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Need an Annotator like tool for large area building generation

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I would like to be able to add Autogen buildings to photoreal area BGLs, where I don't have any vector data, that would work somewhat like the Annotator Polygon Region option for vegetation. I would simply pick a GUID for the type of house and then draw a large rectangular area and get many houses (perhaps a variety of sizes and heights set by a Properties Dialogue Box) with that angular orientation. Most downtown neighborhoods have that appearance and trying to populate a city quickly now - one building at a time - takes a very long time. Maybe a tool like this that generates the vector data for ScenProc with an underlay of a registered Google map. Any ideas?
Actually, instead of Autogen buildings, I have seen several third party sceneries - for example, Paulo Ricardo's Rio de Janiero and FlyTampa's (old) Hong Kong airport area - have a tremendous number of well textured buildings that seem to perform better (I think) in terms of FPS than do Autogen buildings of the same density.
 
Hi,

You could try to use the feature detection function of scenproc on a map that shows the buildings. I have heard other people play with that idea, but I haven't tested it myself yet. Once you have the vector data its relatively easy to turn it into autogen.
 
Arno,
Thanks much for your response! I will try that with ScenProc. Do I need a GeoTiff map photo? I haven't tried ScenProc except with OpenStreetMap data as a quick experiment. Currently, I just use FSEarthTiles to do an airport area in photoreal and then populate it with Instant Scenery instead of using Autogen Annotator but I would like to do more quantity of buildings and trees with Annotator.

Thanks again!

Dave
 
Hi Dave,

For now you would need a geotiff indeed. But I'm experimenting with other sources as well.
 
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