No. Gateway airports cannot have third party art assets or use third party libraries – they need to work with the unextended sim.

Can I create custom .POL for Gateway airport’s? For example, we do have the Pavements folder inside the library, with 6 variations of concrete and asphalt. But what if I need grass, gravel, dirt or something like that? Can I make a custom .POL using decals, as long as I’m reffering to textures inside the XP’s library?

Thanks.

Great, thanks!

Yes – when they include them from the library, they aren’t copying the art asset, they’re just creating a reference to it, so that’s fine.

I have a question: does the developers of payware scenery allowed to use stock x-plane library of objects on their scenery? I mean facades, trees, cars, etc.

As a commercial developer, I’m looking forward for a way to have the ability to edit the mesh for airport, but without having to replace the whole 1×1 tile.

Currently working on Chicago O’Hare airport (KORD), which sits on 2 tiles, I did a heavy mesh editing (from creating the missing ponds, underpasses, to “stitching” the 2 tiles cause there where gaps). Now, if someone creates the Midway airport (KMDW – which sits on the same tile with KORD) and wants to edit the mesh as well, a user cannot have the both meshes.

I believe that as we move forward to more complex airports, mesh editing will be essential, and it is profound that a mesh patching system will be recommended.

I was thinking more about an “airport special mesh”, something like a square about 5×5 nautical miles around the airports (at least the major ones). This way that special tile could be edited, without affecting the rest of the tile. Of course, I have no idea if that is possible!

You should totally tell HIM that. 😉 😉

I second Manuel’s sentiment, great news!

Well, I can’t be that mad about mesh patching because it -is- what I think we will someday do. It’s just that we need to further migrate the engine internally to be able to take patches.

Whether mesh patches are good for full mesh replacement or only fixing airports will depend on the implementation. (E.g. .pols are kind of like “mesh patching” for orthophotos, but they don’t scale to do wide-scale orthophoto scenery.)