[Marginal]

Edit: Latest version lives here.

This is a simple scenery editor for v8/v9 DSF overlays.

The main limitations are:
- It's slow on large sceneries (especially on the large MSFS conversions that I've been using it for).
- Doesn't show terrain or autogen scenery.
- No undo (so save often).
- Only edits DSF overlays, not full DSFs or ENVs.

Here's a screenshot:
 screenshot.jpg (132.92K)
Number of downloads: 1532

This post has been edited by Marginal: 22 December 2007 - 12:19 AM

[Marginal]

Windows 2000 and later. (Haven't tried on 95/98/ME, but I doubt that it will work).
You'll need a PC capable of running X-Plane v8.
You don't need to install any additional software.
Internally it's Python and OpenGL.

[Sean P.]

what does it draw from windows that macs don't have?

[Marginal]

what does it draw from windows that macs don't have?

Nothing - it works OK on my Mac. But it needs PyOpenGL and PIL (and wxPython if you're on 10.3) installed. I couldn't find Mac binary packages of PyOpenGL and PIL so I tried to include them in the application bundle, but I'm getting a lot of errors when I do this.

For people who are prepared to do a bit of compiling and are prepared to troubleshoot, you need:

PyOpenGL. To build:
cd to download dir
edit config/darwin.cfg and remove ":/System/Library/Frameworks/Kernel.framework/Headers" from the line that starts with "include_dirs="
$ sudo -s
$ python setup.py install

PIL. To build:
cd to download dir
$ sudo -s
$ python setup.py build_ext -i

Edit: and, only if you're on 10.3, install wxPython.

This post has been edited by Marginal: 21 May 2006 - 02:19 PM

[Sean P.]

thanks, I was about to try to find all those on my own. I'll let you know how this works.

edit: ok, fink is a must to install some missing libs, I still have not gotten it working. I can see why you didn't initially distribute it .

This post has been edited by Sean P.: 17 May 2006 - 12:17 AM

[Dhruv]

If you're running Python 2.4 on the Mac, you can get a prebuilt PIL binary here:

http://homepage.mac.com/daniellord

[Dhruv]

*grumbles*

No such luck...here's a Console dump:

CODE

|DapCMIPostMenuCleanup-I-Debug;g
DapCMI->DapCMIPostMenuCleanup(instance: 0x15c18ae0)
2006-05-17 01:53:19.870 SystemUIServer[211] *** -[MDMoreNode cachedItemForKey:]: selector not recognized [self = 0x15c8c550]
2006-05-17 01:53:19.870 SystemUIServer[211] *** -[MDMoreNode cachedItemForKey:]: selector not recognized [self = 0x15c8c550]
[00000271] main playlist: nothing to play
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/dhruvk/Desktop/Downloads/OverlayEditor_100_mac/OverlayEditor.app/Contents/MacOS/OverlayEditor.py", line 9, in ?
    from draw import MyGL
  File "/Users/dhruvk/Desktop/Downloads/OverlayEditor_100_mac/OverlayEditor.app/Contents/MacOS/draw.py", line 2, in ?
    from OpenGL.GL import *
ImportError: No module named OpenGL.GL

[Sean P.]

and I am getting the same problem.

CODE

Mac OS X Version 10.4.6 (Build 8I127)
2006-05-17 10:50:10 -0400
2006-05-17 10:50:11.445 SystemUIServer[87] lang is:en
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/spolun/Desktop/OverlayEditor_100_mac Folder/OverlayEditor.app/Contents/MacOS/OverlayEditor.py", line 9, in ?
    from draw import MyGL
  File "/Users/spolun/Desktop/OverlayEditor_100_mac Folder/OverlayEditor.app/Contents/MacOS/draw.py", line 2, in ?
    from OpenGL.GL import *
ImportError: No module named OpenGL.GL

I think my pyopengl and PIL is installed correctly, anybody having trouble with the command line can try getting them off darwin ports.

[Marginal]

I think my pyopengl and PIL is installed correctly

CODE

ImportError: No module named OpenGL.GL

means that it's not installed where your copy of Python can find it.

[Sean P.]

ok, the path to the module is /opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/OpenGL/GL/__init__.py

what would I modify in draw.py to import from there? I am learning python right now, but I don't know enough yet.

edit: Ok, my book on python says " If you didn't start python from the same directory in which you stored the [example] file, then python might not be able to find the the file and might report an error. If so, then you can create an environment variable called PYTHONPATH that holds a list of valid directories to search for modules (in addition to the standarf modules supplied with Python). Creating envrioment variables is a platform-specific operation that I assume you either know how to do or can find out!"

So yeah, how would I do that?


second edit: expanded path for module

This post has been edited by Sean P.: 17 May 2006 - 11:46 AM