Hi Graham,
can you please check, whether you have Texture enabled in the 2D view menu?
Posts by Rodeo
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Hi Michael,
good idea, go on with that stuff.
Question from a non FSX user:
How do you define the column Photoscenery versus Full scenery versus Airport?
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Excellent work, Ryan!
Yes, why not doing a video to motivate even more people doing airports with AC3D?
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thanks Steve, your suggestion did the trick!
I was always focussed to create a good alpha channel, but always had strange looking border lines.
Do not care about the alpha channel, create markings at a transparent layer and save it as png.
I use this now just as a decal in AC3D, and can place them in different sizes and positions.
1. Create an image 2048x512 or something similar, add a background layer from a screenshot.
2. Paint markings, delete background layers, keep only the one transparent layer, save image as png.
3. Create rectangles in AC3D and use the png as texture. You can also overlay some of them.
Thomas, sorry for posting this in your airport thread. But I'm happy we finally have a solution for AC3D as well.
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I tried an image of 512x512 with some skid marks,
added it in AC3D to a rectangle covering the touch down zone of the runway.
Also you can place several of these decal rectangles in different sizes on top of each other to make different dirt structure.
It worked, but I got white effects along the borders which don't look good.
I'm not a gimp expert, so I'm not sure where to find the gradient...
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Good luck with the "dirtying up". I've experimented with adding skid marks using transparent PNGs but haven't got a proven process yet. Cracks also are a nice touch. I was recommended https://www.textures.com/ to get cracks but haven't used this yet either.
Yes,
this is a quite interesting topic for us AC3D users. How can we make the runway dirty? As far as I know the runway texture will be created by the converter using the aerofly library.
Can we add dirt as decals? Yes I did that, but it has to look good as well
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You can activate the view of an avatar with CTRL + F8.
You navigate with mouse and W, S
Return to the planes position with R
Return to normal view with 1 and then P
Addition to Tom's description:
Q - E rotates camera
L switches to 'center mode' (just try it)
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I noticed a bug in cultivation far enough of airport. I don't know if it's because of my work:
Hi,
I suppose your __airport__outside surface does not reach so far away to this area. I doubt it is caused by your work.
So the next question: Is there a custom elevation mesh being used?
If yes, can you remove this for testing purpose?
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Lukla Airport closed. Grounded!
Bu to be honest: Current aerofly cannot reduce the visibility much more than that.
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Well,
as soon as you have Lukla installed, please set visibility to minimum and cover everything with clouds to make this more realistic. But I'm afraid your screenshot will not show the many details of the scenery...
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Look forward, what a frightening take off:
See these affectionate details:
There should be an airport around!
What a relief after landing safely.
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Good job, Thomas.
It allows to use more segments for the curve without increasing the drawing time too much.
I like to see finally somebody else using AC3D for aerofly.
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Thomas,
you can texture just the first face and then copy and rotate it. It works this way.
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I'll have to check them. I don't remember in the moment
But this is the theory: There are no real curves, just a row of edges.
Create a circle of 20 or more face and adapt the diameter, until you meet the curve.
Create another circle of 2 meters less at the same position.
Select the 4 edge points and create a face.
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Hi,
- decal transparency: I don't remember a specific setting and when I didn't mention this in the tutorials, there is probably none.
Although my display of the same file name like yours is different (can read content a bit better
You may save the file as a 24 bit file and use this for working with ac3d. But don't change the name and use the original one for conversion.
- Mesh ok. I like this message!
- Exclude area for cultivation. Do you know this tutorial?
- Texturing: Generally it is possible to use any file, we have to check your task in detail. The maximum file size is 2048x2048, so you will often need a repetition of the texture.
- Decals transparency: Let's do this in detail, I need more information about your problem.
I like this discussion as well and hope for a good result of your work.
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Hi,
the mesh contains some errors as you already can see where the color changes gradually to black.
Some faces are flipped, and some overlap. I corrected them for your file.
You have to add textures from the library to the __airport__runway, otherwise will it not show up in aerofly.
I added some examples to your file.
Please compare center position and rotation of the file.
I don't have an image coverage, so you have to move it to the correct position.
Converter runs now without an error. You can always check the tm.log to find out, whether it is a critical error.
When doing the decals, please follow my suggestions.
You can't have all decals in a single object.
This is the new airport file:
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Hi Rodeo
Could you take a look at my AC3D file, I cant seem to convert it keep getting errors, not sure if I have set up TSC file correctly or if it's the AC3D file.
Thanks
Yes I will. Just give me some time.
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Here are some small triangles as well, but they work.
Others are of average size.
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Very small triangles seem to cause problems.
Since it often occurs along the border of objects, you may also try this:
Merge the 2 objects again, rework the hole situation, snap all related vertices together and do a optimize vertices.
After this step you can separate the faces again into different objects, but now you can be sure, that they share the same points.
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Thomas,
I did check your mesh and have written a document with some suggestions.
The runway comes up quite nice and is in correct position.
Also it's leveled with the ground.
Then I placed a single texture on it, so you can better identify the holes.
These are the files and the comments:
Regards
Rodeo
