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FSX Traffic Vectors

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I can't seem to figure out what is wrong here. I did this before and had no problem, but now, I'm lost. I created a road vector in ADE, I then imported (Append) the ERSI into SBX, I then change the property of the vector line to 'freeway traffic'. I then of course save my project file, then compile the BGL. Done that a hundred times before and had no problem, but now when I compile the BGL, there's no file created in the SBX/Tools/Work.... folder. What am I doing wrong? The compiler pops up a black box very quickly ,impossible to try and stop it before it goes away, I get no error report, it seems to compile, but no file gets created.

Also, is it possible to make traffic in both directions without having to draw two separate 'road vector' lines?

Never mind...I found the problem, I was using the wrong version of SBX, I was using SBX315 instead of SBX313, obviously 315 has a few bugs. It works now.
 
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More likely SBuilderX 3.15 is going to be less of a challenge compared to SBuilderX 3.13.

If you Append ESRI Shapefiles (*.SHP), you must select those (edited ?) objects before SBuilderX 3.15 will see anything is intended to be compiled.

If you do not select those (edited ?) objects SBuilderX 3.15 will throw a (vague) error message stating there is 'nothing to compile'.


After SBuilderX 3.15 does compile CVX Vectors, their output data ESRI Shapefile (SHP/SHX/DBF/XML) and BGL are instead written into:

SBuilderX 3.15_install path\Tools\Shapes sub-folder


You must retrieve those files before any additional compiles into that sub-folder, or they may be over-written by the next compilation file set.



As for Freeway Traffic:

ACES never finished the CVX Vector feature set for (B) Bidirectional Traffic, so single lines must be duplicated / reversed


https://www.fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=FSX_KML_Tutorial#Creating_roads_and_moving_traffic


Creating roads and moving traffic​


In Google Earth


  • Draw a polyline to represent the road.

If your road is going to have "one way" traffic then the traffic will travel from the start of the line (1st point you draw) to the end of the line (last point you draw)


  • Save the KML file

In FSX KML


  • Open the KML file
  • Tag the polyline with a road tag, eg Roads_Concrete_2_Lanes_Divided_Median
  • Copy the polyline and tag it polyline with the FreewayTraffic tag

Note: This will give you traffic traveling down the centre of the road. If you want two way traffic, you can duplicate the line twice in GE, then move each one to one side or the other (depending on which side of the road they drive on). One of then will need reversing otherwise both lanes will drive in the same direction.



Terrain Design for Flight Simulator X

This simple illustrated document explains the basic concepts in Flight Simulator X terrain, and how to change them using SBuilder for FS X. Make new water bodies, roads, vehicle traffic, airport flattens, remove autogen, add more detail - anybody can do it easily and quickly.
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Drawing freeway traffic​


Moving vehicles can be added to roads, at the expense of performance,so you will probably want to reserve this feature to the immediate area of an airport and only in small quantities.

There are supposed to be 3 different types of road traffic lines:

- one-way going from (F) the starting point of the line;

- one-way going towards (T) the starting point of the line;

- two-way traffic (B).

At initial release of FS X, two-way traffic was not working. Hopefully, the FS X patch will fix this.

Also, traffic lines can display from 1 to 9 lanes of traffic.

To add vehicle traffic to your roads, simply draw a line directly overthe road and assign it as freeway traffic in its Properties:


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Make sure to remember to select the number of lanes and the direction of the traffic.

You should try to draw traffic as nearly centered on the road as possible in order to get the vehicles to move on the road texture, otherwise they may appear on the ground next to the road.


GaryGB
 
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