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MSFS20 Sloped runways with models

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So I have had quite an adventure learning how to manipulate many aspects of the SDK to design a good looking airport, however, I have hit a wall with one thing. I want to make my runways use my custom texture and custom 3d model. I can create my texture, then lay an apron on top of the runway and call it a day, but I don't like the repetition in the texture that shows up, and I want to model it. I am a bit new to the modeling world and I'm using blender, but as far as I know, if I just place a model of my runway it has to be flat and it just won't follow the terrain and slope, am I correct? Is there a way to get the runwaymodel to follow the terrain, or do I have to modify my model and create a slope on it, then terraform msfs to "match up" my created slope?

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Hello:

AFAIK, ICAO MMHO is 27 Feet lower on the SW end compared to the NE end of the RWY, so you may wish to make the terrain match that. ;)

en.wikipedia.org

Hermosillo International Airport - Wikipedia

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IIUC, you want to Terra-form surrounding MSFS-2020 terrain to aesthetically meet up with / blend into the edges of your 'sloped' G-Poly 3D model.

AFAIK, in MSFS-2020, like P3Dv5, we now can have sloped RWYs that AI Traffic will be able to navigate, so a flat / level RWY is no longer required.


If you wish to use MSFS-2020 default terrain polygons, the mapped textures will display at a internally limited lower resolution.

If you use a 3D RWY model as a 'sloped' Ground Polygon (aka "G-Poly") the custom texture image resolution will have no practical resolution limit.


Issues of repetitive default MSFS-2020 PBR texture tile patterns versus use of a sliced 1-piece custom synthetic high resolution photo-real PBR RWY texture image are inherently a 3D modeling work-flow topic that might best be discussed in the Blender forum ...to receive more replies. :idea:

GaryGB
 
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Thank you so much for your reply. So yes, I guess I will just have to model in blender, give it a slope, set the textures and pbr. After I will go to the sim and terraform the terrain to match my model. I just wanted to check if there were any other methods that I may be missing. Thank you again for your answer, I will start learning these methods. BTW, how did you know I am doing MMHO?
 
anarkia2004tj said:
Thank you so much for your reply. So yes, I guess I will just have to model in blender, give it a slope, set the textures and pbr. After I will go to the sim and terraform the terrain to match my model. I just wanted to check if there were any other methods that I may be missing. Thank you again for your answer, I will start learning these methods. BTW, how did you know I am doing MMHO?
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IIRC, from one of your prior posts here at FSDev with a screenshot of Blender showing MMHO in the project or Material name. ;)

I loaded up MMHO in Google Earth Desktop Edition and verified the airport configuration matched the Blender image (so I could advise better).

GaryGB
 
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