Just to let you know: I am currently migrating the tileedit tool (which allows to visually traverse the planetary texture and elevation quad-trees and has some basic elevation editing capabilities) from Matlab to Qt.
The Matlab dependency was always sub-optimal both for developers (Matlab licenses aren't free) and users (the Matlab runtimes are free but huge). So hopefully both these issues will go away by migrating to Qt.
I am currently in the process of re-implementing everything to the same level of functionality as the Matlab version, before doing any additional stuff. Most of it is there already, except for the elevation-editing part.
If you want to compile for yourself, I have updated the sources on github (https://github.com/mschweiger/orbiter-tileedit). You will need Qt to compile it (I used Qt5.6.3) and then either Qt-Creator or (better) the Qt plugin for Visual Studio for editing and compiling. Note that the Qt version hasn't been merged into the master branch yet, it's in the 1-qt-migration branch.
Let me know of any issues. Out of interest: Do coders here have experience with Qt, or are you using different tools for creating user interfaces?
Edit: Below is a link to the current development version of tileedit. I'll update this occasionally whenever I merge a new feature branch.
tileedit 190726-beta
The Matlab dependency was always sub-optimal both for developers (Matlab licenses aren't free) and users (the Matlab runtimes are free but huge). So hopefully both these issues will go away by migrating to Qt.
I am currently in the process of re-implementing everything to the same level of functionality as the Matlab version, before doing any additional stuff. Most of it is there already, except for the elevation-editing part.
If you want to compile for yourself, I have updated the sources on github (https://github.com/mschweiger/orbiter-tileedit). You will need Qt to compile it (I used Qt5.6.3) and then either Qt-Creator or (better) the Qt plugin for Visual Studio for editing and compiling. Note that the Qt version hasn't been merged into the master branch yet, it's in the 1-qt-migration branch.
Let me know of any issues. Out of interest: Do coders here have experience with Qt, or are you using different tools for creating user interfaces?
Edit: Below is a link to the current development version of tileedit. I'll update this occasionally whenever I merge a new feature branch.
tileedit 190726-beta