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"Soft Concrete" Platform - Helipad

Severin

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Hi everyone, so, I've made a helipad in 3DS Max 2015 with the "Cone" primitive object.

Then added a platform "Concrete" to that cone with the ACES Tool. Anytime that I go to land on the helipad, I sink right through it. What could be the problem? I've tried the approach of making a separate "Plane" and then raising it just below top of "Cone" but that also did not work.

Thank you.

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FS9 or FSX?

If FS9, you would have to exit and restart FS9 after placement for the platform to be activated.

It's a bit difficult to tell what's happening by the screenshot which does not show the helipad in its entirety.
Are you sitting at true ground level below a raised helipad?
Is your helipad high above the ground and you are sitting somewhere between the top of the pad and the ground?
How are you placing it? BGL.comp, ADE, Instant Scenery or EZScenery?
At the very least, check the position of the hardened platform in 3DS Max to make sure you have it positioned just below the surface textures.
Is your hardened platform invisible? If so, you might make another version with just the platform (plane) itself with some opacity added so it is visible, and then place it in the sim somewhere above the ground in order to verify that it is hardened. If it is not, you will know that there is a step you have missed somewhere in the process. Once you have a verified hardened platform, you can go back, remove the opacity, and import it to your helipad project, positioning it just below the surface textures, and recompile.


Hope this helps till someone who knows what they are talking about comes along. :)

Gman
 
Gman said:
FS9 or FSX?

If FS9, you would have to exit and restart FS9 after placement for the platform to be activated.

It's a bit difficult to tell what's happening by the screenshot which does not show the helipad in its entirety.
Are you sitting at true ground level below a raised helipad?
Is your helipad high above the ground and you are sitting somewhere between the top of the pad and the ground?
How are you placing it? BGL.comp, ADE, Instant Scenery or EZScenery?
At the very least, check the position of the hardened platform in 3DS Max to make sure you have it positioned just below the surface textures.
Is your hardened platform invisible? If so, you might make another version with just the platform (plane) itself with some opacity added so it is visible, and then place it in the sim somewhere above the ground in order to verify that it is hardened. If it is not, you will know that there is a step you have missed somewhere in the process. Once you have a verified hardened platform, you can go back, remove the opacity, and import it to your helipad project, positioning it just below the surface textures, and recompile.


Hope this helps till someone who knows what they are talking about comes along. :)

Gman
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Thank you for the reply,every contribution counts! I was working on it for FSX.It seems that there is a problem with the ACES tool set.I've followed the same procedure in GMax and it worked without a glitch!
 
Severin said:
Thank you for the reply,every contribution counts! I was working on it for FSX.It seems that there is a problem with the ACES tool set.I've followed the same procedure in GMax and it worked without a glitch!
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Very good!
Glad you got it sorted.
Enjoy.

Cheers
Gman
 
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