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| STEP 2: Create a sector file, fix the goddamn file format, and make the airport. by pinback 05/09/2016, 3:15pm PDT | ||||
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| Tracon initially stores sector files as UTF-16-encoded XML. That makes dicking around with it difficult (for me). So I used Sublime Text to save it as UTF-8, and it seems to work just fine. If this comes back to bite me later, I will cry, but so far so good.
I then used airnav.com and my good ol' "findfix.sh" script to get the location/elevation of the ABQ airport, and add a single fix. I created the airport in the editor itself, where you can see where I entered the lat/long/elev values, but then I manually edited the file and added the fix info. Which worked, which is great, because then I can just write a script, once I have a full list of the fixes, to loop through them, find their locations, and automatically shove them all into the XML. A job I thought would take hours will take... well, still hours, but just to write all the scripts. Then once it's time to go, boom, done. Look at this awesome sector!  |
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Here is the thread where I build out a TRACON sector for the game Tracon! 2012 by 05/08/2016, 4:07pm PDT  STEP 1: Writing goddamn python and shell scripts by 05/09/2016, 1:38pm PDT STEP 2: Create a sector file, fix the goddamn file format, and make the airport. by 05/09/2016, 3:15pm PDT Oh yeah, and here's the full sector file as it exists right now. by 05/09/2016, 3:17pm PDT You'd have to escape all the opening and closing angle brackets, sadly by 05/09/2016, 4:59pm PDT STEP 3: Good Christ almighty is the editor a piece of shit by 05/10/2016, 7:45am PDT STEP 4: Fuck this shit. by 05/10/2016, 11:16am PDT |
