RippedHalo 10 Posted July 29, 2013 Alright guys, I've been lurking around the Visitor forums for a few months now trying things out, hitting issues, and piecing together solutions. I tend to refrain from making any posts myself unless I really have to, but now seems like the time to get active. I'm working on replicating my home town, and I've based my progress off ZeroG's real-world tutorial. Despite its age, the tutorial stays pretty true to the programs it addresses, so props to ZeroG for that. As has been discussed somewhat in the tutorial's thread, Global Mapper isn't freeware and can cause some issues for someone who loses access to the program (such as myself). Global Mapper provides a number of services critical to the replication of a real-world location including picking the location and size of the map, defining its coordinates, overlaying satellite/road maps onto the height map, and then compiling and exporting the data for use in Visitor 3. As you all probably already know, Global Mapper costs $400. There is the option of obtaining a two-week trial, but that obviously expires. There has to be a way to get around this. Not specifically through Global Mapper, but through another method. Possible solutions I've seen suggested are Microdem, L3DT, and Wilbur, but I've run into separate sets of issues with all of those programs and I'm not convinced that I'll reach the same end state that I would if I had a full license for Global Mapper. So, what do you guys do when you have the .tif file with your uncropped height data and Global Mapper isn't an option? If we can find a solution to this problem here, I think it'd help a lot of people who are pulling their hair out after carefully crafting their way through ZeroG's tutorial only to not be able to export their data and whatnot. Regardless, I'd like to thank you guys who linger around the forums and help us plebeians get started. It's obvious that the learning curve is steep, and it's good to know that there are some people out there willing to help you up from time to time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
james2464 177 Posted July 29, 2013 I'm sure someone can address your problem more specifically but for what it's worth I would wait to see what BIS do with the new tools for Arma 3 as it could solve some issues you're facing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bushlurker 46 Posted July 29, 2013 You could take a look at Quantum GIS... It's a free, pretty fully featured GIS program which handles rasters & DEM's and projections, shapefiles and most of the other usual GIS stuff that Global Mapper does... B Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RippedHalo 10 Posted July 29, 2013 I'm sure someone can address your problem more specifically but for what it's worth I would wait to see what BIS do with the new tools for Arma 3 as it could solve some issues you're facing. Perhaps the post is a little over-encompassing, I get that. Call me impatient but I've been at this for a while now and waiting for another x number of months for the ArmA III tools to get situated isn't very appealing. ---------- Post added at 12:08 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:07 AM ---------- You could take a look at Quantum GIS... It's a free, pretty fully featured GIS program which handles rasters & DEM's and projections, shapefiles and most of the other usual GIS stuff that Global Mapper does... B Looks interesting, I'm giving it a try now. Thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
