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Stubborn vegetation (unable to remove it) in some areas?

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Hello,

A couple times now, I've run into the issue of being unable to remove vegetation with a polygon and vegetation scale and density sliders set to zero. I've only built bush strips in Papua, so I'm often working in pretty remote areas - unsure if that's related?

On my latest project south of the Baliem Valley, even creating a runway object doesn't remove vegetation; even with the box "remove vegetation near runway" checked, there's vegetation ON the runway; covering it in fact. My understanding is that a runway object should never have vegetation on it?

Is this a known issue, and is there a known workaround? I've found the thread below but won't be able to try it for a few days; if anyone else has suggestions in the meantime I'd be grateful!

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Removing trees

Hi, I want to remove autogen trees. I trace polygon around theese, select Vegetation in Properties then put the density slider to 0. But the trees remain. I read on other post that they should desapear. My polygon tool works to delete buildings, to make terraforming, add or remove water...but...
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When unable to remove vegetation Is probably because there Is a vegetation biomes override polygon hidden

Can you please turn on the debug shapes option/terrain in Dev mode and look for any ?

(If you happen to have my Powerlines scenery please disable It before turning on the debug shapes, It Is pretty hefty!)

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mamu said:
When unable to remove vegetation Is probably because there Is a vegetation biomes override polygon hidden

Can you please turn on the debug shapes option/terrain in Dev mode and look for any ?

(If you happen to have my Powerlines scenery please disable It before turning on the debug shapes, It Is pretty hefty!)

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Thanks, interesting idea, I didn't think about a biome override. I do have Bijans trees installed, wonder if it might come from there? Otherwise this area is the middle of nowhere, can't figure what other override might be there..
 
yep, could be Bijan stuff

here you can find the solution :)

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How to remove the trees in the approach path of St Barth ? Doing it with sdk doesn't work

Ok, with debug shapes you can recognize that the Island Is filled with vegetation polygon changing the biomes You can solve by using and ExclusionRectangle with excludePolygon, the ExclusionRectangle must be over all the points of the vegetation-biome polys. Now you can use a vegetation poly...
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mamu said:
yep, could be Bijan stuff

here you can find the solution :)

forums.flightsimulator.com

How to remove the trees in the approach path of St Barth ? Doing it with sdk doesn't work

Ok, with debug shapes you can recognize that the Island Is filled with vegetation polygon changing the biomes You can solve by using and ExclusionRectangle with excludePolygon, the ExclusionRectangle must be over all the points of the vegetation-biome polys. Now you can use a vegetation poly...
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Finally revisiting this. Thanks for the reply!

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work. I'm a newbie so there's likely something I'm not understanding correctly.

I found that another community package everyone who flies in this area runs (wantok's terrain fixes mod) does have a polygon around the area in question, so that is likely the cause.

So what I did is, I drew an "exclusion rectangle" around the area, being sure to completely encompass Wantok's polygon, and then selected "exclude polygons" in the Properties window of my exclusion rectangle. But even though my poloygon centered over the airport still has all vegetation sliders pulled to zero, there's still vegetation in my polygon.

Any other thoughts? Even something very simple; I suspect I'm just making some sort of dumb mistake here. Does polygon/rectange order make a difference, in the scenery window etc?

Thanks!
 
I have checked that package, and it is the culript, because it is forcing vegetation inside its polylgon (pretty drastic solution, but with that poor aerials, the only one..)

The solution suggested in the St. Barth is still working

Steps:

add a exclusionRectagle object and make sure it includes all the corner of the polygon
in its properties, select "exclude Polygons"

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Make sure that in the content.xml your scenery is loaded after the Wantok one!

reload the sim

the polygon should be gone

attached a simple working project in the area,
 

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Make sure that in the content.xml your scenery is loaded after the Wantok one!
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And that was the key, thanks! I was expecting to see the results in the scenery editor; I was not aware that I had to build the package and place it haha.

Ok, this area is a mess and this'll be a fun project :).
 
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