Scenproc and Annotator

[paulo]

Hi
With the help of Arno I get the autogens (AGN) in scenproc, but when I open the annotator to edit and remove some thing does not appear 10% of the footprints, does anyone have this problem?
In FSX appear all, as show in the pictures below.

Footprint in GlobalMapper SHP.

After Scenproc FSX.

In Annotator SDK, only has footprint around the red lines.

Regards

 

[arno]

Hi,

I haven't seen this before. There were some bugs before, but then nothing showed up.

Just as a test, if you save the agn files in annotator, do you only see that 10% in FS as well? That might indicate there is something wrong in the agn file.

 

[paulo]

Hi
Arno
If I save in the annotator, appears in fsx as is pictured above(annotator), with only 10%
How do I know if you have something wrong in the AGN?
Thanks

 

[arno]

Hi,

Could you send me one of the agn files that show this problem? Maybe I can see something from the file.

 

[Tejal Bernardo]

Working with the Fsx SDK autogen annotator I know there are zones wich can't be populated with buildings. I have seen this in my sceneries, why? I have no idea. With Scenproc I haven't observed such situation.

 

[arno]

Hi,

I think I have found the problem now. Another user also reported the same issue and together we found the reason.

The problem happens when buildings are just crossing the border between two terrain tiles. In that case the SPLITGRID step will make a very tiny polygon for the part that is in the other cell. It seems Annotator can't handle such small buildings and therefore it does not display everything.

Fortunately the solution is in scenProc already. You can give the splitgrid step an additional argument that tells it to not slice certain features. So if you add FROMFILE=building.shp or building=* (or something similar depending on your data) the houses will not be sliced up. Instead they are put in the cell where the center of the building is.

 

[paulo]

Hi
I did not understand
What do I have to change or add below?
IMPORTSHP|Vitoria.shp|*|NOREPROJ
#
SPLITGRID|AGN
#
SETAGNBUILDINGHEIGHT|*|1.0;0.0;0.0;0.0
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE=POLYGON;FROMFILE=Vitoria.shp;FWIDTH<20|{5ae04eb6-934c-4f63-bb48-5e7dee601212}|MAXRATIO=2
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE=POLYGON;FROMFILE=Vitoria.shp;FWIDTH>20|{6089A0BD-CED1-4c47-9A9E-64CDD0E16983}
#
WRITEAGNFILES|FSX|C:\scenproc

Best Regards

 

[arno]

Hi,

Assuming the shapefile only has buildings and no forests, etc. I would use it like this:

IMPORTSHP|Vitoria.shp|*|NOREPROJ
#
SPLITGRID|AGN|FROMFILE=Vitoria.shp
#
SETAGNBUILDINGHEIGHT|*|1.0;0.0;0.0;0.0
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE=POLYGON;FROMFILE=Vitoria.s hp;FWIDTH<20|{5ae04eb6-934c-4f63-bb48-5e7dee601212}|MAXRATIO=2
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE=POLYGON;FROMFILE=Vitoria.s hp;FWIDTH>20|{6089A0BD-CED1-4c47-9A9E-64CDD0E16983}
#
WRITEAGNFILES|FSX|C:\scenproc

 

[paulo]

Hi
I used the code you sent me but still does not appear all the footprints, increased only around 30%, in your Annotator appeared all footprints?
Best Regards

 

[arno]

Hi Paulo,

I don't have a photo scenery for your area, so that makes it hard to test. But another user send me a test scenery for his area and there the fix worked fine.

 

[paulo]

Hi Paulo,

I don't have a photo scenery for your area, so that makes it hard to test. But another user send me a test scenery for his area and there the fix worked fine.

hi
Who is the user?
regards

 

[arno]

Sascha, he contacted me by email that he had the same problem.

Did you double check your data to make sure there are no small polygons in there that would result in tiny houses? It seems Annotator doesn't like those.