I consider myself to be a pretty savvy computer user, but I stumbled through filling in all the data for the TerraGear GUI thinking: "Cool - a GUI to edit the scenery for my local airport!" Apparently I misunderstood. I'm not sure what it resulted in other than a manually-compiled scenery folder on my desktop.
The
OGR Decode step was particularly confusing. When I clicked "Retrieve shapefiles" it populated the following in the left-hand column:
Airports
cs_drycrop
cs_urban
SRTM-30
The instructions say: "On the right list you'll add the materials, per shapefile. Each single shapefile on the left, should have a material assigned on the right."
I have very little idea what this means. Opening up the "Material" drop-down displays various shapes/materials. By guessing, I filled in the following:
Airport
DryCrop
Urban
[nothing matches SRTM-30]
But there are multiple DryCrop entries, multiple Urban items, etc. How am I to know what to select? I double-clicked the SRTM-30 entry to make the error about 'unequal number of shapefiles and materials' go away.
[edit] Thinking through that again, there's a comment in bold on the wiki stating:
Warning: *_landmass MUST be mapped onto the material Default.I saw nothing that indicated Landmass, so guessing I retrieved the shapefiles again and mapped
SRTM-30 to the first of the two "Default" entries and re-ran the 'Decode shapefiles and apply material' operation.
It appears to have completed. But there was no 'editing' of my local airport to be had.
Gijs, can you please steer me toward a method to edit/enhance my local airport and surrounding area?