Re: updated fg-scenery-tutorial + I need a Photo howto!!!
Glenn McCord <[email protected]>
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David Luff wrote: >On 2/22/04 at 10:48 PM Glenn McCord wrote: > > > >>Could someone please explain the photo application to me. All I've found >>about it (with any substance) is from >>http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-users/2003-May/004313.html >> >> > > >Sorry, never used it. > > > >>I don't understand this: >>1. Why is the file extension *.rgb? I thought rgb was a type of colour >>usage such as greyscale and CYMK. >> >> > >In this case its referring to the SGI rgb file format. > > > >>2. "...and is divided up into the ksc.rgb[0-3][0-3].rgb.." >>huh? Does that mean it's chopped into 3? how does that work? >> >>It's a shame no one replied to his email. >> >>As a good will gesture, I've ammended the fg-scenery-tutorial and have >>attached it to this email. It is just the html and fixes most (but >>hopefully all) of the redundencies. It also includes a section on how to >>build 1-arcsec US data. Now somene just has to approve it and upload it. >> >> >> > >You might want to mention SRTM-United_States-1 as an alternative to DEM-30 >at the fgfs-tools-client stage as well. I'm not sure that you meant to say >"SMTP-30" in the preparing the elevation data section either! > Whoops, I had email in my head. > > >Section 2: >"so if your out in the wilderness" >-> >"so if you're out in the wilderness" > >Section 3.1.2: >"The next step is similar to demchop but is used from chopping up .hgt.zip >files instead." >-> >"The next step is similar to demchop, but hgtchop is used to chop up >.hgt.zip files instead." >(or something along those lines, the original doesn't make sense). > >In section 3.1.2 again, terrfit -> terrafit. > >I'm not sure, but I think that Terrafit could be usefully run on the DEM-30 >data as well, since I believe that the previous irregular grid cludge has >now been removed from the code? > Well, I've done it before but I'm not sure I was supposed to, so I didn't write it in. Looks like I may as well then. > >It's good to see someone updating the docs BTW :-), try mailing it direct >to David Megginson who wrote the original (after fixing the typos!). > >Cheers - Dave > > > It's good to have someone read through and point out the mistakes. When I look at something for so long I eventually start missing the errors. > >_______________________________________________ >Terragear-devel mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/terragear-devel > > > >