Hi, For the last few weeks I have been quietly and slowly working through a TerraGear tools MSVC build in windows XP. In parallel I have also been doing the make in Ubuntu linux. Both of course from the git source.
I have put up an initial page - http://geoffair.net/fg/fgfs-050.htm but it is still a work in progress, since I also moved onto a scenery build using the tools. I have chosen just chunk e150s40 for the moment. It is mainly ocean, but includes Sydney, NSW, Australia. But certainly hope some/ALL of my changes and new folders can get into the repository so others in native win32 can easily build the terragear tools in win32. To this end I have produce - (a) http://geoffair.net/fg/zips/tg-msvc-01.zip - this has two new folders, projects/msvc - with the build files, and projects/win32 - for any very specific win32 code. At present there is only the source of another 'utility' in there, and (b) http://geoffair.net/fg/txt/tg-diff-01.patch - with a full diff against the cloned source. To separate it into file by file, for easier review, and explain a little of the changes made, I have added another 'patch' page - http://geoffair.net/fg/fgfs-050a.htm in the hope this helps get the changes into the repository quicker. At present, I have one BIG problem with my test scenery build in win32, and that is shown by these paired images - http://geoffair.net/fg/fgfs-050.htm#flatness Maybe this is due to 'terrafit'? In Ubuntu, there seems an alternative to use terrafit.py (by Norman Vines) or the terrafit executable (started Dec 2007, by Ralf Gerlich). Which should be used? I tried both in ubuntu, and see the exe yields slightly smaller fit.gz files from the same arr.gz file... and while exact comparisons are difficult, some of the values seem different??? But have yet to get to reviewing the final scenery results in fgfs in ubuntu... Of course in WIN32, where I do not have python installed, then the only option is terrafit.exe, but would install python if terrafit.py was the better way to go... OR maybe render the python into c++... if I can get to understand the .pgm and .obj formats... But maybe the lack of elevation problem is in folder naming, or something else... references read are given below. Maybe I overlooked something... Any help or pointers appreciated... Geoff. References used: The terragear-cs source has quite a number of README files... http://www.custom-scenery.org/ http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Using_the_Custom_Scenery_TerraGear_Toolset http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Howto:_Use_Terragear_on_Windows http://www.terragear.org/docs/scenery-tutorial/fg-scenery-tutorial.html PS: Just loaded the same scenery built in Ubuntu, but it is FLAT also, so maybe it is not a 'terrafit' problem, but my folders names, or locations, the DEM data, the arr.gz files??? more to check, understand ;=() ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
