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Narita Airport in Tokyo

Hi SH-M
Outstanding job in Tokyo. I love it. Thanks for all the efforts. (and thanks for giving me push access)

Now. Onto the comments and some request corrections

1. HighQuality branch
Great news. There is no effect on fps with the larger resolution texture. It works great. I think you can go ahead and merge into master, and deal only with 1 version here. You make the last call, but again, the HighQuality branch is much better, and the scenery is perfectly fine in low spec computers

2. Windows and *NIX namespaces
This is kind of very important thing. *NIX is caps sensitive. As in JET6.png is not the same file as jet6.png. When you have this difference between your texture and your ac.file then in Windows looks good, but as soon as you go to MaCOSx or any linux thing go twisted, and errors pop in the console like there's no tomorrow.
Also, it is good computing practice (again, a *NIX thing) NOT to include whitespaces in file names, that is, preffer t1_pc.png over 't1 pc.png'
I fixed these for you here
https://github.com/SH-M/RJAA-fg-CustomScenery/commit/8b779d557b8ba8c53201a12f56c40681cf78983a

3. Backup directory (tell D-ECHO too )
Git is a great Source code management tool that stores the history of all your files in blobs. You don't need to ask it to also track history of backup files -- that's redudant. Anytime you need a backup file from a previous time in your repo, you just ask git to read the file as it was on any given commit as in



That will restore the file to "how it was" on the commit a4493df, effectively being a "backup". You can restore single files or even full directories. or full repos: as in



That command creates a branch "backup" and there it restores your repo, as it was on a4493df. Regardless of this commit being 1 day ago or 10years away.

Sure. This will work until the day someone decides to trash history (not pun intended, I've seen it happening)

Thus,
I removed the backup directory with historical terrain (as it is unnecesary!)

https://github.com/SH-M/RJAA-fg-CustomScenery/commit/dfcb33f5a697b2b5dd5ac7e8eddf97da9c057ce8

4. The point you were expecting: the Elevation problem

You are going to need to pass this info to D-eCHO as well.

It is my opinion that the buildings are floating because the terrain was generated without a terrain profile. Everything thus got flattened with an elevation of zero.(that's bad). Need to get the SRTM for elevation (the correct ones), and reconstruct.
after that, if buildings are still floating, a solution needs to be found.



In any case I created a branch named elevTest.
Here I merged master into HighQuality (bringing the new Elevation profile to HighQuality), and then putting the scenery objects at 0.00 feet high. As I suspected, they now sit cute on the ground level, indicating that the elevation profile was not encoded when terragear was run.

https://github.com/SH-M/RJAA-fg-CustomScenery/commit/fac0fab5e1f5a60b3f0858fe113c5a412cfc84d2

So, since I suspect that, I suggest you communicate to D-ECHO to please verify the terrain build


When he does, if buildings still float, figuring out the correct elevation is easy.

Best,
IH-COL

Ok Roger will talk with D-ECHO.

And thanks for your effort.

Having never used any UNIX based OS (Windows user since birth) I didn't know about the caps-sensitive issue, I'll make sure I follow the tips on my next build.

SHM

Removed out of this toxic forum.

Decided to repost them here since the topic is without any pictures of it.

Ok
@D-ECHO

Lets try this

Use the SRTM that I just pushed into the repo on "terrrain" branch as the Elevation source

https://github.com/SH-M/RJAA-fg-CustomScenery/tree/terrain

https://github.com/SH-M/RJAA-fg-CustomScenery/tree/terrain/source/work/e140n30

This needs to be added to your "work" path, and maybe redirect the --dem-path=SRTM-3

Let's see if it works.

Hi @ALL

Ok. I rebuilt the terrain of Narita, now without failures on elevation, and buildings, just as expected sit normally on the ground without further adjustment.
I merged the new terrain in both master and HighQuality branches on RJAA repository.

Also, as you can read on the other thread, I already terraGITted this scenery

IH-COL
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