Altitudes in Bgl2Xml.

[GHD]

I notice that Bgl2Xml outputs altitudes to 2 places of decimals (ie cm). In which units are altitudes stored in the bgl?

George

 

[Marginal]

In new-style BGLs (the kind that BGL2XML reads) to 3 decimal places - ie 1mm.
In old-style BGLs it varies.

If you have access to a compiler you can rebuild BGL2XML - change the line:
sprintf(str,"\"%0.2lf\"", (double)nAlt/1000);
to
sprintf(str,"\"%0.3lf\"", (double)nAlt/1000);
in AltString() in file util.c

 

[scruffyduck]

Altitudes in the bgl file are stored in meters * 1000. As far as I know this is the same for both FS9 and FSX.

Marginal I think you are referring to BglXml which is written in C. Bgl2Xml is written in C# under dotNET2

 

[GHD]

Altitudes in the bgl file are stored in meters * 1000.

So can we expect an update to Bgl2Xml ?

George

 

[scruffyduck]

To do what George - report altitude to the milimeter?

 

[GHD]

... to report height to the milimeter?

Yes please.

George

 

[scruffyduck]

Boy you must be developing real grass

OK it is done - next build of the engine will give three decimal places for altitude

 

[BASys]

Hi Folks

Jon -
Already tried that,
had a major FPS hit for me.

ATB
Paul

 

[scruffyduck]

Jon -
Already tried that,
had a major FPS hit for me.

Depends on how often the grass is cut