SceneryDesign.org I have made some more progress on the tree detection algorithm in the last days, but I am not there yet. So some more testing is needed before the functionality can be put in scenProc. In my previous post I showed some results from the algorithm running in a test application. What I have done […]
Tree detection – part 2
I am travelling for my work this week, but when I had an few hours in the evening to spend in my hotel room I did some more experimentation with the tree detection algorithm. I have now modified my test tool so that you can click on the trees in the image to determine the […]
Tree detection
One of the first problems I encountered when I tried to make autogen for Nantucket is the lack of vector data for the vegetation. OpenStreetMap contains hardly any vegetation and also the GIS department of Massachusetts has not much usable data. So therefore I started to experiment with detecting the vegetation in the imagery. And […]
Test project Nantucket
I was looking for a way to help me develop the scenProc tool and explore the possibilities of autogen further. In the end I decided to start a little scenery project where I could play around with all aspects of autogen. I decided to pick an area in the US, because there is a lot […]
Blinking lights
In the attached object editor of ModelConverterX you can add lights to your object. On export to FSX these lights will be converted into effect (FX) files. Besides the colour you can now also specify a blink duration for those lights. This means you can create flashing lights. If you enter a blink duration of […]
Dot vs. comma again, argh…
This must one of the most annoying “features” of the FS SDK tools. Many of them only work correctly when the decimal character is set to a dot. For example MakeMDL or XtoMDL refuse to work correctly when the decimal character is a comma. Many developers bump into this problem, since a lot of countries […]
scenProc crashes should be fixed
A little while ago I changed how the autogen configuration is read into scenProc. This change resulted in some unexpected crashes for some users. These seemed to happen mainly when FSX was installed within the Program Files folder and Windows did not give the right permission to read the files. I have now made the […]
Save some memory and disable the preview
In my bugtracking system I now and then get error reports from people who run out of memory while working on a model with ModelConverterX. These bugs are often impossible to reproduce on my side, as it depends on the PC the application is run on. If you are using the 32 bit version of […]
Using GIS data to create FSX autogen
Last month at the FSKonferenz in Paderborn I gave a presentation titled “Using GIS data to create FSX autogen”. I have now made a recording of this presentation and put it on YouTube so that those who where not at the conference can also see it. The presentation covers how autogen works, what GIS data […]
scenProc and error reporting
Let me start by saying that the recent scenProc releases might be a little less robust. Some users are reporting crashes since I made the change to read the FSX autogen configuration from the FSX installation folder, instead of the SDK. To help me to figure out what goes wrong, because as a developer would […]