Seasons 19 - grass and grazing

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Seasons 19 - grass and grazing

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I'm playing Attingham Park and having a lot of fun running a big dairy herd and a big flock of sheep.

However, it seems to me that I could make more use of the grass area for more grazing space. When I look in GE at the dairy field, in the placeable itself, not the instance in the placeholder, it seems that the areas have been defined as I would expect, but the grazing pattern in the grass doesn't match up. Then when I look at the sheep meadow, and mark the corners of the area with primitive cubes, it seems that the grazing are and the grass consumed just do not match up.

After all that introductory waffle:

1. It looks like the grazing areas is the usual "three points to define a quadrilateral" as used for fielddefs,
2. It looks as though multiple areas can be combined as children of the registered grazing node,
3. Sometimes it seems that Seasons has to catch up when calculating how much grass is available.
... and most importantly ...
4. How come there's this apparent mismatch between the defined area and the grass consumed?

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Re: Seasons 19 - grass and grazing

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As far as I know, Seasons uses the (grass) foliageAreas defined in the xml as grazing area. If there are multiple foliageAreas defined (to cover more complex pen shapes) Seasons seems to create a square surface containing all foliageAreas, like a bounding box.
Did you observe grazing happening outside of the fence for example?
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Re: Seasons 19 - grass and grazing

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This is the grazing pattern for the sheep ... looking at it from flying-mode I wonder whether it's obscured by the ground level, with the underneath not being used?
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... and looking at the grazing pattern for the cattle, it does look as though the multiple areas have been treated as individual shapes ...

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