Polak

All, thanks for the replies and encouragement, greatly appreciated!

 

Kevin,

The program is really designed initially to read existing Target Areas (i.e., Target Area 15 - Cat Bi) from a default Targets.ini file (i.e, VIETNAMSEA_TARGETS.INI), convert to FSSC format, and write it back out to a Thirdwire .ini format. FSSC is very, very nit picky and one wrong entry/file structure will throw up multiple errors.

 

Now, with that out of the way, once someone understands the logic of how the headers are generated, it is very easy to make a 1-minute quick fix as a work-around. Tannethal provided me his custom Ubon Airbase Target Area, and I successfully imported his file which holds an incredible 446 target objects into FSSC for manipulation, and back out again to a 3rdWire .ini file. The only problem with this quick shot approach, is you may lose some benefits of my translation functions, which include proper scaling of the objects width/length...but again I've designed the program to be really open-ended and scalable, so even then you get around that limitation. So in summary, short-term custom files can only be converted using a quick work around, long-term I expect to integrate this capability. If you're really interested in the capability to work with your pre-built target areas, send them my way and I can give them a quick test.

Hi guys ....

Long been away, but this topic brought some old memories.

So for being so nice and too kind to bring my name in acknowledge of my early research here is little tasty secret you might want to try.

FSSC has one interesting format in import . It is an *.apt which is Airport for Windows a little, but well known at the time creator of airports in FS. Try to find it because it is worth to have it and here is why...

Airport can read sca files (scasm) which is decompiled form of bgl. And bgls files are of FS sceneries all available on the web for nearly each area and each airport in the nearly entire world. What is ONLY needed is just another converter capable to read bgl (BGLanaliser is just one of them).

So... bgl BglAnaliser->sca->into the Airport ->apt into the FSSC->Third Wire.

I know takes some manipulation, but the resources become quite abundant in return.

Best regards and S!

Great terrain. Its just tiles correct? Your terrain can be added or vice versa to the Desert Target Zone?

Thank you all for support.

Yes, it is just tiles and nothing else. Though, as mentioned in Readme they were done for Gepard's recent terrain. In fact he is working on new desert stuff as well as making labourous and time consuming corrections to cities which as you can perhaps notice are in some instancies little off. Still I have to emphasize that without His hard work on terrain this tileset would not be as much fun to use as perhaps it is now and even further could be in future, if further improved.

Time permitting I am planing to remake it once again, but this time that would be more extensive Project than ever (roads, powerlines, pipelines and other elements).

As far as tiles being too green... It is valid point. They turned out to be that way, but mainly because of the configiration of terrain tiles which I had not too much control over. If there was another "nature" transitioning forested fields to fields maybe grassland and then to desert - all would look more naturally. This is the reason why I am thinking about one more update to this desert interpretation of mine.

So meanwhile, try to have fun with what available ( and try the water at high level).

I have finally completed what I call 3DGenericLibrary#1 - set of 56 objects shown on the below picture with more details given in the respective thread on 3rd Wire Mod forum.

For the reason that I am not sure if the larger textures wont affect frame rates, I decided to treat it as Beta and for now only announce this here and not upload to this or any other file distribution site. However, I 'd share this package with terrain designers, or anyone who wants to use them as an replacement to the stock objects and by doing so - test them. Please send me PM with your address and I gladly furnish you with this package. All details, instructions, credits and explanations are included in the readme.

I am hoping to continue this Project in the future by making other more specific and subject oriented packages.