The Tutorial is released, Avsim, Flightsim, SOH.

The intent of releasing a method for creating sloping runways to the world is to propagate a plethora of freeware offerings to benefit all enthusiasts of the hobby.

May all your runways be sloping and all your landings greased.

Wally-Bob

Old Grey Dog, Nope, unpleasant/unexpected results will occur. Pretty much if you want a building, you need to place one. If you draw a line at an angle in CAD for example, even though it is a straight line (in analog) it will appear to be a staircase at the resolution of the monitor. (in digital) FS...

Athens has been released as freeware on Avsim.com

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Old Grey Dog, You have pretty much covered the process but the roadway will simulate the effects of dirt upon landing and taxiing and you may find yourself dodging 4 wheeled vehicular traffic. The runway with it's hardened effects of asphalt needs to follow the terrain which is what should be laid d...

Old Grey Dog, I get the idea of what you are trying to do. A couple of things here, negatives. The flatten polys interact with the mesh terrain and places (tessellates) a slope from the edge of your poly to the nearest node (pixel) of the mesh terrain, some times with unexpected results. Depending o...

Current Real World Private Airport in New Jersey omitted by MS in FSX is now available as a Sloping Runway, a touchdown tire squealing, smoking rubber - that kind of hardened asphalt surfaced sloping runway. It’s released, and yea I know – but soon is a relative term. Over at Avsim, Search for: “Wal...

Just an update on the subject, I have been successful creating sloping runways albeit utilizing GMax and FSDS. SBuilder still remains the tool of choice for placement of the sloping runway as well as other associated scenery refinements with the projects. I plan the first freeware release soon. Wall...

Luis, Reading from Fsdeveloper (posts are 2005 -> 2007) sloping runways have been tried and were successful in FS9 & FSX by using hardened surfaces on GMAX models & helo pad sections. There have even been airport vehicle roadway tunnels under runways modeled. So, my solutions for sloping runways are...

Luis, I have tried cement land class poly, no luck. I have not tried cement land class tiles (QMID 15), but I would expect the same result. I have tried airport runways without airport boundaries under the photo/elevation mesh. Interesting here, you cannot see them but upon taxiing over it, you fall...

Thanks for the reply Luis, Mods to the cfg would work, but is not the preferred method. I am looking for a way to put the hard suface effect into the bgl. I have not tried "carpeting" the runway with roadways or some other techique where the visuals would be overlayed by photo textures. I was hoping...

Luis,

Utilizing the above technique or with photo textures, is it possible to eliminate the rolling on terrain effect of tossing rocks and dirt etc. from the aircraft's wheels?

Wally-Bob

Luis, Thank-you for bestowing upon us yet another great version of SBuilder. Is SBuilder a living project meaning new revisions to be released at some point? If so, would you entertain the idea of a Wish List post? I don't have complicated wishes like having the program deliver a cup of coffee to my...

G-RJWA, The answer is no. However elements of the same class can be compiled into a single .BGL, such as all scenery objects. There are some constraints and performance considerations to be aware of. The best way to start is with education. Great tutorial by Luis Féliz-Tirado on SBuilder over at Avs...