, much appreciated for the help and putting up with me.

Reider
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