• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Ground2k starting for CFS2

R

rhumbaflappy

Charter Member
Hi all.

Ground2k is the only program we have to draw roads, shorelines and streams in CFS2. The program works fairly well, but sometimes crashes while scrolling the background image. This is a fault of Visual Basic 6.

I've written a small C# loader program that will change the desktop to 16 bit color depth, run Ground2k, then return the desktop to 32 bit on exiting Ground2k.

The loader is made to run on WindowsXP, and may need service pack3. It may also run on Vista.

Another help is to use 8 bit images for background bitmaps in Ground2K.

http://webpages.charter.net/ludowr/G2kStarter.zip

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Another useful tool for terrain work is LEC.

http://webpages.charter.net/ludowr/LEC.zip

( LOD Extents Calculator )

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Where to get Ground2K?

Ground2K at AVSIM Library:
http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2002util&DLID=33006

Ground2K runtime DLLS at AVSIM Library:
http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2002util&DLID=33007

Ground2k author = Christian Fumey

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

A problem with VTP1 polys is present in CFS2, causing artifacts... the fix is to run the assembly file through a fixer program:

http://webpages.charter.net/ludowr/VTP1Fix.zip


+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Dick
 
BUMP. this is a big bump but i thought this a VERY useful thread for those of us like me starting on Landscape work in CFS2. Thank you Rhumba i was tearing my hairs what is left of them trying to get Avism Library to divulge where it had hidden Ground2K you saved my hairs and a lot more.

:salute:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top