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Scaling buildings

Aspireman

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Now that I've successfully been able to upload my models on to FSX now comes the problem of scale. It seems to me that my models are too small to the autogen already there. Is there a scale issue with true to life scale buildings and FSX buildings? If so, is there an accurate way of scaling models so they mix with the already there ones? I take it that the autogen ones aren't to scale. Also, unrelated to the scale problem, I uploaded one model and it was transparent. It was solid blue in color. I could only see an outline of it.
 
I find that default airport buildings are oversize by around 5%, but that varies. You can estimate the scale factor for that area by placing an object you know the height of next to a nearby airport building and then calculating the height of that building. Then compare that to a typical residential building story height of 10 ft (but can be as tall as 18 ft for commercial buildings). I normally use 12 ft for a typical small airport terminal (old style building).

The autogen is way too big, much larger than the airport buildings. I do not match my buildings to those.
 
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