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Autogen on shorelines

roger-wilco-66

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Hi,

for a scenery I work on I want to use autogen on a certain shoreline (white beach). I set a flag in the beach definition to allow autogen on it, but it is populated very sparsly and only with one kind of low bush (I want palm trees).
I searched everywhere, but could not find where it is defined what autogen elements are annotated to the beach and in which density.
Could anyone shed some light on this? Is it possible to alter these properties?

Thanks,
Mark
 
Hi Mark,

actually, that "excludeautogen" flag only determines whether the vector texture itself suppresses the autogen of the underlying land class texture or not. As stated in the Terrain Configuration File" SDK:

If set to True, prevents Autogen objects (trees, poles etc) from appearing on top of the texture. The default value is True.
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In order to place custom autogen along vectors you'll need to use the "vectorautogen" option, which is explained in the same SDK section. The disadvantage of that approach is, however, that you'll need to add custom entries to the global terrain.cfg file. Easy enough to do if this is just for your own use but for distribution you'd need a reliable installer script to insert that custom entry in a manner that doesn't disturb any other existing custom entries, such as those placed by UTX, Orbx, MSE, FSAddon, and others.

Cheers, Holger
 
Thanks for the reply, Holger. I'll try that, but your answer somehow reflected what I feared.
Nevertheless I'm eager how it looks like! :-)

Cheers,
Mark
 
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