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Autogen trees have reduced in number

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unitedkingdom
Hello Arno,

Just recently have noticed that my autogen trees have virtually disappeared over my VFR photoscenery of the UK and France, buildings and other structures are fine.

When I reviewed the Prepar3D.cfg I found that this had altered:_

[SCENERY]
POP_FREE_AUTOGEN=1
AUTOGEN_BATCH_LOD=2
AUTOGEN_TREE_MAX_DRAW_DISTANCE=1500.000000
AUTOGEN_TREE_MIN_DISTANCE_TO_LOD=0.000000
IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=3

On comparing the Prepar3D.cfg with my backup I found this entered:_

[SCENERY]
POP_FREE_AUTOGEN=1
AUTOGEN_BATCH_LOD=2
AUTOGEN_TREE_MAX_DRAW_DISTANCE=9500.000000
AUTOGEN_TREE_MIN_DISTANCE_TO_LOD=2500.000000
IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=3

So I modified the .cfg to read as above, did a test flight and still have a limited amount of autogen trees appearing. on checking the .cfg file again the [SCENERY] entries had changed back to this again:-
[SCENERY]
POP_FREE_AUTOGEN=1
AUTOGEN_BATCH_LOD=2
AUTOGEN_TREE_MAX_DRAW_DISTANCE=1500.000000
AUTOGEN_TREE_MIN_DISTANCE_TO_LOD=0.000000
IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=3

What is altering my .cfg every time I load a flight??

Using P3D v2.5 VFRPhotoscenery for UK, UK2000 airports, SLX to load, AutogenConfiguratorMerger was installed some months back when I had no trees appearing in VFRFrance scenery installed.I've checked the ACM log and have found no errors there.

Computer specs:-
Intel i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz Sandy Bridge
MSI Z77A-G45 Motherboard
8GB DDR3 Ram
ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
500GB Hybrid SSD Hard drive (main), secondary 500GB HDD, third backup 320 GB HDD plus external SDD of 500GB
OCZ 750 watt PSU
Coolmaster DM-690 case
Logitech Mk260 wireless keyboard and mouse
Windows 10 Home 64bit
FSUIPC4 v4.957 and Nvidia driver 372.90

Nigel
 

arno

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netherlands
Hi,

ACM doesn't modify cfg files, it only merges autogen configuration files. And only sceneries that have been designed to work with the tool will be merged. So did you modify the sceneries you mentioned to work with ACM?
 
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unitedkingdom
Hello Arno

Thanks for replying and no I didn't modify any of the above scenery files prior to this problem occurring but I've cured it by upgrading to P3D v3.4.

I did download some tree autogen scenery for use with MegaSceneryEarth Netherlands some time before this problem but it turned the Netherland Photoscenery into something like the Amazon rain forest so i deleted it! Cannot say exactly when this change in .cfg entries began.

Anyway, the problem is cured by going to v3.4.

Nigel
 
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