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FSXA how?!

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....and you know what i'm asking about from this picture:

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Got some upcoming airports that will only be 100% accurate if it can be figured out how to make a taxiway bridge.
 
"treeman" is correct. The "roadway" is the result of adding a flatten polygon to force it x' below ground level, probably with sloped polys added at both ends to bring it back up to ground level.

The taxiway bridge is a 3d model, with a platform polygon attached to allow the AI and user aircraft to taxi across.
 
Rather by accident once I discovered that you can use the Exclude Airport Background poly tag to dissociate the underlying terrain from the airport surfaces ( I even managed to bury my runway underground)

A custom Gmax model and a taxipath ( no surfaces drawn) and I'd say you're away.
 
Now that I look at it, isn't there some airport that has a "glitch" like this?

I mean that the terrain is messed up arround the airport, but the taxiways and runways are on one level. if you go off the runway or taxiway, your plane falls off of it?
 
I have been trying to figure out how to do this without having to make a model (aint doing that) and just using ADE and FS runways/taxiways and a library object or two....... I want to do this at my airport.. So far, not much luck... But, I am almost positive that the answer is there...and can be done without hours of work...

- Greg
 
All you need is an extrusion bridge with an apron path on top.

Here is an AI Baron taxiing out over a bridge:



Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work. Even with a zero-width apron link, the ground is drawn up to the bridge level :o
 
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