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FS2004 Textures per kilometer?

Sidney Schwartz

Sidney Schwartz

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I've been reading the fs9 autogen sdk, looking into the possibility of using the annotator to increase the number of autogen buildings. Came across the following:

For performance reasons, the scenery engine in Flight Simulator limits the number of buildings displayed to 300 per square kilometer and the pieces of vegetation displayed to 600 per square kilometer.

So how many instances of a texture does it take to make up a square kilometer? I'd like to be able to know if a given texture is already close to or at that limit. If it is, there's no point to me editing it.

Thanks. :wave:
 
OK, next question. I'd like to edit the autogen for texture 040B2, Small City Suburban Non Grid Dry. I know I need to edit only one of the seasonal variations, but there are seven textures for each season. Viewing the textures I can see which one corresponds to what I'm seeing in FS9, but I found no explanation in the SDK of what the other six textures are for and how FS9 determines which ones to use? Geographical areas?
 
The are randomly used for that specific type of landclass. So you might need to edit them all.
 
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