I've created a flatten for an FSX airfield and it seemed to work - but
I suspect only in one direction. It's a guess but I suspect a flatten
will lower any mesh above flatten height down to this height but it may
not raise mesh lower than flatten height upwards. I was using the
conventional syntax
of:
Flatten.0=325.0,N51 01.26,W1 49.50,N51 01.26,W1 48.50,N51 00.75,W1
48.50,N51 00.75,W1 49.50
Can you exclude autogen in FSX?
bones
-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Gerry Winskill
Sent: 05 May 2007 15:04
To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jhb] Re: Mesh Problems
I tried that but it had no effect.
Having done a Yahoo for FSX Flatten, the various discussions unearthed
seem to conclude it's only possible using a couple of non MS design
programmes. I've a feeling this is how George Davidson has come up with
the flattens that he's created. Even then it seems they often don't
work across the whole area they've been designed for. It seems to be
regarded as something that may be covered by SP1. That's as well as a
solution to global warming, third world debt and an effective English
cricket team. Lates Blogs say it won't be out. as promised, in April.
Maybe May......2008?
Gerry Winskill
bones wrote:
Have you tried a Flatten line in the scenery.cfg file as could be done
in FS9?
bones
-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Gerry Winskill
Sent: 05 May 2007 09:46
To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jhb] Mesh Problems
Having trawled through an initial batch of twenty UK2000 fields, in
FSX, I was left with nine that were flyable. They have texture
breakthrough and missing bits but no significant troughs. This is a
known UK2000 problem.
Anyway, having looked at Carlisle, I decided to take a flight to East
Fortune. Although the runways were OK some of the buildings were down
in valleys and hollows that definitely can't be present in real life.
Because of its effect on some farm strip runways, I've stopped using
the more accurate GenX mesh and reverted to the VFR Terrain mesh
which, I think, extends north of the border.
Changing the Options Settings sliders for Mesh had no effect on the
hollows at East Fortune. If I disable VFR Terrain and revert to the
Default mesh, then the hollows disappear.
The reason why, with VFR Terrain used in FS9 I don't get these hollows
is, presumably because of the Scotflight inbuilt Flattens. It's a
known fact that FS9 flattens have no effect in FSX. So, it looks as
though I'll need to head for FSX SDK and read up on Flattens.
BUT, since the hollows aren't present across real life farm strip
runways, or around any licensed commercial airfield I've ever seen,
the finger seems to point at the Mesh addons. The "more accurate" GenX
mesh creates more depressions than does VFR Terrain, which is
obviously "more accurate" than the Default mesh. It looks as though
"accuracy" is a merited claim in the direction of UP, whereas they
create non existant holes, when looking DOWN.
Any ideas folks?
Gerry Winskill
