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Exclusion-Problem with Gmax/FS9

papa.looser

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Hi,

looks like I can't reply to my own post on the avsim-forum.
Well never mind, maybe I'll get some feedback here much earlier.

Arno mentioned, that a bounding box will define
the exclusions in Gmax for FS9.

Though I already heard that it's not recommended to modify
that bounding box, I'd like to give it a try (in shrinking it),
as the Gmax-defined bounding box is as big as it deactivates
some scenery from another designer.

So here my questions.

How can it be achieved to modify the bounding box?
What tools can support that task?
Where can I found documentation about this?

Regards,

Papa
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Hi there,

I recently created a bridge with Gmax 1.2 for FS9.
Everything seemed to be fine, execpt for some other
scenery beeing influenced, which however is more than
300m away from my scenery. There is absolute no geometry
in that area.
As Gmax doesn't offer any control about scenery-exclusion
(as far as I know),
how can I find out what had been excluded automatically
and how can it be modified.

Any help will be appreciated.

Regards,

Papa

Papa Looser


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arno Mon Mar-14-05 10:20 AM
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#26075, "RE: Exclusion-Problem with Gmax/FS9"
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Hi Papa,

Automatically all autogen objects within the bounding box of your GMax object are removed you can not do anything about that. But this is only a very local effect.

If you want to exclude other parts of the default scenery as well, you need to add an exclude command to the XML you used when you were placing your object.

Arno
 
Hi Papa,

Editing the bounding box would be done in the ASM files. You will find a BBOX section in there, where the size is given.

But, the only thing your GMax object should exclude automatically is autogen. Other addon scenery should not be affected. If that is true, something else might the problem.
 
Arno,

you were absoluty right
about supposing the bounding box wouldn't
be the problem.
I shrunk it down to idiotic small values,
just to see if anything changes.
But it didn't.

I now think it's more about the layers.
Most likely that missing scenery,
which is in fact a piece of road,
is on the same layer as the default-bridge,
that I replace.

Now I'll have to find out the relation
between Gmax and layers.
If there are any.

Any idea were I can find more info about that topic?

Regards,

Papa
 
Hi Papa,

papa.looser said:
I now think it's more about the layers.
Most likely that missing scenery,
which is in fact a piece of road,
is on the same layer as the default-bridge,
that I replace.

Now I'll have to find out the relation
between Gmax and layers.
If there are any.
Click to expand...

Do you mean you have made an exclude to remove a default VTP bridge? In that case such an exclude will indeed remove all objects on that layer in a certain LOD square.

GMax has totally no influence on this. It can not place obejcts at mesh layers or exclude them.
 
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