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  1. Gridley

    Future of ADE

    I am very glad ADE development will continue - it is so important to the hobby to keep free alternatives alive! Thanks Jon. Glad you're healing well! Best, sg
  2. Gridley

    seasons.bgl?? which forum?

    Hi Holger! Thanks for that link - I was thinking that I would overcome the cloud cover issue with a user-definable parameter that would set the number of days of data to download and merge. The monthly composites would be a good alternative, but the user could also simply choose to download...
  3. Gridley

    seasons.bgl?? which forum?

    Exactly what I'm thinking, Dick. If there's a problem with two seasons.bgls coexisting, they can be merged, otherwise, snow-only with transparent. The issue still becomes making a good set of snowless seasons bgls which are at least as good as the default, hopefully better. Thoughts on...
  4. Gridley

    seasons.bgl?? which forum?

    Application? Hi all - sorry I'm late! I was considering writing an application that would take the ASCII snow/ice cover data from NOAA and write a real-time seasons BGL. The issue is getting a good source of base data (snow and ice free) over which to superimpose the snow/ice data. I...
  5. Gridley

    Seasons.bgl source imagery?

    Thanks Dick. It was actually scott's comments on the SBuilder beta that got me thinking! :rolleyes: I'll move my comments to the other thread - consider this one closed.
  6. Gridley

    Seasons.bgl source imagery?

    I am considering writing an application which converts the global snow cover data available via NOAA to a seasons.bgl for using in FS9/X. The issue is that I need a base seasons.bgl with NO snow. Any thoughts on how to accomplish that without reinventing all of the other global seasons data...
  7. Gridley

    Library Creator XML 2.0.1 released

    Excellent!
  8. Gridley

    Fs2004 vs FsX object libraries

    Has anyone addressed whether mdls compiled with FS9 gamepack work worse/equivalent/better in FSX than mdls compiled with the FSX gamepack? Just curious...I've got a couple of *BAD* blurries issues related to objects in scenery ported from FS9 to FSX and I'm trying to isolate the issues...
  9. Gridley

    Graphical Client for SDE

    TARMAC-X - Temporary Acronym Referring to My AFCAD Creator for FSX Sorry - wrong thread...
  10. Gridley

    9 Dragons at night...

    Really great work, clutch.
  11. Gridley

    Ideas for a new scenery design tool

    Tremendous! Thanks. Very interested in the shp2vec functionality. That will be an important tool for FSX design..
  12. Gridley

    Ideas for a new scenery design tool

    Library .dll? Any plans to release some of the functionality as a library dll? Methods to read/write shp/kml/xml, translate, and call appropriate compilers could be used by many tools...
  13. Gridley

    Landclass and Terrain documentation out

    A tremendous resource! Many thanks for the info Holger.
  14. Gridley

    New FSX scenery design tool using Google Earth

    As you've already got the code working to make shp files, it should be pretty simple to convert from kml to a format that could imported by SBuilder (sbx,mp) and edited, or compiled by scasm directly. That would achieve FS9 compatibility.
  15. Gridley

    Good Freeware bad for business?

    I've got a couple of points I'd like to make -I've been following this thread for a bit. First, we need freeware, and more of it, to bring the payware pricepoint back into line with where it should be. I'll come back to this point. Motivation to go payware can be many, some more...
  16. Gridley

    New FSX scenery design tool using Google Earth

    That's a great idea - good work! I have been using FS9, GE along wit a utility to show your location in FS in GE, and SBuilder as a convoluted drawing tool. Would it be possible to create/edit KML polys in a GE interface, thus converting this to a full featured editor as well?
  17. Gridley

    New home for me!

    I've gotten XML to work well - I use that in FS-Blaze for compiling the fire scenery. We should talk about that if you need it. My ini is just a simple text file. Nothing elaborate. I should have used the registry, but I already knew how to do that, I wanted more practice creating and...
  18. Gridley

    New home for me!

    I have been adding so many entries in the .ini file with the newer builds (poor design plan :) ), I put in a routine to detect an old initialization file. I already had a routine that would detect the lack of an ini file (new install) at startup and create a default, so I thought it would work...
  19. Gridley

    AFCAD for FSX?

    I love design docs!
  20. Gridley

    New home for me!

    Yes - I ended up using the System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture method and just kept everything in the format on the NOAA website. Not the most elegant, but certainly effective. The problem I'm currently working through in FS-Blaze is related to Application.Restart - I check my...
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