Posts by admoore63

Hello Ralf,

the GeoConvert tool is known to require a lot of memory. Maybe increasing the size of your page file will reduce the problems:

Create page file to prevent crash during geoconverting!

Regards Uwe

Thank you Luk, your tutorial is really helpful.

Thank you for the hint.

In other words don't copy the bmp, if there is a tif with the same name, right?

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Thanks for the Geoconvert tool,it saves a lot of time.

You're welcome, that was my objective.

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Would you be able to add tif files to the tool

I'll try to consider it in an upcoming version.

Hi Dree,

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Does "GeoConvert Helper" change my tif to bmp?

GeoConvert Helper doesn't touch any files apart from the bmp and inf files.

At the moment it will copy all files matching the file masks "Area_L*.bmp" and "AreaFSInfo*.inf". As it will not delete any tif files in the destination directory copying the tif files before pressing Start should work.

If it helps i can add a function that copies also tif files matching the file mask "Area_L*.tif from the source to the destination directory.

Regards

Uwe

Hi GeoConverters,

if the GeoConvert Helper finishes without error and the folder 'aerofly_fs_2_geoconvert\scenery\images' is still empty there is probably something wrong with the files created from previous attempts.

You should empty all folders where files were generated, these are:

• source folder (FSET\work)
• destination folder (input_aerial_images)
• aerofly_fs_2_geoconvert\scenery\images

While the source folder must be cleared manually the other two can be cleared automatically by GeoConvert Helper. Simply check the corresponding checkboxes.

I hope this helps

Uwe

Hi Dave,

thank you for your positive feedback.

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One little thing - the delete file checkboxes are to imply a "clearing" of old files that are still there from an earlier effort but maybe a little confusing for some

Do you mean that the caption of the checkbox is confusing? What would you suggest instead?

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Also, the browse for folder Popups - it would be nice if I could in addition to the folder rundown just CNTL-C/CNTL-V the path - I hate to click 5 or 6 times to get to the path.

You can copy and paste in the textbox itself. If you open the folder search dialog (which is by the way created by Microsoft), the selected folder is already marked, you only need to scrolldown a bit.

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It might be nice to actually copy the results into the Documents\Aerofly FS 2\scenery\places\myfolder for me. Not necessary of course.

That's a good idea. I will think about it.

Regards

Uwe

Hello Dave,

that is strange. The tool copies all files named "Area_L*.bmp" and "AreaFSInfo*.inf" from the source to the destination directory. In the destination directory the tfw file will be created, but only if there is an inf file. So i assume that the inf file was not copied.

But why? Are the inf files in the source directory named like mine, for example "AreaFSInfo_Lm1_SnapOff_N050470998_N050442945_E007252124_E007272952.inf"?

To find out what is going wrong, please copy the inf file by hand into the destination folder and uncheck "Delete file in destination folder"

And no, you don't need inf2tfw anymore.

Uwe

Hi Ed,

your welcome. Fine, that it is working now.

Cheers, Uwe

Hi Ed,

could you please post the content of the file gch.tmc and of one of the generated .tfw files. It may be a localisation issue. I am living in Germany and here it works flawless on different PCs.

Thanks

Uwe

Hi all,

to simplify the workflow, when using the GeoConvert tool, i programmed a tool called GeoConvert Helper. To use it, simply enter the source and destination folder and the tool will do the remaining tasks, including the creation of the tfw and the tmc files and starting GeoConvert.

I thought the tool may be helpful for other GeoConvert users, so i uploaded it to the forum. Feel free to use it at your own risk.

And by the way, a big thank you to IPACS for the great work.

Regards

Uwe

Version 1.07:

- The file "PartialFSEarthTiles.ini" isn't needed anymore, the information is now read from the generated inf files

- In advanced mode three areas with difererent detail levels can be defined

- The creation of raw images is now supported

- minor ui adjustments

Version 1.06:

- Coordinates can now be edited before starting the GeoConvert tool

- Coordinates can have more than two decimal places, if desired

Version 1.05:

- tif files are taken into account when checking the source folder

- inf file parser improved

Version 1.04:

- tif files are taken into account. If a tif file is found in the source folder it will be copied instead of the bmp file

- improved status display (right click to clear or copy its content)

- minor UI enhancements

Version 1.03:

- minor UI changes

- check, whether "aerofly_fs_2_geoconvert.exe" is present

- readme.txt added