Hello folks !

I was adding a photoreal scenery of Europe with autogen, but a doubt arised in my head.

Because the scenery (bgl files) and the texture (agn files) come from two different zip files, with different areas coverage, I was unsure to do a good job.

In other words the bgls files cover, let's say area A, and the agns area A and part of area B, what is going to happen ? will I see autogen even in area B, which is a standard default scenery (not photoreal), or the it will end up with extra autogen, not required, just in area A ?

Is it possible to create two different addon, the first one with just scenery, and the second one with just texture ?

 

Thank you for your help !

 

As I understand it, autogen is tied to the bgl of the photo scenery and both are tied to the location that they cover. If there is no bgl file for area 2, the autogen will not appear. The autogen will only appear if it is in the texture folder of the area and in the same folder as the scenery folder for the same area. Welcome to the Avsim forums by the way.🙂

thank you very much for you reply.

I made some tries and yes, it shows only buildings in the bgl coverage.

I don't know if the system automatically cuts the "estra" agn, outside the scenery area, or if they appear overcrowding the zone.

thank you

Reader is correct. For a given scenery area addition, the AGN files in the texture folder will only display if they are covered by a BGL in the scenery folder for the same scenery entry.  There's no problem created by including too much autogen in a given scenery folder, other than you're using up more disk space than you need to.  Each autogen file covers a specific geography (it's just a grid system), so if you have an autogen grid included that isn't covered by the bgls, it will just be ignored.

By the way, these are absolutely the best autogen packages available with many European and African countries available: http://www.fsxforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=19503&p=200773#p200773

I just built photoscenery for almost all of Europe in the last two months, so happy to answer any questions about autogen vs bgls, etc, etc.  I have photoscenery for Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Slovenia, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Morocco...currently building Bosnia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey....About 2TB so far and much if it is at low resolution only suitable for overflight, with higher resolutions where I have airports.

Dublin: https://i.imgur.com/PPx7MH9.jpg

Frankfurt: https://i.imgur.com/zBMHMGJ.jpg

Edited June 14, 20205 yr by cwburnett

Thanks a lot @cwburnett !!

That's the answer I was looking for.

I will try also the autogen you proposed.