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Autogen builings with exactly the same height

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Hi,

I 've made a small photo scenery. Now I am about to fill it with autogen objects. Trees are really a fun to create. But....

Now I have a big problem:
In my hometown there are a lot rowhouses, which have different lenghts and ground shapes (row, shape like a "L", a "T" and so on) but exactly equal heights and equal looks (same windows, same walls, same roof, same colour). But in FSX annotator I am not able to create such houses, which have diffenent ground shapes but same looks.

Maybe some of you can give me a hint?

Cheers,
FA
 
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Something that might work is using the polyline buildings with the extrusions.xml file (see Luis Féliz-Tirado's tutorial on Avsim).

The polyline buildings aren't the easiest to use, but with a few attempts you can draw some shapes to match your photo. The polyline building is really intended to do buildings with courtyards, but you can draw a small area near the center and then extend it out to match an 'L' or other shape. I did a few like that on my FSX Salem, Oregon scenery. The polyline does allow you to narrow down the type of building height and textures. They may not be quite the same, but there will be a lot less variation than you see with the row houses.
 
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Hi KJB,

that did the trick. Thanks for this advice! :) It still isn't perfect, but now it looks way better than before and good enough, if I don't fly below 100 metres. ;)

Another question, you might know the answer of: Is it possible to build flatroof polyline buildings which are taller than 5 floors?

Thanks for your help.
Cheers,
FA
 
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