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FS2004 Addon-Trees displace autogen trees....

manschy

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Hi all,

after planting several trees (own-made with help from John Young) on my airfield, I detected that half a mile around the airport all default trees were gone. I have not use any execlude file for surround the airfield and when disabled the trees, the default is back to the airfields fences....
Any ideas how I can get the default trees close to the airfields polygon?
 
Hi,

Is it only trees you placed? Big objects sometimes removed quite some autogen.

At what scale are you placing the tree objects? I have seen that the autogen exclusion is done at scale 1 of the object, also if you place it at a smaller scale.
 
So if you mean the different scales of the tree planes, there are several of scales in it, i. e. 1.5 to 1 or so. I have to say, I have not finish the object yet - in best case, all trees should attached into one big scene with one drawcall at all....

I detected, that using your library trees (AgentXtrees) in any different scales do not effect the default trees at all. Regarding your question, yes, it is just the trees that let the autogen trees displace.

Might a "reset scale" inside gmax help?
 
Hi,

That library you mention is not mine btw.

I would only be worried if you used small scales. Scale of 1 to 1.5 should not be a problem.

How big is your tree object (in size)? Does it cover a big area?
 
arno said:
Hi,
That library you mention is not mine btw.
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Hi Arno,

sorry for this misunderstanding!

Yes, the tree area I would like to use will consist of the whole airfield - the basic idea is to use as few as possible drawcalls....Do you think it might be the size that displace the autogen trees?
 
Just to throw something more into the mix.

Every now and then an object exported from Gmax has a much bigger bounding box than it should have.

On thinking about it more, I wonder whether this could be the result of a scale or translation applied to a bigger model, without the scale reset.

In any case, such an object may knock off autogen over a much larger area than you would predict.

adding a </noAutogenSuppression> tag into the placement xml file can alleviate the problem completely, however.
 
Sounds good...

At which place do I have to add it?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<FSData version="9.0" xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="bglcomp.xsd">


<!-- Sample object placement. Remove comment markers to place object east of 34R at Sea Tac. -->
<!--
<SceneryObject lat="N51.921905" lon="E8.305379" alt="0" pitch="0" bank="0" heading="0" altitudeIsAgl="TRUE" imageComplexity="NORMAL">
<LibraryObject name="A25EF2C14FD8B7B8ED47C0AC0E871C72" scale="1.0" />
</SceneryObject>

-->

<!-- Inclusion of model data. Use the 'Name' of this object to place -->
<!-- it in other locations. -->
<ModelData name="A25EF2C14FD8B7B8ED47C0AC0E871C72" sourceFile="ETUO_TREES.mdl" />

</FSData>
 
Hi,

The NoAutogenSuppresion is only for FSX and you seem to be using FS2004. So that won't work unfortunately. But for FSX it is inside the SceneryObject command.
 
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