MapMFD Adding maps to MapMFD

Scattykat · Oct 4, 2012

I hope someone can help me .... I would like to add maps of Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn et al to the MapMFD ... but I haven't been able to find a config file for Map MFD.

Also I cant find the brown wire frame Mars and Moon maps which Map MFD uses - I was hoping to change them ...
Using Orbiter 2010 NG with D3D9

Thanks in advance

orb · Oct 4, 2012

The vector maps that you see for Earth, Moon and Mars are located in these files:

<ORBITER>/Config/<BODY>/Data/coast.vec
<ORBITER>/Config/<BODY>/Data/contour.vec

Scattykat · Oct 4, 2012

Thanks Orb :tiphat:

It's not as easy as I thought it was going to be

Replacing or adding bitmap images isn't the way to go and sadly I don't have the software to read or edit .vec files.

Not to worry maybe there is some freeware out there? :hmm:

orb said:
The vector maps that you see for Earth, Moon and Mars are located in these files:

<ORBITER>/Config/<BODY>/Data/coast.vec

<ORBITER>/Config/<BODY>/Data/contour.vec

Astronut25 · Oct 4, 2012

They don't appear to be legit .vec files according to VecDraw (freeware).

"The input stream is not valid"

orb · Oct 4, 2012

That's most likely because they are using a custom format, and not VecDraw's. If you look inside those files you'll see that they contain latitude and longitude coordinates of points.

More informations about new MapMFD maps are in "[MapMFD] Custom Maps?" thread.

Scattykat · Oct 5, 2012

Thanks again - having taken a look at the thread you linked to, I now have a better understanding of what I need to do and it doesn't appear to be too difficult.

orb said:
That's most likely because they are using a custom format, and not VecDraw's. If you look inside those files you'll see that they contain latitude and longitude coordinates of points.

More informations about new MapMFD maps are in "[MapMFD] Custom Maps?" thread.

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