Poly and Vector line layering

[Timber]

Using SBX I pulled a background off Google Earth, mapped, saved and created the .bmp. The area was just an open field. I moved the bmp into PSP, added some dirt for the airstrip and loading area. Created a mask around both and compiled everything, and copied the bgl into FSX. Fired off FSX and checked it out. Everything to that point looked fine.
Opened SBX and created a vector line 30 ft wide using a dirt road texture. Compiled and copied the cvx_WQL1.bgl into FSX. Im not seeing the dirt strip. I tried this using a polygon and a gress strip but had the same results; a no show in FSX. Tried to find some way to layer them but could not find anything in the program. Any help would really be appreciated.

Regards

Timber

[luisfeliztirado]

Sorry, custom textures will always display over vector terrain. No way around that... unless you create a transparent area in your source image where the underlying vector element can show through.

The reasoning behind this makes some sense - why would you want unrealistic generic textures from default vector elements when using highly realistic, photo-real images?

Since you are painting the source image anyway, why not paint the strip directly onto it?

Best regards.
Luis

[Timber]

Luis, You are a champ, thanks for the reply. I captured some photo real off google earth of the area I wanted to build an airstrip at thinking of using the textures in the SBX library.
I see your point. Will do just that; texture in the airstrip and parking right using PSP.


This stuff is really interesting.

Ken