Importing attributes maps
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:15 pm
Hi Everyone,
I've added a new interface for importing attributes maps from colour images. The new menu option is 'File->Import->Attributes map->Import from colour map', and the user guide for the plugin (such as it is) is on-line here:
http://www.bundysoft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=plugins:fileio:atimportam&#using_atimportam
Please note that the importer is currently only available in L3DT Professional v2.9 build 9, which is on the downloads page now (as of the 17th of Feb). This option will be included in builds of the Standard (free) and Torque editions in the next few days.
The importer allows you to assign land types to each of the colours in the map using climate / land type drop-down lists. The interface looks like this:
I hope users will find this interface to be a improvement over the 'old way' of importing colour-mapped attributes maps, where there was no interface for assigning land types to colours, so you had to make sure that every colour in the map exactly matched the display colour of one of the land types loaded into the map project.
This is very much a 'first cut' of the attributes map importer, and I intend to make further improvements to it before L3DT v3.0 is finalised. Please feel free to make recommendations, and double-plus please report any bugs you find.
Best regards,
Aaron.
I've added a new interface for importing attributes maps from colour images. The new menu option is 'File->Import->Attributes map->Import from colour map', and the user guide for the plugin (such as it is) is on-line here:
http://www.bundysoft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=plugins:fileio:atimportam&#using_atimportam
Please note that the importer is currently only available in L3DT Professional v2.9 build 9, which is on the downloads page now (as of the 17th of Feb). This option will be included in builds of the Standard (free) and Torque editions in the next few days.
The importer allows you to assign land types to each of the colours in the map using climate / land type drop-down lists. The interface looks like this:
I hope users will find this interface to be a improvement over the 'old way' of importing colour-mapped attributes maps, where there was no interface for assigning land types to colours, so you had to make sure that every colour in the map exactly matched the display colour of one of the land types loaded into the map project.
This is very much a 'first cut' of the attributes map importer, and I intend to make further improvements to it before L3DT v3.0 is finalised. Please feel free to make recommendations, and double-plus please report any bugs you find.
Best regards,
Aaron.