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MSFS24 GTiff2Quad

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Gtiff2Quad in the resource section is a new way to directly create MSFS Quad tiles from a geotiff. No need for QGIS to make tiles or for the use of Tiles2Bing. Load the geotiff, select Levels, and the tiles are created to a folder of choice.
 
Great idea and thank you for your efforts in advance. However, I often need to manipulate the satellite imagery in Photoshop before generating the tiles, coordinate information will be discarded and become a normal .tif file then. Therefore I always need to generate a separate .tfw file as well from QGIS to store the coordinate information. It would be perfect to add the support of loading .tfw files in addition of loading from the .tif file. Just my two cents.
 
I usually use Paint.net or GIMP for processing the geotiff, but your suggestion is good.
 
What a splendid app.

I hope FS would allow disabling and enabling packages in a realtime manner to speed up workflow even more.
 
kychungdotcom said:
Great idea and thank you for your efforts in advance. However, I often need to manipulate the satellite imagery in Photoshop before generating the tiles, coordinate information will be discarded and become a normal .tif file then. Therefore I always need to generate a separate .tfw file as well from QGIS to store the coordinate information. It would be perfect to add the support of loading .tfw files in addition of loading from the .tif file. Just my two cents.
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Could you give me a couple of examples of tiff files with TFW?
 
Geotiff2Quad Version 3
An updated app. This will allow the use of tiffs that have an accompanying TFW file, instead of an embedded GeoTiff. If a PRJ file is not included, you have a choice of lat-long (EPSG:4326) or Google meters (EPSG:3875).

It also will fake placement via lat-long bounds of a tiff, if there is no TFW. Version 3 hopes to prevent possible smearing of edge tiles.
 
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Thanks for this utility. It worked fine for a small test area I was using to add items at the location of the new terminal at TTCP. I am not interested in permanently replacing the tiles, so color matching is not an issue. However, even though both the original GeoTiff and the PNG tiles have good contrast, when they are added to MSFS 2024, the contrast is too low and the whites are blown out (see attachment). Any thoughts, other than photoshopping the original GeoTiff?
 

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https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/custom-aerial-color-troubles.460731/#post-939109 ReColorTiffs.zip is a tool to color match a tiff to samples taken from the Sim's Tile Debug. Basically you screensave and clip what the actual Bing tiles are in the sim for that area (not the viewport, but the aerial tiles the sim uses). The Sim shades the tiles according to time of day and season, and some other influences, so screenshots of the viewport are wrong, but the 256x256 tiles are accurate in the Tile Debug Panel. Just grab a few tile samples and trim them to the actual 256x256
 
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