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Polygons missing after Ground Polygon Wizard processing

mchirkov

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Hi Arno,

I have the following problem:

I have created an apron in GMAX which I saved as MDL file from GMAX FSX SDK.

Now I load it into ModelConverterX and see all the polygons intact.

Pic 1 -
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When I load this MDL into Ground Poly Wizard, I enter all the necessary coordinates as well as polygon altitude and click on "Lower all polys"

Pic 2 -
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Then I go on to convert the file and it prompts me with the message that not all polygons in my model are on the ground level (even though I had previously pressed the "Lower..." button) and asks me if I want to proceed.

As I proceed I see the following picture in my ModelConverterX main screen and, if load FSX, similar missing polygons in the airport.

3.JPG


What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
Mike
 
Hi Mike,

You might have found a bug. Can you send me the MDL file so that I can do some testing here?
 
Thanks, I will take a look at it.
 
Hi,

I know what is going one. The lower polygon feature only lowers flat polygons onto the ground. But those polygons that go wrong are not completely flat, they have some vertices at elevation 0 and some others as 0.001. That's why the lower polygons function does not fix it.

I think I need to add a little more tolerance to this function. Let me see how to implement that.
 
Hi,

I have made some changes to the ground polygon wizard now. With the default settings your polygons work fine now and I also hope it makes the wizard a bit easier to use. I have described the changes on my blog. They will be available in the development release tomorrow.
 
Please see the sticky thread at the top of this forum about MCX downloads.

Hope this helps,
 
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