• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

Maximum Autogen Buildings' Height

fs1

Messages
301
Country
brazil
What is the maximum generated buildings' height?
In FSX and P3D SDK mentions 12 Floors. Is this correct?
Is there anyway you can create taller buildings?
Thanks
 

arno

Administrator
Staff member
FSDevConf team
Resource contributor
Messages
32,859
Country
netherlands
Hi,

Correct, the tallest group of autogen buildings is 9 to 12 floors. If you want taller buildings you have to use custom objects.
 
Messages
118
Country
france
12 floors is the maximum. If you need more it cannot be achieved with autogen, you have to design a 3D scenery object.

However about autogen, my undersdanding is that FSX/P3D is interpreting the building density in the vicinity and also the current building footprint surface to select final building height.

If you request maximum heights for your autogen buildings area, but it's a region with small towns, you have no chance to reach 12 floors.
 

fs1

Messages
301
Country
brazil
On another point, I read this document for the Generic Building objects.

Question, how do you calculate the height of them? You need to sum: sizeBottomY, sizeWindowY, sizeTopY and sizeRoofY?

Thanks
 
Last edited:

arno

Administrator
Staff member
FSDevConf team
Resource contributor
Messages
32,859
Country
netherlands
On another point, I read this document for the Generic Building objects.

Question, how do you calculate the height of them? You need to sum: sizeBottomY, sizeWindowY, sizeTopY and sizeRoofY?

Thanks

Correct, you would need to sum them.
 
Top