Posts by kenventions

How do the other flight sims handle user-created content? Have any of them found/implemented a good solution?

I haven't used any of the others in a long, long time.

I was surprised that the Odyssey+ looked better in most of the comparisons (PIMAX screen door was noticeable) - Odyssey was definitely the worst in the text comparisons.

I've got a Buttkicker and like it. It's subtle but I notice when I forget to turn it on. The Cessna is one of the better planes for the BK - you feel the engine vibrations and definitely feel the runway during takeoff / landing. You also feel the engine in the R-22 and in the military aircraft (and obviously afterburner). You really don't notice the BK in the big commercial jets.

You're welcome! Glad you're back in the air!

Looks like it could be related to an area/object called "Biggin Hill" ...

No rush Nabeel - enjoy the family and the new job! FS2 will still be there when you need another challenge.

Thanks for the reminder Nabeel.

Future functionality request #1 - I'd also like to do a group change on roof type or building type. My current scenProc building script is area-based so small footprints default to 1-2 story gable/residential buildings but often on the major streets, the small footprints are small businesses that should be flat/industrial. I'd like to group select those footprints on both sides of those streets and change them as a group versus editing each one.

Future functionality request #2 - when you edit a building footprint, it would be nice if you could Shft-drag one of the 4 corners to re-size the rectangle (opposite corner stays anchored). Currently you have to drag 3 of the 4 corners to reduce the rectangle size.

Stu, while you're on a roll, any creative solution for the car traffic at intersections?

Maybe tag a small area around a traffic_signals node as a "parking lot" but with the lighted cars parked like a train. Small streets would get a single train while major intersections would get 3 lanes of traffic at the intersection.

The streets of NYC would look busy at night!

Is it possible to change the build height (floors) of several buildings all at once? I tried to Ctrl-click on several buildings and then right-click to edit them but no luck. Even if I Ctrl-mouse to box-select several buildings, the right-click options are only duplicate or delete - I'm guessing group edit is not possible with the current version, correct?

Hawker, I fixed the South Florida Tower Lights add-on last weekend - https://flight-sim.org/filebas…-south-florida-tl-add-on/

It's an easy swap, you download and unzip V2 and then delete the V1 folder.

Quote from ussiowa

https://www.expertgps.com/data/fl/towers.asp

Michael, thanks for finding the US towers database!

I searched the Florida list of water towers and found 52 but unfortunately there aren't any south of the Orlando area so nothing to add to the South Florida DLC.

In the HOW-TO guide that's included with the towerProcTL download, I mention that any towers under 100m tall will get a steady dim red light …

(from the HOW-TO)

Ray, short-term you may want to try my TowerProc tool as it will generate its own TSC & matching TOC file for the lighted water towers so it will be separate from your fsCP TSC file.

Ray, when I was working on the towers addon I searched the South Florida OSM file for water towers and was surprised to only find 2 if I remember correctly. Are water towers not common in Florida due to the potential damage from hurricanes or is this just a lack of OSM data?

Stu, that sounds good. Is the ETA sometime soon as in April?

Rodeo, it looks like the link to the US 2010 Tract Maps has moved to https://www.census.gov/geograp…10-census-tract-maps.html

Stu, another use for pole placement would be restaurant / store signs.

However, instead of using the oneObject configuration that creates a virtual node at the center of a way / storage tank, the virtual node needs to be offset so the store sign is placed on the perimeter of the way. Would this be an easy tweak to your oneObject code?

With a library of store sign models (that are lighted at night!), the streets would look a bit more realistic - later we could add animated drive-thru traffic.

Not a problem - thanks for the rest of the USbuildingfootprints tips, I'm looking forward to the results.

I could get them all imported but when I did the export and unzipped the single file, it contained 4 files for each geojson file.

Couldn't figure out the mapshaper merge for multiple geojson or shp file sets but I was able to get a basic scenProc script to convert a test SHP file set (shp, shx, prj, and dbf) into a toc file. I plan to just brute-force convert the 42 geojson files that cover the 16 mile x 16 mile area I'm working on - mapshaper says I'll end up with ~60,000 polygons - the coverage looks nice so it should be worth the effort. Here's a portion of the mapshaper overview ...