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David: You are awesome!!!
d2.n: I could be wrong, but I don't think David can easily instruct Google Earth to save a kml file. I am working on a SKINbedder skin that will do that by sending key macros to GooPs and Google Earth.
My config /w 3 car pics:
Oh, David: Now that the config allows auto-tilt, can we have a checkmark/hot-keys for that?
My idea is that if you ever press Tilt/Zoom/Rotate, it will turn off just that form of tracking. There's another button to dissable/enable all tracking. Once you touch Tilt/Zoom/Rotate, that button would auto depress so that the next press will restore all tracking.
Ok... one more request for tonight.
This is a very strange one, but do you think you could make a hot-key to copy the Lat/Long to the clip-board in this format: "45.123,110.456"
I need it so when you want directions to some where, it automatically fills in the "from location". (unless you know a way to tell Google Earth that the from location is the screen-center).
I could possibly do it myself by creating a new placemark, checking advanced, switching tabs, copying the Lat, canceling the placmark, pasting the Lat, then doing the whole thing over again to get the Long. If you could just display it in an editbox or copy it directly to the clipboard via hot-key it would work much better.
RPM: check out http://www.keyhole.com/kml/kml_tut.html
and look at section "4.1 Tracking a Point Directly Under Your View".
Not as nice as having the lat/long easily accessible in txt form, but will easily create a placemark at around the center view (that should be easily hidable). this method would also let you set directions from any "center" point, ie pause goops or whatever GPS pipe, move to the desired start location and determine directions with whatever method you are developing.
Seems like the easiest way to implement 'from' location for directions is w\ placemarks. having a placemark at current position and refreshing driving directions every few seconds would be a feasible way of adding routing.
Looks good RPM!
I'm adding another field to the config table to control the scaling of the image. That way you can use just one image file. It's just about ready for release.
I also made the config table parser a bit more robust - so you can have blank space.
I'm glad the .png's work. I'm not sure how the others are getting the alpha stuff to work on the .bmp files. I'm not finding it. I think for now you'll just have to use .png. If using .png is a major inconvenience I can try harder to make .bmp work.
Originally Posted by RPM_VR4
Thanks for the ideas.
I can easily save the kml to a file for either the selected vehicle or for all vehicles via a keyboard shortcut. This would be to canned names like "Me.kml" or "MyFriend.kml". I'm too lazy dig up all the file dialog stuff - besides GE already does that.
David: You are awesome!!!
d2.n: I could be wrong, but I don't think David can easily instruct Google Earth to save a kml file. I am working on a SKINbedder skin that will do that by sending key macros to GooPs and Google Earth.
Done. It'll be in the next release today or tomorrow.
I also added an AutoTilt checkbox and hot-keys.
Ok... one more request for tonight
This is a very strange one, but do you think you could make a hot-key to copy the Lat/Long to the clip-board in this format: "45.123,110.456"
I need it so when you want directions to some where, it automatically fills in the "from location". (unless you know a way to tell Google Earth that the from location is the screen-center).
I could possibly do it myself by creating a new placemark, checking advanced, switching tabs, copying the Lat, canceling the placmark, pasting the Lat, then doing the whole thing over again to get the Long. If you could just display it in an editbox or copy it directly to the clipboard via hot-key it would work much better
PNG are great! You can do alpha-blends so they are way better than BMPs.
If you can save the KML file, that is wonderful. I would totally love an option to automatically save the current trips KML to a flash key or something on shutdown/hibernate. It should save it with a time-stamp name. That way my flash key would contain a GE log of every trip I ever take... just like GPS Secure, but in Google Earth.
Auto-scaling the image is cool too, but that's not on the top of my feature request list. I think the 3 sizes I have set up work pretty well already.
I have a decent start on the Mercury7 style skin now. I still have a lot of work to do to add OSK-entry functionality and make the graphics look better though. In the mean time, I modified the CF-style SKIN to work with GooPs. I will post that with a new version of Sb on Monday probably.
Keep up the good work!
1.6 - 2/19/06
Added a SpeedTrack feature (more eye candy!)
Added a Save capability (Ctl-s)
- SpeedTrack renders your track in multiple segments that are colored based on speed.
- SpeedTrack changes your 3D cursor’s color based on your current speed.
- SpeedTrack is currently only available for the "local" vehicle (host="localhost").
- SpeedTrack causes many separate tracks to be sent to Google Earth. You may need to shorten the overall track length to avoid bogging down your system.
- You can’t "tour" a SpeedTrack in Google Earth (actually you can but it’s not pretty). For this reason, the "Save" capability will always save a "TourTrack" along with the SpeedTrack segments.
Added a capability to save the current position to the clipboard (Ctl-c)
- The track is saved in kml format in the current directory.
- If the registry key HKLM/GooPs/SaveDirectory exists, the file will be saved there.
- If SpeedTrack is active, a "TourTrack" is saved with the SpeedTrack segments.
- The "local" (host="localhost") vehicle’s track is now saved at program exit.
Added an AutoTilt checkbox
Made the AutoZoom config table parser more robust (allows spaces)
Added an image scale factor to the AutoZoom config table
For example the following table:
0, -1000, -80, c:\src\goopsv1.5\test\mycar.png
5, 800, 70, c:\src\goopsv1.5\test\mycar.png, .75
20, 3000, 50, c:\src\goopsv1.5\test\mycar.png , -.5
50, 3000, 45From 0 to 5 mph the image will be absolutely scaled by 1 (the default).Added shortcuts -
From 5 to 20 mph the image will be scaled by .75
From 20 to 50 mph the image will be scaled by the current range/1000 times .5
From 50 mph on the 3D cursor is displayed.
ctl-e - AutoTilt on
alt-e - AutoTilt off
ctl-r - SpeedTrack on
alt-r - SpeedTrack off
ctl-s - Save selected vehicle’s track
ctl-k - Save selected vehicle’s track to GE
ctl-c - Copy current location (lat/lon) to clipboard
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