What am I doing wrong with geo convert tool

1st Official Post

    Hello everybode,

    I am very excited about this tool and have been playing with it for a few hours. However there is something I am doing wrong. I'll describe the steps I took and I hope someone just says...ahhh... you are missing a step here or there!


    -went to mygeoposition.com to find coordinates of Texel (Dutch Island)

    Texel International Airport, Postweg 120, 1795 JS De Cocksdorp, Netherlands

    Latitude:

    53.117750053° 7' 3.90'' N

    Longitude:

    4.82713404° 49' 37.68'' E

    -Typed in coordinates in FSET and pressed START (used virtual earh service as earth service and FSX as scenery compiler and all other settings : NO)

    This created 4 files (2 .bmp files and 1 .inf file and 1 .txt file)

    -copy-pasted these 4 files in the following folder:
    ....\AF2 scenery sdk and converter\aerofly_fs_2_sdk_tools_20170714\aerofly_fs_2_sdk_tools_20170714\aerofly_fs_2_sdk_tools\aerofly_fs_2_geoconvert\input_aerial_images

    -Ran inf2tfwConverter and pointed to the input_aerial_images. A new .tfw file appeared in that folder.

    -I converted the coordinates using http://ndgrad.co.uk/fs2/fset2tmc/ and pasted the results in the config-sample-only.tmc file with Notepad++

    -Tried to run the geoconvert.exe file but I got an error (initializing error....se tm. log file:

    with following error code

    1.60-elevation: loading configuration file ''= ERROR: (error loading '')

    -Ran the config-sample-only.bat file and geoconvert started running!

    -After message: "succesfull completion" there are NO files in \aerofly_fs_2_geoconvert\scenery\images!

    I tried this 5 times and no results what soever.

    Can anybody help me back on the right track?

    thanks in advance.

    Jozef

    The Netherlands

    Hello thank you,

    I used something like the following: (not for my Texel tiles but this is the format I pasted in the config_sample-only.tmc

    So only 2 digits after the decimal.

    I did not rename the config-sample-only.tmc file. Should this be renamed in some way and placed in a different folder??


    <[file][][]


    <[tmcolormap_regions][][]


    <[bool] [write_ttc_files][true]>


    <[string8][folder_destination_ttc][./scenery/images/]>


    <[bool] [always_overwrite][true]>


    <[list][region_list][]


    <[tmcolormap_region][element][0]


    <[uint32] [level] [9]>


    <[vector2_float64] [lonlat_min] [-4.83 44.42]>


    <[vector2_float64] [lonlat_max] [-8.86 44.41]>


    >


    <[tmcolormap_region][element][0]


    <[uint32] [level] [11]>


    <[vector2_float64] [lonlat_min] [-4.83 44.42]>


    <[vector2_float64] [lonlat_max] [-8.86 44.41]>


    >


    <[tmcolormap_region][element][0]


    <[uint32] [level] [12]>


    <[vector2_float64] [lonlat_min] [-4.83 44.42]>


    <[vector2_float64] [lonlat_max] [-8.86 44.41]>


    >


    <[tmcolormap_region][element][0]


    <[uint32] [level] [13]>


    <[vector2_float64] [lonlat_min] [-4.83 44.42]>


    <[vector2_float64] [lonlat_max] [-8.86 44.41]>


    You are north east of london. If you were south west, they'd both be -ve. You had specified area that you had no satellite images for, hence no final scenery.

    Related to this, I would also like to know how many decimal places should be used. The wiki shows six decimal places being used but sometimes there are problems if there are more than two it seems.

    Quote from Spit40

    Related to this, I would also like to know how many decimal places should be used. The wiki shows six decimal places being used but sometimes there are problems if there are more than two it seems.

    drhotwing1, quote:

    "Note: if the tool completes with no files, your TMC file likely has an error in it. The most common one is using more than 2 numbers after the decimal point for your coordinates."

    • Official Post
    Quote from fritz99

    Hello !

