LatinVFR Baltimore Terrain/ Ground Issue

[williebarry1 4]

There is something wrong with ground textures. Any way to fix this.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/14xht3iye2o0l5m/Screenshot (4).png?dl=0  

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ep73wi07jdidueq/Screenshot (5).png?dl=0 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gjunbb49h6b7wfu/Screenshot (6).png?dl=0  

 

Here is the default airport: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qmr9kd4fqz92y0i/Screenshot (7).png?dl=0

Edited August 10, 2018 by williebarry1

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

See if this file is installed in your BWI folder:

KBWI_ADEP4_RGM_CVX.bgl

This file contains the airport background flatten polygons which establishes the airport elevation and and the exclusion polygon that eliminates autogen, etc. from displaying within the airport. Also check that you don't have another 3rd party version of KBWI installed. Lastly, make sure that your third-party airports are the highest priority in your scenery library. LatinVFR KBWI has various flattened elevations within the airport proper.

Edited August 10, 2018 by jabloomf1230

[williebarry1 4]

I have that file and no other BWI scenery.

[Greg073 46]

I'm also having this issue.  At first I thought it was supposed to be that way?  Maybe it's a conflict with the ORBX LC USA that i can't solve.

[williebarry1 4]

Maybe, but i don't have ORBX LC USA.

[downscc 1,327]

There is nothing wrong here.  BWI sits on rolling hilly terrain and there are parts of the airport where the surrounding terrain is lower and others where it is higher.  The Southeast corner where rwy 28 happens to have terrain lower, the landing elevation for 28 is 126 ft comp;ared to 139 ft for rwy 10.  Adjacent rwy 33R near the rwy 28 end has a landing elevation of 114!  This scenery has realistic terrain, too bad P3D still uses flat runways.  You are used to default airports where the entire airport background is flattened (the above reference to the CVX file) but developers are getting better.  Look at KDEN and you'll see hills in between runways... it's great.

[williebarry1 4]

I removed it completely and installed a detailed freeware one and this doesn't have any problems or randoms hills: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/77jvcj3r2u6kj8b/Screenshot (8).png?dl=0 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vsyn2sdsjtsuin2/Screenshot (9).png?dl=0 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xh2rpx48ierrlol/Screenshot (10).png?dl=0

Edited August 10, 2018 by williebarry1

[simon747 185]

7 hours ago, williebarry1 said:

I removed it completely and installed a detailed freeware one and this doesn't have any problems or randoms hills: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/77jvcj3r2u6kj8b/Screenshot (8).png?dl=0 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vsyn2sdsjtsuin2/Screenshot (9).png?dl=0 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xh2rpx48ierrlol/Screenshot (10).png?dl=0

Hi there; think I will do the same thing; would you mind directing me to the freeware file? It appears much improved to me judging from your last shots here.

Thanks in advance!

Simon

[williebarry1 4]

https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=196609 says its for P3D V3 but it works for P3D V4. Just read the instructions. Also put the Soarfly folder underneath the KBWI folder in the sim. In the readme I only did the first two steps the others are optional.

Edited August 11, 2018 by williebarry1

[CFIJose 5,485]

The airport has custom mesh. This is what I see with a setting of 2 in p3d v4.

[Flic1 975]

20 hours ago, williebarry1 said:

There is something wrong with ground textures. Any way to fix this.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/14xht3iye2o0l5m/Screenshot (4).png?dl=0  

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ep73wi07jdidueq/Screenshot (5).png?dl=0 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gjunbb49h6b7wfu/Screenshot (6).png?dl=0  

 

Here is the default airport: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qmr9kd4fqz92y0i/Screenshot (7).png?dl=0

As other have posted, it is designed this way with custom mesh.  The airport is like this IRL....although some of the drop-offs are a bit exaggerated probably due to the mesh limitations in sim.  Most airports are not flat like they appear in the sim all the time. I'm surprised you want to switch to a freeware version over this rendition as think they did a great job on it.

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

It's actually designed not only with a custom mesh but as I pointed out, it also utilizes multiple airport background polygons of differing AMSL, to provide realistic flat spots in the terrain mesh.  Most airports just have one airport background polygon that flattens the terrain at the same AMSL as both the runways and aprons and also eliminates landclass autogen.

 

[simon747 185]

14 hours ago, williebarry1 said:

https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=196609 says its for P3D V3 but it works for P3D V4. Just read the instructions. Also put the Soarfly folder underneath the KBWI folder in the sim. In the readme I only did the first two steps the others are optional.

Cheers.

 

Simon

[threexgreen 3,135]

Just bought the airport. Looks really good. Is everyone just ignoring what others have said about the elevation changes being there IRL?

[downscc 1,327]

22 hours ago, threegreen said:

Just bought the airport. Looks really good. Is everyone just ignoring what others have said about the elevation changes being there IRL?

I like that the airport is not an artificial flat field... and I can ignore that maybe the slopes of the gullys are steeper than actual, which i think is due more to the artificially flat runways than errors in terrain mesh.