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Autogen suppression?

jonmkj

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Sometimes (often at random) the scenery I make with FSDS suppresses the autogen around it in places. Why does it do this, and how can I prevent it?

For example, today I was working on KMEB, and I noticed that a patch of trees was gone from the surrounding land class that is supposed to be there, and was actually there earlier. All I've done on it today was add parking spaces and dusk to dawn lights in the parking lot. :confused:
 
Okay, so removing the mental health clinic at the end of the runway seems to have brought the autogen back.

This specific case has been solved by me, but I would still like some insight on why it would remove autogen around it, if any of you know. :D
 
Hi,

Are this big objects? Normally the autogen is only removed for an area as big as the bounding box of your object.
 
Well the FSDS model (without the mental health clinic and US Army Golden Knights training facility) is a set of multiple buildings spanning a length of 6,489 ft.

Now that i've removed the clinic (and haven't yet built the Knights' facility), the autogen is back, even when some objects are located within the area with buildings, such as the water tower that sits out in the middle of some wooded area.
 
Hi,

You mean you made everything as one big model? That would explain the autogen exclusion indeed, as the bounding box of it would be huge.

This is one of the reasons why it is much better to make each building as a separate object, centered at its local origin. They can then be positioned at the right location in the XML code.
 
hmm... makes sense. I usually don't make them quite this big. I will make that side of the airport in a separate model.
 
Here's the official way to keep an object from suppressing autogen if you're using FSX:

Code: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<FSData
   version="9.0"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="bglcomp.xsd">
   <SceneryObject
      lat="*"
      lon="*"
      alt="0.0M"
      altitudeIsAgl="TRUE"
      pitch="0"
      bank="0"
      heading="0"
      imageComplexity="NORMAL">
      [COLOR="DarkGreen"][B]<NoAutogenSuppression/>[/B][/COLOR]
      <LibraryObject
         name="{GUID}"
         scale="1.00"
         />
   </SceneryObject>
</FSData>

Works like a charm for me when adding large objects.
 
Oh sweet! Thanks a bunch! I will try to splice that in there with the health clinic attached to the model to see if it works :D
 
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