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MSFS Forcing autogen buildings to be region-appropriate?

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StearmanDriver

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Hello,

I'm curious - is there a way in MSFS, via a poly or anything else, to force autogen buildings in an area to only be created from a specific library?

My specific use case is the villages near all the bush strips in Papua New Guinea. It's great that this sim natively includes hundreds of these strips, but the autogen buildings that make up the village are usually a little out of place. Apartment complexes, suburban duplexes with satellite dishes etc. You know, your standard mountaintop jungle village. ;)

Talented devs have handcrafted some of the better known strips, but the large majority just use autogen. So I was wondering if I could throw polys around individual strips, or big ones around entire regions, and force the autogen buildings to be selected from only specified libraries?

Thanks for any ideas... I somewhat knew my way around ADE and photoscenery development back in FSX, but I'm clueless here.
 
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superspud

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I think everything autogen happens entirely on their servers, there's nothing in the files that we download that I've found that relates to them, so there's no way of changing anything.

Being able to edit directly or suggest autogen edits would be a very handy aspect of whatever scenery gateway system there is.
 
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StearmanDriver

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superspud said:
I think everything autogen happens entirely on their servers, there's nothing in the files that we download that I've found that relates to them, so there's no way of changing anything.

Being able to edit directly or suggest autogen edits would be a very handy aspect of whatever scenery gateway system there is.
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That's what I was suspecting; thanks for confirming. Yup the SDK looks nice for working on individual airports, but that's not quite what I'm after. Oh well, early days yet... maybe we'll get such a tool.

Thanks!
 
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