VFR Terrain and 3D Trees

[odin]

Has anyone else ever bothered adding trees to Horizons VFR scenery for the UK, or anywhere?
I cant see any info on google.

Be cool if others have done parts of the UK cos I like actual world objects. So far ive covered the whole of Wirral in England and stopped at Hawarden Airport in Wales and im basically just making it more dense now and other tree types.

Cheers.

[MdMax]

Has anyone else ever bothered adding trees to Horizons VFR scenery for the UK, or anywhere?

Yes ! I'm adding trees in France using JOSM (OpenStreetMap) and OSM2XP. That's a nice way to improve not only ephemeral flight simulators but also lasting real world maps.



Happy flying !

[odin]

Yes ! I'm adding trees in France using JOSM (OpenStreetMap) and OSM2XP. That's a nice way to improve not only ephemeral flight simulators but also lasting real world maps.



Happy flying !

So there are programs that do all this for you? thats epic. but do they lay down autogen or proper 3d models?
thanks for the info I must check them out.

[odin]

I forgot to say im in FSX not Xplane.

Someone said it will work with FSX but it wont work for me, I cant get SBuilderX to compile the BGL, the selection boxes during save are greyed out and not tickable.

[MdMax]

So there are programs that do all this for you? thats epic. but do they lay down autogen or proper 3d models?
thanks for the info I must check them out.

OSM2XP uses OpenStreetMap data, but first you have to add/edit everything in OpenStreetMap if it's not available around your location.
http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showth...FR-Test-Flight

[odin]

OSM2XP uses OpenStreetMap data, but first you have to add/edit everything in OpenStreetMap if it's not available around your location.
http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showth...FR-Test-Flight

Thanks very much. Ive read up a lot on this, but I noticed in a video of xplane 10 that the scenery in the distance pops up just like the autogen probelm in FSX so im about to install the demo first see what its like.

[odin]

Ive followed a tutorial on how to use OSM2XP but I keep getting this, no matter how many different exports I use from OpenStreetMap I get the error, im using X Plane 9.70 and win7 64x, any ideas bro? cheers.

18/03/12 03:21:01 : ==================================================
18/03/12 03:21:01 : Osm2XP 2.0.1 by Benjamin Blanchet
18/03/12 03:21:01 : check last osm2xp news on http://osm2xp.com
18/03/12 03:21:01 : ===================================================
18/03/12 03:21:12 : Listing tiles in file map(3).osm
18/03/12 03:21:13 : listing of tiles complete
18/03/12 03:21:13 : 4 tile(s) found
18/03/12 03:21:13 : Starting X-Plane 9 generation of tile 54/-5
18/03/12 03:21:14 : Tile 54/-5 is empty, no dsf generated
18/03/12 03:21:14 : Starting X-Plane 9 generation of tile 53/-3
18/03/12 03:21:15 : stats : 320 buildings, 45 forests, 0 street lights, 0 objects. (generation took 0h0m0s)
18/03/12 03:21:17 : Starting X-Plane 9 generation of tile 53/-5
18/03/12 03:21:18 : Tile 53/-5 is empty, no dsf generated
18/03/12 03:21:18 : Starting X-Plane 9 generation of tile 53/-4
18/03/12 03:21:18 : stats : 5 buildings, 0 forests, 0 street lights, 0 objects. (generation took 0h0m0s)
18/03/12 03:21:18 : Generation finished.

[MdMax]

18/03/12 03:21:14 : Starting X-Plane 9 generation of tile 53/-3
18/03/12 03:21:15 : stats : 320 buildings, 45 forests, 0 street lights, 0 objects. (generation took 0h0m0s)

It is working... but the file you gave to OSM2XP had only 320 buildings and 45 forests. Where I live, a 1 degree x 1 degree tile gives about 180000 buildings and 4500 forests. You can now install the generated dsf file inside your X-Plane/Custom Scenery/Your Scenery/Earth nav data/+53-003/ folder. But don't forget to copy the "facades" folder and to install OpenSceneryX.

If you want files for OSM2XP, you can download them here:
http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/

[odin]

Your right it is working, the area I chose was just a small test, but what do you mean don't forget to copy the "facades" folder? I do have openscenery installed.

My problem now is I converted fs2004 VFR terrain and it works, but the mesh doesnt work so its all flat, but the VFR came in 2 seperate scenery folders (terrain texture and mesh kept seperate??) so I took all the BGL's and textures and combined them into 1 scenery folder. For me, the mesh and ground textures is the scariest part of scenery design, I need to leave it to the experts to be sure its accurate so its just as well you can buy it, which is probably what ill end up doing.



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It is working... but the file you gave to OSM2XP had only 320 buildings and 45 forests. Where I live, a 1 degree x 1 degree tile gives about 180000 buildings and 4500 forests. You can now install the generated dsf file inside your X-Plane/Custom Scenery/Your Scenery/Earth nav data/+53-003/ folder. But don't forget to copy the "facades" folder and to install OpenSceneryX.

If you want files for OSM2XP, you can download them here:
http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/

[odin]

Ive been loving that JOSM program, takes time but it pays off, still using FS2004 VFR textures because theres no proper textures available in my area to make my own.