[Romans]

Dear NL-Team,

please make the LOAD KML FILE in the sky options dialog working (for both: studio and plugins).
It would be very useful too if the location height over 0.00 (sea level) could be added too

At the moment you only get Latitude and Longitude 0 with any google earth saved KML-file.

Is this a bug or only disabled?

Thanx,

Regards, Roman

[thxraph]

as there is not height over sea level option - which BTW would be great - what do you want more to be imported from the kml?

thxraph

[Romans]

@thxraph: as written above: that the location values come into the sky-options (for me here only 0 for KML-files)...

Regards, Roman

[tom]

Hi Romans, I tested again and it's working here, which plugin are you using?

[Romans]

Hello Tom,

thank you for your attention.

i am using the max plugin, but in studio (V1.1) it is the same result for me:

everytime when I load a kml-file, saved in google earth, I get no values for Latitude and Longitude, they will state 0 both. So I dont know what is wrong. Or have I to opt for another method? (simply typin in the values is possible too.... )

What about the height value?

Thanks for answering.

Regards, Roman

[tom]

Height is not supported because Maxwell doesn't have altitude support, only at sea level. KML files are working fine both with 3dsmax plugin and Studio here. Can you send me a KML file which fails?

[Romans]

Hello Tom,

thank you for taking time for this problem (which might be none?).

I have just sent you some kml-files for checking.

The height issue: If there is no height support then we will have to rise our geometries to the desired levels...for example a city at +300 m we have to lift up the situation to this +300 m to get the right light conditions.

Or am I wrong?

Regards,

Roman

[tom]

Hi Romans,

No, I mean current sky model of Maxwell does not take care of height. It wouldn't make difference rendering something 300 m above or below.

And I checked the KML files you've sent. There are 2 issues about these:

1 - Maxwell doesn't support KML files which store multiple locations.
2 - Maxwell doesn't support KML files which doesn't have snapshots.

Here are the solutions to the corresponding issues above:

1- Open KML file in Google Earth and save each place individually.
2- Open KML file, righclick on placemark and select "Snapshot view" then save.

Now , they should work
Let me know if you have further problems.

Best regards,
Tom

[Romans]

Hello Tom,

thank you very much for answering quickly!!

Now with your help it is working fine here.

No problems so far.

Last question or whish:
There are plans to implement height in the sky model?
This would be very good.

Thanks again.

Regards, Roman