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  1. CrashTestDummy

    NASA World Wind - A Good Connection

    You know... I was thinking... yes it happens occasionally :) that DEM data is in Google Earth already... why cant we just suck it out... I couldn't figure that out... so I tried NASA's WORLD WIND... which is flipping nice BTW... and guess what, not only do they store the data in plain RAW...
  2. CrashTestDummy

    Is Green... A Gremlin?

    I'm wondering why a height mesh is S-Builder is bright green... If I look at a grey-scale height or elevation map... it ranges as expected from black thru gray to white... you can see all the bits at work... When that gets turned into a FS height map its... just green... which is weird...
  3. CrashTestDummy

    Anyone using FWTools?

    Being playing with FWTools a little, in particular the GDAL lib... Just so I can get at a GeoTiff header, as well as the raw image if need be... ... the FWTools lib works but its stupid... if I just want this little thing... I add 43 Megs to my application because FWTools has to be...
  4. CrashTestDummy

    Block Out The Sun

    Satellites on Google I had no idea there were so many, almost like rain drops in the sky... worth a little look see. Are they sure global warming is from ozone... makes you wonder?
  5. CrashTestDummy

    Ring Piece For Perfect SBuilder 9 Coast Lines

    This might save your sanity and your mouse... Helps you contour your coastlines... For SB9 just because I don't have SBx to test... if Luis changed the format of SBX it may not work on X... don't know, so maybe worth a try. I'm getting lovely smooth perfect coastlines... without one click...
  6. CrashTestDummy

    Re: GMAPS

    Great! ... because projection is same as many other progs so can use those images in VTBuilder free program as well... BUT Rhumba... go to the site and pan around... Luis has a bug... tiles are not lining up... look
  7. CrashTestDummy

    SBuilder Lands.txt - please explain

    This is an extract from the Lands.txt file in SBuilder... 001 054 149 044 122 N Ice 001 055 150 044 142 N Rock Ice 056 128 128 000 130 Y Rock 002 057 152 044 008 N Bare Desert 025 058 153 044 019 N Evergreen Forest And Fields The first three numbers is the RGB color... the last...
  8. CrashTestDummy

    Custom Texture... so where do you put it?

    In the Custom Texture Land-Tile 253... if you select it, it doesn't ask you for the texture, so where to you put it, and do you have to setup terrain.cfg? I don't get it ;) Also when I read the texture naming stuff... the last digit is variation! So if I add a variation and Texture = 123...
  9. CrashTestDummy

    Transparent LandClass - why?

    Why is there a transparent land class? How do you use it? Why would you use it? What supposed to happen if you use it?
  10. CrashTestDummy

    Does SBuilder have compat programs?

    Does SBuilder work with any other graphic programs... Like for example clipboard compatibility... I tried copying a line and pasting to Adobe... but it doesnt take... I'm wondering if it has compat graphic packages that will allow that?
  11. CrashTestDummy

    Is it possible to make new LandClass Tiles?

    The SDK seems to be about MESH, Photoscenery and VTP scenery... but I cant figure out how to add LandClass tiles? Is it possible because I want to try add Night effects directly to the tiles not annotation because that seems to need a 3D structure, it pops houses and trees out of the ground...
  12. CrashTestDummy

    Edge Detection

    Does SBuilder have edge detection... are those colors smart? Just done the coastline on a 40 km island and... a) I burnt the mouse out b) I think I can beat Arnold Schwarzenegger do death with my index finger ;) On a Mesh Map the edges are very well defined....
  13. CrashTestDummy

    Its beeeeeeg!

    How many man years of development do you think there is in Flight Simulator? I think its probably around 10,000... One man... would take that many years to make a system like this?
  14. CrashTestDummy

    Is there a RWY for special effects?

    Is there a RWY for special effects? I'm actually surprised its not part of RWY... perhaps I'm missing something. I love placing effects but I'm all XML'd out ;) and theres that little lat long conversion that I do over and over... If it was part of RWY my plane would stop at every...
  15. CrashTestDummy

    Trains for FS9?

    Anyone know of any working train models for FS2002/4? I've managed to find quite a few cars and ships and hovers (working models) out there, but no trains yet. I do know its a flight simulator :) Trams Trolleys would also be good...
  16. CrashTestDummy

    Want a Mountain Maker

    I'm looking for some clever mesh maker... Our earth is beautiful but I like making earthly paradise islands... So I leave earth alone and make new island paradises in the sea... my hobby. Now I steel mesh and then modify it... but what I really need is a clever mesh maker...
  17. CrashTestDummy

    SB Error in named vtp field

    SB9 Draw a poly... Right click select VTP2 In VTP2 select named texture Double click on field Error 76 Path not found... and whole app crashes... Its always done it... I dont know how to fix it... have never seen it work? Thx
  18. CrashTestDummy

    Puffy Terrain

    I'm hoping there is a trick to this because right now its a mission... When one pushes back a mountain, or uses a water mask, or in some way "bends" the mesh... the ground gets puffy. And that means I have to reroute my roads after a modification, often several times... the reason is that...
  19. CrashTestDummy

    SBuilder Convoluted Power

    I don't find SBuilder intuitive at all... but this is coming from a newbie to scenery engines, and its probably reflecting the scasm evolution, and FS evolution as well... I got the island tut done, interesting, but what a mission... It talks about (but I haven't found any examples) applying...
  20. CrashTestDummy

    ADE9x-1.45 Crashing on missing font

    Updated and applied ade_146_02... same error I cant copy the stack trace in the read only dialogue for u... but its saying... Load CreateNativefonts failed... Shapes.ADE.Runway.DrawIndents... On larger airfields where it needs this font or style... crash... XP SP3 FS9 I cant...
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