I would like to make an overlay using World2XPlane 0.7.4.1, but only forests (palm trees, to be precise)

I know it worked with XP10 and 11
I also tried with XP12 and it was ok

I would like to know

Does the program only use the resources that are included? 
world-models

Does it also embed elements from the default autogen from X-Plane resources?

Regards

Does anybody know (esp. @antwob?) how to set the number of processor instances in the command line version (CLI) of w2xp? Unfortunately the manual tells nothing about this specific setting.

Thanks a lot for any advice!

Best regards

Then I got cocky and generated multiple tiles next to each other.
That lead to a world where the ORTHO4XP tiles where okay, but somehow the mesh "tiles" from W2XP hide each other / their neighbor(s).

Example image attached.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

THX in advance! 🙂

I need some advice from a more experienced w2xp user: 

How can I track areas that have a certain size? My intention is to place house objects along the streets of (very) small villages, but leave the areas of towns and cities untouched. I do not know if the area tracker can handle this in general. 

My current config setup (extract) is the following:

          <rule type="area-track">
              <filter type="key-value">
                  landuse=residential
              </filter>
              <min-area>150.0x150.0</min-area>
              <max-area>550.0x550.0</max-area>
              <identifier>residential_small</identifier>
              <pass-through>yes</pass-through>
          </rule>


        <rule type="line">
            <filter type="key-value">
                  highway=residential,area=residential_small
                  highway=secondary,area=residential_small
                  highway=tertiary,area=residential_small
                  highway=road,area=residential_small
                  highway=living_street,area=residential_small
                  highway=unclassified,area=residential_small
                  <!-- highway=footway,area=residential_small !-->
                  <!-- highway=track,area=residential_small !-->
            </filter>
            <min-density>25</min-density>
            <max-density>35</max-density>
            <offset>15</offset>
            <offset-angles>90;270</offset-angles>
            <clip-to-area>true</clip-to-area>
            <collision-test>true</collision-test>
            <pass-through>true</pass-through>
            <objects>
            	<object>lib/g10/EU/suburban/hApt1_9x12.obj</object>
            	<object>lib/g10/EU/suburban/hApt1_9x16.obj</object>
            	<object>lib/g10/EU/suburban/hRes1_9x12.obj</object>
            	<object>lib/g10/EU/suburban/hRes1_12x9.obj</object>
            </objects>
        </rule>

It works in general, but it places houses in EVERY residential area, regardless of their sizes. I tried this variant already, but it had no effect either:

<rule type="area-track">
            <filter type="key-value">
                landuse=residential
                      <min-area>150.0x150.0</min-area>
                      <max-area>550.0x550.0</max-area>
            </filter>
            <identifier>residential_small</identifier>
            <pass-through>yes</pass-through>
</rule>

So, please, I need some advice of an experienced w2xp user how to track areas of a certain size. Is it possible? If yes, how?

Thanks a lot!

I read that this is up to the object definition which requires an attribute called "ATTR_hard"..

THX in advance!

I read through this thread:

but do not know how I can go with your approach... How did you manage it?

I am currently trying to process the europe file which is 26GB+ in size and I guess it will not work.
I did not fully understand how you implement your approach. What should I do to get this managed?

THX in advance!

Ps.: I am a software architect & dev - mostly worked with java in the past. So I should 🙂 be able to follow your route...
But I never found the codebase for W2XP...

I want to use Microsoft building footprints(MSBF) for scenary generation in world2xplane, but i can only use OSM file, how do i use MSBF in w2xp?  I would like more detailed scenarios.

I created a great Ortho4XP tile including the OSM scenery data.
I was not happy with the scenery, so I tried out W2XP which - after some custom configuration - created a great scenery (objects) on for the landscape (Ortho4XP tile).

Now my problem is, that I have no clue how to extract the same sector/tile from OSM that matches 100% the Ortho4XP tile.
bbbike allows me to push the mouse around to draw a region but I did not yet figure out how to extract the same region that I created in Ortho4XP.

Any help appreciated 🙂

THX!

Thanks very much.

I have two small towns sceneries made with W2XP. Each one is a big 100MG package. Each one has the same objects folders, about 90% of the volume. A waste of space.

Is there a way to use libs instead of redundant folders?

Thank you,
Florin.

Is there a way to limit, or reduce, the number of nodes W2XP places on roads?

Thank you.

I used bbbike.org to create an PBF extract of Marion County, FL.  The size of the area for the extract isn't that large, relatively speaking.  When I ran the file through World2XP, it created the buildings just like they are specified in OSM, which is great. However, it also added some buildings that are not in OSM which I kind of find annoying.

One example is that it placed a factory along the west side of SE 1st Ave in Ocala, with the back end of the factory actually going over SE 2nd St.  There is no factory there in real life.  There is a single story retail building.  When I went into OSM to see if it was incorrectly labeled, it was not.  It is simply a "building" with no other amenities or elements, and the southern end of the building stops well before SE 2nd St.

There is also another building that extends out into the roadway along SE 5th St just between SE Watula Ave and SE Alvarez Ave, and there is a small red building that is in the middle of the intersection of SE Osceola Ave and SE 5th St that is also not in OSM.

I understand the extracts and conversions are not perfect, and that is ok.  But, is there any way to fix this either in the PBF file or in the DSF?  I tried using WED and OverlayEditor and both fail when I try to load the DSF (I don't think they were meant to edit these large DSF files).  WED actually crashes to desktop when I try to import it, and OverlayEditor gives me an "Can't edit this scenery package: Unsupported network: lib/g10/roads.net, objects/road.net." error.  

