Converting DEMEX data to XYZ format.

[bristolian]

Hello all,
I've just installed DEMEX 1.5. I've read the tutuorial on Terraforming in 5 easy steps, and the replies to the subject.
I read that with DEMEX, you can convert the data from .hgt to XYZ, and then import into TS Tools. Can you only do this in the registered version?
And how do you go about converting the data? (I'm new to MSTS!)

Thanks, Bob.

[johny]

It is MICRODEM that will convert hgt files into the xyz format used by TSTools, so that TSTools can do the terraforming. DEMEX is a terraforming tool in its own right, but therein lies a problem, the spatial mismatch between MSTS and the real world. Any markers you plot using exact OS coordinates will be out by a couple of kilometres both eastings and northings

If you use MICRODEM and then TSTools to do the terraforming, you can use the map free placement facility in TSTools to align the map to the topographic map and then plot the markers.

MICRODEM by the way is free and is available from http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/ ... crodem.htm

John