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Hello guys

I am new to scenery design,need help with polys,I have fs design studio V3,I have made a project and it is going well so far except for a few things,I have made a poly below the area of the project,I dont have a clue how to texture it or flatten it,I have been looking all over the web and have not found a tutorial or article explaining this situation clearly Maybe you guys can point me in the right direction i will much appreciate it.

Robert
 
Bump into the FSDS forum...
 
Your "poly below teh area of the project" is one part, am I correct? And you want to assign a texture to it?

The easiest way is to create a texture template (by default, you can choose either a 256x256 or 512x512 projection)

Basically, go to Part->Make Texture Template
and from the dialog box select "top" and the size you want.

Since I deal with aircraft parts which are not square, I also click "Preserve Aspect Ratio"

Click on "OK" and you will be prompted to save it (Save as) to your folder.

In your paint program, you'll then navigate to, and open that saved bitmap. You'll have to crop it to the square size chosen. By default, it's a greyscale image.

Assign it in FSDS by going to the texture assignment dialog (F4), etc as normal.

Note that Applying textures is covered in the help files (Design Workshop, Texturing basics)
 
Thanks that was much better discription than the help file :),now I just need to know how to flatten the poly so that the ground below the project is flat.Thanks once again mate

Robert
 
Now setting up ground polys ... that's definitely an area I can't help you with - I'm lucky enough to get a basic box as a scenery object, let alone a ground polygon!!
 
You can try SBuilderX (free and relatively friendly) to make a flatten under your project.
 
I have downloaded fsflatten but I cannot find any explanation on how to use it.Is SBuilderX a freeware program.Jeeze but it is hard to find something that can help me with this.

Robert
 
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Jeeze but it is hard to find something that can help me with this.
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Welcome to the sometimes frustrating world of scenery design. Info can be very hard to find sometimes.

For FS9 you would need SBuilder not SBuilderX. But ADE is much easier to use for basic stuff like a flatten.
 
Can I use ADE for other scenery besides a airport and does it work for fsx as well,I am designing Popular landmarks and a few buildings ect..,I figured out how to use FSFlatten,the ground is flat now which is a good thing but the poly texturing just keeps on flickering to and from the fs ground textures and the poly textures.If ADE is a better program I shall then consider using it.Where can I find a good article for adding smoke with the effects to a chimney or something for fsx?

Robert
 
I had the same flickering problem with an helico air base. I tought that is was because the polygon was to near of the ground. In FSDS, I zommed in max on the basic polygon and raise it just a little bit; no more flickering.
 
Hi RobB

You can raise the poly up a tad as jpfil has suggested, I have also done this on a few projects and it works well, but I think in the long run you will like ADE as you can make flatted spots, remove autogen and put the texture you what down on the ground very easy.
Yes it works with FSX; FSX is what I am using it with.

You can add an effect such as smoke to an object made with FSDS very easily, I have been trying my hand at writing a few tutorials, I have written one called (Adding an effect to a object made with FSDS 3.5.1.htm) it is for adding a light but adding the smoke effect is done the same way just sub the smoke effect instead of the light effect.
Look in the tutorial section

http://farfyscenery.katuu.com/
Hope it helps H_Farfy:D
 
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