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MSFS20 Kristiansand Kjevik Airport after tons of frustration (mostly caused my me) and via McX.

Andrew

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After crashing my (Steam) projects a number of times I don't care to mention... here's my old P3D4 models at ENCN. A thank you to Scruffyduck, Rhumbaflappy and Arno I should say. I restarted this airport so far 30 times I think. What else is new?

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I have no idea about Blender nor X-Plane. I still use gmax (restarted that damned thing today in order to build mesh to get rid of transparency problems).. ;) models via McX... old scool.
 
After pestering Arno and others in this forum, a night scene. Thanks for your tips... without you I'm blind.

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It's a struggle, but no more alpha based railings and window frames for me, ever. Rebuilt all this with mesh, only the windows themselves are alpha, and exporting from gmax I have to "lure" it to work by keeping my dds for a while before going MSFS glTF/PNG with McX, shortly described. This will be shared, but not before I can fix the afcad.

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How did you go about creating the ground markings? I am finding getting the resolution correct and not reversed... troublesome
 
Your airport looks really good, I will just suggest you to lower the opacity of the apron markings, they look artificial..

Cheers
 
Hell I woukd be happy to get such clean lines. Correct terrain line markings and resolution still evade me!
 
Tekica123 said:
Your airport looks really good, I will just suggest you to lower the opacity of the apron markings, they look artificial..

Cheers
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You are correct about this, but I can't find a way to make a custom texture for HatchedArea, where only "Slim Red" is the option, and no option for alternative, as with PaintedLines.

Regarding (Pain)ted lines - yes a painful day. I managed to make my own painted line, like "red very worn". I also discovered if I had the same name for the material lib as I had in another scenery, I lost all Hatched Areas at ENCN. So as for my 3D model lib, "cn_modelLib", I also had to name my ground lib like "cn_materials".

After all that, I decided to delete the zebra red hatched areas, and revert a few years back for now regarding markings, and I think the result is all good. I'll mix myself a drink now, after still tons of frustration. :stirthepo

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Looks better now, I'm not sure if you can give the line a transparency, but if you can, do it a little bit :)

Cheers
 
I can in time, and will do. For now I will upload what you see here, plus a new gmax glideslope antenna mast, a corrected terminal 2 (my old was way off due to lack of aerial pics). The hard facts are those markings are more or like invisible for real, seen with my own eyes being a passenger walking those aprons twice each month.
 
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