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What's wrong with this picture?

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As you can see from the in-sim overhead shot, at the top where the poly and the original lake meet, I have a problem and I'm having a hard time visualizing what it is I need to do to correct this. I am also showing the buildup in SBuilderX that shows the Hydro_poly, the flatten, the main "exclude all terrain items" poly and there is also a line in there for a new shoreline.

Any help will be appreciated. I don't want to do anything more than close that sharp gap at the top in the sim.

Thanks
 
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Hi,
Your screens show that you modified 1 LOD. Waterclass may be wrong in the LOD just above. Did you check it ?
 
ALain152 said:
Hi,
Your screens show that you modified 1 LOD. Waterclass may be wrong in the LOD just above. Did you check it ?
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I'm new to a lot of this so here's what I found via the TmfViewer. You can see the "spike" in question, but how do I correct it?
 
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I'm not used to working with LC WC and so on. Anyway your screens show that a little part of your design cross the LOD grid. You shoud try cutting your WC just below the grid line.
 
Generally, you need to extend your project to the next QMID 11 boundary. If the boundary is very close to your project, as it appears in this case, you might need to work up to next QMID. You can try a partial QMID 11 exclude and work from there. If you work up to the QMID boundary I find using the clip to QMID 11 works well, as long as there are only 2 points on the boundary after clipping. Delete any extra (interior) points on the segments along the boundary.

I had reworked all this in fs9, and imported it into an fsx project a couple years ago, but ultimately decided UTX Can was easier so I shelved it (though keeping my airports, but they all need to be updated to ADE 14506 specs). I think Reggie Fields also did a CYRV a ways back, but probably in need of revisiting.



In this shot I was using topos I got from Canada (this was from time before easy downloading of aerial tiles in Sbuilder!) You can see I actually went up a couple of QMID11 cells (cut off on the top of this shot though).

Wherever you decide to stop, you need to "fake" a blend with the default or other terrain you are joining to. Usually then fly it in the sim and fine tune the edge of your hydro poly and shore. Note that there are a couple rocky shorelines in the default terrain.cfg and one is 5 meters wide and the other 10. The 10 m one will hide more "sins" of placement.

scott s.
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