The Evil Seven

[Helli]

Hello Arno,

lately I am getting acquainted in using "Generic Buildings" and their plentiful parameters for designing cities with more than 300 (autogen) buildings.

I use for this the build-in capability of ObPlacer_XML (FS9) since I can play around with varying the parameter values and see the result immediately in the preview window.
All works very nice.

One thing I noticed though:
When setting the "GableTexture" - value to "7" or less, the ObPlacer_XML vanishes without a trace, i.e. all entries, which have not been saved intermediately, are lost.
The same happens, when I try to change the value manually, i.e. by typing the number 7. Inserting for instance "37" manually is not possible, only by using the incremental up/down-pointers.

It is not a real problem, once one knows and is careful.

With kind regards

Helli

[arno]

Hi Helli,

Yes, that crash for low values I have found before. Not sure if I have already fixed it.

You should be able to type in 37 though, as long as the value in the text boxs stays below the maximum all the time.

[Helli]

My, your are fast Arno!

Well, you know the fault and that is what I wanted to achieve.

Just a small correction:
Manually one can only insert "80 to 84" (84 being the upper limit).
In all other cases the first input is "7" or lower.

But I guess that is rather academic.

Still I like the Generic Building feature of ObPlacer_XML very much - even if the whole topic is " a pain in.." as Sruffyduck-Jon exclaimed somewhere else (not in exact these words!)

Well good luck with the error hunt - but it's not urgent at all, since there is another way available.

Greetings from Upper-Bavaria

Helli

[arno]

I'll put it on my to-check list, just to make sure I have catched this error.

But at the moment I am also thinking about a bigger overhaul of the entire tool, to make it FsX ready as well :).

[Helli]

Good news!

But when you do, please keep the Generic Building function, since I do not know of any other placement tool to provide Generic Buildings.

Many thanks

Helli

[arno]

Of course, the generic buildings with the dynamic preview are an important feature that must stay in the tool.