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I hope someone can help me .... I would like to add maps of Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn et al to the MapMFD ... but I haven't been able to find a config file for Map MFD.

Also I cant find the brown wire frame Mars and Moon maps which Map MFD uses - I was hoping to change them ...
Using Orbiter 2010 NG with D3D9

Thanks in advance
 
The vector maps that you see for Earth, Moon and Mars are located in these files:
  1. <ORBITER>/Config/<BODY>/Data/coast.vec
  2. <ORBITER>/Config/<BODY>/Data/contour.vec
 
Thanks Orb :tiphat:

It's not as easy as I thought it was going to be :( Replacing or adding bitmap images isn't the way to go and sadly I don't have the software to read or edit .vec files.

Not to worry maybe there is some freeware out there? :hmm:

orb said:
The vector maps that you see for Earth, Moon and Mars are located in these files:
  1. <ORBITER>/Config/<BODY>/Data/coast.vec
  2. <ORBITER>/Config/<BODY>/Data/contour.vec
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They don't appear to be legit .vec files according to VecDraw (freeware).

"The input stream is not valid"
 
That's most likely because they are using a custom format, and not VecDraw's. If you look inside those files you'll see that they contain latitude and longitude coordinates of points.

More informations about new MapMFD maps are in "[MapMFD] Custom Maps?" thread.
 
Thanks again - having taken a look at the thread you linked to, I now have a better understanding of what I need to do and it doesn't appear to be too difficult.

orb said:
That's most likely because they are using a custom format, and not VecDraw's. If you look inside those files you'll see that they contain latitude and longitude coordinates of points.

More informations about new MapMFD maps are in "[MapMFD] Custom Maps?" thread.
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