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Various Autogen annotator questions for beginner

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Hi everybody,
If you can help point me in the right direction with the above, I would appreciate it:

1. there appears to be hundreds of standard FSX objects that aren't in the standard AutogenDescriptions.xml file. Is this correct? If so, how to include the other standard objects in my sceneries?

2. I am competent at taking a geo-referenced ground photo and rendering a BGL with a water and blend class using Resample.exe. Is there anyway to use Annotator to define an exclusion polygon? How? The problem is the FSX shorelines can be extremely simplified and I can have waves breaking in the middle of a land area (near the shore).

3. After I create a BGL using Resample, is there any way to define roads using Annotator? Is there any free graphical alternative to Annotator for adding roads to my BGL?

4. Is there any problem that can allow me to define a road graphically from my BGL and perhaps allow export as an AGN file to get my roads into FSX?

5. How do you use the Extrusions.xml file in the Autogen source XML folder of Autogen SDK?

6. There are other XML files under the "Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Environment Kit" folders. Are any of these useable by Annotator?

I would really appreciate your help on the above as I have been able to use some seriously high res (xdim = 2.1E-06 and better) to make scenery that I look forward to sharing.
Cheers, A=)
 
Hi,

andrewlsummer said:
1. there appears to be hundreds of standard FSX objects that aren't in the standard AutogenDescriptions.xml file. Is this correct? If so, how to include the other standard objects in my sceneries?
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I am not aware of this. There are many more 3D objects in FSX, but these are custom objects only used on one specific location.

andrewlsummer said:
2. I am competent at taking a geo-referenced ground photo and rendering a BGL with a water and blend class using Resample.exe. Is there anyway to use Annotator to define an exclusion polygon? How? The problem is the FSX shorelines can be extremely simplified and I can have waves breaking in the middle of a land area (near the shore).
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No, you would need to use a tool like SBuilderX to make terrain excludes. Annotator can only do autogen objects.

andrewlsummer said:
3. After I create a BGL using Resample, is there any way to define roads using Annotator? Is there any free graphical alternative to Annotator for adding roads to my BGL?
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No, for roads you would need a tool like SBuilderX again. Be aware that roads you make will never show up on top of your photo scenery, but they can be used for the traffic.

andrewlsummer said:
4. Is there any problem that can allow me to define a road graphically from my BGL and perhaps allow export as an AGN file to get my roads into FSX?
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I don't understand this question, but maybe my answer to 3 helped already?

andrewlsummer said:
5. How do you use the Extrusions.xml file in the Autogen source XML folder of Autogen SDK?
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That file seems to contain information for the extrusion bridges that can be made with BGLComp. Also I think it contains some definitions used for the normal autogen houses (e.g. roofs). But I don't think you can use it in Annotator directly.

andrewlsummer said:
6. There are other XML files under the "Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Environment Kit" folders. Are any of these useable by Annotator?
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Don't know that.
 
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