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Elevation Editor v0.1.0 alpha

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This tool allows you to convert a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) raster image to Microsoft Flight Simulator Rectangle objects with heightmaps. It's a very early work in progress and expect bugs to be present. PM me for questions and or bug reports.

Instructions:

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  1. Open a georeferenced DEM raster image (with WGS84 geographic coordinates projection. Support for more formats to be added).
  2. Open a MSFS scenery xml in which you want the rectangles to be placed. (make a back up, you never know!) It's recommended to use a separate XML file for elevation projects since they can bog down your PC if you're used to manually editing sceneries in a text editor.
  3. Choose a desired resolution in metres. The tool will not upscale the raster and will use the maximum available resolution when the desired resolution is lower than the raster resolution. The tool will downscale an image if needed using bilinear interpolation (other interpolation types will be implemented later).
  4. If checked, the default falloff will be overridden. By default, the tool will use a falloff value equal to the resolution and at the edge rectangles it will use higher values to blend the default terrain into the rectangles (Note, due to terraforming bug in MSFS, falloff does not work as expected and is buggy).
  5. Start the conversion process (Note, progress bar currently doesn't do anything).
  6. Status window for user feedback.
Roadmap:
  • Create elevation rectangles from multiple raster files and multiple projections
  • Drape runways over customised terrain
  • Add Irregular (Quadtree) Tessellation for projects with various resolutions in different areas
  • Improved UI and UX, including map view and improved progress reporting
  • Import/Export 3D models of (hand sculpted) terrain from and to MSFS
  • Flatten coastlines using shapefiles
  • More...
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