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WU7 : why do they propose same landmarks than me

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Quite upset about WU7 : why do they include landmarks that developpers already propose for free.
I developped 3 astronomical observatories in Australia.
It seems they also find out that observatories make nice POI, there's 4 in WU7 !
Including the 3 i already published.
The version they propose in the game is not better. For example MaunaKea observatory has many errors.
OK, people will prefer Asobo version, because installation is much easier that downloading/installing.
But the problem is i cannot use my own work anymore, nore the fans that prefer my work.

So the question is :
- is there a way to exclude an in-game landmark, using the SDK. I tried with polygons, and exclusion rectangles, but it does not work
 
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You need an ExclusionRectangle to get rid of the library objects, and a rectangle to exclude the procedural (OSM) buildings. Attached is an example to rid the Siding Spring Observatory and support buildings. Use the code as a template if you need. I don't know of a way to get rid of the Marker.
 

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The free mods do not work in xBox, and xBox is an important market for MS. Only the stuff in the Marketplace can be downloaded to xBox as far as I have understood. So I suppose freeware stuff on flightsim.to and other sites don't matter when they decide what to include. Keep up the good work for PC simmers! :)
 
I believe Microsoft/Asobo reserves the right to commandeer any or all addons, or their concepts. It's their sandbox, and they can do whatever they like. Perhaps someone there saw your addon, and just decided to include those observatories in the updates.
 
Library exclusion isn't completely consistent for me. There are several offensive items at Helgoland that were added with the Germany world update that refuse to be exluded. They're all in the fs-base object list so I'm not totally sure what's going on.

It may be that you can exclude from hand crafted airports, but not anything placed in POIs or world updates. Either way it's rather annoying.

Edit - For some reason renaming and cleaning the package made the excludes work. How odd.

As for the thread's actual subject, out of the five hand crafted airports I'd already done four of them. Them's the breaks.
 
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superspud said:
As for the thread's actual subject, out of the five hand crafted airports I'd already done four of them. Them's the breaks.
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Not sure the takeaway here. MS will never put the loving attention into my sceneries which uncountable hours of contemplation produce. One would hope, we would hope, that we would never have to perfect that difference of perspective, that MS would produce our baby, exactly as anticipated. In between, lies opportunity for developers, imo.

Some dude did my home airport, a little regional field, an hour east of Portland Oregon. I have volumes of images from there, my son took his first small engine flight there, I know people who have crashed and burned there, literally.
I feel like I could fill that scenery with so much "feeling," make it so evocative, people would just park there and take it in. Will I kick his ass? Probably not, his version is very good, completely adequate for anyone that does not actually live there, what would be the point? Some minor Banksy showing up some other Banksy. There is plenty of world yet to populate.
 
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You need an ExclusionRectangle to get rid of the library objects, and a rectangle to exclude the procedural (OSM) buildings. Attached is an example to rid the Siding Spring Observatory and support buildings. Use the code as a template if you need. I don't know of a way to get rid of the Marker.
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I have a problem usign ExclusionRectangle that it does not always seem to work.
This is strange, sometime works, sometime doesn't work, with the same scenery build.
 
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