Hopefully the answer won't make me cry.

[crashaz]

Hi fellas!

Been getting back to groundpounding and back to my favorite subject.... Oahu 1941.
Have been changing stock FSX Oahu and reverting it back to 1941. Well now I have to change the coastline.

I brought in my LWM BGL from FS9 into SBuilder 2.05.... and then exported into a shapefile.

Then took the shapefile and brought into FSX.

Now I understand the process of building an island... excluding out the water on the affected QMID 11 sections... then readding the water poly.


Next to add my new island.... and then use set as hole....


here's the problem.... my imported shapefile comes in at hundreds of polys! Do I have to do this one poly at a time?!?

 

[GaryGB]

Hello:

I feel your pain, as I've also done this once with a somewhat smaller area, except that I used a BLN file as an intermediate rather than a SHP file.

I ended up using Global Mapper to edit out the numerous central LOD13-sized water poly lines (which were required by FS9 in HP*.BGL LWM files to create such scenery files... faithfully appended/exported by SBuilder), leaving eventually just the outer border of the poly.

In Global Mapper when imported as lines and point features, it was time-consuming and fraught with difficulty predicting what lines when deleted, might clobber others that then needed to be un-deleted; I'd like to think in SBuilderX there is an easier way to do this, but have not used it extensively so far.


I don't know if a more sophisticated solution to deal with eliminating the FS9 inner "LOD13 quad matrix residuals" has been implemented in SBuilderX yet, but I seem to recall that Luis Sa' had added some function that would automatically "clip" vector lines at the edges of LOD11 quad borders.

I'm wondering if that "clip" function could be used on a group of individually-selected LOD13 quad matrix cells in the center of the island shape to "convert or reduce complexity to quad size LOD11 rather than LOD13", so a minimum of manual editing (deleting/joining of line segments etc.) would be needed in SBuilderX with imported FS9 LOD13 quad scenery objects ?


Hope this helps, and I do hope Luis Sa' can also enlighten us on options (both existing ...and to be further developed) for more easily dealing with import of certain legacy FS9 scenery content into the FSX platform.

GaryGB

 

[crashaz]

Boy I would hope so... I saw that and was like oh no!!!


I will get this done though.... my dream of Pearl in all the FSX glory will happen.

 

[scott967]

There's plenty of shapefiles of Oahu you can use, though they may need to be projected. The state has them in UTM NAD83 and the county in SPCS OHD (though the county is slowing transferring from OHD to NAD83). Since NAD83 = WGS84 for our purposes, you just need to reproject.

I attached some of the state data you might want to look at.

scott s.
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