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TS Pro Alpha V0.025 Available for Evaluation

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I have just uploaded TS Prop Alpha version 0.0.25 to http://stuff4fs.com. Navigate to the Terrain Sculptor Pro page and click the Development Release menu item.

I expect this to be the final alpha release of TS Pro. I had planned to make it the first beta release, but with the errors reported yesterday, I felt another alpha was appropriate.

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Don, I've started with loading an existent project, that had been imported from an ADE produced CVX and where the airport flatten was defined as "AB Flatten Exclude Autogen". It had already a blend poly outside and saved including a profile. Before triangulation I ran the profiling function again (unfortunately without deleting the existent profile), and surprisingly I suddenly saw a fraction of blend nodes only and the airplane never appeared on screen. As you can see, in the picture below, I didn't interrupt the process as the procedure took way longer than it would have taken with only a few nodes and got again a polygon shaped as previous one.
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Then I started triangulation and got this result:
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It looks like the central flatten is handled like single sculpt nodes. I tried to continue nonetheless, selected a single node of the yellow coloured flatten and changed it successfully via "Edit List/Node" to "AB Flatten". Unfortunately its neighbours remained untouched.

At this point I stopped proceeding, loaded the project again, deleted the profile, added sculpt nodes, profiled and triangulated and got nonetheless a picture similar as above.
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After compiling it, the result looked like this (ADE's CVX was disabled, by the way).

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Now I have to follow some other duties, but will try the procedure again, beginning with importing the ADE CVX file. Both exclusion are not touching the coastline, the central one excludes airport backgrounds, the second just roads.

EDIT: What I forgot writing: The new version didn't care for any previous settings. A bit later I saw why: "TS Pro.ini" became "TS_Pro.ini" in the new version.
 
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Tried this release. Now when I save the project and come back to it, the sculpt nodes have no altitude information and attempting to edit one throws an "unhandled exception"

Edit: Nevermind! Saved it as a separate project, now it appears to work!
 
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Jon, is there any way you can repeat the unhandled exception. If so, please send me the details. Re the initial problem, it would seem that your initial save did not fully replace the earlier data. I'll have a look at that.

Alex, I can't explain your issues with creating a profile. It appears like the process stalled or was interrupted, since the progress bar is still active. If you attempt to create a profile when one is being displayed, TS Pro should ask you if you want to replace the existing profile. It appears like the process stalled or was interrupted, since the progress bar is still in view. In 0.0.25, does ask about the existing profile -but only after it completes the new profile. (to be fixed).

Re the apparent triangulation of the flat poly, I can duplicate that. It would seem I missed something in the recently re-worked elevation handling.

Another release ASAP.

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Don, there are some issues, at least for me.
I've just created a fake airport with ADE as close to a lake (even closer) than above. It got just an airport flatten poly and a runway. Everything looked okay after compiling.

Now I imported the ADE-created CVX to TS Pro as a new project and wasn't able to save it as such (everything was grayed) until I added a single sculpt node (later I deleted it again).
Next planned step: creating a simple boundary. I selected Start -> Blend Poly List and got the message "A blend poly list exists" and whether I want to delete it.
I confirmed this and got the dialogue box where I was asked for the name (preset "AirportBounds 2" was given) and confirmed.
I added the vertices CCW and had to take care not clicking next to the line connecting the last node with the first one. The result is visible below.
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Finally I profiled the blend poly and exported the result to a BGL.

Before enabling the test file:
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After enabling the test file:
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When disabling the file being compiled (exported) by TS Pro and re-booting FSXA the lake is complete again. I've nowhere used any exclusion, TmfViewer shows just innocent flatten triangles
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and TS Pro loads its own file without any problem (surprisingly now the original airport background flatten not divided in triangles).
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I added a ZIP for playing. It contains all files in compiled form and the non-profiled TS Pro project file. The scenery is only "enhanced" by old FSG Mesh. It's somewhere in Nowhere, west of UTDL (Tajikistan) at the northeast end of the Kairakum Reservoir. The airport has been placed about 600 m away from the shore.

EDIT: Wrong ZIP file exchanged against the correct one.
 

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Thanks, Alex. Re the "a node already exists here" message, the way to complete the blend node set (and any other poly is to left click afer setting the last node.

I'll have to spend some time on then rest. It would be helpful to also have the .bgl you imported from ADE. (The .zip file only included the resulting project file.)

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gadgets said:
It would be helpful to also have the .bgl you imported from ADE. (The .zip file only included the resulting project file.)
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Oops, sorry - it had been even the wrong project. I've exchanged it now in my previous post. All ADE files and the project file are included now - as intended.
 
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gadgets said:
Re the "a node already exists here" message, the way to complete the blend node set (and any other poly is to left click afer setting the last node.
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I've provoked the screeny by placing the "hot cursor" in the vicinity of the line pointing to about 1 o'clock from the last, red node in the related picture in my first post. It happens easily while placing the nodes on their way back to the starting point.
 
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