I'm not offended. Don't worry.
I guess I didn't really understand what you meant with that terrain file. I still don't know what that file is supposed to do. [EDIT: Nevermind,
land contours ] But do understand that you don't get filled in land on the map. And that, yes, doesn't add up.
I didn't do anything special to get it working. I think I never had the TatukGIS viewer on this instance of Windows 7 OS on my computer before. So doubt that it is due to lingering settings from previous usage. Even then, I can't remember doing anything special to it.
After finding this thread I assembled the pack mentioned in my first post up here. Just combine the files I still had on my drive into 1 7zip file. I noticed you had problems with the latest TatukGIS viewer so I decided I had to test it on my own. So I registered and downloaded and installed the latest viewer. (
this might be it, as usually I do not install applications in Program Files, but assign my own path outside of it) Then I tried to open those SH4 maps mentioned before (already had them on my disk somewhere) to check, and noticed they too opened nicely. So then I reinstalled SH3Gen v0.82. (didn't have that upto now,
or this: again not in Program Files) Then ran SH3Gen and set the path to the Silent Hunter folder in the menu Settings/General. Then made it select my latest SH3 savegame (
.. november 2011), and let it generate the intel data. And eventually it asks if the map should be exported for the the Tatukgis Viewer. On mine it shows a checkmark to automaticaly launch Tatukgis. And pressing the Export button does this. Hence my screenshot above.
So, other than the "Program Files"-routine for both TatukGIS and SH3Gen I can't imagine what might go wrong on your end.
That said, I did notice a readme.txt in the map folder SH3Gen/User Data/Commandername/savegamename that mentions the "terrain.gml" file. But nothing that really helps I think. As I didn't have to.
Quote:
Note on the location of terrain.gml and disk space
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Every data folder holds a copy terrain.gml, the complete terrain data, and therefore uses an extra 36.5 Mb. There is sound reason to do so, however, as this way the terrain will always be available, even if the user moves the data folder or uninstalls Sh3Gen.
If you understand how the GIS manages layers it's better to reference the default instance of terrain.gml in the Sh3Gen Tracking Room folder or another one in the User Data folder.
I will soon offer instructions and help how this can be done easily. I am not doing it now, however. Suffice to say that it can be done from within the viewer.
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