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FSX Fading textures on groundpoly

lazaro

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Does anyone know what's going on here? I've exported the groundpoly from 3dsmax as an .x file with the P3Dv2 SDK, compiled with XtoMDL (from someone here on the forums) using P3Dv1 SDK. I imported the .mdl into MCX and used the GP Wizard to export to FSX. At first I thought it was because of a flattening issue around the airport (I had a similar problem a few years ago in FS9) so I used ADEX to create a big enought flatten area around the airport but the problem still persists. Thank you guys in advance!

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Ok so it seems like I fixed it by converting the bmp's to dds's. Now the GP show up mostly fine except for some parts where the FSX default ground bleeds through(image 1). Depends on height and viewing angles. Any ideas as to why this happens? Also I get white lines (top right corner for example) between the individual polys. Any way to fix that? (I have tried to redo the UV mapping, which didn't help it just makes my texture look funny in places where it intersects :( see image 2)

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I think you need to make sure that your ground is perfectly flat. Using TcalX you can get the information of the elevation in the airport. Sometimes there are some area that is higher than the rest. This can produce this effect to your ground poly as well.
 
Ok, THIS is really weird. The screenshots above we're taken in FSX Steam edition. I thought I'd use it as a dev platform since I have no addons installed so it loads quicker. I just put the GP into my personal FSX (boxed) installation with FTX Global and the GP shows up fine! No bleeding through of the ground and no white lines! Does this mean my scenery will be compatible with FSX but not with FSX:SE? or is it because of FTX Global?

Also one other question. When putting in the altitute into the Ground polygon wizard in MCX, do I put it in feet or in Meters? I put it in feet, but I noticed TCalcX shows the AD elev. in meters :/

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MCX's Ground Polygon Wizard is looking for the altitude to be in meters. You can see what that is by looking at the vertex points in your flatten in ADE with the units/altitude set to meters.
 
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