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Craig

iMac-de-A:~ tony$ java -jar World2XPlane.jar
Error: Unable to access jarfile World2XPlane.jar
iMac-de-A:~ tony$ java-version
-bash: java-version: command not found
iMac-de-A:~ tony$ java -version
java version "9"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 9+181)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 9+181, mixed mode)
iMac-de-A:~ tony$ java –d64 –Xms4g –Xmx4g -jar World2XPlane.jar
Error: no se ha encontrado o cargado la clase principal –d64
Causado por: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: –d64
iMac-de-A:~ tony$ java -d64 –Xms6g –Xmx6g -jar World2XPlane.jar
Error: no se ha encontrado o cargado la clase principal –Xms6g
Causado por: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: –Xms6g
iMac-de-A:~ tony$ 

Could someone share a valid link so I can download the World2Xplane. I noticed that the official site is unavailable, does anyone know what happened?

1st building=house
2nd building=industrial
3rd building = commercial

I created the following rules to add the best fits from the .csv files

This is the first rule which is placing the houses from the .csv file correctly and working like a charm.

      <!-- ADDED  Create houses by footprint -->  
<rule type="object">
   <filter type="key-value">
      building=residential
      building=house
      building=terrace
      building=*,area=residential
   </filter>
   <best-fit>residential_MX.csv</best-fit>
   <track>true</track>
   <tolerance>5</tolerance>
   <street-facing>true</street-facing>
   <pass-through>true</pass-through>
</rule>

Now, I created this second rule to place the industrial, commercial buildings.
 

<!-- Industrial / Commercial objects -->
 <rule type="object">
     <filter type="key-value">
         building=warehouse
         building=commercial
     </filter>
     <best-fit>industrial.csv</best-fit>
     <pass-through>true</pass-through>
     <tolerance>5</tolerance>
 </rule>

This last rule is not returning any objects, which is really weird as the filters are exactly the same just changing the last portion of the tag.

I did another test to see if the problem was in my .csv files and switched the .csv files in the rules.   This is working as the warehouses show on the footprint for the houses but still no houses were shown in the second rule.

Now, if I do a placement by <object></object>  the objects are generated correctly.
 

<!-- Industrial / Commercial objects -->
 <rule type="object">
     <filter type="key-value">
         building=warehouse
         building=commercial
     </filter>
     <pass-through>true</pass-through>
     <min-area>8x10</min-area>
     <max-area>10x50</max-area>
     <objects>
         <object>lib/g10/US/industrial/light/WoodShed8x10.obj</object>
         <object>lib/g10/US/industrial/light/WoodShed8x20.obj</object>
         <object>lib/g10/US/industrial/light/FactB10x30D.obj</object>
         <object>lib/g10/US/industrial/light/TinShed10x30Dk.obj</object>
         <object>lib/g10/US/industrial/light/TinShed10x30Lt.obj</object>
         <object>lib/g10/US/industrial/light/FactB10x30D.obj</object>
         <object>lib/g10/US/industrial/light/TinShed10x50.obj</object>
     </objects>

Any ideas on why is this happening?  Could it be the world2xplane is "broken" for the <best-fit> option and it only works with building=tag.

Any other method works, including facades, random and I even placed forests on the ways tagged with building=commercial and building=warehouse.

The same thing is happening with the any other tag, except building=house.  This is the only tag in the osm way that works with <best-fit></best-fit>

Any insights it will be very appreciated.

Cheers!

Log.txt scenery_packs.txt

I have been reading the documentation but still don't get the hang of it.

Any help will be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

I'm looking for some advice from some scenery experts. I'd like to create the missing bushstrips of Papua New Guinea but I noticed that X-Plane autogen trees in the highlands are not very convicing as they are more the conifers type from the colder regions. I'd expect more rainfortesty types.

I started to tackle this with a massive off-airport scenery exluding forests and replacing them with the correct forest. I found the W2XP overlay for PNG wich does a great job, but still uses the conifers. So I took a look at World2Xplane and it has a configuration indicating the type of trees to use.

As I'm not so familiar with World2Xplane, can somebody confirm that I should be able to create a World2XPlane overlay with a better tree type? And how to change the config so it would work?
On the same foot, as the config contains a library section, could I add a library that contains objects (houses) more fitting the region?

Thanks for the advice!

Regards,

Taco

Is there an experienced W2XP user that could answer this question?

Using World2XPlane gives realy nice results if the OSM data is of high quality and details. But for areas with little data because they are mostly uninhabited, could you use W2XP to cover this area with trees? Could the option "forests-­‐on-­‐empty" do this?

Regards

- extracted mesh from UHD Scenery v4
- got ZL18 tiles from various sources, ideally w/o clouds, and created a layer with Ortho4XP
- got OSM data to create the overlay with World2XPlane

Actually, the result is not too bad: Building are where they are supposed to be, compared to the overlay I extracted from UHD Scenery, which isn't that good for smaller japanese islands (forests in villages, building density etc.).

The only point I failed so far is to control which building sets are used for autogen, as I ended up with very european looking houses on a tropical, Japanese island :-/ I did some search in this forum and found guidance in how to change colour of roofs and some basic guidance about regions. Is there a way to choose, e.g. only use auto-gen which would be used by UHD Scenery v4's overlay, like it is properly working for the rest of Japan? I got SFD's Global package (move to top) and assets are used on all other overlays, but not the one I created with World2XPlane.

Any guidance on this topic is very welcome.