Terrain

The Terrain option from the Debug menu will open up the following sub-menu:

This menu has the following debug options for terrain:

• Draw On Terrain#

  When enabled, surfaces and other items will be drawn on top of the base terrain photogram textures. When disabled, the terrain photogram will be drawn only. Mouse over the image below to see the difference this makes when enabled or disabled. This option is enabled by default.

  

• Draw Shapes#

  This option is for enabling or disabling the different polygon shapes that may have been used to generate terrain. By default this is enabled.

• Debug Shapes#

  Enabling this option will outline the different polygon shapes used to generate terrain.

  

  This will open an additional window for toggling further information:

  

  Draw Package Name will draw the name of the add-on package that the polygon (vector) data comes from, while Draw Type will draw information about the type of data the polygon is associated with (eg NoTIN - Buildings, or NoTIN - Airport, etc…)

• Debug Exclusion Rectangles#

  This option permits you to debug any exclusion rectangles that are used in the add-on. It will open the following window that permits you to filter the the visuals to show more or less information:

  

  Checking Draw Package Name will add an overlay text to the rectangles with the name of the package they belong to, while checking Draw Type will draw the type of things the rectangle is excludding. You can also filter the rectangles using the Filter By Type list. FInally, at the bottom, you have the Count section, which gives you a numeric breakdown of the packages and how many rectangles are included within them.

• Debug OSM Roads#

  Enabling this option will show all the debug information for the OSM road system in the simulation.

  

• Debug OSM Powerlines#

  Enabling this option will show all the debug information for the OSM powerline system in the simulation. Red lines are major powerlines with tall masts and the blue lines are minor powerlines with smaller masts.

  

• Debug OSM Feature Points#

  When this option is enabled, various OSM feature points will be marked in the simulation using coloured crosses.

  
  NOTE

  This option can cause severe lag in areas where there are a lot of feature points.
  

  Each colour represents the following features:

• Debug Road Vehicles#

  When this option is enabled, all road vehicles will be shown using a red bounding sphere:

  

• Debug Biomes#

  

  This window offers multiple debug tools related to the different biomes in the world. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the Biomes Editor. You can find full details on the contents of this window on the following page:

  • Biome Debug

• Debug Surface Types#

  

  This window allows you to see a visual representation of the different ground surface types. The display will initially be centered around the mouse and show a square area of sample points showing either surface type, or the meta-marker for each point (you can toggle between the two with the * key). Meta-markers are the ones added manually through scenery and other means, and are more nuanced and detailed, while the surface types are generated through machine learning and are more general and used primarily for vegetation and other large-scale geographic features. Note that from this window you can also change the number of sample points, and the distance between them, so you can expand/contract the area depending on what you require.

  

  The table below shows the various acronyms and colours that are used, and what surface type / meta marker they represent:

Meta Markers

Surface Types

• Disable TIN Colour Correction#

  This option will disable any colour correction that has been applied from TIN data. Mouse over the image below to see what kind of difference this can make:

  

• Display GenId#

  This window is purely for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 debugging and should not be used under any circumstances.