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