Hello, I am in the process of editing an airport in FS 2024 to turn it into a private airport using the SDK, but I could use some help with a few issues. So the airport I am editing is Valdez, which, from what I understand, is a handcrafted airport. One issue I have is that I am trying to use the polygon tool to make the area around the airport free from buildings and vegetation and roadways, Including the buildings that are a part of the default airport, like the terminal, as I want to place my own building. However, no matter what I exclude in the properties of the polygon I still get everything showing up. In one area of the airport, I was somehow able to get the vegetation removed, but not the roadways and background satellite pictures on the terrain. in another polygon I was able to remove half the vegetation from it but there was still some left.
Another Issue I have is, with adding an ILS to the runway. I was able to place an ILS with a GS and orginally I could manualy move the postion of the ILS equipment and see the beam on the map, but now I do not see the beam and when I click edit postion on the ILS or GS Nothing comes up for me to move. I just have the localizer equipment sitting in the middle of the runway and I cant move it.
So any ideas on what I am doing wrong with the polygon and ILS. I will include a few picure below to show the properties of the polygon and ILS.
Thannks.
Hello @NuclearLaser
Apologies for the late response, but here’s what we can say:
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Vegetation polygons: a regression has been reported on SU6, causing vegetation polys to have no effect if they have priority set to 0. You can try to increase their priority as a workaround but this is not guaranteed to work. A fix is being worked on for SU7.
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Roads: the roads in the PAVD airport area were added manually, through taxiway objects from the microsoft-airport-pavd-valdez package. Enable the deleteAllTaxiways command from your airport to get rid of it.
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Satellite imagery: not sure how you are trying to “exclude” those but this isn’t really possible. You want to cover it using either a polygon with a material, or your own aerials through the CGL asset group (Check the SimpleAerial SDK sample)
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Buildings: It depends on the type of buildings you are trying to exclude. For auto generated buildings, the Exclude all buildings option of your exclusion polygon will work.
For buildings that were placed through the microsoft-airport-pavd-valdez, you want to use an Exclusion Rectangle object instead and select excludeLibraryObjects or excludeSimPropContainer, depending on what object type was used.
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ILS: there appears to be a bug where the ILS debug only shows the first time the Custom Primary/Secondary ILS checkbox is checked. I could replicate it no longer showing after the scenery is saved and reloaded.
You should be able to display it through the Debug → Airports → Runway ILS debug from the DevMode though.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Sylvain
