[Tool]Graphical map elevation measurement - HeightmeterV.04 - Printable Version

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[Tool]Graphical map elevation measurement - HeightmeterV.04 - zipzapp - 15.10.2009

Edit: Program is substituted with the ZipNav navigation tool and no longer supported.



As a bomber or divebomber you must know the elevation of your aim. This tool displays the map in question and the heigth and position under the cursor in meter or feet.



This works with all fully modded maps. If you want it to use although with standard maps, you must extraxt them with the sfs-extractor and add them to the mapmods\maps folder (Or any other folder). Addings to the all.ini arn't nessesary.

Installation:
Throw the prog somewhere into your rig.

Usage:
Run the prog.
Select Unit/Show meter or Unit/Show feet.
Select "Map" and a maps folder (not a file) and click "ok".
Prog trys to find the needed files. If this fails (These modders just don't respect the standard nameing rules) a file requester opens. Select a file named similiar as "ed_m02.tga" and - holding the Strg key - a file similiar "map_h.tga." Click ok. The map and height & position under the curser is displayed. Move the map using the scrollbars of needed.
Before closing the prog save the path to the map folder and the desired unit using "Save/Save path .." The next time the prog opens with these parameters.

Known bugs: Displayed position differs sometimes a little bit, yet don't know why.
Known unknown bugs: There is something wrong with the maps orientation byte in many files, don't know why. I found a rule to fix this, but i don't know if this realy is a general rule. If not, the height of a future map may be wrongly displayed.
Unknown unknown bugs: How shall i know?

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- I./KG51_Hara - 15.10.2009

Bingo!
That's what im looking for. Thx!

Now i need some Navigation Instruments like in Silent Hunter for that...^^

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- zipzapp - 15.10.2009

Well, i although thought about that - of course it's possible, but this is my first prog ever with graphics, so be patient ;-) Next steps may be a zooming in funktion and a grid overlay; if i get this, the rest should be, well, not so absolutly impossible ;-)

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- Baco1170 - 15.10.2009

Grate tool, THANKS!

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- philhl - 16.10.2009

Thank you for the tool!

It is very easy to use and helpful!! Thanks a lot for it!

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- aimador - 16.10.2009

nice job, m8! very useful. but as you said, zoom would be cool.
but thx anyway *thumbsup*

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