SceneryDesign.org This week I did some work on creating elevation data for our Dutch NL2000 scenery. I would like to share the challenges and solutions I encountered. For the NL2000 scenery we have been looking for replacement elevation data for quite a while already. The default FSX elevation data is OK, but it is not really […]
Two scenProc changes
In the next development release there are two important changes in scenProc. These will mean that your old configuration file will no longer work directly, you will have to make some small modifications to them. The first change is that the SHP and KML importer have an additional argument. Just like the OSM importer you […]
How to vary autogen building height?
One of the items still on my scenProc wishlist is adding a feature that allows you to vary the heights of the autogen buildings In the current version you have to set the same height distribution for all autogen tiles. But how to do that? I started a thread on the forum a while ago to […]
Reading KML files
I have added support for another file format to scenProc, it is now also possible to read KML files. This means that you can now use Google Earth as well to draw your points, lines and polygons. And then use scenProc to convert this data into autogen for FSX. I have only tested with some […]
Autogen creation workflow
I have made a new video tutorial that demonstrates the typical workflow I use to create autogen from OpenStreetMap data. In this tutorial I am creating forests, buildings and lights as FSX autogen. The tutorial also explains way to classify the buildings into types and categories, for example industrial or residential buildings.
Down time
Just a quick reminder that this website will be offline for an hour or so tomorrow morning. This means that also the development releases of my tools are not accessible for that time. As some of you might know the development releases and this site our hosted on a small server at my home. And tomorrow I […]
Auto completion for attributes
From the next development release scenProc has a new feature, it is now possible to get auto completion of possible attributes and their values. All you have to do is scan the file you will be processing by pressing the “Scan attributes” button. Be aware that this might take a while for big files. After […]
Turn on the turbo!
A while ago I made the scenProc step to split the features in the correct grid faster by using multiple threads. I have now updated almost all of the steps to use multiple threads and process the features in parallel. So this should reduce the time needed to process bigger areas quite a bit. Especially […]
Creating rectangles from a footprint
I have added a new processing step to scenProc, with this step you can replace a complex building footprint by a number of rectangles. The step only takes the filter of the objects you want to process as argument. So for example: REPLACEPOLYGONBYBUILDINGRECTANGLES|BUILDTYPE=3 It only works well on footprints that have many parallel edges, else […]
Features with holes (2)
Not so long ago I posted about added support to read features with holes from OSM files. Recently I learned that these changes slowed down reading OSM files more than 60 times. So I have removed this feature for now. Back to the drawing board, let’s see if I can find a more efficient way […]