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FS2004 Runway Location wrong and texture help needed!

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Hello,
I started today with the tutorial of Bill Womack about the ground poly. I thought this was for FS2004 (FS9), but maybe I am wrong....

Anyway, in Gmax I made the runway using the Plane tool. I assigned a bitmap to it and exported it using the FS2002 SDK Gamepack. At the tab of the scenery you have to fill in the coordinates of the runway. I used AED for getting the coordinates and the heading (image 1).

runway%20wrong%20place%20coordinates.png


I past those coordinates in the MakeMDL (FS2002) and it successfully exported my model. Then I went tweaking the ASM files and came to the conclusion that I don't have to delete my BGL file before editing it! After I tweaked both ASM files I put them in the Addon Scenery/Scenery folder. I start FS and go to my airport and see that my runway is a bit to the left of the position that is displayed in AED (image 2).

runway%20wrong%20place.png


Did I do something wrong? I already took a look at the coordinates, using W instead of E, but that is not the problem. This is my first problem anyway:D

My second problem is the texture. I Gmax I put the texture on the runway, exported the model, but when I converted the BMP file in Imagetools I sometimes get the error that it is not responding..... but when it finished converting it (converting using Create Mipmaps and DXT1 (what is the difference between DXT1 and DXT3?:o) I place the texture in the Addon Scenery/Texture folder. Starting FS but the texture ain't visible!

Am I doing something wrong? I just started with all of this:p
 
Hi,

Are you sure that you put the origin in GMax in the middle of your runway? That is the position you define the lat/lon of. Else the coordinates should work fine.

About the textures. If they fail to convert, check the size. In FS they need to be a power of 2 (so 256x256, 512x512, 1024x1024, 512x1024, etc).

The different between DXT1 and DXT3 is the alpha channel. If you are using different levels of transparency you need DXT3, else DXT1 should be fine.
 
Seems you posted this twice, this thread is more active.
 
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