[jhb] Re: Mesh Problems
- From: "bones" <bones@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 15:45:08 +0100
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
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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?
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>bones
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>-----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
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>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.
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>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.
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>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
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