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The DED Builder plug-in for MultiGen Creator
allows you to build Digital Elevation Data (DED) files which
can be read by MultiGen Creator Terrain Generation Tools.
Elevation data comes in many different formats; USGS DEM, NIMA
DTED, etc. Each of these original source data formats
are similar in that they represent an elevation map for a specific
geographic region. They differ in their specific format
specification. The Digital Elevation Data (DED) format
is a uniform elevation map format developed by MultiGen-Paradigm
that the terrain generation tools in MultiGen Creator can read.
The terrain generation tools in MultiGen Creator do not read
source data in its original format. Instead, they require
that the original source data first be converted to DED format.
This plug-in includes two tools. The first
tool converts elevation data in its original format to DED
format so that it can be read by the MultiGen Creator terrain
generation tools. It also allows you combine any number
of individual elevation files into a single DED file.
If you are familiar with the existing tools from MultiGen
Paradigm, readusgs, readdma and catdma,
you will recognize much of the functionality of DED Builder.
That is because this new tool, at its core, is a GUI wrapper
around these tools which were previously only available as
stand-alone utilities. In addition, it improves on the
original conversion utilities by providing a single interface
for converting all elevation data as well as a contour preview
display of the elevation data being converted or combined.
converts elevation data from its original format to DED format
so it can be read by the MultiGen Creator terrain creation
tools. The second tool lets you preview the geographic extents
covered by a DED file and also allows you to re-locate the
elevation map contained in a DED file to another geographic
area.
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