CAE5 -Water depth

[johnt]

Hi all,
on using F1's Instant scenery to embellish the scenery at CAE5 (Whistler-Green Lake). A mate and I used the utility fstutilities.zip,suggested by Opa , successfully.
This, to flatten the area at the end of the Jetty, to enable us to add a terminal amongst other buildings. Getting carried away with this achievement, I then progressed to adding pontoons for float planes. As use of the Instant scenery involves non stop slewing to position objects, I did not realise that the underlying lake bed was only inches below the surface from about half way down the jetty.
So once again attempted to use the flatten utility and lower the lake bed adjacent to the jetty, but to no avail - it generated a .bgl but there was no change in the depth of the lake in the area under discussion.
So before I bin 3 days work has anybody got an idea as to what can be done as a rectification exercise?

Thanks in advance.

Regards JohnT

PS The above for FS9 on Win7 m/c

[scubakobe]

Hi John,

I have not tried changing the depth of a lake before in either of the simulator versions. From what I remember in FS9, water bodies act as a flatten. In Sbuilder they can be selected as LWM Polygons which can then be a generic flatten, or water flatten.

In otherwords, the lakes in flight simulator don't actually have a depth. They are a special kind of flatten, which makes the surface flat and gives it the water effect.

If the planes float OK on the water as is, then you will have to adjust your pontoon models to sit appropriately on the water. Using Instant Scenery you should be able to adjust the height of the object, placing it into the ground to give it the appearance that it's half underwater.