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W.I.P. Tool for creating Elevation using Rectangles

Are you interested in a tool for processing DEMs into Elevation Rectangles?

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I have been at work on this tool on and off, quietly rewriting some of the fundamental structure in the program to be able to handle some of the requested features. I have a laste exam on Monday before getting back to this more regularly, so expect more in the near future.

For a short overview what I do have working now that wasn't included before:
  • Exporting multiple DEM files at once
  • Using vector files to flatten underlying terrain, useful for building footprints
  • Alignment with MSFS QMID cells, which hopefully solves some spikiness issues
  • More data types (any numeric type, except complex types)
There's more work to be done before finalising another release, but it's definitely in the making!
 
Outstanding!
A necessary feature I think will be needed: a "scale" function that can convert data that is in feet to meters. Some of the terrain data i've messed with seems to be in feet, and produces a WILD result when put into the sim.
 
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