How to make it recognize my autogendescriptions.xml?

[aletri]

Hi Arno
Thanks first for the amazing tool!
I followed the instructions to instal the tool and so far it works but when I launch the sim after putting my scenery and the autogenfolder as described nothing happens!?
My autogendescription file is a xml! Could it be that I have to convert it first in .spb? Or is the mistake I make an other one?

 

[arno]

Hi,

The tool should read both xml and spb (if both are there the spb is taken).

Can you check the log file to see if your custom scenery was processed? The manual lists where you can find the log file.

 

[aletri]

Hi
Yes it was processed!

to avoid missundersandings here my folder structure: "Addon Scenery\Europe\Italy\Ancona\scenery
\texture
\autogen\AutogenDescriptions.xml (my ones)

autogenfolder flight sim: AutogenDescriptions.spb
AutogenDescriptions_Mid.spb
AutogenDescriptions_Min.spb
and so on......

 

[arno]

You see in the log file that it was processed and that the updated global configurations are saved?

 

[aletri]

Nothing about updated global configuration saved in the log!?

 

[arno]

But you see that your scenery was read? In that case it seems your custom definitions were there already, so no need to save them again.

 

[aletri]

following message showing up now after some tests:

17:26:38 | Processing scenery area: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\addon scenery\europe\italy\ancona
17:26:38 | >> Found config: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\addon scenery\europe\italy\ancona\autogen\AutogenDescriptions.xml
17:26:38 | Error! Stopping...
17:26:38 | Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
17:26:38 | at FlightToolkit.SimProp.PropertySet.ReadXML(Symbols symbols, XmlTextReader xr)
at FlightToolkit.SimProp.PropertySet.ReadXML(Symbols symbols, XmlTextReader xr)
at FlightToolkit.SimProp.PropertySet.ReadXML(Symbols symbols, XmlTextReader xr)
at FlightToolkit.SimProp.XML.Read(Symbols symbols, Stream inputStream)
at FlightToolkit.SimProp.PropertySet.Load(Symbols symbols, Stream inputStream)
at FlightToolkit.SimProp.PropertySet.Load(Symbols symbols, String input)
at ASToFra.AutogenConfigurationMerger.SPBMerger.LoadPropertySet(String folder, String configFile)
at ASToFra.AutogenConfigurationMerger.SPBMerger.ProcessSceneryFolder(String folder)
at ASToFra.AutogenConfigurationMerger.AutogenConfigurationMerger..ctor(String[] args)

should the date of the AutogenDescription file change to today's date if the process is sucessfull or not?

 

[arno]

Hi,

I see there is a crash (stack dump) right below reading your file. So it seems something went wrong when trying to read it. Could you send me your XML file for testing, hopefully I can reproduce the error?

 

[aletri]

Hi Arno
here is the file!

 

[arno]

Thanks, I'll try to reproduce the crash.

 

[aletri]

Hi Arno,
After some day's work and comparisons I foud out that my XML file had some little errors like one letter missing in a word and so on!!
After correction of XML file this was processde by your AutogenMerger wich works perfectly.
Sorry for that, I hope you didn't waste to much time to investigate.
Thks a lot

 

[arno]

Hi,

I still think the tool should be more robust and not crash when it encounters such a XML file. So I'll try to make sure the crash doesn't happen and that invalid files are ignored.