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SBuilderX exclusion help needed.

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Steve Rosenow

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Hi,

I am back doing scenery design after a long hiatus (more than 15 years) and I am running into an issue for a freeware addon to Orbx/FTW Pacific Northwest.

I run Orbx/FTW Pacific Northwest as my default scenery. The scenery is pretty great except it is missing some major landmarks in my native area of Mason County, Washington.

Specifically, it's missing two very high truss-arch bridges that sit with the distinction of being the highest and second-highest truss-arch spans ever built for a railroad in North America (one sits abandoned, the other is still in use as a roadway). Recently, I completed the 3D additions of those within the sim, but Orbx/PNW has the roads going completely down both canyon walls.

I would like to remove the stretch of roads that descend the canyon walls and have them end at my bridge ends, as the roads themselves are causing terrain oddities that - in turn - are causing my bridges to display awkwardly.

Is there a workaround to this? And is SBuilderX capable of it?
 
Not sure if Orbx will respond... perhaps. I don't use it. I design my own scenery instead of pay for it.

In SbuilderX or ADE choose a poly and draw around a section of one road and one around the other section. Usually it does not have to be ALL of the road. We really never know how much road disappears with this size or that size poly.


Right click on the edge of the polies (do one then the other), and choose landclase in the upper window... scroll down to find 'exclude all roads'.

Hit OK or whatever it says and save your project and compile the bgl. Place that new bgl in your active scenery folder and go see if they are gone.

I can be more specific, but I'd be typing for a half hour when I could take you through the process in about 15 minutes on Skype. my Skype name is Robert Lacy. I am the one in Ione, Washington. (yep- far upper right corner of the state, about 28 miles from the border. Bob
 
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