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I am not a fan of ramp starts near the active runway I figure if a user wants to minimize taxi time, X-Plane lets you start on the runway, and a start anywhere but the ramp is inappropriate for realistic flight. “in the run-up area for runway 7”) that are not appropriate for AI/ATC use. The misc category was designed for ramp starts that might be interesting to humans (e.g. X-Plane 10 lets you define your ramp start as a tie-down, a gate, the interior of a hanger, or ‘misc’.

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For example, some airports have ramp starts on the active runway! He had to write specific ATC code to untangle the disaster that happens when an airliner decides that “on the runway” is a good place to park. One thing Chris found while working on the ATC system was that users were putting ramp starts in silly locations. X-Plane 10 introduced type and equipment codes to ramp starts. This will give the AI planes room to park and the user a choice of all of the real-world gates. This has been fixed for a while, so I encourage you to add lots of ramp starts to your airports. In the past, X-Plane’s UI didn’t have room to show a lot of ramp starts, so authors would include only a handful. You need to provide more than one ramp start! In particular, if there aren’t enough ramp starts for a given airport, X-Plane cannot sanely allocate AI airplanes with space between them.

The code that allocates AI start locations is much improved for X-Plane 10.30, so in the next major update, we should get less cluttered ramp starts.īut the code change isn’t enough there’s something that you have to do now if you are working on an airports. So: when you work on new airports, please remove bezier curves from your boundary polygons.

So the author will not get a surface area like the one they expected – there is a conversion that must take place.įaced with a bezier curve technology that produces crashes and isn’t actually used, I decided to switch to straight polygonal airport boundaries.

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There were 3 in this last batch.įurthermore, the DSF generator cannot actually use bezier curves – it has to convert them to polygons. Every time we cut DSFs, we find a handful of boundary polygons that need to be hand-fixed due to bad bezier outlines. The result is (apparently) valid WED airport layouts that later crash the DSF generator. The problem with bezier curves is that they can very easily be self-intersecting, but WED has no good test for this. This is because we are trying to stop the use of bezier curves for airport boundaries. If you’ve used WED 1.2, you may have noticed that it refuses to validate airports with bezier curve boundaries.

When we create base mesh DSFs, the elevation under the boundary polygon has large bumps and spikes removed.

(These two points are actually one in the same – the zoning of ‘airport’ in the DSF creation tool adds grass and removes autogen at the same time.)

When we create base mesh DSFs, the area of the boundary polygon has no autogen buildings.

When we create base mesh DSFs, the area of the boundary polygon gets a grass surface texture.

If you have ever entered a silly field elevation in WED and then turned off sloped runways, you’ll see that the flattening process is not exact.

If sloped runways are not enabled, it defines (roughly) the area that X-Plane will flatten to the airport elevation.

The airport boundary polygon is probably the least understood aspect of airports, particularly because it takes effect when we cut DSFs, not when you load X-Plane. There is also a safeguard built in, so you can´t "freeze" the machine you are currently on.Įdit: For the record - Gizmo itself has no DRM, DRM only comes into play when designers selling their Gizmo-powered product elect to use it.Since X-Plane 8.50, airports have had a border polygon that defines the boundary of the airport surface area. Just make sure you don´t "freeze" one of the other ones by accident (like maybe your laptop that you also use) - I avoid that by giving my "Machines" unique names.

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Since one of the 3 existing ones is your "pre Windows update" computer, it is safe to "freeze" (disable) that one. Since only 3 machines are allowed, it will ask you to delete one of the 3 existing ones, to make room for the "new" one.

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So if you change a major hardware component or the operating system (a major Windows upgrade counts towards that), the DRM "thinks" that you are trying to run the product on a new computer (machine). The DRM assigns a unique ID to every computer by its combination of hardware and operating system. The DRM used with some products using Gizmo will allow their products to be run on 3 different computers (called "machines"). I can only read half of the conversation because I can´t read what jarmstro (and some others) write, and I am not ready to re-enable that quite yet to protect my sanity 🙄