Stick buildings

[ASHLEY JONES]

Hey all,

I tried to build a scenery today that uses the same code logic that I successfully used a week ago on another scenery. There, I hide nice buildings including houses, industrial buildings, and warehouses. My new scenery uses the same logic using a GIS OSM file that I have modified by removing some of the already existing polygons and adding my own polygons with building types as shown below. However, the resulting building AGN gives me stick buildings with a large roof (see pic below). Any ideas what is going on? (I have included the shape file)

Thanks

IMPORTOGR|D:\SBX\SBX315\Tools\Work\scenproc\CYXE\shp\extra2.shp|-107;-106;52;53|*|NOREPROJ|DONTPROCESHOLES

SPLITGRID|AGN|-107;-106;52;53|buildings="*"

SETAGNBUILDINGHEIGHT|*|1;0;0;0
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE=POLYGON;type=house|{56c05be8-a693-4208-94e0-ec26aaaa0559}|MAXRATIO=2

SETAGNBUILDINGHEIGHT|*|1;0;0;0
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE=POLYGON;type=whse|{e6d8abb4-739a-4788-a7de-9756452afbcf}|MAXRATIO=2

SETAGNBUILDINGHEIGHT|*|0,9;0,1;0;0
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE=POLYGON;type=retail|{b4f8bcf2-c590-4a29-bbcb-01bcba6545ba}|MAXRATIO=2

SETAGNBUILDINGHEIGHT|*|0,5;0,5;0;0
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE=POLYGON;type=office|{87438be6-acb1-4f40-985a-e0c124fd61b7}|MAXRATIO=2

SETAGNBUILDINGHEIGHT|*|0;1;0;0
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE=POLYGON;type=hotel|{fc1ec387-76d2-4d16-8a6c-4e86cc5c76ce}|MAXRATIO=2

EXPORTAGN|FSX|D:\P3DV4\photoscenery\CYXE\texture

 

[MyPC8MyBrain]

you have too many argument for ImportOGR, it requires only 4!
and your script syntax could use updating so scenProc wont assume for you,

splitgrid step doesn't need the same bounds again or the filter at the end,
i believe you can place it in your first import filter,

 

[ASHLEY JONES]

Hey Chris,

ok, I made some changes to update the syntax, but I still get stick buildings

IMPORTOGR|D:\SBX\SBX315\Tools\Work\scenproc\CYXE\shp\extra2.shp|-107;-106;52;53|*|NOREPROJ


SPLITGRID|AGN|*|FROMFILE="extra2.shp"

SETAGNBUILDINGHEIGHT|*|1;0;0;0
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE="POLYGON" And type="house"|{a9b0e686-0758-4294-a760-9bb4fd341621}|MAXRATIO=2

SETAGNBUILDINGHEIGHT|*|1;0;0;0
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE="POLYGON" And type="whse"|{6089A0BD-CED1-4c47-9A9E-64CDD0E16983}|MAXRATIO=2

SETAGNBUILDINGHEIGHT|*|0,9;0,1;0;0
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE="POLYGON" And type="retail"|{b4f8bcf2-c590-4a29-bbcb-01bcba6545ba}|MAXRATIO=2

SETAGNBUILDINGHEIGHT|*|0,5;0,5;0;0
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE="POLYGON" And type="office"|{87438be6-acb1-4f40-985a-e0c124fd61b7}|MAXRATIO=2

SETAGNBUILDINGHEIGHT|*|0;1;0;0
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE="POLYGON" And type="hotel"|{5ae04eb6-934c-4f63-bb48-5e7dee601212}|MAXRATIO=2

EXPORTAGN|FSX|D:\P3DV4\photoscenery\CYXE\texture

 

[toprob]

Shouldn't the building height params use a decimal point rather than a comma?

 

[ASHLEY JONES]

Thanks for the reply toprob. It's quite common in Europe to use commas as decimals. It's part of the IS system. Imperial system uses decimals. I remember having this convo with Arno and he included both decimals and commas as float options. I have changed the code though to decimal and still get stick buildings. It's almost as if the code treats these polygons as points. I have checked the shp file in GIS and it says it is a polygon layer

 

[MyPC8MyBrain]

have you inspected the data itself?

 

[MyPC8MyBrain]

|FROMFILE="extra2.shp"

i dont think you need the above in splitgrid step, you already referencing that in your ogr string,

 

[arno]

You don't need the set height step multiple times, since it is a setting per tile. So only the last is used.

I guess you must have some small polygons although I thought scenproc has an automatic filter for very small ones (you can see that in the log).

Having the filter in the SplitGrid looks OK, that's to provent buildings from being sliced.

 

[arno]

you have too many argument for ImportOGR, it requires only 4!

