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Increase Vegetation density

Hi,

What kind of logic would you expect?
 
Surely, ultimately, unless you're placing vegetation objects not using polygons, how FSX renders vegetation autogen is dependent upon scenery settings and a couple of parameters in the fsx.cfg file?
As Arno asks, what is the expected outcome?

ian
 
So, a good example of density would be what AGN Merge Tool uses, it offers to increase density. It creates Rectangle Polygons and enables one to choose a density value. Basically, it would be convenient for Scenproc to be able to choose a tree density, say, per square kilometre, the flight sim engine can then downscale as required for performance reasons.

I have used Vogel's AGN Merge Tool v2.30 which has this feature however, it is a far less convenient way as I have to process my data twice, given my data is for an entire country, this takes days.

The FSX/Prepar3d engine has a limit to density, I don't know why this is so, but doesn't allow for a visually appeasing density level, especially over not so high res photo imagery.

Thanks

Kelvin
 
scenProc has a feature to create rectangles from polygons. And you can specify the size and overlap of the rectangles. I think it will give you similar results.

From my experience more than 10000 rectangles per tile start to hit your performance.
 
The CreateAGNRecVeg doesn't seem to have any optional values, so I can't seem to work out what to put for the size and overlap, but this is close to what I was thinking.
 
That step is used to make the autogen. But it's a separate step that creates multiple rectangles from a polygon. I'm not being my pc now but it's named something like ReplacePolygonByVegRectangles.
 
arno said:
That step is used to make the autogen. But it's a separate step that creates multiple rectangles from a polygon. I'm not being my pc now but it's named something like ReplacePolygonByVegRectangles.
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Forgive a brief indulgence in some well-intended humor, but I'm glad to see Arno is taking a break from all his hard work today: :D

GaryGB
 
That's what you get from typing on your phone :D
 
Having used speech recognition software extensively for years, I've had many extremely humorous "recognition" errors.

Some errors found on proof-reading could have been rather embarrassing and might have put one at risk for being held accountable professionally ...if I hadn't gone back in some types of documents to catch and correct such errors (and 'typos') ...before release ! :yikes: :laughing:.


Good thing we have a friendly environment here for times when one's typos aren't prevented by use of speech recognition software. :cool:

GaryGB
 
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