FS2004 Really? no other way?

[Jakes]

Ok, I am busy making photorealistic scenery, and adding autogen to the scenery. Now, I am using the autogen annotator, tile by tile, but the issue is, my town is more than 50 tiles. Is there no other way I could add autogen than opening the tiles one by one?

Thanks so long,

Jakes

 

[JRobinson]

There's an app called "Autotrees Beta" that will do some automatic tree placement for you, I've used it, it sorta works, but what I've found is the quickest method is to save an arrangement of trees in Notepad, believe it or not.

The idea is to fill up an entire 256x256 tile with tiny veg rectangles, very small rectangles, as small as the annotator will allow. Spread them out and keep an eye on the lower right status bar so that you don't exceed 600 trees on a single tile. Now do the selection rectangle thing selecting all of them and press Ctrl+C, open Notepad and paste, save.

When you open the next tile to be annotated, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C the entire Notepad document and then right click in the annotator to paste the entire tile full of trees in one whack.

At this point annotation becomes a process of deletion rather than addition. Select and delete the trees from open areas, housing, etc. You'll still have to annotate all your houses which is a pain in itself, but if you have outlying areas in your photoreal that are primarily forested the Notepad trick can save you a lot of time.

I attached a txt file that contains 599 tree placements to save you some trouble.

Jim

 

[Jakes]

Awesome. Thanks very much! I guess there is no way to open a series of tiles at once?
I will defenitely make use of your method. Thank you!

 

[JRobinson]

I guess there is no way to open a series of tiles at once?

In FSX you can do the entire photoreal at once but I'm afraid in FS9 it's tile by tile.

You may look into the Autotrees program. You can download it at Avsim. It will walk through 300 tiles in just a few seconds, and you can still re-open the annotated tiles with the annotator and fix the screw-ups, add buildings, etc. Just make sure you set the tree planting density to 600 or less or you'll wind up with bare strips in the sim. Personally I think it makes the veg rectangles too big, but it does work to a degree.

Jim

 

[Jakes]

Thanks, the tree autogen program is working quite well! But I see it does not place houses and buildings? what is the requirements for it to work? I notice the trees scan for green areas. Does houses need to be another color?

 

[hcornea]

Perhaps the clue is in the title "Tree Autogen Program"

 

[Jakes]

Thanks, just thought maybe it could do more, as it have buildings sliders ect as well.