Nonsense, this script is perfectly valid.

splitgrid step doesn't need the same bounds again or the filter at the end, I believe you can place it in your first import filter,

The filter at the end is needed to prevent buildings from by sliced in two. So keep it. It's very different from an import filter. The bounding box is probably not needed, although it won't hurt either.

 

[ASHLEY JONES]

Hey Arno,

Thanks for the reply. I have attached two images of the GIS project. There are two Shapefile layers highlighted. Extra2 (in yellow-green), which is my own rendition and gis_osm_buildings_a_free_1 (in brown) which comes from Geofabrik. As you see, my polygons are covering fairly large areas of warehouses comparable to those in the geofabrik product, and there are only a few small house polygons. I am at a loss as to why this project produces stick buildings when the script worked for another airport just a few hundred miles away. I know my raster image works for vegetation as i tried it earlier, just this problem remains. I am going to try a few different things tonight when i get home

 

[MyPC8MyBrain]

Master has spoken <3
i clearly haven't dabbled in rendering buildings for a while now,

i think this should work, if it doesn't it has to be something in the data itself,
especially if you already used the same script to generate buildings in the same project,

IMPORTOGR|D:\SBX\SBX315\Tools\Work\scenproc\CYXE\shp\extra2.shp|-107;-106;52;53|*|NOREPROJ|DONTPROCESHOLES
#
SPLITGRID|AGN|*|buildings="*"
#
SETAGNBUILDINGHEIGHT|*|1;0;0;0
#
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE="POLYGON" AND type="house"|{56c05be8-a693-4208-94e0-ec26aaaa0559}|MAXRATIO=2
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE="POLYGON" AND type="whse"|{e6d8abb4-739a-4788-a7de-9756452afbcf}|MAXRATIO=2
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE="POLYGON" AND type="retail"|{b4f8bcf2-c590-4a29-bbcb-01bcba6545ba}|MAXRATIO=2
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE="POLYGON" AND type="office"|{87438be6-acb1-4f40-985a-e0c124fd61b7}|MAXRATIO=2
CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE="POLYGON" AND type="hotel"|{fc1ec387-76d2-4d16-8a6c-4e86cc5c76ce}|MAXRATIO=2
#
EXPORTAGN|FSX|D:\P3DV4\photoscenery\CYXE\texture

 

[ASHLEY JONES]

Thanks for the help Chris, unfortunately, it still doesn't work. I have tried everything in the last few hours from remaking the shapefiles from scratch, moving scenery layers, turning off the ORBX global airports in case of a conflict (although there shouldn't be), using latest version of scenproc, I even reproduced my previous scenery where I had success with buildings and had no problem. Apparently Saskatoon, Canada is the home of stick buildings!

So, yes, I think it must be the data and not scenproc. I just don't understand where and why.

Not all is lost, I am going to try and produce a raster image of these buildings and convert the shapes to polygons and try it that way. I've had some success with that before

 

[ASHLEY JONES]

Ok, this is driving me nuts. I'm beginning to wonder if it's my version of P3Dv4. Is there any chance someone could try and process these shape files? Just to see what you guys get?

I can provide the photoscenery as well, it's just quite large though. Thanks

 

[ASHLEY JONES]

I have inspected the created autogen in the annotator and the output from scenproc seems to have worked. Some buildings have been split into smaller footprints, but I don't see that being a problem. However, I would say about 90% of my autogen does not show up in P3D and when it does, half of it are sticks. So why isn't showing up? Is it worth taking this to another forum room?

What does P3dv4 use (autogen.bgl?) to make autogen to show up in the sim?

I Still would appreciate someone processing those shp files I posted above. Thanks

 

[MyPC8MyBrain]

you can use either format bgl or agn they each have their characteristics,

 

[ASHLEY JONES]

Is that regarding the autogen file?

 

[MyPC8MyBrain]

What does P3dv4 use (autogen.bgl?)

that was in regards to the above,

standard annotated agn works with landclass but not over PR,
in your case i think you need a bgl output not agn,

still doesn't explain why you are getting that odd output,
i run the script here, but i dont have PR,
and the default agn there is dense; without excluding etc. i cant tell much,
while i couldn't tell... i didn't see any sticks,

 

[ASHLEY JONES]

Ok thanks for looking. I have a basic PR bgl of the scenery. Ill post it up here later today. You might be able to see a bit better with that.

So what autogen should I be using? I’ve used default values before on PR and it works fine.


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[MyPC8MyBrain]

we have agn for landclass, agn instructions for PR, and than there's another form of agn/xml,
if your project is PR based than the middle option is prob what you want,

 

[ASHLEY JONES]

ok, after to some effort and a few changes, I managed to finish the project. I used ADE for all industrial shapes and some how managed to get house autogen to show up using the PointToPolygon command. Thanks for the help