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taxiway textures

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Greetings,

I noticed that dirt/grass/gravel runway textures fade at the edges into the default background, a very nice effect. However, grass/dirt/gravel taxiways and aprons look ridiculously harsh, almost like a mat on top of the background. Is there anyway to make them look more like the runway texture, more subtly blended into the background? Some photo real sceneries have done this nicely, but I do not have access to non-copyrighted satellite imagery :)

I've achieved reasonably nice grass taxiways using a landclass polygon I made with SBuilderX with an invisible "path" added to the airport via ADE or FSPlanner for the ai aircraft to follow, but it would be so much easier to create taxiways in the afcad program.

Mahalo.

edit: spent some time reading the terrain forum, lots and lots of threads and info and my head is spinning. it seems like a method of doing this would be to design my taxiways and whatnot in gmax, and then fading the textures into the default through the use of alpha channels. does this sound correct? wheee, sounds like another can of worms ready to open up! scenery design = complex, but a whole lot of fun...when can i quit my dayjob?
 
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You are more or less correct. It is not possible to create taxiways and aprons that do not have hard edges using tools that create airports using BglComp. The best way will be to use photo scenery or to use your own textures in something loke GMax.
 
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