I'm still totally confused about terrain polys and ground polys, I just can't make them work. I want to add the circled lake using the terrain polygon tool, I added the polygon around it and chose Water with Perennial Lake, then added a vector around it and chose shoreline with Lake as a tag and nothing showed up after compiling. Removed the vector and the lake showed up but looks very fake, just terrible. Tried adding the lake with polygon with other options and nothing shows up. I'm totally confused on how to use this tool properly. Is there a good tutorial just on polygons and how to use them. Not just clicking on the polygon tool and drawing the polygon that is easy the hard part is creating what you want and see it in FSX.
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I want to add a small lake
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I've had to create many lakes where they are "black, dry beds" instead. (Mostly Alaska Area). I first put in a flatten poly, making sure my start point is at the lowest level of the proposed lake. Then I create the polygon trying to follow the shoreline. When Completed, I do a Terraform and set the falloff to 1 meter. I wait a minute or so and t he polygon finally settles down and I have a flat polygon in the shape of a lake. I then remove the "starting point" that was at the lowest level. I now DUPLICATE that polygon and rename it to "terraform water". In this new polygon, I unchecked terraform and check WATER and add LAKE as the type. In a minute or so, the old black polygon magically becomes water. And I have a lake. I've done this about 50-60 times throughout the RTMM area. (for adding the USFS Cabins).
My question is what to use for the "type" of water. Often I use LAKE and it works, as above. But other times WATER works and LAKE does not. OCEAN often works, but sometimes gives a deep cut shoreline around the lake (50 meters deep!). I still haven't figured out except by trial and error, which "water type" to use. So in some "lakes" I have OCEAN as the type, others have "WATER" and/or "LAKE" ... I just go with what stays and works. This is using the new SDK (today's date is: 06.20.2023). Same questions for the water Exclude ... sometimes LAKE works, other times OCEAN and or WATER. I don't see any pattern. Supposedly with the new "terraformers" all this has been settled ... (but not for me!)
My question is what to use for the "type" of water. Often I use LAKE and it works, as above. But other times WATER works and LAKE does not. OCEAN often works, but sometimes gives a deep cut shoreline around the lake (50 meters deep!). I still haven't figured out except by trial and error, which "water type" to use. So in some "lakes" I have OCEAN as the type, others have "WATER" and/or "LAKE" ... I just go with what stays and works. This is using the new SDK (today's date is: 06.20.2023). Same questions for the water Exclude ... sometimes LAKE works, other times OCEAN and or WATER. I don't see any pattern. Supposedly with the new "terraformers" all this has been settled ... (but not for me!)
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You probably want to start a new thread. Make sure to use the available prefix options and choose “MSFS.” This will offer you the best exposure to experienced developers who do not check threads from 2019, before MSFS was published. This thread likely refers to FSX.