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CFS3 Terrain Creation - is anyone still around?

Global Mapper

I have an older copy of GM from 2008, I think. Will see if I can get it to work again. I use Google Earth to map out two areas. I now need to be sure the areas are square for CFS3, 1835 km per side. Once that is done and I can fire up GM...well see. If you have suggestions as to placement or area to be covered let me know.
 

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I have a small victory in that I can use Microdem to create the .bil that ers2tiff will recognize. I have only tried with srtm30 data. I dont have photoshop so I cannot create
a landclass tiff that the tools will recognize. Not sure if there is another way.
 
sdsbolt said:
I have a small victory in that I can use Microdem to create the .bil that ers2tiff will recognize. I have only tried with srtm30 data. I dont have photoshop so I cannot create
a landclass tiff that the tools will recognize. Not sure if there is another way.
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Doesn't Gimp achieve the same effects?
 
Having not gotten far enough to have a tiff to work with, I was assuming other programs could do the job too?
 
thanks for the tiff export suggestions guys. Ive tried with a few programs but tiff2lcf.exe wont load them. Back in the day Martin Wright found it would only work with tiff created by photoshop. Not sure if it has changed since then.
 

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heres the test map if anybody can covert to 32bit tiff that fits needed description. Needs to be 768x768 and colors must stay pure green and pure blue with no transition
 

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Looks like conversion to jpg caused some artifacts and it isn't pure green and blue. What was the original file?
 
Where did you get Mircodem

sdsbolt said:
I have a small victory in that I can use Microdem to create the .bil that ers2tiff will recognize. I have only tried with srtm30 data. I dont have photoshop so I cannot create
a landclass tiff that the tools will recognize. Not sure if there is another way.
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Link to download Mircodem?
 
Thank you Andy, that worked! Only small problem was a few extra colors (blue-green and black) got added to the texture. Most likely its because I shared original as a jpeg. I am able to work around the few extra colors by adding a few more terrain types for now. Thank you again.
 
Spoke to the developer and he sent me the link, thanks!!!
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You can use Microdem but if you already have a copy of Global Mapper I would probably stick with that. GM seems easier to use and more robust. Microdem seems to crash easier and can be fussy about the data it uses. My issues with Microdem may be due to my inexperience and I am certainly thankful to the developers for this program.

We also have a tutorial on using GM to create mesh which makes things easier.
 
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