draw simple landscape

Bug #880258 reported by Alexander Wolf
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Bug Description

Feature request by skoop from cloudy nights forum: Simple interface to draw personal obstruction "mask" to the landscape but above the horizont.
For example if there are buildings or huge tree.

Original feature request: http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/4861872/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1

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Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab) wrote :
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Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) wrote :

Yes, it is similar

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Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) wrote :

Screenshot from forum

treaves (treaves)
Changed in stellarium:
status: New → Opinion
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milestone: none → 0.13.0
assignee: nobody → gzotti (georg-zotti)
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gzotti (georg-zotti) wrote :

The new polygonal landscape type is the requested landscape type. I think one of the benefits is that is really easy enough to write the azimuth/altitude lines manually into a horizon file, or even create/extract it from an instrument file (total station etc).

Alternatively, a web interface, clicking x/y values in a horizon (panorama) grid, is all we would need here. The values can be added via PHP to the HTML below the image, and then copy-pasted into the horizon file. (I have done such a thing before.)

Now, I want to see 25 "I desperately need this web interface" before implementing even this. Doing it interactively inside Stellarium may be done as an optional (GSoC?) plugin.
G.

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Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab) wrote : Re: [Bug 880258] Re: draw simple landscape

PHP is an overkill, I think it can be done in JavaScript. :)

I had started writing a landscape-editing app for the /utils directory,
similar to what we have for the locations list. I need to look at how far
it had gone.

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gzotti (georg-zotti) wrote :

Sorry, I indeed meant Javascript. It was late...

What I had done was finding pixel coordinates for scanned maps in a globe
texture mapping helper. Similar functionality could just print az/alt
coords over a coordinate grid. These data can go in a horizon.txt.

This is reasonably simple to make. Doing vertex edits interactively in
Stellarium is what I really consider overkill (cost/benefit - wise).

But entering these data manually is also no big deal, so I wonder if it's
needed at all. Matter of taste, as always.

G.

On Di, 25.02.2014, 13:37, Bogdan Marinov wrote:
> PHP is an overkill, I think it can be done in JavaScript. :)
>
> I had started writing a landscape-editing app for the /utils directory,
> similar to what we have for the locations list. I need to look at how far
> it had gone.
>
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> Title:
> draw simple landscape
>
> Status in Stellarium:
> Opinion
>
> Bug description:
> Feature request by skoop from cloudy nights forum: Simple interface to
> draw personal obstruction "mask" to the landscape but above the
> horizont.
> For example if there are buildings or huge tree.
>
> Original feature request:
> http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/4861872/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1
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Changed in stellarium-website:
status: New → Opinion
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
assignee: nobody → gzotti (georg-zotti)
Changed in stellarium:
milestone: 0.13.0 → 0.13.1
gzotti (georg-zotti)
Changed in stellarium-website:
assignee: gzotti (georg-zotti) → nobody
Changed in stellarium:
milestone: 0.13.1 → none
gzotti (georg-zotti)
Changed in stellarium:
assignee: gzotti (georg-zotti) → nobody
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Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) wrote :
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