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GMax ground floating?

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Fergo

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Hello!

I'm noticing something weird in my scenery. I made the GMax ground polygon, edited the asm and compiled the BGL. The airport altitude in AFCAD is set to 749 meters and I created a flatten polygon in SBuilder at the same altitude.
When I set the time to dusk/night/dawn, it looks like the ground polygon is floating a few centimeters above the ground.

Here is two pictures describing the problem. The first one was taken at the daytime and the problem is not visible. The second one was at night and you can see a little line above the ground that is my ground polygon.





What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Fergo
 
Thanks for the replies :)

Mace said:
What are the dimensions in meters of your ground polygon/polygons?
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About 1100x1100 (meters). FS2004 have some limitations like FSX regarding large polygons?

ras78 said:
Do you created also a surface?
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Surface? I don't know. I only created a Flatten in SBuilder and the polygons in GMax, nothing else.

Regards,
Fergo
 
Looks like the AFCAD lights are just showing through at the very end.

But, if it is floating, try dividing up the polygon in to smaller polygons. Not just slicing, make them each an individual part.

I had a one piece polygon larger than yours in FSX and it seemed to float at one end yet flicker with the ground at another. Fixed that by dividing it up in to smaller polygons (about 300x300M in size).
 
Fergo said:
About 1100x1100 (meters). FS2004 have some limitations like FSX regarding large polygons?
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Ah, FS2004. I should have recognized it from the screenshot, but did not.

I am unsure as to whether or not there is any limitation re: ground poly size in FS2004, as I do not design in FS2004.

Have you tried disabling all of the runway lights? (use AFCAD) Then see if the effect is still there. You can at least narrow it down that way.
 
I'll try to remove the lights from the AFCAD and also break the polygons into smaller pieces.
Thank you both for the answers.

Regards,
Fergo
 
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