1 - love the parking lot and the crane
Posts by kenventions
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Very nice tutorial Jerry and a good example! I rarely setup a flight plan but I think I'll try to do it more frequently with your in-cockpit approach.
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Martin, the radio tower / water tower stuff evolved into the following TowerProcTL tool that was released back in December …
https://flight-sim.org/filebas…php?file/158-towerproctl/
The problem I ran into with the OSM scenProc approach was either duplicate towers in the same location, missing towers, and no height info on the radio towers. Also, tall radio towers have more complicated lighting that the scenProc approach couldn't handle which TowerProcTL solved.
If you already have your OSM file, you can use the JOSM viewer to locate the water towers using the FILTER capability of the viewer.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM
There's a HOW-TO guide included with the TowerProcTL download.
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Thanks for the feedback Stu. When I did the TSC files for the radio towers in South Florida, the [autoheight_override] line wasn't included and everything still worked - another piece of the puzzle/mystery.
Leaving the element [0] is good to know and simplifies things.
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Which tile levels were generated? I'm guessing the distant tiles are probably level 9 or 10 versus the higher levels directly below.
I also remember people mentioning that the colors can vary by the zoom level used.
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Stu, I noticed your generated TSC files have objects with the same element [0] value whereas IPACS files have increasing element numbers for objects in their TSC and TOC files. I'm guessing the element number is optional, do you have any other insight?
ObjectGen example ... <[tmsimulator_scenery_object][element][0] #nodeid = virtual
Also, iIs the autoheight_override an option in the WayConfiguration or NodeConfiguration? It looks like it defaults to -1m below ground (I guess to avoid floating pylons) but was curious if it can be defined in the configuration like orientation is.
ObjectGen example ... <[int32][autoheight_override][-1]>
When I experimented with a lighted baseball field (using the OneObject configuration), I noticed the textured field was partially sunken into the ground. At the time, I fixed it by floating the SketchUp model above the origin but now I realize it was probably the [-1] override that caused it.
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A video preview image would be better than the camera icon.
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I think people with the Odyssey+ think the SDE is much less than the Rift but text won't be sharper.
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Maybe when Jeff is farther along with vehicle animation we'll be able to program in pauses along the animated route to simulate intersections like on a figure-8 route.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You're welcome! Glad you're back in the air!
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Looks like it could be related to an area/object called "Biggin Hill" ...
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No rush Nabeel - enjoy the family and the new job! FS2 will still be there when you need another challenge.
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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.
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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!
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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?
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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.
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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.
