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P3D v5 Excluding Scenproc autogen with Airport Design Editor

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I have tried to exclude autogen I made with Scenproc with a polygon in Airport Design Editor. The airport BGL is in a higher layer than the autogen/photoscenery layer. Will ADE not exclude autogen that accompanies photoreal scenery?

Also inside this exclusion polygon is another flatten polygon, which is just outside of the runway, taxiway, and apron (so I retain the hills on the airport property but push the vegetation back to where it belongs). I thought it might be possible that autogen exclusion polygons might only work on autogen generated by landclass and perhaps not the kind that comes with handmade scenery, or the polygon within a polygon could be creating the problem. That or I just have the wrong type of polygon.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Has anyone come up with a way to exclude custom autogen? I've got an ugly autogen building blocking a hangar at Patuxent River NAS that I can't figure out how to eliminate, either through QGIS shapefiles, ScenProc, or an exclusion polygon on ADE.
 
Are you sure that it's an autogen building? A library object or a generic building would have to be specified in an ADE exclusion rectangle.

Ed
 
If it does exclude it, just create a square over the area and use sceneproc to make some more once you’ve finished. Only takes a few seconds.
 
Hi Chris:

I'm inclined to advocate Ed's position on this regarding use of a "Exclude Rectangle" for a BGLComp XML exclude for a library or Generic object.

But P3Dv5 started throwing curve balls with a few things after LM became over-confident as to the amount of appropriate "wiggle-room" their license allowed them with traditional FS methods, so more inquiry may be needed.

* The best practice here at FSDev is to provide a link to the project if there is custom Autogen applied over custom PR.

At least disable local custom scenery so you can see if the unwanted building exists in a default P3Dv5 configuration.

And always post Geographic coordinates for the unwanted building so others can see if it exists in a default P3D configuration.

You may wish to review this thread:

https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/rectangle-exclude-and-autogen.448356/


BTW: Patuxent River NAS has some good imagery on Google Earth, and one might use this via QGIS, SAS Planet or SBuilderX tile downloaders for PR if this is a personal project not for public release; that may also obviate a need for making custom airport markings using ADE tools, IMHO.

GaryGB
 
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Thanks for the responses. Once my computer is finished creating some scenery I will disable my ortho and autogen layer and see if that removes the offending building.
 
Removed my scenery and the building was in fact coming from somewhere else. Shouldn't be terribly hard to figure out where from now.
 
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