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Hi, I would like to use the VTP for 3D bulding reconstruction from GIS data(2D building footprint). I have no experience in the VTP and also GIS data ...
Le Minh Tuan
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Jan 3, 2005
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... I believe you can do this in VTBuilder. You need only supply the footprint, and a desired number of stories of height. ... Well, the source code is all...
Eric Hammil
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Jan 3, 2005
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Hi Listers-- I am working on visualizing southern oak-pine forests and was wondering if there might be a (free) set of 3D tree and/or understory models I could...
Ben White
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Jan 4, 2005
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... Are you certain you want to use 3D Trees? The polygon count in the scene will rise dramatically if you do, and framerates will drop proportionally. It...
Adam Hauldren
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Jan 4, 2005
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All, What is the most elaborate example of VTP usage available? What example has Trees, Buildings, Streets, Navigation with Geographics Cordinates, etc? Peace...
David Williams
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Jan 4, 2005
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Hi simahao, I looked into the problem. I found it is: the font. Currently Enviro is hard-coded to look for "Fonts/Arial.ttf" on the VTP data paths. This...
Ben Discoe
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Jan 6, 2005
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Adam, Thanks for pointing out Arboro; it actually wasn't on the VTP site yet, and it looks interesting. I've added it now. To me, the main advantage of a tool...
Ben Discoe
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Jan 6, 2005
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David, Sadly, all the most elaborate examples of VTP usage can't be shown. They are internal projects at companies and institutions that aren't allowed to ...
Ben Discoe
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Jan 6, 2005
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3474
... The Plant Studio enables you to use its output/result if you register it - which is free - as the website states: "The new free registration code for...
Andras Sarkozy
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Jan 6, 2005
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3475
Indeed it would be nice if we could find a way to incremmentally increase the veg. database. I know USDA has a lot of species they've developed for FVS. I...
Ben White
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Jan 6, 2005
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... Glad to be of use ;) ... Absolutely... ... Also agreed. I have a copy of TreeDesigner (a plugin for Lightwave) and that is commercial, but with...
Adam Hauldren
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Jan 6, 2005
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... This was my point to David in my original reply. Polygonal tree models are invariably too weighty for realtime use unless they are decimated to the point...
Adam Hauldren
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Jan 6, 2005
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... Do you have a source for this? I wasn't aware of the USDA having a library of their own, and if there is such a thing, I'd like to point some USFS people I...
Eric Hammil
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Jan 6, 2005
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Ben, That would be nice. Bag up the Tree Design Tool, Nature Scene, Geographics with Waypoints, Navigation, and put that all in a public distribution. That...
David Williams
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Jan 6, 2005
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Ben, How about a "Call" to all on this Forum to submit whatever is missing (Legally Submit) so you can Package that up into a public Distribution? I mean.. I'm...
David Williams
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Jan 6, 2005
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Hi Eric-- Right, sorry, I meant SVS, not FVS (although I believe the latter draws to some extent on the former?). In any case, their web site is: ...
Ben White
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Jan 6, 2005
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Ben, There is Someone with an Auto reply on this Forum. Thank you for your email. IEEE Member Services has received and will respond to your email as soon as...
David Williams
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Jan 6, 2005
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... I don't believe SVS uses billboard trees of the type VTP does. They use sort of a 2D/3D bottle-brush technique: ...
Eric Hammil
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Jan 6, 2005
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Doh. Stumped again! --Ben W. ... From: Eric Hammil [mailto:eric@...] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:40 PM To: vtp@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [vtp]...
Ben White
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Jan 6, 2005
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David, It's a fine idea, creating some glue between the VTP and commercial plant libraries. It could be as straightforward as a single species.xml file which...
Ben Discoe
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Jan 7, 2005
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Ben and David-- That would be incredibly helpful. This sounds like the way to go! --Ben ... From: Ben Discoe [mailto:ben@...] Sent: Thursday, January...
Ben White
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Jan 7, 2005
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Hello, I've been reading your digests with interest, and following the VTP site for some time, although I've yet to put it to any real use. My apologies if...
Nik Clark
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Jan 7, 2005
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Nick-- We've tiled the SRTM Digital Elevation data to WRS-2 tiles (the same tiling scheme used by Landsat: http://landcover.org You can download this for...
Ben White
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Jan 7, 2005
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SRTM elevation Data with 90 cell size is available free for the whole europe below 60 latitude at http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ Or another possibity is let...
Harri Lilja
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Jan 7, 2005
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SRTM data is availkable for Normandy for free. It is 3 arc second res, which at that latitude works out to be about 90 by 70 meter per cell... You can download...
Adam Hauldren
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Jan 7, 2005
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... Cool idea Ben. What did you use to do this, and are the WRS-2 tiles available online? I assume that the SRTM data was also reprojected? SRTM data is in...
Adam Hauldren
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Jan 7, 2005
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Adam-- Details on our SRTM processing are at: http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/srtm/ Complete with documentation, etc. As for aster, hmm.... I've heard that...
Ben White
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Jan 7, 2005
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Thanks very much for the links and suggestions Ben. I will look into all of them when I get a spare minute and contact you offlist should I have any questions,...
Adam Hauldren
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Jan 7, 2005
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I have some out of date information on ASTER DEMs on my site at http://www.beardandsandals.co.uk/uk_digital_elevation_data.htm#aster I am afraid I have not...
Roger James
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Jan 7, 2005
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Ben, Hmmm..... Well, I have no clue about VTP internals and I know you know your stuff and would help but my First Priority is programming the Android. Now,...
David Williams
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