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Ground poly texture bleedthrough

Ryan Jackson

Ryan Jackson

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Hey,

I've created a ground polygon with sketchup and converted with MCX. All of the textures display fine, however I have an issue with just one. It goes transparent not very far out. All of the textures have the same distance-display setting (10000) and don't appear to go transparent as one moves away (unless extremely far out), but this one does? The screenshot (sorry about the quality) shows the afcad markings displaying through the runway texture. As a note - the other textures (grass) have a level of transparency in the texture (about 70%), but this texture (the asphalt) has 100% opacity. It displays fine when very close. Any ideas?
 

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Hi,

Could it be a flattening issue? Is the entire airport flattened at the same elevation?
 
Is this in FS2004 or FSX?
 
I have had a similar issue with ground polygons created for larger airports using SketchUp. You described how you created the polygons with SU and converted them with MCX, but you did not indicate how you place them. I use Instant Scenery 3 while in sim. With IS, you can make incremental adjustments to the elevations of each model of your ground polygon. Incrementally raising the ground polygon that reveals the .bgl runway markings will indeed hide them. During a session, you can also make slight adjustments to the elevation of the airport, using ADE for example. So you could effectively lower the airport .bgl as well. Make an adjustment in ADE, then unload the scenery, save the airport .bgl, reload the scenery and inspect.
 
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