Editing Surface tile

Surface Tiles are a way to use high resolution ground textures for a small local region, usually around a base. 

The earth is split into 2048 tiles in latitude and 4096 tiles in longitude.

The surface tiles in orbiter consist of two parts: The actual tile textures for the planet and the 
surface tile definition in the configuration file of a base. 



The syntax for a surface tile list is

<pre>
BEGIN_SURFTILELIST
<texturelevel> <tilenumberfrommeridian_positive_for_east> <tilenumberfromequator_positive_north> 1
END_SURFTILELIST
</pre>

The filenames for the textures follow a similar scheme: 

<pre>
<planet name>_<texture level>_<E/W><tile number in latitude>_<N/S><tile number in longitude>.dds
</pre>

The function for getting the tilenumber in latitude is:

TN_lat = 1024.0 * latitude / 90.0

The function for getting the tilenumber in longitude is:

TN_long = 2048.0 * longitude / 180.0

Each surface tile is roughly 5 x 5 km large.
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-'''Surface Tiles''' are a way to use high resolution ground [[textures]] for a small local region, usually around a base.
+Surface Tiles are a way to use high resolution ground textures for a small local region, usually around a base.
 The earth is split into 2048 tiles in latitude and 4096 tiles in longitude.
-The '''surface tiles''' in orbiter consist of two parts: The actual tile textures for the planet and the
+The surface tiles in orbiter consist of two parts: The actual tile textures for the planet and the
-'''surface tile''' definition in the [[configuration file]] of a base.
+surface tile definition in the configuration file of a base.
-==Configuration file syntax==
-The syntax for a '''surface tile''' list is
+The syntax for a surface tile list is
 <pre>
 BEGIN_SURFTILELIST
-<texturelevel> <tilenumberfrommeridian_positive_for_east> <tilenumberfromequator_positive_north> <bitflag_for_transparency>
+<texturelevel> <tilenumberfrommeridian_positive_for_east> <tilenumberfromequator_positive_north> 1
 END_SURFTILELIST
 </pre>
@@ Line 22: / Line 22: @@
 </pre>
-The function for getting the tilenumber in [[latitude]] is:
+The function for getting the tilenumber in latitude is:
 TN_lat = 1024.0 * latitude / 90.0
-The function for getting the tilenumber in [[longitude]] is:
+The function for getting the tilenumber in longitude is:
 TN_long = 2048.0 * longitude / 180.0
-Each '''surface tile''' is roughly 5 x 5 km large.
+Each surface tile is roughly 5 x 5 km large.
-The '''transparency bitflag''' is usually '''1'''. If the tile contains transparency in the alpha channel, the bitflag has to be changed to '''3'''
-==Future developments==
-It is planned for future versions, to replace the '''surface tiles''' by a ultra high resolution [[planet texture]] (Level 15?).
-[[Category: Articles]]
-[[Category: Glossary]]