SceneryDesign.org It’s been a while since I was working on the autogen vegetation for Nantucket. It was actually before my summer holiday. Afterwards I thought I would quickly fix some of the reported bugs and then return to this interesting issue. But as always I got carried away by adding some new features to ModelConverterX and […]
scenProc XML objects optional attributes
The scenProc processing step to create XML objects had a last argument that when provided would add the NoAutogenSuppression tag to the create XML object. In the next development release the behaviour of this last argument has been changed a bit. From now on it matters what you enter. That’s because you can now specify […]
Repackaged development release
Until now the development release (or should I just say beta version) of all of my tools was released as one big ZIP file with all the different tools in it. I have changed this now. So from now on you can download a separate ZIP file for each tool. The file contains all files […]
Heading offsets
One problem with the scenProc feature to place objects along a line was that the user could not influence the orientation of the model. It would just follow the line and for the default light everything ended up fine. But if you wanted the use an object that was oriented differently in the MDL file […]
Is it easy to waste performance?
Let me start with the answer to the question I posed in the title: YES. Earlier this week I introduced a scenProc update that could handles holes in shapefile polygons. This new features used the functions I have to do boolean operations on polygons. Things like intersect or subtract two polygons. This functionality is also […]
Features with holes
Holes are often used in shapefiles, for example to mark an island in an water polygon or to mark a clearing in a forest polygon. Until now scenProc did not support holes, so they were ignored when importing shapefiles. As a result of this the autogen generated would not be correct. The scenProc code that […]
Be careful for narrow houses
Two users recently reported the same problem to me with autogen files made with scenProc. In Annotator they could not see all the buildings and after saving in Annotator many of the buildings were gone. It turned out this problem was caused by very narrow buildings. So I want to warn all scenProc users of […]
Tree detection – part 4
It’s a while ago that I posted about the progress of my tree detection efforts. So here is a quick update. Some other things kept me busy, so there hasn’t been too much progress recently. I was able to run the tree detection algorithm on the entire island of Nantucket now. It took around 3.5 […]
SPLITGRID? Check!
In my bug reporting system I can see that it relatively often happens that people run into trouble (crashes) because they remove the SPLITGRID step from their configuration file. If you then try to create autogen features scenProc will crash. This is because I assumed that the SPLITGRID step will be done first. This step […]
I flipped it
Yesterday I fixed a bug in the scenProc step that imports AGN files. There was an issue in this step that resulted in part of the autogen features being displayed wrong. They were vertically flipped. So if you are using the import AGN step in your workflow, please update to the latest version and run […]