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piotrkol

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Great tool! Made some aerials with ease today - wow :)

Question from me - anyone has any tips for a workflow with editing tiffs in PS? I managed to figure out how to extract the geodata to a .wld file through QGIS but I'm kinda stuck on putting the geodata back into the edited .tif

Cheers!
 
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M_LORD

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piotrkol said:
Great tool! Made some aerials with ease today - wow :)

Question from me - anyone has any tips for a workflow with editing tiffs in PS? I managed to figure out how to extract the geodata to a .wld file through QGIS but I'm kinda stuck on putting the geodata back into the edited .tif

Cheers!
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import edited tiff into qgis and export again with georeference to geotiff
 
TheJon182

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Maybe this is a very simple question but im strugling with this.

In the tutorial from your webiste you recomend going to https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ in order to get the imagery but since the airport im working for is located in Europe, i don't know how to create that imagery tiles from Google Earth for example.
 
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TheJon182 said:
Maybe this is a very simple question but im strugling with this.

In the tutorial from your webiste you recomend going to https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ in order to get the imagery but since the airport im working for is located in Europe, i don't know how to create that imagery tiles from Google Earth for example.
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In which country is the airport or other scenery area that you are working on ? :scratchch

There are in most (but not all) European counties, a governmental GIS online free data access portal for imagery and/or elevation data.

GaryGB
 
TheJon182

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GaryGB said:
In which country is the airport or other scenery area that you are working on ? :scratchch

There are in most (but not all) European counties, a governmental GIS online free data access portal for imagery and/or elevation data.

GaryGB
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Spain
 
TheJon182

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GaryGB said:
You're in luck, then, as Spain has a well-developed GIS portal with detailed data available: :cool:

centrodedescargas.cnig.es

Centro de Descargas del CNIG (IGN)

En el Centro de Descargas del CNIG puede descargarse gratuitamente la información geográfica digital producida por el IGN
centrodedescargas.cnig.es centrodedescargas.cnig.es


GaryGB
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That page seems to be more complete but these are the file formats that i get:
1631092841943.png

From the US webpage listed in the Toolkit webapge tutorial, you are getting the TIF format, so the line you have to write to Cut imagery into tiles is: msfs aerial -border "Source\purdue.kml" -imagery "Source\*.tif" -res 0.5 "PackageSources\aerial\tiles"

Since i am gettin the format .ecw, it would work to just write: msfs aerial -border "Source\purdue.kml" -imagery "Source\*.ewc" -res 0.5 "PackageSources\aerial\tiles"

Or i have to convert .ecw to .tif in someway?

UPDATE 1:

Not working with .ECW
1631093712067.png


Any help?

UPDATE 2:

Solved converting to TIF :)
 
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piotrkol

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@M_LORD - nice, that works! Dzięki :)

Anyone been doing any aerials since yesterdays WU5? I created one yesterday evening like usual but it crashes the sim while loading the flight when spawning at the airport.
I tried spawning at a nearby airport and managed to get flying but the sim crashed as soon as I flew into the aerial covered region.

- Tried to change the border, made it a bit smaller, and redone the tiles and package but no results.
- After removing the aerial package the sim works fine
- it's a 1,48gb package with about 6800 tiles.
- Looks good in the create a flight world globe thingy ;)
- While flying it looked nice from far away but crashed as soon as I flew into the area.
- Updated the SDK
- SDK package tool returns no errors while creating a package


>>> EDIT.

Well I sort off figured it out - I made a much smaller aerial (1500 tiles at 640mb) and it works with no problems. Is there a limit to how big the cgl file can be?
 
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TheJon182

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Fast question:

In the toolkit you give an option to modify image tiles with code using ImageMagick, thats awesome, but i would like to monitor the changes im doing to the image, so i would like to use Photoshop to do that.

Im familiar with the Batch processing in Photoshop in order to apply same changes to all tiles but the question is: I'm going to lose any metadata modifyng the aeriales already tiled with yout toolkit so this method is not gonna work? Or these .png tiles doesn't save any metadata already.
 
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Hi, I just tried out the aerial creation for the first time. Works great, but I see JPEG artefacts in the created PNGs. As the processing downsamples from very high quality Tif to Png I wonder if you use JPG as an intermediate format somewhere (after the downsampling step)?
 
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MikeB54

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Trying this for the first time today but I am running into an issue that left me scratching my head.

