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    MSFS20 Everything about CGL generation [Custom DEM works]

    Hey @trespassvr, can you DM me the file that won't decompress with cgldec? Thanks!
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    Edit lclookup.bgl?

    Yes, that is the correct file, and yes, the file contains the mappings of landclass IDs to texture set IDs. The basic format is a list of texture sets (containing much of the metadata in each row in the region B tab), then a list of region lookups with each region having a list of landclass and...
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    SimIn C Gauge - FDE Dynamic Tables

    Yes, this should workl on P3D 4.5, although it has not been tested / supported for a very long time.
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    BGLDEC - A resample BGL (and CGL) DECompressor

    Bug fix version 0.9.9 is up in the top post. Please note this now requires the VS2022 redistributable which you likely already have installed if you are using MSFS or P3D6: https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe This is pretty embarrassing - I fixed this bug a while ago in flightsimlib...
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    BGLDEC - A resample BGL (and CGL) DECompressor

    Hi @PK-LKP, thanks for the report! I can reproduce with the TNCM bgl and it looks as above. It looks like this is a bug in the decompression algorithm where it is not reading a single band of coefficients. I will debug and fix this and post a new build.
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    BGLDEC - A resample BGL (and CGL) DECompressor

    Hi @PK-LKP - what does the photo BGL look like in TMFViewer? The BGLDEC output should exactly match the image in TMFViewer - if that also is pure black it is as a result of the lossy image compression algorithm and you could try to rebuild as lossless or a smaller quantization step...
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    BGLDEC - A resample BGL (and CGL) DECompressor

    Hi @PK-LKP! If you rename the .bin file to .bil and use the .hdr file it spits out, you should be able load it in QGIS: https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/open_bil_bip_bsq_files.html Likewise, the file itself should be compatible with SbuilderX .raw if you rename it, although I haven't tried...
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    BGLDEC - A resample BGL (and CGL) DECompressor

    A quick progress update: Good news and bad news! The good news is I can read at least building footprint geometry from arbitrary bldo/bldn tiles. These are called ".bld" files in Blackshark parlance, and the file format is an unbelievably convoluted proprietary mess. The bad news: first...
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    BGLDEC - A resample BGL (and CGL) DECompressor

    Hi Giovanni, Dick is correct on the above. The tool does not create the folder, make sure it exists. For your target file above, the max quadkey level is 10, you can see this by dumping all quads in that file: cgldec decompress -f "C:\FS\MSFS\Official\Steam\fs-base-cgl" -t dem -p 032010 -o...
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    BGLDEC - A resample BGL (and CGL) DECompressor

    Thanks Dick. I should have an update ready to go in about a week that can write vector data.
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    MSFS20 Everything about CGL generation [Custom DEM works]

    Unfortunately I have been slammed at work and have some catching up to do here :) Yes, these are orthogonal processes. However, I don't think the MS LOD scheme is as much about reducing unneccesary LODs due to minimal error, as much as it is about reducing file size and bus bandwidth/VRAM for...
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    CVXExtractor - Exporting vector data.

    To follow up on the above, I have finished decoding the CGL vector format. See the other thread here to keep this one focused: https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/bgldec-a-resample-bgl-and-cgl-decompressor.433789/ I'll add the format to the wiki shortly in case Patrick wants to add it to...
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    BGLDEC - A resample BGL (and CGL) DECompressor

    New BGLDEC version 0.9.8 is up. This is a minor release before 1.0 that corrects a couple of minor annoyances around bitmap processing, index types, and a little performance issue. For CGLDEC, version 0.2.0 is up (same download). This is a major release that fixes several bugs with CGL files...
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    CVXExtractor - Exporting vector data.

    Somewhat tangentially related - In MSFS vector data is stored in 2 separate formats. Files processed by BGLComp (most of the airport data and "local" edits through the developer tools - rectangles, polys, airport bounds, etc) use the existing FSX entropy encoded (from PTC) cvx format projected...
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    MSFS20 Everything about CGL generation [Custom DEM works]

    Hi, This is certainly some good progress! Unfortunately in many major builds Asobo seems to evolve the architecture of the terrain engine, so without SDK support, it is difficult to continue the "hacking" and research in the face of uncertainty. I agree that when downsampling you would...
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