CFS3 Terrain Creation - is anyone still around?

[gecko]

Bummer!

Were you able to successfully convert anything other than Gtopo30?

 

[NachtPiloten]

Global Mapper

I have an older copy of GM from 2008, I think. Will see if I can get it to work again. I use Google Earth to map out two areas. I now need to be sure the areas are square for CFS3, 1835 km per side. Once that is done and I can fire up GM...well see. If you have suggestions as to placement or area to be covered let me know.

 

[rbp71854]

Vector Data Files

Daniel and others interested. The following is a zip with files on creating vector pathing that I did for the Hawaii portion of Rising Sun.View attachment how-to-make_hawaii_vector-data_files.zip

 

[gecko]

Excellent, thanks Bob!

 

[sdsbolt]

Were you able to successfully convert anything other than Gtopo30?

no, I was starting to look at that when I hit the GM max export limit which happen to be only 4 times

 

[sdsbolt]

I have a small victory in that I can use Microdem to create the .bil that ers2tiff will recognize. I have only tried with srtm30 data. I dont have photoshop so I cannot create
a landclass tiff that the tools will recognize. Not sure if there is another way.

 

[mongoose]

I have a small victory in that I can use Microdem to create the .bil that ers2tiff will recognize. I have only tried with srtm30 data. I dont have photoshop so I cannot create
a landclass tiff that the tools will recognize. Not sure if there is another way.

Doesn't Gimp achieve the same effects?

 

[rbp71854]

I dont have photoshop so I cannot create
a landclass tiff that the tools will recognize. Not sure if there is another way.

I may have used Corel PaintShop Photo Pro for Tiff creations.

 

[gecko]

Having not gotten far enough to have a tiff to work with, I was assuming other programs could do the job too?

 

[hairyspin]

Paint.NET works with and saves as .tiff files. It's also free. I'm a Photoshop user myself (very old version), but sometimes Paint.NET gets me out of a hole.

https://www.getpaint.net/

 

[sdsbolt]

thanks for the tiff export suggestions guys. Ive tried with a few programs but tiff2lcf.exe wont load them. Back in the day Martin Wright found it would only work with tiff created by photoshop. Not sure if it has changed since then.

 

[Pat Pattle]

Doesn't it need to be a 32bit tiff? I seem to remember that from somewhere.

 

[MajorMagee]

Yes, 32 bit is 8 bit for each channel of RGB and Alpha.

 

[sdsbolt]

heres the test map if anybody can covert to 32bit tiff that fits needed description. Needs to be 768x768 and colors must stay pure green and pure blue with no transition

 

[gecko]

Looks like conversion to jpg caused some artifacts and it isn't pure green and blue. What was the original file?

 

[NachtPiloten]

Where did you get Mircodem

I have a small victory in that I can use Microdem to create the .bil that ers2tiff will recognize. I have only tried with srtm30 data. I dont have photoshop so I cannot create
a landclass tiff that the tools will recognize. Not sure if there is another way.

Link to download Mircodem?

 

[MajorMagee]

Try this one.

View attachment Test_Map.zip

 

[NachtPiloten]

Thanks

Spoke to the developer and he sent me the link, thanks!!!

 

[sdsbolt]

Thank you Andy, that worked! Only small problem was a few extra colors (blue-green and black) got added to the texture. Most likely its because I shared original as a jpeg. I am able to work around the few extra colors by adding a few more terrain types for now. Thank you again.

 

[sdsbolt]

Spoke to the developer and he sent me the link, thanks!!!

You can use Microdem but if you already have a copy of Global Mapper I would probably stick with that. GM seems easier to use and more robust. Microdem seems to crash easier and can be fussy about the data it uses. My issues with Microdem may be due to my inexperience and I am certainly thankful to the developers for this program.

We also have a tutorial on using GM to create mesh which makes things easier.