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Help? Stuck in a pickle

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Hello All,

I know what I'm about is probably really easy to fix, but my brain is tired and I need some help. I have photo real textures over laying the ground. As you can see in the screenshot, the default fsx terrain does not have accurate coastlines. What I want to do is outline the water in a google earth poly then import to FSX KML, eventualy overlaying the fsx showing land with water. From here, what tags do I need to add to it and in what order? I know that I'll probably need some exclusion tags as well as hydro polys. If someone could help me out and let me know the easiest way I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks.

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Easiest way? I would say SBuilderX, but that's me :) Been a long time since I played with FSX_kml, but you want an exclusion poly for water bodies, {956A42AD-EC8A-41BE-B7CB-C68B5FF1727E}, then add your replacement water polys (hydro generic ocean)set to alt 0 {2D103429-89EB-4CB3-A61E-E188E79C77E7}

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I am trying to get rid of the default land and turn it into water. Exlcuding the water then making new water would still mean that the default land is still there.
 
Well, if all it takes is turning land into water, that can be done just by adding hydro polys. But more typical is that in places land has to be turned to water, and in others water into land. Your photo will show the land, but the flatten effect of the water will remain. If you want to restore the mesh elevations where default water exists, you need to exclude those default hydro polygons. That's why I recommend excluding the default hydro polys and then placing new hydro polys along the correct shoreline.

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