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Thought I'd try something...

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So I thought I'd see what it was like to do autogen... went to load up the Annotator... in the Configuration Editor I went to open default.xml in the Autogen folder... and yeah... what was I thinking??

"Failed to open H:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Autogen\default.xml:

AceXML Parser Error: 'AUTOGEN' - line 2, col 0. HRESULT= 0x83600fb7"

Really? LOL Teach me to check out new things :D
 
To my knowledge there's no need to open default.xml in the configuration editor, use it to open roofdescriptions.spb, autogendescriptions.spb instead as those are the definitions for vegetation and normal autogen buildings. It says in the SDK you need to put a copy of default.xml in the Environment Kit\Autogen SDK folder which I've done. That's where the listing for library objects comes from and the annotator usually just picks those up when you run it without need to load default.xml into anything manually. I can remove default.xml from the Environment Kit\Autogen SDK folder and it just says "MSXML Error" where the available library objects would normally be listed, other than that the annotator continues to work fine for veg rectangles and agn buildings.

Jim
 
Ok... so I open the .spb file and it populates the Model Entries and Groupings windows... I go into the groupings and find a vegetation I want to use... say veg_tb_Elm1_10m... I click on that... then I select Vegetation in the Control window... click "Set Guid" and nada... nothing.

Clearly I'm not grasping how to use this software at all.
 
I think veg_tb_Elm1_10m would be a model entry rather than a grouping, rather than expand the grouping out to individual trees just select the grouping itself, i.e. tc_elm_city and then set the GUID. It's intended to give you some randomness where certain models are weighted to appear more frequently, etc.

Jim
 
Ah... thank you. So I can annotate... guess I'll have to figure out what's next. :D
 
Ok... I created an .agn file... it's in the same folder as the scenery I annotated... I go into the sim... nada. Clearly I have missed something. Anyone wanna smack me across the back of the head and point out my mistake(s)? :)

If it helps, what I'm trying to do is give a MegaSceneryEarth area some autogen trees because they're very important around this specific airport.
 
Generally the .agn files go in the accompanying texture folder but I have seen the annotator place them in the scenery folder in the absence of a texture folder. As I recall they work in either location but you might try moving them to a texture folder to see what happens. What tree types did you use? Did you use veg polygons or rectangles?
 
Hi,

I am not familiar with SBX so I do not know what SBX can do or not and whether the spb file is enough to show autogen but normally you need a photoreal underground to be able to have the autogen show up (and make sure you do not have any excludes either).
 
I don't recall the trees... they were maple or elm or something like that... and I used the polygon instead of the veg rectangle.

I think the Megascenery Earth BGL files have exclusions to prevent autogen and there's no way to get around it. That's what I am guessing is going on.
 
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