Advanced Help Needed: Removal of ground.

[Colin S]

Without a shovel. No, seriously, here's what I want to do:

 

I want to modify the default DSF tiles to remove the old ground textures so that I can drape my orthophotos on them without any ground underneath. Please don't question my motives, I just want to know how to do this. No alternatives. I just need a way of replacing the default textures with my own. 

 

Thanks to anyone who could help with this.

 

EDIT: In case it wasn't obvious, I need terrain to remain.

 

EDIT: As in elevation profile.

Edited November 9, 2013 by Colin S

[Cameron]

You can do this in whole DSF tiles only, and not in small areas. It's not necessarily an easy task either, and would require you to re-generate the entire mesh from the ground up with your own data. 

 

The tool in question is provided by Laminar as MeshTool. You'll likely need to also do some smoothing work in some form of GIS software to ensure the correct areas are smooth around any airports, as MeshTool is a "best guess" tool when it comes to points and where to use them within a particular DSF file.

[Colin S]

Thanks, I'll look into it. Fortunately there are no other islands except the ones I'm working on within the DSF tiles for this scenery. Cheers.