I'm experimenting with elevation files. I run the command: msfs elev "C:\Users\Mike\Documents\KCLT\source\USGS_13_n36w081.tif" -border "C:\Users\Mike\Documents\KCLT\source\KCLT.kml" -airport "C:\Users\Mike\Documents\KCLT\mkb-airport-charlotte-douglas.xml" -res 10 "C:\Users\Mike\Documents\KCLT\PackageSources\elevation\KCLT_elev.xml"

It is returning the message in red: ERROR argument dest: XML name must end with '.xml'

Ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks
 
TheJon182

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Good afternoon, Im getting this error message while trying to use de elev function. Any ideas whats going wrong?

1631545281345.png


- My elevation data is a .TIF file converted from .ASC (that was the native format of the data, i just converted to .TIF in order to follow the tutorial`s workflow) ( i used QGis for the conversion)
- I created the .shp file with Qgis, i also got .cpg, .dbf, .prg and .shx when i draw and saved the polygon used Qgis.

EDIT:

I keep trying to get this work. I have changed the EPSG format in te conversion from .asc to .tif. now using EPSG 4326. and im using the code -epsg. Noew getting this error:

1631626107291.png


I think the problem could be the evelation data file I'm using, you can check it here:

This is the native Data Elevation File (.asc) format:

PNOA_MDT05_ETRS89_HU29_0854_LID.asc

drive.google.com drive.google.com

This is the conversion into .tif with same native epsg format:

LEOA_Elevation5.tif

drive.google.com drive.google.com

This is the conversion in to .tif changing the epsg to EPSG 4326:

LEOA_Elevation5Mod.tif

drive.google.com drive.google.com

None of these files are working.

Thanks for read.
 
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astaticmusic

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i am still trying to set this up but when i try to build the project folder i am only getting this, can anyone help?

Screenshot_17.jpg

i also have this ... but its not letting me enter anything...
Screenshot_4.jpg


thanks for any help here!
 
astaticmusic

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in the instructions it doesnt say what to name the path....or does that matter? i tried naming it msfs or msfs tools

Screenshot_5.jpg
 
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mrbump

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In the powershell you must precede your command with .\ if you're trying to run it in from the current directory.
Code: 
.\msfs [tool] [options]

In the old style console you can just type
Code: 
msfs [tool] [options]

But what you probably really want is to have the tool somewhere in a directory and run it from within the directory where your source data lies - then you don't have to prepend the whole path for your input files:
Code: 
within
c:\mysourcedata>
you type
c:\noolpath\msfs [tool] [options]

In order to run it repeatedly or try different settings you could add your command into a batch file. I have one that looks like this:
Code: 
set noolpath=c:\Nool
call %noolpath%\msfs elev -imagery swissalti3d*.tif -border LSGY_hm_boundary.kml -res 3.0 -epsg 2056 hm.xml
pause

A batch file is a text file with the extension ".bat"

Edit: this way makes it unnecessary to add anything to the path variable. Safer for you if you don't know what you're doing.
 
astaticmusic

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mrbump said:
In the powershell you must precede your command with .\ if you're trying to run it in from the current directory.
Code: 
.\msfs [tool] [options]

In the old style console you can just type
Code: 
msfs [tool] [options]

But what you probably really want is to have the tool somewhere in a directory and run it from within the directory where your source data lies - then you don't have to prepend the whole path for your input files:
Code: 
within
c:\mysourcedata>
you type
c:\noolpath\msfs [tool] [options]

In order to run it repeatedly or try different settings you could add your command into a batch file. I have one that looks like this:
Code: 
set noolpath=c:\Nool
call %noolpath%\msfs elev -imagery swissalti3d*.tif -border LSGY_hm_boundary.kml -res 3.0 -epsg 2056 hm.xml
pause

A batch file is a text file with the extension ".bat"

Edit: this way makes it unnecessary to add anything to the path variable. Safer for you if you don't know what you're doing.
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the problem starts with - I cant get the PowerShell to accept the text the tutorial says to enter! ??
Screenshot_17.jpg
 
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mrbump

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as I said: start with dot backslash to indicate you want to run the tool from the current directory:
Code: 
.\msfs ....

or alternatively enter the whole path to the tool
Code: 
c:\nool\msfs ...
 
astaticmusic

astaticmusic

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mrbump said:
as I said: start with dot backslash to indicate you want to run the tool from the current directory:
Code: 
.\msfs ....

or alternatively enter the whole path to the tool
Code: 
c:\nool\msfs ...
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sorry, im kinda new at typing code to run things, but this is what i get when i try those options

Screenshot_7.jpg
 
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