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Custom Autogen Building roofs

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After a good look at Arno's config merger tool, I am keen to start customising some autogen for my NZ scenery, and my next release will include custom vegetation, probably just a few to start with. The merger tool makes it such a simple system to add my own trees, he's done an amazing job.

The other thing I'd like to make a start on is local autogen buildings, in particular warehousing etc which generally just has a slightly peaked roof here, most commonly iron.

Has anyone got some tips for adding to RoofDescriptions? I could figure this out myself, but a head start would be good:) That's next week's project, so I have the weekend to see if someone already has some good tips....
 
Can you actually "add" roof descriptions? I thought one could only replace but admit I am only speculating. That's why I stopped using 3rd party stuff like ORBX as they would overwrite instead of add. Just commenting here as I have only briefly scanned the sdk on this subject.
 
Hi,

Yes, you can add new roofs. I did it for the (not yet released) scenery of Nantucket by Bill Womack. You can just add your own entries for the roofs and use these in your autogen files.
 
Thanks for that, I'll keep persevering now that I know it can be done, although haven't managed to make a single roof appear yet...
 
Ah, it now works! I didn't think that it would make a difference as the autogen system hasn't really changed much in a few years, but my GMAX roof didn't work until I re-exported via MCX...
Thanks to Arno for some amazing tools, making my life a lot easier.
 
So toprob,

great to hear you got it working. In short, you create your own roofs following the SDK, assign a new GUID. But how do assign your roofs to auto gen buildings? (not looking for a detailed explanation, just curious what binds them?)
 
You add a 'roof entry' to roofdescriptions.spb using Autogen Configuration Editor, and create a new 'group' and 'region' entries as appropriate. The SDK describes how to add an entry to AutogenDescriptions, and it's a similar process:)
You can also create a material entry in 'materials.spb', as the material/mapping is added to your model using XML. Sounds complicated, but just examine the default roofs in the Config editor and it'll become a lot clearer.
Then in Annotator you just assign your new roof guid from roofdescriptions.
 
Hi,

Autogen models must have drawcall batching enabled, else they do not work indeed. So that explains why the GMax models don't work by default.

Like toprob says adding a new roof is not that hard. I just copied a default roof and changed the things that differ for my roof. I still plan to make some tutorial about this, but I ran out of time :)
 
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