P3D v5 rectangle exclude and autogen

[scruffyduck]

OK - I am not going any further than stating what I have stated many times from my experience. FS9 exclusion rectangle appear to reliably exclude autogen when set to exclude all. I have personally seen this.

As for FSX and later they will not reliably exclude autogen. My experience of this goes back to 2006 when we first got FSX and I'm not going back to try and find the conversations about it. They appear to work sometimes and not others on FSX. I have not tested this on P3D and don't intend to.

Finally since 2006 we have known that exclusion rectangles which overlap and (probably) have different flag settings can cause unexpected results, That is the exclude may not behave as expected in terms of what gets excluded. They can also cancel each other out. Again I am not back to find the conversation about it but I can tell you that Jim Vile alerted me to the issue at the time when we were developing ADE.

So the bottom line is if you want to exclude autogen use a terrain based exclusion. Doing anything else is a waste of time.

That's it gentlemen. I wish you joy of your investigations

 

[niksan29]

now the project is released and the files are available for everyone, you can check it yourself, and please note:
only difference between these two afсads is the quantity exclusion rectangles, in ok.bgl 34 small rectangles and one large one that covers them vis only 1 large rectangles in no_autogen.bgl, it's all the difference...
But in ok.bgl there is an autogen, and in no_autogen.bgl, respectively, no...
p/s I use P4(in Р5 the same problem) only for the test, therefore sim full stock( no any addons)+autogen setings max.
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ok.bgl:

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no_autogen.bgl:

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So the bottom line is if you want to exclude autogen use a terrain based exclusion. Doing anything else is a waste of time.

yes it is, but it's important to remember this:

we have known that exclusion rectangles which overlap and (probably) have different flag settings can cause unexpected results, That is the exclude may not behave as expected in terms of what gets excluded.

so if suddenly your autogen has disappeared and you did not use exclusion polygons, check if, perhaps the reason for the problem is in what it should not be, namely: im exclusion rectangles, sometimes they may not work as expected ( in terms of what gets excluded. ).
and this is not the first problem of incorrect work of SDK;(