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Adding buildings to scenery in P3D V4

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So I would love to add a few buildings to a specific area that is outside an airport. Can I do that with this program and how easy it is it to do? Basically I want to create some practice targets I can place on the ground.

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Hi,

Do you want to place autogen buildings or just MDL buildings? scenProc has been more designed to do the first thing. So if you have GIS vector data about buildings in the area you want to populate, you can use scenProc to make autogen files for this. But for autogen to work you need to have a photo scenery as well of course.

You can also place MDL library objects based on vector data. So that's another option. And a feature to make custom 3D buildings based on the footprint is in development (current implementation only makes untextured buildings).
 
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Hi,

Do you want to place autogen buildings or just MDL buildings? scenProc has been more designed to do the first thing. So if you have GIS vector data about buildings in the area you want to populate, you can use scenProc to make autogen files for this. But for autogen to work you need to have a photo scenery as well of course.

You can also place MDL library objects based on vector data. So that's another option. And a feature to make custom 3D buildings based on the footprint is in development (current implementation only makes untextured buildings).
Sorry I'm not sure what you mean by MDL buildings. What I would like to do is take a small area in the desert that doesn't have any buildings IRL, and add a few buildings in the sim that I can use as target practice. So for example I can get coordinates from Google Earth and place a building at that location in the sim even though there isn't a building there in real life.

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Hi,

If you just want to place a few buildings it is probably easier to use an object placement tool and just place a few library objects at the location you want. That is not something scenProc can do easily, it is designed to work from geographical data on bigger areas. And since your buildings are not there in real life you would have to make that data yourself. In that case it is probably quicker to just place them with an object placement tool.
 
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Hi,

If you just want to place a few buildings it is probably easier to use an object placement tool and just place a few library objects at the location you want. That is not something scenProc can do easily, it is designed to work from geographical data on bigger areas. And since your buildings are not there in real life you would have to make that data yourself. In that case it is probably quicker to just place them with an object placement tool.
This is very helpful, thanks. However, do you know of a good program I can do this with? From what I found online you can do it with Sim Director but when I try and load the program it just freezes at 37% on the loading screen.
 
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