-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Curtis Olson wrote: > This weekend I hacked together a little utility that might be > interesting to > some people. I called it photomodel and it's in > FlightGear/src/utils/Modeller/ > > This is a command line utiltity that takes the name of an aerial photo > texture, along with the lon/lat coordinates of the corners of the image (or > the max/min lon/lat if the image is aligned along strait lon/lat > edges). It > then spits out a .ac file of the correct size in meters to cover your area. > It tells you where to copy the file, and gives you a line to add to your > .stg file (and tells you which one to add it to.) Special thanks to Syd > Adams who whipped up a .ac template for me to work from. > > If you have access to some aerial imagery, you can use this utility to > quickly spiff up a local flying area. Please note, I'm not saying you > couldn't do a screen grab out of google maps or some other online mapping > service to get some quick aerial imagery, but if you do anything like that, > please don't distribute the results without getting explicit permission > from > the owner of the imagery, and please don't tell me about it. :-) > > Note that this utility does have many limitation at the moment ... it only > spits out one square for one texture per model. The output model is flat, > so you have to manually figure out an altitude that floats it a meter or > two > above the default terrain. It's not a perfect solution, but might be > useful > for some situations. > > I have found it handy to spiff up my local R/C flying site scenery for > replaying flights in my instrumented R/C airplane: > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=MTkJYaiVxtA > > All those nice mowed fields around our airstrip have been planted with corn > this year and it's now about 8' high ... sob ... :-( > > Regards, > > Curt. > So not useful for terrain like mountains? :-(
Other than that this sounds very nice. Regards, AnMaster -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGm33YWmK6ng/aMNkRCkw3AJ9/6ef2S1ELxlN3NkrAQ/EY3h5wEQCeL7ZO c5NGlZPgtKW5wdTOphB+FJs= =Vc3K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
