Outlinable Centerlines

[FadamorII]

We can now outline our PaintedLine objects with a black background. I would like to be able to do the same with the centerlines/enhanced centerlines created from the Taxiway Path objects.

[FadamorII]

I’m currently overlaying the Taxiway Path objects with a Default-style PaintedLine object that has the Outline parameter set to “Line”. To me, this unnecessarily doubles the number of .XML lines for each taxiway.
I don’t have a similar workaround for enhanced centerlines, though, and they’re the lines that need outlining the most.

EDIT: Just noticed the Enhanced Center painted line object, so I’ll be able to do the workaround for the enhanced centerlines as well. (I still want to be able to do this with the taxiway path objects, though.)

[morganthomas757]

+1 on this. I’m in the same situation. I thought the new outlined painted lines would be my saviour but unfortunately not due to the taxiway paths still not being outlinable.

[FadamorII]

Until Asobo gets around to finishing the basic functions that should have been in version 1.0.0 of the SDK, you’ll have to leave your taxiway path objects with “Centerline” and “Enhanced Centerline” un-checked, then place PaintedLine objects over the taxiway path objects - “Default” line style for regular taxiways and “Enhanced Center” line style for enhanced centerline taxiways. Then go in and change the Outline parameter for each PaintedLine object to “Line”.

NOTE: If the PaintedLine anchor point is too close to another object’s anchor point, the Outline will not completely draw (at least on my computer that’s what happens.) Moving one or the other object’s anchor points down the path a bit resolves this glitch.

[N316TS]

Hi there,

Feature requests are done through the Ideas category. No need to create a new topic, though. You can just edit your first post, change the category to Ideas, and save. (And maybe remove the phrase “WISH LIST” from the title when you move it, as that intent is automatically understood in that category.)

After moving, be sure to vote on your own idea at the top of the page. (And same for @morganthomas757 .) And I will do the same.

[FadamorII]

Thanks for the advice. I’ll see about moving it now.

DONE!

[N316TS]

Awesome! Voted. (And @morganthomas757 , sorry for the ping. Feel free to vote if you haven’t yet.)

I would guess that more taxiway centerlines in the world have black backgrounds than not. And I would also want to see this functionality available in the World Hub.

[vpilotfs]

I’ve been asking for this since 2022 and I guess it never got enough attention.

Please Add the Option to use a Custom Material for lines of taxiway paths and painted hatched areas

Hello, Can you please add an option to use a custom material for the lines of taxiway paths. Right now the only way to use custom materials for lines is to uncheck the box for lines in the taxiway paths and draw a painted line above it, which makes the process redundant and doubles the amount work. Also, painted hatched areas need an option to use custom material or at least an option to pick a custom color. The only way to do it now is to add a custom DDS to the project with the same fil…

[N316TS]

Oof! I went ahead and voted for yours, too. Given that we have a camera API request with 159 votes and a multijetway request with 60 votes, it might take a while. I have to imagine that they’re not going to be looking at feature requests for several months. But I’ll keep my fingers crossed for this.

If they’re the exact same request, we would get some more votes by requesting that these get merged together. Anyone who voted for this but didn’t for the other one would be transferred over. But I’m not sure if these are the exact same request or just very similar.

[FadamorII]

I don’t think mine is similar as all I’m asking for is the black background outline. Allowing custom materials to be defined for the outline goes beyond my idea.