AFS2 Cultivation/Scenery editor

I've been working on a small side project this week as I've had some spare time and my goal was to create a scenery/cultivation editor for AFS2 with emphasis on easy to use (as I know it can be very difficult modifying/adding cultivation in the right places).

This does require you to have some knowledge on how to load cultivation (you'll need to have an airport .tsc file that refers to the cultivation file).

Here are the current features:

• Add, edit or delete buildings, plants and lights,
• Create multiple plants at once (1 to 2500)
• Create multiple lights at once using a line draw tool
• Colors and icons for both buildings, plants and lights (color scales for building usage, direct color mapping for lights and icons for plant groups).
• 3D mode which allows you to see the building and give an indication of the # of floors (can be toggled off).
• Set default properties via the settings cogwheel, these are used when you create new objects.
• Modify or delete existing objects by right clicking on them.
• Mass select objects, drag them, duplicate them or delete them
• Toggle layer visibility, anything you delete will not count against hidden layers.
• Tooltip information with the object properties (can be toggled off).
• Multiple layer of tile sources (Google, Bing, OSM, CartoDB)
• Load 1 or more existing .TOC files (they must be plaintext)
• Save the output as .TOC (hidden layers are not included)
• Unless otherwise stated, assume everything is in meters and uses longitude/latitude.

Hotkeys:

• Q for creating a building,
• W for creating a plant
• E for creating a light
• R for creating multiple plants
• Backspace for deleting selected objects
• CTRL+V for duplicating selected objects
• Hotkeys for setting the default type (when drawing) for plant or building:
  
  • 1 - Broadleaf - ALT residential/gable - SHIFT residential/flat
  • 2 - Shrub - ALT commercial/gable - SHIFT commercial/flat
  • 3 - Conifer - ALT industrial/gable - SHIFT residential/flat
  • 4 - Palm
• Numpad 1 to 5 can be used to change floors on the selection area if they contain buildings
• F or D for zooming in and out (as it's broken in Firefox)
• ESC to cancel all drawing or editing action
• CTRL + Mouse to select objects (they are highlighted as blue after selection)

When in draw mode:

• Plant and Light objects are created by just double clicking anywhere
• Building is created by clicking once to start the rectangle and then clicking again to finish
• Mass plants are created in the shape of a polygon, keep clicking on your polygon boundaries and double click to finish.
• Mass lights are created in the shape of a line, click on your line boundaries and double click to finish
• If you made a mistake you can right click delete or mass select delete
• AFS2 only supports rectangular buildings, so make sure they look somewhat rectangular, (they'll end up being rectangular anyhow).
• Hold right mouse to shift your view at an angle

Every time you load the editor you'll be placed near London (loading a .toc file will take the center of the cultivation data present and put you there). I plan on adding a local state to save your location/settings (but not data as that wouldn't be possible through browser's limited local storage).

You are able to load any .toc file or alternatively just add buildings, plants and lights and save from scratch. If you want to give it a test run, I suggest loading the scenery by drassaud (such as Autogen Switzerland South Beta 0.1.0 and opening ch/places/Autogen ch South/fl_8-8 46-1_00.toc) or you can use my example.toc and load that (just a few buildings, plants and lights).

Anyhow, without further ado, here's the link: AFS2 Cultivation Editor. The editor itself runs locally so it will depend on your resources (CPU/GPU) to process and render. Moreover I've only tested this on the latest Google Chrome (Firefox was a bit sluggish and I had issues zooming, other browsers untested).

Looking forward to feedback! I can extend this to parse and work with .tsc files as well and add support for other things such as airports, xrefs, parking positions, runways, helipads, etc.

I'll see what I can do about the zooming thing, I can do a potential fix at least via a zoom slider. As far as compiled .TOCs go, I don't think I'm able to read or decode them, only plaintext. I assume they're compressed and encrypted versions.

The technology to render everything is WebGL (using deck.gl) which is somewhat new and may have problems on some machines.

I've added a band-aid fix for zooming in Firefox, you can now use D and F to zoom out and in respectively as well as use the zoom slider (if it doesn't appear you may need to do a hard refresh using CTRL+F5).

I plan on putting the code on Github sometime next week, just need to get some refactoring done first. This will be something people can run off their machines (rather than needing a website), that will also help with any potential legalities of using Google tile sources.

Quote from TomB

Really a great tool, congratulations. Good to see such talented people on board.

It reminds me of the autogen annotator for fs9/fsx. I would love to see mass selection/deletion option and a copy paste option.

I've gone and added a mass selection option to delete for now, I'm not sure about copy and paste yet as that will need thinking on UI/UX side of things. It might easier having an option to create multiple plants (something like a spread/amount slider) so you can cluster them quickly in a location.

As for mass selection, hold down CTRL and select your area, then hit backspace to remove. There's no undo right now so be careful!

Quote from TomB

Would it be possible to use 'Ctrl + right mouse' to select objects and then delete all selected with e.g. backspace. I would like to remove lights as there are too many. Outside of inhabited areas there are usually no lights. However ScenProc adds lights according the street classification.

Not sure if I understood correctly, but selecting manual objects one by one rather than a huge selection? I plan on adding a visibility layer where you can toggle on and off models (such as buildings, plants and lights), which will ensure that objects selected are only applicable to the visible layer(s).

Quote from Hartman

Is it possible to create a function that can move a tree - instead of deleting and creating a new one?

Is it possible to create a function that can create a forest: Choose an area, and a forest is automatically created within the area?

The first one should be fairly simple. As far as the area selection goes, that could be a bit more difficult UI wise so I'll have a thought on how to do that nicely (as I need to think about creating a single plant vs multiple, plants respecting the area boundaries, the spread/size of plants, etc).

I've made a few additions/changes:

• You can move both plants and lights (the marker changes to an X just to make it more clearer where it will "land"), you can end editing/moving by double clicking on it.
• Visible layers have been introduced, you can toggle them on or off on the top right.
• Deleting will not count against layers that are not visible (drawing still counts).
• Draw mode will persist until you hit cancel, so you can spam multiple plants, lights, buildings.
• A message is shown to notify if you're in draw or edit mode (hard to miss!).

One thing I still need to do is the ability to create mass plants in a given area.

Quote from Jetjockey10

Do you plan on supporting additional browsers.? I do not use Chrome, I use Microsoft Edge, the default browser for Win10. Absolutely nothing shows up at the url when using Edge.

Regards,

Ray

I've updated it, the issue is that Edge doesn't support the new proposals for Javascript yet (which the other browsers do), so it required a polyfill to work.