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House rows with Autogen

scubakobe

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Hi,

I am not having any luck placing rows of houses with the FS2004 SDK autogen annotator.

They appear to be elongated buildings rather than houses and they are not correctly placed.

Please check out the screenshots below:

Shown in the annotator:


In FS9:



I followed the SDK tutorial so it should be OK but it obviously isn't working.

Thanks,
KObbe
 
The row house function in the annotater is actually for row houses, like the brownstones you see in pictures of urban DC or NYC. All are connected...like a row of apartments.

I haven't found a way of limiting the other categories to insert just random houses. If you find out how, please let everyone know.

JimD
 
Jim,

Thanks for the info. I guess that could explain the elongated buildings. :)

But, the urban house objects from "Library" are not showing up and other objects are not positioned correctly.

Here's a couple more shots.



 
Art Martin's Autogen Editor gives a couple of useful tools here --
'define multiple house(s) inside an angled rectangle'; and
'define multiple houses along a freehand line'.
Both tools can generate random house sizes.

-Robin, Godzone Virtual Flight
 
I would try that program, but its not available anywhere evidently.

Can't find it through google search, avsim, or flightsim.com.

Where can I download it?

Thanks,
kobbe
 
yep searched that and discovered from that information that

there is no "autogen.zip" at Avsim and whenever I try to download it from FSplanet I get taken to a spanish website that locks up my computer. :confused:
 
Well I tried it out and it worked great.. except for one recurring problem that has happened with the others..

the autogen is misplaced by a few miles:



Any idea on what is going on here?

Thanks :)
 
Are you sure you are using the same bitmaps in autogen tools and in the sim?
 
It looks like your photo tiles were done with Sbuilder. If so, use AGenT to do your autogen. It has an option to automatically flip the tiles (under Preferences). If you use another editor, you'll need to manually flip the tiles, draw your autogen, and manually flip them back.
 
Thanks KJB!

I got them to appear in the right spot.

But as if there was such a word like "easy" in the FS world then I probably wouldn't be here.. but since there isn't.. this is my ordeal now:

Only 15% of the autogen shows up with complexity and density sliders set to max in FS9. In this example only a few rows show up out of about 7 or 10:


Thanks again :)
 
It sounds like you're exceeding what FS9 will show. If you're using AGenT, the status bar at the bottom right corner will show the number of objects and it turns red when you have too many (300 houses). If you use the randomize function it can randomize the order, then delete to limits. Otherwise, the first 300 buildings you put down will show.
 
Oh, you're right. One of the areas has 500. LOL

The area in the screenshot has 156, though.

Darn.. a little bit of experimenting + trial and error= scenery design with FS :D
 
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