FSX plus Horizon VFR new scenery question?

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FSX plus Horizon VFR new scenery question?

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As a winter project, I would like to enhance the Horizon VFR scenery in FSX with some now defunct RAF and civil airfields. I have been reading up and playing with ADE9X and FSX Planner.

I have the basics of both but am being troubled by the Horizon terrain mesh when I test the airfield in FSX.

ADE9X does give a polygon tool for flatten and exclude, but all the tutorials show it inside the taxiways. I need (building on 'virgin' soil) to flatten and exclude the whole airfield area (ideally) before I start work. At the moment an altitude across the airfields area (difference of about 40ft) mean half buried RWs at one end and floating RWs at the other.

Is there an easy way to flatten the land? A default airfield is already done, so enhancing it is much easier, however none of my projects are there in FSX!

The list (if I sort this out *-) ) will include RAF Tangmere, RAF Thorney Island, CAT Hamble, South Downs Gliding Club and RNAS Ford.
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You can make one (or more) flattens to cover the whole area.

Have one in the middle to cover the airport boundary, set at the airfield height. You'll probably have cliffs at the edges, so add more flattens around the outside and use these to blend in with the surrounding terrain. ADE will let you adjust the individual points on a flatten to different heights.
There is a tut by Tony Meredith about making slopping flattens, available here: http://www.arm-computers.co.uk/html/fsx.html. It's using FSX_KML rather than ADE, but the theory is the same.
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I find FSX KML excelent for this sort of thing :cpu:
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Thanks guys, quick service indeed!!! Tony M is giving me a bit of coaching too!!!
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calypsos wrote:Thanks guys, quick service indeed!!! Tony M is giving me a bit of coaching too!!!
What would Tony M know about FSX :rofl: :hide:
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T H A T is a very interesting question Ben :agree:

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Sorry, over my head! :worried:
I actually use Tony's Dunsfold as my home base in FSX, it's very nice!! Some say....... 8)

Anyhow, the tutorial was just what I need, explains it all......simply!
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Are you meaning Tony Madge? i'm amazed he made it to FSX at all (hence the comments) let alone made a scenery for it! :-O
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I wondered if that was you meant, no, me just being lazy and not wanting to type MERIDETH...there done it now, wasn't too difficult either :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Why is teaching yourself so bloody hard!!!

I am stuck and the tutorials do not help much.

I draw a simple polygon to act as a slope from the very flat (tened) airfield to some higher ground to the north, a climb of about 10 metres. My problem is the fact that the points are numbered within FSX KML but not on the polygon itself and the co-ordinates given within KML do not tally with either FSX or Google earth....so I am stuck with pot luck at getting it correct. After several hours of trial and error, I think I will look for a flatter airfield!
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