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Creating/Importing Mesh

Hi.

You can export a terrain mesh directly from Global Mapper to Gmax.
Because I can.

For Global Mapper is specifically and
the Pro Terrabuilder

Sorry for my English.

Greetings.
 
hey guys,

I'm kinda stuck with this tutorial, I can't figure out how to get the aerial file in GeoTiff, where can I get Aerial/satellite in Geotiff? I have global mapper and i have the DEM map in geotiff extension.


I have the mesh file in Shaded Gradient, but I can't find Geotiff extension of satellite images for Mauritius.


Any know a place where we can find free or do I have to pay for those Geotiff aerial?
 
Hey,

I figuered a way out how you could do it, not sure if it works, never did this myself:

Download libgeoGUI, extract the geotiff information of your DEM map, slice out imagery of Google Earth which fits to your DEM Map as good as possible, save this image (maybe combine several images in Photoshop or somewhat to reach a higher resolution or to cover a bigger area) as a TIFF and add the GeoTIFF information to it that you extracted from your DEM Map bevore which should fit your satellite image quite exactly.

One problem could be that your DEM map has to have the resolution and size of your final satellite image!
No problem -> extract the geotiff information with the tool, load the DEM Map in Photoshop as it loses all geotiff information when beeing edited, scale it up and resize, save as a TIFF and add the saved geotiff information!

Then continue as described above.

Hope this helps but as I said: Never did this, just based on some ripped knowledge about geotiff ;)
 
It's difficult to get geotiff images, and for Mauritius could be difficulto too, normally you must find a site, where the servers could provide with this aerial images, usually governmenta, the wms servers.
 
After you downloaded the DEM data, you have four coordinates given so isn't it possible to note them, mark them in google earth and export the image surrounded by these coordinates?
If the area is to big for a single image-export you could export as many images as needed to fit the area, each overlapping one another.
Then merge them in photoshop and slice them to 1024*1024px tiles after the geotiff information was added and resize/resolution changes were made...

btw.: It is easier if the area is rectangular of course.
 
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