Hrm – is it a lack of resolution, or a lack of the second level of detailing? Please file a bug and include a comparison screenshot of the same texture via .ter and .pol.

Where can we find .pol files with a good resolution?

The ones I use in lib/g10/terrain10/* don’t have the crispness that can be seen in general landclass.

That happens when the airport area was wrong during DSF creation – it results in three problems:
– Autogen (trees OR buildings) on the runway.
– Wrong terrain type under the airport (not grass)
– Crazy slope (because only airport grass gets “smoothing” of the raw elevation data).
So we want to fix this with recuts.

BUT! Until the recuts happen, a .pol and an exclusion zone can help a lot – I saw a few people do this in the contributed airports.

You can always do this and then if/when we recut, remove the .pol. For the exclusion zone, it’s a question of how closely the autogen encroaches on the runways – exclusion zones are slightly blunt instruments, and it can be hard to perfectly capture an airport that is jammed into the middle of a city.

Anyway – what a great way to keep X-Plane growing!

Ok… but one request for the future: Red Lines, pleassssseeee !!!

Either for apt.dat or for dsf files (.lin files in XP10 library).

PS: Good cleaning!! (using wed 1.2.1b1 with 10.25)

Please file specific bug(s) against WED here. http://dev.x-plane.com/bugbase/

“Usability bugs” (e.g. the product CAN do what it needs to do but it’s a PITA) are still bugs and can be filed there.

The problem is of course that once 10.25 is released “normal” people want to add their favorite airport. They start working with the tools and get either depressed and never try again (you’re losing a lot of manpower there) or they continue and send in the mess they made (at the expense of the sim).

Especially with regard to the airport flows I would argue that the tools are not ready yet, not even as a beta. I didn’t even know where to start filing bugs yesterday (I did write a rant, but decided to not post that). Instead, I would suggest each of you make the traffic flows for five or so different medium sized airports with crossing runways of different lengths and crazy traffic rules (i.e. a major urban area, or Europe). I’m sure you’ll see some points that can be improved (if you didn’t kill each other out of frustration).

Thanks

You are doing something wrong. Put the airport furnature for each airport INTO the airport’s folder in the hierarchy so that WED knows what belongs to what.