Hi

Im trying to parse the terrain.dll (hope im looking at the right dll?) to read terrain data in real time for a terrain following radar and its associated E-scope display but not having much luck with figuring out how to do it. Anyone here have some tips?

Thanks

Look into the simconnect manual, there is a call to get the terrain height of a location. Parsing dlls isn't the right start.

No, I didn't try this out yet, as long as I don't get bathymmetry compiled whatever I tried up to now I have no need for it.

Quote from Naruto-kun on May 3, 2012, 10:15
apologies i should have mentioned this from the start although i thought i would need to go the same route for P3D since i missed that ground info thing. Im doing this for FSX not P3D although i would be happy to make it for P3D as well....IF i can get it for FSX.

Check out the FSdeveloper website. There is a lot of technical documention there on reading BGL files etc.
This might be a better approach, than trying to do it through simconect ?? (or maybe not )

In any case, FSdeveloper is a great resouce, and there are many GOOD technical people there, always willing to help and share infomrmation.

As far as I can remember, the technique used involves setting some number of fwd "probe objects" and reading the radar height returns, then using those to interpolate terrain "shape" from evaluating the returned data.