    One question :

    Where do I get the min and max lon_lat from ?

    fritz

    When you set up your area within FSET you will see the North-West corner and Sough-East corner coordinates, use those. You will need to convert them using the website noted in the Wiki tutorial to get the decimal conversion of them. Those will be the coordinates used when making your TMC file. Make sure that you define long/lat in that order, and only use two digits after the decimal (ex. 81.26)

    IPACS Development Team Member

    I'm just a cook, I don't own the restaurant.
    On behalf of Torsten, Marc, and the rest of the IPACS team, we would all like to thank you for your continued support.

    Regards,

    Jeff

    • Official Post

    You do not have to delete the standard map.

    What resolutions are you using (FSET), and what levels do you have defined in the TMC file?

    IPACS Development Team Member

    I'm just a cook, I don't own the restaurant.
    On behalf of Torsten, Marc, and the rest of the IPACS team, we would all like to thank you for your continued support.

    Regards,

    Jeff

    Is it just me, or is your se corner lat number incorrect? Perhaps I am wrong but the se corner lat coordinate should be less than the nw corner...

    Ken

    Edited once, last by KenR297 (July 17, 2017 at 10:40 PM).

    • Official Post

    You need further levels to get higher resolution. Add levels 10-14 to your TMC and your resolution problem will resolve.

    IPACS Development Team Member

    I'm just a cook, I don't own the restaurant.
    On behalf of Torsten, Marc, and the rest of the IPACS team, we would all like to thank you for your continued support.

    Regards,

    Jeff

    Fritz99,

    you have to follow both advices:

    Your SE corner lat has to be corrected and you have to add more levels to yout TMC.

    I'm wandering what has been created with these coordinates.

    Rodeo

    Proud member and initiator of the Apollo50 team.
    Fly to Hawaii and feel happy.

    The naming convention on the TMC entries is very misleading (min/max):

    The following is correct:

    <[tmcolormap_region][element][0]

    <[uint32] [level] [11]>

    <[vector2_float64] [lonlat_min] [-122.33642578125 48.583345413208]> <<<=== The NW corner

    <[vector2_float64] [lonlat_max] [-120.97526550293 47.6949977874756]> << ===the SE corner

    >

    Note to IPACS: I would prefer it be lonlat_NW vs lonlat_min and lonlat_SE versus lonlat_max

    I agree that the current naming convention is confusing and if possible should be changed at some point... the suggestion 'lonlat_NW vs lonlat_min and lonlat_SE versus lonlat_max' would be helpful. :)

    Ken

    Hi Dree,

    Have besn playing with geoconvert and did not complete a succesfull scenery that I kept. Jusf practise. But, I will try Texel scenery today!

    Problem is that FSET takes about 10 hours or more to do a 25×25 nm in resolution 0 or -1. I tried geoconvert but it crashed due to memory issues and I deletet the bmp files immediately......not so smart because I could have done the scenery in smaller parts I understand now. Zeeland seems cool also! I use aerofly in VR so I need high resolution scenery so I think I'll make -1 res scenery. These are huge files but geoconvert compresses it pretty well. Let me start up my pc now and I will let you know how it goes.

    Cheers

    Jozef

    Hi Josef,

    I planned to do a bigger resolution, maybe for each island and only the airport hi resolution, I'm also in VR so I must see if that's enough.

    I'm a sailor, now at see so I can't GeoConvert :(

    Ik zie uit naar Texel screenshots!! :)

    Groet Dree

    We each try the scenery generation with different ideas in mind. I find it simpler and faster to make large areas with 4 m per pixel resolution( which is OK at 2000 feet AGL or above ) and then make 2 nautical mile square or so high resolution areas around cities or airports. I did the entire state of Washington which is 200 nautical miles by 300 nautical miles that way . So FSET level three or four for lower resolution, TMC level 11 or 12, then FSET level 0 or -1 with TMC level 13. Actual airports are done as a 3D model with AC3D with a -1 FSET image as the base. The runway is a separate object as well as buildings and static airplanes and maybe trees