Posts by edpatino
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The blurry section is not in the converted area, but just outside it, within the DLC area. I think it's the same location as the previous stripes which are gone now. Maybe the team has used some method to turn the stripes into blurry section which looks less pronounced?
Yes, they are in the adyacent tiles to the converted areas, both sides. I "solved" the issue by converting to smaller areas with more resolution, and those blurries (or low res areas) dissapeared, but this was done before the update of yesterday.
Cheers, Ed
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Here the blurry sections at the boundaries of the converted areas obliged me to do another conversion for a smaller area and problems were solved, but haven't tried again with the updated .exe.
Good work!.
Cheers, Ed
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Made my first flight too, and have to say that's a big step forward in the aircraft simulation in Aerofly FS2. Congrats and thanks for the excellent work!.
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Hi there, someone could help me where to find (link) the PDF document (around 43 pages) of the SDK manual, and to know if it has been updated to reflect latest July 26 changes?.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Ed
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When I asked Orbx about the shimmering problem they quite forcefully told me that despite having bought the addon through FTX Central it wasn't their problem, complain to IPACS. I hope that isn't going to be repeated. After all, it worked until the IPACS update.
Yes, I suppose it's an IPACS issue, but tried not be hard on them, now that they released for free that excellent Q400. For sure, they'll solve the missing buildings issue.
Cheers, Ed
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Tell ORBX the idea was to eliminate the shimmering of the buildings, not to eliminate the buildings themselves! (just fun!)
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I undestand the guys at IPACS are very limited in resources to do several things at the same time. I think it would be a good idea if they update its priority list for AFFS2 using a new poll between the community members, to include developments like helicopters, ATC, weather, AI Traffic, Autogen, Aircraft Operations (start-up, etc), etc., etc...
Just a suggestion.
Cheers, Ed
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Thanks for your kind answers and to Antoine for the link with some material to read up.
Cheers, Ed
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Hi Ed and Phil,
sorry for not coming back to you earlier.
I did some geoconversions separately, and this is my suggestion.
1. Large area 80x60nm, FSET 3 or 4, run geoconvert only for level 9 and 11.
2. Small aera 8x8nm, FSET 0 or 1, run geoconvert only for levels 12-14.
3. You can copy both results into the same directory, since the tiles are separated by their different levels.
If you run batch 2 for all levels, you will overwrite the affected levels 9 and 11 from batch 1.
We need to handle the maskings of the tiles then. Next step of geoconvert.
Rodeo
Any news about learning how to handle the maskings of the tiles?. I've tried the method you suggested and worked out perfectly. The only thing I've noted is that the underlying tile seems to me is still showing up in some sections or parts of it.
Cheers, Ed
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Thanks!.
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When you modify a BMP created by FSET to create an alpha channel to use alpha blending with Geoconvert, after the modifications, you export the modified file as a TIF file (I'm using GIMP), but the original BMP (the not modified one) should be kept in the same working folder, or it should be completely replaced by the new TIF file and deleted from the working folder before the geoconversion?. It could be a silly question, but I'm stuck with this now.
To some expert using GIMP/Geoconvert, please help.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Ed
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Thanks Rodeo, quite clear!. I'll try that.
Cheers, Ed
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Yes, Phil, my thinking is (of course I could be totally wrong) that we should convert only once all those areas together (the low-res and the high-res areas), with the different resolutions and then edit the TMC file with the different layers of resolutions and its respective coordinates. This is my interpretation of what is mentioned in the wiki in the section "Variable levels within a single conversion process" under the Best Practices paragraph.
I'll try this approach in an airport of my area and will report back here.
Cheers, Ed
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Hi Phil. Thanks for sharing.
Did you converted with geoconvert with all the files the low-res and hi-res together at the same time from the input_aerial_images, or did you converted them separatedly and tried them separatedly within AFFS2?.
Cheers, Ed
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First of all, thank you very much to IPACS and the whole team (Jeff, rodeo, etc., sorry if I miss someone!) for the excellent Geoconvert tool!!.
I have a question: If one selects an extended area (let's say 80 nm x 60 nm) around a certain airport to a resolution level let's say around 3 or 4 (with FSET) and do the complete conversion process, and then AFTER one would like to have a small area around that same airport (let's say 8 nm x 8 nm) to a high resolution level of 0 or 1, and do the conversion process again but only for that small area, the fact that these "two areas" will be overlaping will not create a kind of a conflict inside Aerofly FS 2 or they'll display correctly?.
If someone could clarify this to me I'll be very much appreciated. In case the indicated procedure is not correct, please describe the correct procedure to perform the same task.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Ed
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I just wonder if those beta testers work on weekends only (?).
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Another tutorial for USGS data will also be added to the Wiki shortly.
Excellent!. Thanks.
Cheers, Ed
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Does the USGS service include data for countries different than the US, or it's restricted to USA?. I ask because in this community a lot of people live outside the US
Cheers, Ed