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Mars terrain imported from google earth?

Horst18519 said:
Nothing in FSX is absolute. You would have to program gauges for your orbiter anyway, so you can program you to give "Mars" readouts, not "Earth" readouts.

And the viewing distance (spot view) is automatically adjusted by FSX depending on the aircraft size.
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Very true. I was hoping to create whole Earth-Moon or Earth-Mars transits. I am not sure if the whole scenery (amd I mean, the BASE bgl) can be reloaded without exiting the FSX. With TerraBuilder:Moon, user could switch between Moon and Earth with a small app that would rename folders, and that would require FSX restart.

However: The models WOULD have to be enlarged/decreased in size, according to a celestial body size. So, for each planet, I would need a separate capsule/lander model.

I'd still prefer doing it the "proper" way - resizing the actual planet.
 
Horst18519 said:
Nothing in FSX is absolute. You would have to program gauges for your orbiter anyway, so you can program you to give "Mars" readouts, not "Earth" readouts.

And the viewing distance (spot view) is automatically adjusted by FSX depending on the aircraft size.
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rhumbaflappy said:
Hi Misho.

I think you'd need to delete all the FSX mesh, and start over with all heights relative to earth's mean sea level as an constant offset. I would guess all elevations would be negative. There would be a limit to the mesh's minimum at -32000 meters relative to earth's MSL.

dem4km.bgl would need to be replaced, and all the mesh files in the individual default scenery folders.

All vehicle or aircraft gauges would need to reflect the elevation constant offset as well.

I think it could be do-able.

Dick
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Yes - That was the crux of my question. I think with "Bias" or "BaseVal" it could be doable.

As far as re-defining the global heightmap, I did that with TerraBuilder:Moon. I re-sampled dem4km.bgl and made it flat, except with a few localized areas of interest.

For the default landclasses, I would be able to create a set of generic, "dirt" maps. I could make 256 sets, each set containning 10 tiles, with each set progressively brighter. Then, using the Mars albeido map, it should be possible to create a global landclass coverage by asigning the landclass according to the albeido level. Most of this can probably be automated.

As far as gauges - isn't there a RADAR ALTIMETER variable that shows true altitude above ground, rather than atmospheric/MSL alt?
 
I don't expect you can use default gauges for something like a Mars orbiter. So you'd have to program them anyway, no need to take care of that kind of restrictions then. Just program then so that they reflect the Mars physics.
 
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