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FSXA New to terrain creation?

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I'm working on a custom scenery for FSX. In terms of adding buildings, ground polys, textures and whatnot, I have a fairly good idea of what I'm doing, and I'd like to go the extra mile and add custom mesh to it. However, I don't know how to go about doing this. I've downloaded terrain data from USGS, but I can't edit, or even view the .tif file that came with it in my photo editor/3D program, and I can't get a single friggin GIS program (I've tried FW Tools and several others) to export it, though it will open it and I can view the terrain data. I've been pulling my hair out for two days over this, but I just cannot for the life of me figure out exactly what programs I need and what steps I need to take to turn a geotiff into terrain mesh for FSX. Any help?
 
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...but I just cannot for the life of me figure out exactly what programs I need and what steps I need to take to turn a geotiff into terrain mesh for FSX. Any help?
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It's called Resample.exe and it's a part of the FSX SDKs. There's a nice bit of the SDK Help document that goes over this, appropriately called Terrain and Scenery.
 
I tried that. Upon running resample.exe with the raw data and inf file, it said it couldn't open the .tif and did not produce a bgl.
 
Hi,

It could be the geotiff is not in the right projection. There is an article on the wiki here that explains how to use the gdal tools to reproject it. Then it should work in resample.
 
I use Global Mapper to handle the GeoTiffs imported from USGS and for ReProjecting. Be sure image is reprojected to WGS84. Global Mapper does cost however.
It also handles all the DEM data, so you can export into 3ds Max for complete editing and manipulation of the 3dmesh.
 
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