OHM Surface Tile calculator v5.0a

[OrbitHangar]

Author: ar81

This is a useful app for developers who might want to add surface tiles to their surface bases.
If you add tiles converted to BMP in the directory where this calcualtor is, you could be able to see your tiles and locate points.

Only latitude/longitude works properly in the tile display, coordinates in meters still need some tweaking.



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[Spacethingy]

Coupled with Google Earth, this thing is a MUST for base makers! :thumbup:

Just one thing, I can't seem to get the tile viewer to work. Doesn't really bother me, that's not what I use this very useful tool for.

Dead useful for aligning surface tiles, thankyou.

 

[fort]

Just one thing, I can't seem to get the tile viewer to work. Doesn't really bother me, that's not what I use this very useful tool for.

Not sure but it seems to remember me - after some repetitive search in the past - that :

"To add tiles to the viewer, just save them as 256x256 BMP files in the same directory of the Surface tile calculator." ( from the readme ).

...means that the bmp must have the same coordinates 's name than the tiles.

An Earth_0_w0001_n0073.dds will be for the bmp in the viewer: Earth_0_w0001_n0073.bmp.

But, as ar81 said it in the past, it's not a really good tool to view/find precisely the POS of an object in the viewer. For many reasons, but also because i think that the trigonometry formula that he used for calculating that POS is incomplete; neglegt ( néglige ) one or two values/considerations.

" ar81 : I tried to work bases with the surface tile calculator.
Latitude/longitude coordinates work fine, but the scaling doesn´t work for base coordinates POS parameter. As I converted longitude to POS using planet radius,I am getting some bias. "

 

[Stevodoran]

Anyone here getting this problem?

 

[orb]

Anyone here getting this problem?

There you go.

 

[Stevodoran]

There you go.

Thank you Orb, that problem is solved but now i get this:

 

[dgatsoulis]

Thank you Orb, that problem is solved but now i get this:

This looks similar to an error message of another of ar81's addons Meshwizard 1.9d

Go to your control panel - regional settings and change the decimal point symbol from a comma (,) to a dot (.)

Also try running the application as an administrator.

Hope this helps

 

[Wishbone]

Not sure I want to run an application that snubs the majority of the world population by relying on a specific locale for number conversion...

 

[Enjo]

A matter of using proper GUI toolkits, such as wxWidgets, QT, or Java's