Help with ScenProc

[kjjj11223344]

I just discovered Scneproc and love the program. However, I can't seem to get it to write autogen files. After it completes it tells me that 0.00 seconds were spent to write the AGN files, and I can't see any AGN files in my output folder. What am I doing wrong?
Here is my code for my configuration file:

# Broward autogen test
IMPORTSHP|fl_adminbuildings.shp|NOREPROJ
IMPORTSHP|fl_natural.shp|NOREPROJ
#
SPLITGRID|AGN
#
SETAGNBUILDINGHEIGHT|1.0;0.0;0.0;0.0
#
#CREATEAGNPOLYVEG|type=forest|{0a7dd9ef-9e7f-4140-9ae8-5d1d5047176b}
CREATEAGNPOLYVEG|type=forest|{e8b937fd-a1f2-4bd5-8548-2c80d30102af}
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|shpfile=fl_adminbuildings.shp|{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
#
WRITEAGNFILES|C:\Users\str\Desktop\agn

 

[arno]

Hi,

At first look your configuration file seems OK, but of course without the shapefiles I can't test it.

Do you see information that the shapefiles are being read? And that the objects are divided by the grid, etc? There should be progress information for all these.

 

[kjjj11223344]

Hi,

At first look your configuration file seems OK, but of course without the shapefiles I can't test it.

Do you see information that the shapefiles are being read? And that the objects are divided by the grid, etc? There should be progress information for all these.

Thanks for the quick response. Yes, I got all the progress reports that you got in your video on Youtube, however, for the last one, which says writing AGN files, it says 0.00 seconds, as if it didn't write anything. Maybe my shapefiles aren't correct? But I checked my shapefile from here, http://downloads.cloudmade.com/americas/northern_america/united_states/florida#downloads_breadcrumbs (once downloaded, the one called florida_natural.shp), and there was at least one forest polygon in it, for the area that I'm doing. I don't know if maybe my shapefiles don't have the correct information in them, since I have never worked with creating autogen for FSX or with shapefiles.

 

[arno]

Hi,

Let me check that shapefile, but sounds like the attributes might be different. In that case the filters won't return any objects.

 

[kjjj11223344]

Hi,

Let me check that shapefile, but sounds like the attributes might be different. In that case the filters won't return any objects.

Thanks, I appreciate your help. By the way, I didn't use that shapefile I mentioned above completely, I split it into a smaller area (approximately the size of a city vs the whole state of Florida), if that makes any difference.

 

[arno]

That shouldn't matter for the attributes. Did you check the shapefile in a gis program to see which attributes it contains?

 

[kjjj11223344]

That shouldn't matter for the attributes. Did you check the shapefile in a gis program to see which attributes it contains?

Yes, I was using quantum Gis like you use on your YouTube video. Could it be that the shape file had a lot of "water" attributes and very few "forests". To be honest, I only saw one case of forest in the area I'm working on, but multiple instances of "water", but I would expect that even if, hypothetically speaking, there was only 1 instance of a "forest" attribute, that sceneProc would still make autogen for it, correct?

 

[arno]

Hi,

scenProc is case sensitive. It seems in those shapefiles the attribute is called TYPE, not type.

 

[kjjj11223344]

Hi,

scenProc is case sensitive. It seems in those shapefiles the attribute is called TYPE, not type.

That makes sense, thanks for taking the time to help me find the cause of this problem. I have one more question, can I simply type "TYPE" in the scenproc configuration file, and it will work? Or wil I have to somehow change these attributes to "type"?

 

[arno]

Hi,

You can just type TYPE. You can use any attribute present in the shapefile in your filters, not only those I show in the examples.

 

[kjjj11223344]

Hi,

You can just type TYPE. You can use any attribute present in the shapefile in your filters, not only those I show in the examples.

Excellent, thanks for the help, and thanks for this very useful program also.