Newbie question - FS9

[domvc10]

Hi

I always assumed Scenproc was only for FSX and above due to seeing the guide on fsdeveloper but I was happy to find out this is not the case (THANK YOU). I am slowly trying to understand how to use the tool and I think I have the very basics almost down. I am testing on a small town before I attempt large areas.

I load OSM maps into QGIS then just strip out the buildings using the filtering and save a new shp file with just buildings. Seems fine. Scenproc loads it fine and when I load the sim there are hardly any buildings. I checked the fs9 annotator and I can see that buildings are annotated in the BMP (see the screenshot attached) but hardly any show in the sim. I have my autogen slider set to the max in the sim.

Can someone advise on what may be going wrong?

Here is my config for this test (all vegetation parts are commented out with # as I just want to test buildings for now)..

#IMPORTOGR|G:\sceneryproject\WIP\test\vegetation.shp|*|*|NOREPROJ

IMPORTOGR|G:\sceneryproject\WIP\test\building.shp|*|*|NOREPROJ
#
SPLITGRID|AGN|*|FROMFILE=building.shp
#
#SETAGNVEGETATIONSETTINGS|*|1|2|0.9|1.0|6;20|5;24
#
#REPLACEPOLYGONBYVEGETATIONRECTANGLES|FROMFILE=vegetation.shp|0.00025|-1.0|0.25
#
#CREATEAGNRECTVEG|FROMFILE=vegetation.shp
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FROMFILE=building.shp|{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}

EXPORTAGN|FS2004|G:\sceneryproject\WIP\texture


Thank you

 

[domvc10]

when checking some other areas it seems to work as you see from this screenshot attached I assume something in the sim is suppressing it in my other test....


EDIT: Found the reason... Ultimate terrain lights. If I disable these I see the buildings without a problem. SO now I do not want to disable them. I will test by moving the lights down in the scenery config if I can and aybe that will work unless anyone has a different suggestion?

 

[arno]

In FSX there are more ways to contol the suppression of autogen. For FS2004 there is not a lot you can do in afraid.

 

[domvc10]

That was my fear.
I will have to just turn off the UT lights before day time flights.

Thanks

 

[domvc10]

just one other note

REPLACEPOLYGONBYVEGETATIONRECTANGLES has never finished for me. I actually had a laptop running for 4 days. I assumed it was because the area was large(a whole county of in the UK) that it had a lot of work to do. I have now tried the development version and it finished the whole lot in less than a minute, so probably would advise FS9 users away from 1.1 ;-)

 

[arno]

I have fixed many bugs in the development release, so I would advice everyone to use it.

 

[domvc10]

Makes sense

Thanks for your work Arno! This is breathing some new life into FS9 for me. My Newbie challenge I think has passed. I managed to create a config that gives me trees, buildings and road lights quite easly. The documentation you created with examples is really good, normally I have to give up on this more complicated side of things but no need this time.

 

[arno]

Happy to hear you got it working and that the documentation and samples helped