• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

FSX Ground Poly Copying the Terrain Mesh

A

apollon01

Messages
163
Country
luxembourg
Hello,

I am twisting my head around the following issue... with no success so far:

I am aware that the usual way of creating a ground poly requires also the elevation of the ground poly which is supposed to lie on a flatten poly.

However...

Is it possible to create a ground poly that would simply lie on the underlying terrain mesh? (it would copy it irrespective of this mesh elevation points?)


The reason I am trying to achieve this is very simple. I am creating a number of utility cement strips that were used for agricultural air-dusting and these were not usually flat (quite the contrary). Therefore, my goal is to create a ground poly with cement texture that would copy the underlying terrain mesh.

My googling revealed nothing useful so far... only that a possible way would be to create (i) sloped poly and (ii) the ground poly with the same elevation points. This is a method I would like avoid :-)

Thank you for any tips. I have not posted this thread elsewhere so far (i.e. MCX).

Milan
 
No, you'd have to use a 3d model, duplicate it and attach a "landable surface" tag to one of em.
 
ADE Custom ground polys will always be horizontal planes at the elevation of their reference point. The ADE GP compiler provides an option to use a local reference point instead of the ARP, but the GP will still be horizontal at the elevation of that point, i.e., it will not follow the terrain - unless the terrain it is also horizontal.

Don
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top