W-O-W!!..........Brilliant Just Brilliant!!!

W-O-W!!..........Brilliant Just Brilliant!!!

 

Thanks Phantom88 ! :lol:

 

OpenStreetMap allows you to add individual trees (see the green points here):

http://www.openstree...oom=18&layers=M

 

Then you can use OSM2XP, and link tags like "natural:tree" to a 3D object.

 

 

Another solution is this:

http://www.openstree...oom=18&layers=M

 

A small forest with a "landuse:forest" tag inside your town.

 

Thanks MdMax, that's great !!!

I'm not sure I'm gonna manually add every single tree in Paris though. Would rather do it for my small town.

 

P.S: And thanks a lot for the award ! Good feeling, especially coming from you !

You're absolutely right in your observation. Please note this is not X-Plane autogen. The buildings are X-plane "façades" (some kind of lego brick) built from OSM data by Benny's OSM2XP. Every building has a realistic projected shape, but the height and exact 3D shape is just a "plausible" deduction by some nifty algorythm. As you can imagine, the Eiffel tower's shape and height is all wrong.

Yes, trees are lacking along the streets, that would give a still better look. Alpilotx released an add-on to add trees along the country roads. Maybe someone could do that for the city streets.

 

Ah I see, I take it this OSM source doesn't have height and type data for every tree in the area then?? LOL maybe one day. I'll be watching Xplane development with great interest. A few more tweaks and it will easily have a superior autogen system. Just imagine...no more popping!

 

Incidentally has the stock XP10 autogen been improved with new model types and styles at all since release or is it all still mostly American-style buildings?

An extraordinary set indeed! :Applause:

Coming along nicely.......

is that payware or default xp10? looks really really awesome!

Amazing!

Thanks gents !

 

is that payware or default xp10? looks really really awesome!

Nor payware nor default (except roads). Buildings are built with OSM2XP, from OSM data, both open source. The underlying orthophoto is from Zonephoto.fr (freely downloadable).

Just speculating, since I have no working knowledge of the program, but would it be feasible to generate the OSM data using an orthophoto then transfer that building and positional/height data to the regular XP scenery?

 

Are people doing that now? Are streetlights being auto-placed, and what do these cities look like at night?

 

I am assuming the generated roads would match and cause no conflicts.....

Just speculating, since I have no working knowledge of the program, but would it be feasible to generate the OSM data using an orthophoto then transfer that building and positional/height data to the regular XP scenery?

 

MdMax might have a better answer, but if I understand your question correctly, yes, you could vectorize buildings based on orthophoto and add the data to OSM. But that would have to be done by hand, because no sofware could vectorize the building for you. And the resulting data would not be very good because buildings are distorted a lot by perspective. This method is better for roads, for example. For height information, you can add it using OSM tags, and OSM2XP will use it instead of it's own random method.

 

Are people doing that now? Are streetlights being auto-placed, and what do these cities look like at night?

The roads are default, so is the lighting along the streets. OSM2XP by night is not bad, but IMHO nothing beats the default scenery at night.

 

 

I am assuming the generated roads would match and cause no conflicts.....

Roads are default X-Plane 10. They match perfectly.

I am just wondering essentially if the footprint based buildings generated from the photo data could be transported to replace default autogen in XP.

 

I guess I could experiment myself, but being a demo user only up to this point, it would probably require me to finally purchase XP.

 

Not sure I am ready, yet. :-)

How would I use the orthophotos in OSM ? e.g. Netherlands.

How would I use the orthophotos in OSM ? e.g. Netherlands.

Wait, there's a bit of confusion here, OpenStreetMap is vector data only. Orthophoto is raster data, a totally different thing. You can use have both in X-Plane simultaneously, just put both folders into the custom scenery folder.

That said, I don't know where to find orthoscenery for Netherland. I have Switzerland, France, Italy, and some parts of the US.

Wait, there's a bit of confusion here, OpenStreetMap is vector data only. Orthophoto is raster data, a totally different thing. You can use have both in X-Plane simultaneously, just put both folders into the custom scenery folder.

That said, I don't know where to find orthoscenery for Netherland. I have Switzerland, France, Italy, and some parts of the US.

 

I don't mind any of the european countries, could you point me from I can download them and how am I supposed to use raster data ? help appreciated.

http://truscenery.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/truscenery-presents-helsinki-orthoscenery/

http://www.x-italy.it/

http://zonephoto.x-plane.fr/Cartes.php