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FSXA Groundpoly texture problem

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Hello all,

After waiting until my new pc arrived, I started to work on my first scenery. Via Google I found the great tutorial about "Creating High-Detail FS Ground Polygons" by Bill Womack. I followed his tutorial and after part one (creating the runway and placing the asphalt texture) I am a little lost...

To begin from the start, I made my runway as a plannar in Gmax (45x2997m). Made them in different segments (just as in the tutorial). I made an asphalt texture (1024x1024) and placed in onto my runway. I used the UVW Map and set the length and width to the width of my runway (45m).

Exported the model and made the right changes to make it working in FSX.

This is my result:
ehehrunway.png


As you can see, the runway ain't very nice with this blurry texture. Can someone help me with this problem?

Kind regards,
Ruud
 
You are too "zoomed in" using this texture. You need to zoom out (i.e. use a larger part of the texture, or use more texture tiles) when doing your texture mapping.

Hope this helps,
 
I used my entire texture (1024x1024). So I think i have to make a bigger one (2048x2048) or use more texture tiles.

About the last option I have a question. How can I do that?
 
Hi,

Create a new 2048 x 2048 texture. Copy your 1024 x 1024 texture into it (upper left corner). Then copy it in 3 more times.

Hope this helps,
 
Hi,

You can probably just repeat the current texture, instead of making a bigger one. Only if you have features like edges that should not be repeated that will not work. But in your case I think repeating the texture with the mapping is probably best.
 
Yep that's what I told him the first time, but he didn't want to seem to want that...
 
I didn't have any time yesterday to try this.

I understand I have to make a larger texture so I will do that first. The second step is I don't get. How do I repeat a texture? I found something about the U, V and W-tile.
 
just reduce the parameters of uvw wrap. instead of 45x45 use something like 20x20. in that case however, as Arno said, you will have to create a separate polygon to creat the runway edge, in case you want one.
 
Thank you all for replying. Yesterday I tried other settings with the UVW-mapping and it worked. Now I only have to make a asphalt texture....
 
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