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Thank you Jeff. This afternoon I played a bit with the height maps available (as data previews) on the 30-Meter SRTM Tile Downloader website. As I said in one of my previous post, each preview has a size of 3601 x 3601 pixels, thus offering the full data resolution of one arcsecond stored in the hgt files. The image below, is the (scaled down) combination of two tiles relative to the western coast of Jutland: Each tile preview used its own grey/height scale, so I had to match them by modifying their tone curves, making their lowest point (= the sea level) black, and reducing the contrast of the tile having the narrower height range. Performing the latter task based on numbers was easy, as OldCoder's exe reports for us the highest point of each tile. Note that the same can be done directly with just one command, using OldCoder excutable, though, due to its high "stepping factor" data exported from it has a too low planar resolution (exactly one third of the original resolution). The next step, was creating an overlay which will help me locating the small SH5 tiles on each big STRM tile: With the help of that overlay, selecting only the portion of map we desire, copying it into a new file and scaling it to the desired size of 101 x 101 pixels is quite easy. Then we can save it to the PGM format pointed out by OldCoder (for that task, I have found a good Portable PixMap Importer Exporter). From there, converting 0-255 values in actual heights (using the conversion factor we had calculated before) and importing them into the obj file like the one exported/imported by you OBJ-RAW converter, it's a short road. There is a problem though. At first, I had underestimated the effects of poor vertical resolution. You will understand better from the following pictures, where I have marked the zeroes (= black = sea level) in blue: If you compare it with a satellite view of the same area, you will easily spot the problem: The height approximation caused by having only 256 height levels, would cause beaches and lowlands to literally disappear below the sea. Useful for previewing the future disasters of the greenhouse effect, but not for our game. Of course I could adjust those areas manually, but still, having a proper hgt exporter would greatly ease / speed-up our work on the game map |
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02-17-19, 04:40 PM | #197 |
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Altought there are troubles
the project looks great so far ! Due to lack of insight, I can´t be much of a help. But I found this blog: https://www.sigterritoires.fr/index....hic-with-qgis/ There SRTM-data are used together with QGIS: https://www.qgis.org/en/site/ Perhaps there is some useful information.... |
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02-17-19, 08:12 PM | #199 |
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Interesting web page:
https://gisgeography.com/free-global-dem-data-sources/ According to it, the most accurate world height data is offered by the Japanese Space Agency with the denomination of ALOS Global Digital Surface Model "ALOS World 3D - 30m (AW3D30)" This is the main website of the project: https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/aw3d30/index.htm According to it, the data they provide is in GeoTIFF format, but a link to a script based on GDAL technology is also provided for conversion from GeoTIFF to the SRTM HGT format that by now we are more accustomed to. Last note: for downloading their data registration is required. I applied for it, but I still haven't received any activation e-mail... EDIT: I have just found another website that offers 1", 3" and 15" word height data, with a coverage that includes zones not covered by other data sets: http://viewfinderpanoramas.org/dem3.html#images Download from it doesn't require any registration, and data offere is in the usual HGT format Last edited by gap; 02-17-19 at 08:26 PM. |
02-17-19, 09:59 PM | #200 |
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Grey Scale is never going to work in SH5 for detail such as Helgoland.
We already know that so why waste time with it? The 256 shades stuff is for SH3/4 not SH5. Only the main terrain files use that old system and we know the detailmasks use a different system. Now why do the old files still use the old system? Because they didn't want to waste time creating a whole new system for a Game built on something from 2004 or so! They just improved some areas and left the old stuff in place because it works. You don't replace something that works. You just improve it in areas that make sense and saves development time and money. I find the 'fix' brilliant! |
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02-17-19, 10:24 PM | #202 |
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Our Friend did a fantastic job re-coding the game to give us detailmasks in the way he did.
We are finding that many things are highly mod able. Even more so then with the tools they gave us. We are finding ways to do better and faster work and never use the crazy tools built into the software. Which I find right next to useless for sane people and would bet money the Devs never really used them to build SH5! I'm not slamming the Devs. They only did what they were told they were allowed to do! Much like my job? I can not do just any thing I want. I have to follow rules and budgets also. |
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Neither do I. If there is someone to be complained, that is Ubisoft. |
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02-18-19, 08:12 PM | #204 |
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You guys are doing an awesome job! Say, how does the landscape buildup/world building of Sh5 compare with for instance IL2 Cliffs of Dover?
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02-19-19, 12:19 PM | #205 |
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gap m8 if u need a tester for your work just let me know...
btw i just installed this mod in my mod list damn look awesome ....
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02-19-19, 12:59 PM | #206 | |
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Height points in a RAW file is 10201 It's 101 floats x 101 floats From looking at the source code I see this....... const int secondsPerPx = 3; //arc seconds per pixel (3 equals cca 90m) So changing = 3 to = 1 would give us 30m (Also saw that commented out so maybe we can't do that?) Resolution for SH5 is 25m per height value is it not? Last edited by Jeff-Groves; 02-19-19 at 01:12 PM. |
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The 30-Meter SRTM dataset that we want to use in game, has a resolution of 1" (= 1 deg / 3600) whereas SH5 RAW files have a resolution of 1.5" (= [1 deg / 24] / 100). Theoretically, using github/OldCoder's exe for downsampling SRTM data to the SH5 resolution, we should apply a stepping factor of 1.5. If a similar factor was applied correctly, for a tile of 1 deg x 1 deg, I would expect an output containing 5,764,801 height points (= 2401 x 2401) rather than the full resolution 12,967,201 (= 3601 x 3601) height values. Yet, no matter what stepping factor I apply (tried with 1, 1.5, 2 and 3), I always obtain an output with 1,442,401 height values (= 1,201 x 1,201) I hope I made myself clearer now |
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02-19-19, 02:23 PM | #208 |
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Could be this line in the source.............
const int totalPx = 1201; I'm reading the code as I do back ground checks on new applicants for jobs. |
02-19-19, 02:48 PM | #209 |
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Maybe try using the data extractor yourself first... maybe I am doing something wrong though I doubt that
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02-19-19, 03:26 PM | #210 |
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Send the files your working with to my e-mail and I'll work with them.
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enviromental mod, environment, terrain, trees, vegetation |
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