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  1. Thanks for your replies, in the end the issue was as bizarre as I figured: the filename has a comma in it due to which the sim was not loading it. I replaced that and the BGL loaded. Never seen this before :-)
  2. Hello! I have been dealing with photoscenery for many years now, but this one has me stumped. I have compiled a BGL (LOD=Auto,13) from a BMP source after geo-referencing correctly in the INF. The resultant BGL looks correct (and is in the right place) when viewed in TMFViewer. However, adding this into the simulator does not seem to load the BGL. Layers and correct, Scenery sub-folder is correct etc. Tried playing with the scenery resolution slider but that also does not have any effect. Any other things to consider? Thanks! Arvind.
  3. Thank you! I have tried with shape2vec passing the GUID of {C942AADB-C351-4088-925E-A732C2093B63} and I cannot seem to find the tower objects. I have to rely on shape2vec (eventually I want to do this 'en masse' for many shapefiles and I would prefer a command line approach). I would appreciate if you can comment on how this will reduce to in terms of using shape2vec and the corresponding GUID in the DBF file.
  4. Is there any way to get power lines over photoscenery? Or are they excluded by the photoscenery because they are vector features?
  5. HiI already posted this question to the scenProc forum over at FSDeveloper but I thought I would ask here as well. ScenProc (Arno's wonderful utility) generates AGN files from shapefile data (typically obtained from OpenStreetMap-like sources.) It produces AGN files which have been introduced in the Texture folder for the corresponding photo Scenery folder. All this works fine.The only problem is that some of the OpenStreetMap data has vegetation polygons where I would not like them (read: covering lakes as well). So based on previous knowledge I tried to use FLX type exclusion poly over the lake areas. I have tested with ExcludeAutogen and also Flatten + MaskClassMap + ExcludeAutogen GUIDs. However nothing I have tried seems to exclude the custom AGN autogen.BGLComp type exclusion rectangle will not work for me because the lake area is too complex.I know for sure that my exclusion polgyon is working correctly, because in areas where there was no AGN (but where my exclusion polygons are set) the 'normal' autogen is excluded correctly. Is there any way to exclude the AGN autogen (other than by regenerating the AGN 'correctly' in the first place?)Thank you.Arvind.
  6. Yes Arno, it is at the edges of the BlueMarble tile I have extracted. And yes, it seems to occur in places of 'monotonous' color (deep ocean water). I will try to add some 'noise' using some image programs and test the results.
  7. Hi!I'm experimenting with some large scale photoreal water masks using BlueMarble imagery. Due to the large size of the imagery (I am working with 3 arc deg x 3 arc deg cells), I had to use CompressionQuality = 80 to keep the size of the BGL within reasonable sizes. While things are mostly working out, I have a problem with the boundary between adjacent cells, where there is a dark border which appears only when I use low CompressionQuality values (the problem does not occur when CompressionQuality = 100).I presume this is due to the compression algorithm, but I'd like to understand why the artefact only appears on the border and not inside the image. I'd also like to hear from others if they have seen something like this before and what we can do about it.
  8. Hello!I am doing some tests with imagery (NASA Blue Marble) and water masks (SWBD). I am using multisource INF file with 2 sources: source1 is the imagery and source2 is the mask. Both files are GeoTIFF, but their dimensions vary vastly. The BlueMarble imagery sources are around 21600x21600 pixels in size, while my generated SWBD mask files are much smaller (around 2048 pixels is what I was using.)Long story short and to the point: I found through trial and error that if the source dimensions and scales are not matched (basically unless I cropped the BlueMarble and mask sources to the same size and scale) the mask is not computed correctly.To summarize: Is there any way I can apply a much smaller mask on much larger imagery sources?Thank you,Arvind.
  9. Thank you, Terry!Can I just ask one more on this thread: I was comparing the latest TP packages on planepath.com (to figure out the conversion process) and I just noticed that there are no procedures for EHAM in the PMDG (0813) package, while the iFly one (0812) seems to have the ILS ones. I understand you were planning to plug the holes in NFD using 0710 ILS data, but that would still not explain why the PMDG package is missing this (and perhaps many other ones.) Is there a logical reason for it?Thank you again,Arvind.
  10. Hello!I have an old (0608 cycle) PMDG TP set which contains approaches for my home airport VABB. Now, these days I am flying the iFly 747 for which the download from www.planepath.com do not contain any approach data for VABB.Is there any way I can easily convert from PMDG sidstar -> iFLY sid/star/app files? I know the documentation is out there, but in case there is an utility to help, I would really appreciate it.Thanks,Arvind.
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