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Airport buildings

Horst18519

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Hello Arno,

I would like to test the capabilities of scenproc for creating autogenerated airport buildings.
If you look into FSX, ACES obviously used a similar tool to create (more or less) realistic airport buildings (mostly terminals) using the real building's footprints. The results are those "autogenerated" objects you can find an most default airports.
I think it should be possible to do this with scenproc, shouldn't it? You take a footprint of airport buildings from OSM and process it to create a generic building matching the shape of the real building.

Now, to achieve this, I would have to specify the typical generic airport building look with flat roofs, a certain height of the building and of course textures.
Is there a way of defining this using GUIDs in scenproc?
 
Hi Thorsten,

At the moment that is not possible.

scenProc can only make autogen buildings are the moment. And the polygonal autogen buildings can't be used with just any footprint. They will always have a hole in the middle.

I am experimenting with letting scenProc make MDL objects from footprints, that should allow this kind of buildings as well.

Many of the buildings at default airports are also XML generated generic buildings. But these are rectangular, not just any shape.
 
Thanks for the feedback, I expected that, although I was still hoping there'd be a way. I guess it shouldn't bother me much as those generic buildings are not really good looking anyway. I should probably just use the default objects there.
 
MDL objects from footprints would be awesome, especially with texture tweaking capabilities.

So glad FS11 died, so many more tools created for FSX/P3D/ESP now
 
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