Comments on: What Hath Ted Wrought

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 15:04:50 +0000

In reply to Jonah. XSB is not a Laminar Research product and news about it will not be announced on this blog.

By: Jonah

Jonah — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 05:43:16 +0000

Are there any news about XSB 64-bit? 😀

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 01:19:57 +0000

In reply to Chris K.

Maybe some day – please file a wed bug at http://dev.x-plane.com/bugbase/ (or better yet, contribute a patch :-).

It’s not my highest priority – no one has ever asked for it before, and I have never come across a .jp2 file in my data searches. We use GeoTIFF almost exclusively for the internal global scenery work.

By: Chris K

Chris K — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 01:13:51 +0000

Any chance of supporting .JP2 format in addition to GeoTIFF?

Many providers are shifting to JPEG-2000 with the GeoCoords embedded in them (as the files are much smaller now than TIFF) as their preferred method of distribution. The USGS (which is the source of much of our imagery, and is free) has also moved many iamge sets to JP2.

There are command line utilities (geojasper) which can convert .JP2 to. TIFF, but would hope that we could skip that step if WED can directly read the Geospatial data directly.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 05:31:16 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik.

Thanks for the explanation Ben.

I said Geootiffs but actually i mean images in general (every other format), i haven`t found any for my country (Brazil), at least not Good/Free to use images. That`s why im using only some for personal use at the time. Still its very time consuming, i believe it will be much easier in the new WED`s release if i got it right.

I`ll see about a free to use models collection, guess a lot of guys will come up with nice models. And that`s beside the already existing model libraries like Open Scenery X, RuScenery, etc…
Was just a thinking in a way to increase the number of objects of the default library. Im having some nice results using OpenSceneryX with OSM2XP for now.

Well, just saw the Wed Contest on the Org today, time to remove my ortophotos and contribute with some airports 😀

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:30:43 +0000

In reply to Roberto.

Hi,

First, you don’t have to use geo-tiffs, you can hand position other formats – you’ll still get automatic conversion to DDS, LOAD_CENTER directives and .pol generation. It’s just more time consuming.

Second, no plans to accept user contributions into the default library – that’s out of the scope of this particular project, but not a bad thing for a third party to organize.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:17:00 +0000

Thanks
That`s good to hear. Looks like Ted made an awesome work with it. Sadly i haven`t found any geotiffs for my country. But still im making some sceneries with Google Images for personal use, for now im using 2 methods, 1 is to check both ends of the runway in Google and then move the runway in Wed to the right position, then i place the image above it and resize it to match the runway. Another method i use is to place 3 objects (buildings) on OSM and then place 3 random objects on Wed at the same coordinates they are on OSM, then i resize the image until it matches. Both methods are good but not so accurate, second one is worst.
Hope i find some good geotiffs to work with WED 1.3. Thanks Ted!

By the way, BEN, are there any plans to accept users model donations to be used with the “Lego brick idea”? I know there is a lot of models to be used, but mainly hangars and terminal are just a few, it is still hard to find good matches for small airfields, either the small hangar is to small and the medium is too big. lol
Keep the good work guys. Regards, Bob.

By: willzah

willzah — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 02:36:53 +0000

In reply to Mario Donick. wow thanks! knew this was possible, tried so many times googling it and no avail... in win will try it thanks

By: Tom Knudsen

Tom Knudsen — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:49:35 +0000

Wish to send an gratitude to Ted and the rest of the team for the work on WED! With this new feature I believe will see even more airports created based on ortophotos etc.

By: Mario Donick

Mario Donick — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:55:18 +0000

In reply to willzah. willzah, for now you can simply write a shell script for adding a line to your thousands of .pol files:


for f in *.pol; do

echo -e "\r\nTEXT TO BE ADDED" >> $f

done

Replace "TEXT TO BE ADDED" with the line you want to add and execute the shell script in the folder where your .pol files are stored. On Linux and Mac this should work out of the box, on Windows you may get win-bash.