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[Arno Gerretsen] [scenProc]
* Fixed crash when writing SHP files
* Since very small autogen buildings give trouble in autogen scenProc now automatically filters out objects that are less than 1 meter in width or length
Issue 1661

[Arno Gerretsen] [ModelConverterX]
* Made code more robust
Issue 1674

[Arno Gerretsen] [ModelConverterX]
* Fixed crash when reading P3D v2 MDL files with mouse rectangles
Issue 1674

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A while ago I already wrote about the dangers of tiny buildings in autogen. The problem with those tiny buildings is that they will prevent other autogen from showing correctly in Annotator as well. Since some users reported such trouble recently, I have decided to automatically filter out buildings that are smaller than 1 meter in length or width now. So scenProc will automatically drop such buildings from now on.

I would also like to remind everybody that it is best to exclude your buildings in the SPLITGRID step. Don’t let them be sliced into small pieces, but only sort them into the right cell. This should prevent many of the small buildings appearing in the first place.

When I released the first update for ModelConverterX that supports the new Prepar3D v2 MDL format, I had already found out two differences in the MDL format:

• The material definition has been extended with an additional attribute for the ZBias
• The indices of the triangles are now stored as int instead of short. This basically means that you can have more triangles in a modelpart, because with a short you can’t have an index higher than 65536.

But a few days ago I found out that there are more changed sections in the Prepar3D v2 MDL file. It turned out that the way the mouse rectangles are stored has also changed. So I have now updated ModelConverterX again to support this change as well. You can download the new version tomorrow.

I have tested with most of the models that come with Prepar3D v2 and I haven’t been able to spot other MDL files with unknown sections. But you never know what we will find in the future…

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[Arno Gerretsen] [ModelConverterX]
* Added two more naming options for object images:
– {GUID}_name.jpg (ADE style)
– {GUID}.thumb.jpg (WhisPlacer style)
Issue 1663

[Arno Gerretsen] [FXEditor]
* Fixed crash for P3D v2 effects with sound
Issue 1679

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[Arno Gerretsen] [scenProc]
* Renaming of attribute name to be more clear

[Arno Gerretsen] [scenProc]
* Added new step to place points in polygons
* Renamed PLACEPOINTINPOLYGON step to PLACEPOINTATCENTERPOLYGON step
Issue 1642

[Arno Gerretsen] [scenProc]
* Added new special attribute FRAND that contains a random value per feature
* Improved exporting SHP, no empty SHP file should be created anymore
Issue 1664

[Arno Gerretsen] [ModelConverterX]
* Fixed issue with correcting animations for earth curve when there are multiple modelparts below an animated node
Issue 1621

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I have added a new step to scenProc, PLACEPOINTSINPOLYGON. With this step you can place points in polygons. This can be useful if you want to scatter objects in the polygon for example. As arguments the step takes the distance between the points and the amount of randomness you want to use. Below you see two pictures, one without randomness and one with 50% randomness on the position of the points.

Now you might remember that there already was a step called PLACEPOINTINPOLYGON (do you spot the tiny difference in the name?). This step creates one point at the center of a feature. To prevent confusion that step has been renamed to PLACEPOINTATCENTERPOLYGON now.

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[Arno Gerretsen] [scenProc]
* Change to make sure that rectangular vegetation made from point features shows in Annotator as well

[Arno Gerretsen] [ModelConverterX]
* Added option to save textures without mipmaps
Issue 1667

[Arno Gerretsen] [ModelConverterX]
* Improved check for when file is in use
Issue 1589

[Arno Gerretsen] [scenProc]
* Made scenProc more robust when parsing autogen configuration files
Issue 1654

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[Arno Gerretsen] [ModelConverterX]
* Fixed crashes when trying to load file that is in use by another application
Issue 1589

[Arno Gerretsen] [ModelConverterX]
* Fixed crash when loading certain COLLADA files
Issue 1650

[Arno Gerretsen] [ModelConverterX]
* Made XML reader more robust for lat/lon values that are not decimal and for altitude values with an unit
Issue 1630

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[Arno Gerretsen] [LibraryCreatorXML]
[ModelConverterX]
[FXEditor]
[scenProc]
[DrawCallMonitor]
* Added support for P3D
– Read/write P3D v2 specific formats for MDL/BGL
– Tools more aware of P3D v1/v2
* Improved automatic detection of paths to FS/P3D and SDK tools
Issue 767

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The new Prepar3D v2 was released a few days ago, so it was time for me to update my tools to be more aware of Prepar3D. For Prepar3D v1 it in general worked if you just set the FSX folders to the Prepar3D folders, but with version 2 there are more changes. Therefore Prepar3D v2 is now recognised as a completely seperate platform. For Prepar3D v1 you would still have to use the FSX “mode” of the tools.

The Prepar3D changes affect many of my tools. Below I list the main changes for each of them. All the changes will be available in the development release of tomorrow.

DrawCallMonitor

• Can show drawcall related information for Prepar3D v2 MDL/BGL files as well now.

FXEditor

• Prepar3D v2 added to the options as preferred version. When selected the tool will default to the effects folder of Prepar3D v2. To do so it needs to know where Prepar3D v2 is installed, so that has been added to the options as well. When no path has been set yet, the tool will try to load the correct path from the registry.

Library Creator XML

• Can create Prepar3D v2 library BGL files as well now. It uses the Prepar3D v2 BGLComp for that, so you need to have the Prepar3D v2 SDK installed.
• The correct path where you installed BGLComp should be recognised automatically based on the registry values.

ModelConverterX

• Can read and write the Prepar3D v2 MDL format. For writing the Prepar3D v2 XtoMDL and BGLComp tools are needed. The MDL format changes that I am aware of now are supported, but I haven’t tested with very complex models yet. So if you find unsupported elements let me know.
• Support for the new ZBias material attribute. In the material editor there already was a ZBias attribute, since FS2004 had one. For Prepar3D v2 this value is put in the correct material setting.
• The correct path where you installed BGLComp and XtoMDL should be recognised automatically based on the registry values.
• In the Convert and Place Object Wizard you can now select Prepar3D v2 as output version.
• When exporting to X file you can now select if you want a FS2004, FSX or Prepar3D v2 X file.

scenProc

• scenProc has not yet been fully updated to support Prepar3D, but if you enter the Prepar3D v1 or Prepar3D v2 folder as the FSX path the auto completion of the different autogen classes will work. Better support will be added later.