Landscape Editor - Parameter Display Area

This is a panel to the left of the map canvas which displays parameter information about the current map.

Map Definition

  • Map Size: Geographical size of the map.
  • Grid Spacing: The distance between grid points.
  • Grid Size: The size of the map in grid points.

Heights

  • Maximum and Minimum Heights: These two values define the height range over which colors will be drawn for grid points on the canvas. Heights falling outside this range will be drawn with the same color as the maximum or minimum height.
  • Vertical Scaling: Multiplication factor to be applied to the heights when drawing. Defined as a percentage of actual height.
  • RGB Display: When checked height colors are drawn from blue (lowest) through green to red (highest). If left unchecked heights are drawn in shades of green.

Trace Parameters

  • Color Tolerance: This defines the range of colors that will be recognized as belong to a contour line for the Auto-Contour trace tool.
  • Density: Density of line required to be recognised as continuous for autotrace function.

Background

  • Loads a bmp image 'behind' the canvas to help whith defining a landcape. This is typucally a topographic map.