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Need help please Little problem to create taxilines !

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Hello !
I need some help to create taxilines with Blender

I've some difficulties with taxilines.
For that, I proceed like DxTrans http://fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/ground-polys-blender-to-mcx-to-fsx.432465/ :
1 - I create a plane as bevel object (red circle on the first screen) and another plane for the line.
2- I draw my line by extruding vertices
2 - I convert the two plane to "curve from mesh" (Alt c)
3 - I apply the geometry by bevel object : The line is extruded.
Ok
But After I forget something I think. As you can see on the screen below, in edit mode there are no faces, just a grey shadow under the line
Then, there is Nothing to unwrap for apply textures (I think that normally I should have faces in edit mod)

Edit mod



Object Mod



What I have to do after these operations ?

I made another try with success starting with a circle. I can texture my line
But this time, the taxiline don't appear in fsx !

I thank you for your help !

Luc
 
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Hi
Sorry for this second post but :

This morning, I made a new try, following step by step the advices from DXTrans. (I thank her for his tuto)

1 - I made two planes and transform them by deleting two vertices. The plane with the blue circle is my reference (bevel object) and the other is the futur taxiline



2- I draw the taxiline extruding the vertices



3- I press alt + c to convert my mesh, the taxi line and the reference line to curves. Then switch to my object data menu and add a Template



4- I press alt + c again and texture the object, (unwrap using "Follow Active Quads" -> "Length Average").



5 After that, I export the scenery to a mdl file and import it with ModelConverter X.



And, as you can see on the picture, I've the problem. Nothing appear like of the taxiline did'nt exist

I don't understand !

Somebody can help me ? Why the object is not visible Under ModelConverter X and of course, on FSX ?
One thing is Strange : In MCX, in the "Layering and visibility column", there are no material/textures loaded. It's why the line don't appear, I think. But why MCX don't load the line material ?
I haven't this problem with the others objects.


Luc
 
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I answer to myself ! But it can help others guys

I applied this solution :

In general, when I create a ground surface like a plane, I apply for it, under blender a material (with FSX material parameters for the transparency) and a texture.
I convert my scenery to mdl. After that, I load the mdl with MCX, apply layers priorities and export to bgl. That's all

But for me this way doesn't work for the lines ! If they have a declared texture for theiur material under blender, they don't appear under MCX and FSX
For them, the solution is a little confused :
- Draw the line and affect to it a material with a specific color
- Export to dae
- Under MCX, I import the the dae file. Apply diffuse texture manually by material color
- Export as scenery in bgl file
- Import this bgl Under MCX via Ground polygon wizard
- Set the layers priorities
- Export again Under bgl file

And the line appear in FSX

But, there a question without solution. Why this complicated way fot the line and not for the simple planes ! I haven't answer ...
Maybe somebody can help with that
 
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