Hi all. If you want autogen, the textures and autogen need to be in the 'Scenery/World/Texture' folder. This is true of autogen for landclass or VTP photoreal. The orignal photoreal should have textures ( and autogen ) in the local texture folder. Localized landclass textures can be in a local folde...

Hi Luis. Both the maps and images are simple Mercator... which is good, as that means all lines of latitude are horizontal, and all lines of longitude are vertical, and these lines are perpendicular. It's not the same as UTM. As long as you know the bounds of the image, you should easily be able to ...

Hi Jan.

That's good to know! It's a testimonial to the solid coding Luis used in making SBuilder.

Dick

Hi all.

Alpha transparency is water in photoreal.

A waterclass BGL should work with photoreal, but it's location may need to be in the same folder as worldwc.bgl

Autogen can certainly be used with photoreal. MS even provides an autogen tool in it's Autogen SDK for this.

Dick

Hi Luis. A photoreal BGL is simply a landclass BGL that uses 252 or 253 as the landclass number. ( 254 buffers non-used LOD13 areas, just like normal landclass ). The alpha channel of the non-flipped individual bitmaps will be water. So can SBuilder make regular photoreal? Yes. Just remember that yo...

Disassembly with BGLAnalyse is not recommended.

It's better to use LWMViewer for disassembly of LWM and VTP BGLs:

http://www.jimkeir.co.uk/FlightSim/LWMViewer.zip

Dick

The landclass files of SBuilder are named as "LD_????.bgl" ( for example "LD_4731.bgl" ). Using the Windows Explorer, you should be able to search your harddrives for LD*.bgl, and find the landclass BGLs. Also, if you click your SBuilder "file/Properties" menu, you'll see the project's properties wi...

Hi sg. The real problem with FS9 ( and FS2002 ) regarding terrain design is the LWM flattens ( including ALL FS9 water as that can only have an elevation attached ). The flattening cannot be "undone", so we must resort to designing the LWMs for the entire LOD5 or or use a program to merge our LOD8 c...

Hi Dick.

Roads will have utility poles as defined by the terrain.cfg

They would be excluded as VTP lines, not as library objects.

Why not draw lines using a different texture number? ( like those found under the "parks" section of the cfg file )

Dick

Until you are able to determine the projection and datum, you're going to have problems with the shapefiles. Generally, data comes with a meta file that describes these elements.

Dick

Hi Luis.

Yes. You should not have LWM3 and LWM2 in the same BGL... they have different version numbers in the header.

Dick

Hi Luis.

LWM3 doesn't allow any mesh-clinging. Not a bug, just a characteristic of that type.

My personal opinion is that I would use LWM3 only in very limited circumstances. LWM2 is much more flexible.

Dick

Hi Dick.

Holger Sandmann found some work-arounds to this problem a while back. The simplest solution might be to map a named textured poly to the slope ( not a landclass number ). The texuring of the slopes if a feature of FS9.

Dick

Hi Scott. With LWM and VTP lines and polys, we are still confined to a "grid" of about 4.75 meters/pixel...just like photoreal. Luis' program is capable of much greater resolution, so the compile process for the BGL needs to simplify the resolution for the BGL creation. As Luis states, SBuilder allo...

Hi Dick. In case you didn't read it yet. Luis and I continued the discussion: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=123&topic_id=23311&mesg_id=23311&page= I'm not very familiar with GPSMapedit, but it seems to be simple to use and very good for SBuilder. Combining some DBF work wit...