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two questions about autogen

Timmo

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1) Is the house side texture on the autogen sheets related to a specific roof on the same texture sheet? (i.e. bldZ2.bmp)

2) Does the population density layer change the height distribution of buildings in the autogen? (i.e. high population density value means taller buildings?)
 
Hi,

Timmo said:
2) Does the population density layer change the height distribution of buildings in the autogen? (i.e. high population density value means taller buildings?)
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As far as I know the height distribution is set in the AGN file itself. The BGL file with population density is only used for the amount of traffic as far as I know.
 
Timmo said:
1) Is the house side texture on the autogen sheets related to a specific roof on the same texture sheet? (i.e. bldZ2.bmp)
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It looks to me that this is entirely random -- within a particular area I see a pretty-much equal distribution of house textures, and the roofs are entirely random as well.
In New Zealand, the house walls are from BLDZ2, and the roofs are from BLDG2.

2) Does the population density layer change the height distribution of buildings in the autogen? (i.e. high population density value means taller buildings?)
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As Arno said, the building height distribution is set for each texture tile, stored in the AGN file. I suspect you may be thinking of the one and two storey houses only -- I think FSX is pretty much hard-wired to display a lot more two-storey houses. It would be nice if this could be changed, but I don't think it is possible.
 
Ok cheers guys- Yeah I was hoping it may be possible to reduce the number of two story houses via the population density bgl.

Do you happen to know about the 'eave' portion of the texture? (i.e. some houses show a triangle upper story)- Some of my house textures don't match up well to these (i.e. dark gray house with a white upper portion :banghead:)
 
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