Post by gamesdecent on Mar 1, 2019 10:18:32 GMT -5
chadgolf - Thanks for all the work you put into this, it's truly revolutionary for the game and will reduce the workload of a lot of people that make RCR's, and will also provide a lot more real world courses for the people that play the game. On to my results.
I thought your tutorial was very easy to follow for the most part. I did an import of Cypress Point LIDAR data using your tutorial and was able to get it imported into my plot, but have a couple questions about parts of the process that didn't work as intended that you may can help shed some light on.
1. In the part where I drew my rectangle around the course, at first it said no LIDAR data available. But when I reduced the size of the rectangle, it brought up multiple options for LIDAR data. I'm thinking this might have been due to Cypress Point being on a coastline and my original rectangle included some part of the ocean that hadn't been mapped, so even though the course itself has data, some point within my rectangle didn't, so it was telling me there was no data at all. Does that sound right? This isn't really a problem that you can or need to fix, I'm more just trying to understand the process.
2. There were two different datasets for the same year that I chose for Cypress Point. I think it was 2014 data that was published in 2016 if I remember correctly, I'm at work right now so I don't have my download folder in front of me. My best guess is that maybe the coastline is mapped in a different dataset from the more inland portion of the course? TaS on HB mentioned he had issues getting the two datasets to merge correctly, but I wasn't even able to get to a point to where I could get my bearings because of problem #3.
3. The OSM data didn't pull into the course file even though Cypress Point has been mapped in OSM by someone. I'm thinking this might be due to the elements not being ID'ed as surfaces in OSM? I need to watch the OSM tutorial video you posted when I get time, but from what I read, it matters how each green/fairway/tee/etc. element is labeled?
4. My mask didn't work. I initially thought it was because Paint3D's shade of red is different from the MSPaint shade of red in the tutorial screenshot, but another thought was that the default file type in Paint3D is a project file instead of .png and maybe I didn't save it correctly, so I need to retest this one when I get some time.
Again, thanks for all the hard work! I'll definitely throw you some bucks once I'm able to get this thing to do all my heavy lifting for me.
I thought your tutorial was very easy to follow for the most part. I did an import of Cypress Point LIDAR data using your tutorial and was able to get it imported into my plot, but have a couple questions about parts of the process that didn't work as intended that you may can help shed some light on.
1. In the part where I drew my rectangle around the course, at first it said no LIDAR data available. But when I reduced the size of the rectangle, it brought up multiple options for LIDAR data. I'm thinking this might have been due to Cypress Point being on a coastline and my original rectangle included some part of the ocean that hadn't been mapped, so even though the course itself has data, some point within my rectangle didn't, so it was telling me there was no data at all. Does that sound right? This isn't really a problem that you can or need to fix, I'm more just trying to understand the process.
2. There were two different datasets for the same year that I chose for Cypress Point. I think it was 2014 data that was published in 2016 if I remember correctly, I'm at work right now so I don't have my download folder in front of me. My best guess is that maybe the coastline is mapped in a different dataset from the more inland portion of the course? TaS on HB mentioned he had issues getting the two datasets to merge correctly, but I wasn't even able to get to a point to where I could get my bearings because of problem #3.
3. The OSM data didn't pull into the course file even though Cypress Point has been mapped in OSM by someone. I'm thinking this might be due to the elements not being ID'ed as surfaces in OSM? I need to watch the OSM tutorial video you posted when I get time, but from what I read, it matters how each green/fairway/tee/etc. element is labeled?
4. My mask didn't work. I initially thought it was because Paint3D's shade of red is different from the MSPaint shade of red in the tutorial screenshot, but another thought was that the default file type in Paint3D is a project file instead of .png and maybe I didn't save it correctly, so I need to retest this one when I get some time.
Again, thanks for all the hard work! I'll definitely throw you some bucks once I'm able to get this thing to do all my heavy lifting for me.
