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Coverting Objects and Placement

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Not much of a clue in the title but here's the question example. I took the 2004 Greyhound drive able bus and converted it to a 3D static object. Came out real nice with three texture files however, when I placed it in to the FSX scenery it removed all of the auto gen buildings, trees, ext around it. I have had that happen with a couple of aircraft as well. Can I fix this and how?
 
Are you using the Object Placement GUI?

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That will keep the autogen indeed. At which scale are you placing the object, because a bus should have a very big footprint.
 
How do I scale it and It is now false I changed it to true and , well ,I will try again. You know when I highlight it the red box is huge. That is what I need to change correct?
 
The red box is the bounding box of your object, this is also the area for which the autogen will be cleared. So I think it would be better to figure out why that bounding box is so huge.

If you look in the Object Information form you also see this huge size?
 
That's what I suspected. Now, your question, why is it so big and how do I make it smaller.
 
Like I said, check the object information form and check what bounding box is shown there. And try to see which part of the model causes this.
 
Normally the bounding box is calculated based on the geometry of the object. So I would first check if it is the actual geometry (polygons) that are so big or that something else causes this. The hierarchy viewer and the object information form should help you to dive deeper into the object.
 
I just went in and removed a section boundingbox and seemed to fix the issue. What other implications might this have?
 
There is still a bounding box but it is much smaller. Why would it have had one large and one small?
 
The object might have had a small polygon located way outside the bus. This would cause the bounding box to be very large.
 
As a matter of fact, yes. I brought it over from my FS2004 to use as a static object. Or trying to.
 
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