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MSFS20 MSFS Toolkit by Nool Aerosystems

Bavarello said:
and there are important news also on the license of use. :rolleyes:
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Wow, 189 EUR per year. That's not cheap to just create an aerial photo. Too expensive for freeware developers, in my opinion.

Hello dear developers of MSFS (Asobo) :wave:
Now would be the perfect time to share your aerial imaging tools with us 🙂
 
Christian Bahr said:
just create an aerial photo.
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There are a few ways to create photo derived ground, even using an X-plane tool, Ortho4XP. I think the nool tool allows people to create 3d terrain, for which there is no other algorithmic tool. This is possible to do for MSFS, I experimented with it long ago, using QGIS by essentially creating a "normal" map. While it worked and was extremely coarse, it seemed likely it could be improved upon. This, I believe is what makes nool tool so unique, is a "turnkey" ability to make detailed terrain from available data sources. I've seen no need to adjust terrain beyond the polygon level, so I cannot speak to the tool's value, but to me, the price explanation suggests the legal case has entered the "war of attrition" stage.

Here's a way to create msfs cgl:
www.fsdeveloper.com

MSFS20 - [GUIDE] How to create custom aerial scenery

First draft of Here's my guide (Basically my workflow) on how to create an aerial scenery in MSFS. Please feel free to comment on the guide if you find errors, or have any other input! I know the PDF looks kinda wonky right now. It's been alot of testing and writing and little formatting The...
www.fsdeveloper.com www.fsdeveloper.com

Personally, I don't use Ortho4XP, as it's resolution does not seem to be as precise as QGIS. Another contributor wrote a post detailing this particular adaptation of Augustin's technique, if I can find it I will edit this post, if I can't, it's not very hard to figure out how to substitute QGIS in the Ortho4XP stage. or just go with Ortho4XP. The imagery is perfectly adequate and the software is simple and allows us to quickly compare source providers with just click or two, which QGIS can't really do.
 
To create terrain meshes, on small areas and on large areas, msfs-toolkit is in this irreplaceable at the present moment ... but with all due respect to @Paavo, to develop something add-on freeware ... that's the end of the fun.
At this point the ball passes into the MS/Asobo boys' field as @Christian Bahr already said.
 
Well, at least it's back and alive again.

The pricing is... eccentric.

As of now it would be handy to have a CGL tutorial that's actually comprehensible to a normal human.
 
Again with all due respect to this developer and I urge people to support him, his is not the only route, just the best. It is possible to edit terrain with existing tools and here is but one small example. If it is something you are into, I endorse all developers to explore more.


Just take a look at the file extensions in the Package:

image-1598864373219.png
 
Oh come on folks, SOMEONE here has to be able to create a similar/more reasonably priced tool that can do the same things. There are no other methods to get decent terrain data/runway slope into MSFS at this point.
 
sad news all i wanted to do was do satellite images for my home airport TNCA small island the whole island can be done its pretty small i wish this tool is avaliable to do this. Now to pay that fee just for my personal project pff no way, thanks to the pirated devs, it would have been better to release custom coded of traceable exe.

anyways anyone wanna create Aruba island with google images for me? Ill pay for your work since it be cheaper then the new fee.
 
I too have sent a request to no avail. Are we all still in the same boat, unable to import DEM into our projects? It’s silly to think no one else has cracked such a vital feature, especially in an advanced sim such as this.
 
I have been getting a security alert about blocked connections to httpd.exe inside the directory msfs-toolkit-0.50 and I finally renamed the file to no longer be an executable.
 
Is this completely dead? Does anyone have an alternative at all? Especially one compatible with FS2024?
 
Oh! Well that's... incredible. I'd love to check it out. The airports I'm working on pretty much have to have this capability.
 
Losco Nosciuto said:
I built my own alternative myself 🤣
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Hi Chris:

Please tell us about the alternative you built yourself ...for MSFS Terrain-related utility software as the topic of this thread.


Thank you for making your LN LODs Calculator Plugin for Blender 3.6 (V2.5) available to the FS development community.


BTW: I plan to open a thread at FSDEV regarding use of "Materialize" by BoundingBoxSoftware in the future.

In that thread, would you please explain what is different in your GitHub Fork of Materialize by BoundingBoxSoftware:

https://github.com/Losco-Nosciuto/Materialize

https://github.com/BoundingBoxSoftware


Thanks in advance for your further clarification of what you may be alluding to above.

GaryGB
 
LoL that was me not being able to use GitHub (and still not being able to use it either way 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣) and forking it randomly. It should be many many commits back by now
 
And for the tool as I said to JRaines, I built it quickly but it's:
- for satellite imagery only
- more intricate
- requires Tiles2Bing for Conversion


I do extract data from QGis, built a small program to trim based on the shape file provided, then I edit the file in Photoshop (remove trees, change grass remove planes and whatsoever) and built another small program to backup and restore georeference data in a Geotiff file, so I can georeference it quick and easy without having to manually do it in QGIS.

Then I re-import it back into QGis, and export it tiled, then process it with Tiles2Bing :)
 
Thank you for the further explanation; is this something you may consider sharing with the FSDEV community eventually ?

It is good to have multiple tools in one's toolkit when it comes to MSFS, as we currently have limited options for custom terrain.

PS: Tell your wife we have only known you briefly, and see good things forthcoming in your future; so we are ..."Pro LIfe". :)

GaryGB
 
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I have a pretty solid method for getting custom aerial imagery in. It's terrain I'm most looking to work with. Sad that this tool just died off with no proper replacement.
 
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