In a moment of insanity, I thought I'd try and add the Changi Air Base East to Imaginesim's Singapore scenery for FS9. The background imagery already exist and it's a fairly simple layout with only a few objects needed, so I figured it shouldn't take too long. Well, several hours later and I'm stuck scratching my head. I can't for the life of me make the runways and taxiways appear over the (low res) background imagery that is part of the Imaginesim scenery.
I'm doing it as a new airport (WSS1), as the runway and airbase is exclusive to the RSAF, and it's easier to work with that way.
I first thought there might be some arcane exclusion going on, but if I add a library object it shows up just fine. Lengthening the runway makes it appear from under the photoreal background where the scenery meets the ocean, so it could be a layers thing. However, moving the scenery files to the Imaginesim Singapore scenery folder doesn't do much, and neither does creating a new scenery folder at a higher priority/layer. The last thing I tried, was adding 20 feet to the airport elevation, to see if that would make it appear as a molehill of sort, which didn't work either. Although it still parked my airplane 20 feet into the air
I've attached a screenshot to illustrate where the runway pops out under the background scenery. And this was with the elevation set to 20 feet above the elevation of the Singapore scenery.
Is it impossible to do at all (though I could have sworn I've seen it used elsewhere), or is there some far out trick for making it work? Obviously I'd ask at the Imaginesim forum, but they don't have one, and looking around it seems like emailing them is a waste of time as they never reply.
