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Haven't tried Ringpiece in a long time but thought I would yesterday. It's crashing when I try to convert kml - sbx. I note Dick alluded to problems with latest GE. I'm on GE 6 and looking at the kml it says it's using the 2.2 ver of the spec. I'm guessing maybe Ringpiece is written to an earlier version? Any idea of which version, or what can I edit to get the kml sorted?

scott s.
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Scott,

late reply, does the problem still persist?
I used ringpiece last year to build over 400 islands without a problem, so it indeed could be the GE version.

If you post a sample kml code, we could compare it to one of mine, and see the difference.

Cheers,
Mark
 
I the end, I decided that I just couldn't do a good job of tracing in GE and had much better results just working in SBX, so I lost interest in Ringpiece.

scott s.
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Google Earth did change the KML format a bit, and RingPiece doesn't work with the new version. The author has vacated the forum, so I don't think there will be a new version here.

Shame. It was a neat bit of software that made good use of Google Earth's more advanced tracing ability. And the author was a very creative and interesting guy with a fresh view of FSX scenery creation.

You can still convert KML to SHP files. Seems to me there may be a stand-alone program to do this. SBuilderX can import SHP files and BLN files.

Dick
 
Heads Up ! :alert:

There's an apparent workaround for FSX scenery projects to be made with 'new' versions of Google Earth (aka "GE") KML when subsequently processed via FSX-KML or RingPiece etc. to generate SHP or SBX output files.


FYI: FSX-KML or RingPiece etc. expect KML data in the 'original' GE KML format; certain changes have been made in the 'new' GE KML format.


The solution may be pre-processing one's "NEW" GE KML format output data via "PreFsxKml", a utility graciously provided by author 'Angelus1971':


Discussion here: http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33180&highlight=Google+Earth


Download here: http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=96


NOTE: When PreFSXKML opens the FSX-KML GUI, click File > Save so one's pre-processed KML file updates to GE's new format.


BTW: The current project "pre-processed" KML and compiled SHP files are in: [FSX-KML install path]\Output\ folder. ;)


Hope this helps ! :)

GaryGB
 
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