09.11.2008, 09:30
Skunkmeister Wrote:What does this tool do exactly? Pardon me for asking, as I may have misread your previous post, but it just doesnt seem clear to me.
Sorry for my post being somewhat "brief" :oops: I'll clarify.
Snip from the CoastAlign help file:
When building maps one the most frustrating tasks is to get a coastline height aligned properly to the water. Initially the result is usually land seemingly suspended in midair, looks terrible. Using the FMB+ to align a coast quickly becomes very tedious, boring and error prone. CoastAlign is designed to greatly simply this task by "automagically" aligning coastlines to bodies of water.
CoastAlign does not simply set all water elevation to 0 meters; lakes, rivers and other bodies of water above sealevel are aligned at the proper elevation.
Restrictions and limitations:
Due to the averaging done by the IL2 3D rendering engine, CoastAlign may miss a few segments of a coast, these occurances are rare but you should manually inspect your coastlines in FMB+ just to be sure.
The reference water/land map (map_c) must be in "uncompressed" format, use the Map_c Toolbox to generate a reassembled file if no unformatted map_c file is available.
The map_c and map_h files must be size compatable i.e. map_h scale is 1:4 of the map_c file.
The map_h file is overwritten during the alignment proccess - as always - make a backup of your map_h file before procceeding.