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Title: Need some help
Post by: HawkerMKII on November 30, 2010, 05:02:03 PM

I would like to make a small map but, I have no clue how to start or nothing. I had at one time found somewhere someone had step by step directions and now I cant find it. Any ideas?? If not I will just forget about it.

Thanks for any help :salute

Title: Re: Need some help
Post by: mrmidi on November 30, 2010, 05:50:21 PM

I have some step by step tutorials on the AHWiki site..here's a link

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/wiki/index.php/Mrmidi%27s_TE_Tutorials

 :salute
midi

Title: Re: Need some help
Post by: HawkerMKII on November 30, 2010, 06:41:04 PM

Thank you sir, thats what I was looking for :salute :salute

Title: Re: Need some help
Post by: USRanger on November 30, 2010, 08:05:24 PM

Midi's tutorials are all you need to build a terrain. :salute

Title: Re: Need some help
Post by: mrmidi on November 30, 2010, 09:06:08 PM

Quote from: USRanger on November 30, 2010, 08:05:24 PM

Midi's tutorials are all you need to build a terrain. :salute

Let me re-phrase that for Ranger...

My tutorials are all you need to build a BASIC terrain, and get an idea of how to use the Terrain Editor, and how it works.  :D

I am still working on the next series of tut's "Working with elevations and DEM files and bringing that data into the TE"

This includes tutorials for 2 other programs that you will need to use.

That will make my next series a lot more complex, so getting a handle on the basics of the TE is a must.

Stay tuned, more to come later.

 :salute
midi

Title: Re: Need some help
Post by: 715 on November 30, 2010, 11:50:38 PM

mrmidi:  Can I ask you a couple of questions please about DEM? 

For fun, I'm writing a program that reads DEM files (SRTM on Earth Explorer) and generates the file needed for AH elevation.  (I'm also going to have it algorithmically generate the gndtype file, for example confining farmland to low flat lands and keeping if off steep slopes, making steep slopes rock and high alt slopes rock/snow etc.).  However, there's a problem with water.  While the DEMs are edited to make all ocean at alt=0 it doesn't follow that all alt=0 is ocean.  In fact there's tons of areas of what should be land that are zero or even negative alt (Netherlands, for example).  How do you set water?  Do you do it manually?  (There are separate SRTM Water Body Data files, but they are in an inconvenient format, i.e. vectors, and look hard to use.)

Second: what projection do you use?  I used a simple projection that preserves distances, but distorts shape.  Do you use UTM?   -Thanks