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Want autogen, but have no images
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Hi Nick.
The first problem is that your poly will probably suppress the default autogen. This may be overcome with the use of a "Dummy" rotated call. Check out AVSIM posts on Dummy calls, or Dummy RotatedCall.
Then, if the default autogen will show through the poly, you can place a VTP poly over the area, using SBuilder or Ground2K4, using a landclass number of 252 or 253... that is for photoreal poly placement.
The trick here, is that there are no landclass Custom texture tiles... only the autogen and they are in the "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Scenery\World\texture" folder ( properly named, of course ).
When the BGL tries to display the Custom tiles for the poly, it will only find the autogen, and place them. Note: the VTP layer must be high enough so they are on top of all other VTP polys for that tile... Layer #63 should do the trick. The top-most layer's autogen will always show.
The shape of the poly doesn't need to be square LOD13 tiles... it can be any shape, and the sim will place the autogen tiles to fit the poly. Holger Sandmann found that "textureless" autogen trick.
You may need to place the VTP bgl into a project folder that has no "texture" subfolder... not sure of this, but it would be consistant with what is generally needed... otherwise there may be a memory leak.
Dick
The first problem is that your poly will probably suppress the default autogen. This may be overcome with the use of a "Dummy" rotated call. Check out AVSIM posts on Dummy calls, or Dummy RotatedCall.
Then, if the default autogen will show through the poly, you can place a VTP poly over the area, using SBuilder or Ground2K4, using a landclass number of 252 or 253... that is for photoreal poly placement.
The trick here, is that there are no landclass Custom texture tiles... only the autogen and they are in the "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Scenery\World\texture" folder ( properly named, of course ).
When the BGL tries to display the Custom tiles for the poly, it will only find the autogen, and place them. Note: the VTP layer must be high enough so they are on top of all other VTP polys for that tile... Layer #63 should do the trick. The top-most layer's autogen will always show.
The shape of the poly doesn't need to be square LOD13 tiles... it can be any shape, and the sim will place the autogen tiles to fit the poly. Holger Sandmann found that "textureless" autogen trick.
You may need to place the VTP bgl into a project folder that has no "texture" subfolder... not sure of this, but it would be consistant with what is generally needed... otherwise there may be a memory leak.
Dick
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