SceneryCheck: tool to validate scenery design

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SceneryCheck: tool to validate scenery design

Post by lemontois » Sat Jan 24, 2015 11:23 pm

Various discussions on the forum dedicated to Condor show errors or defects in the delivered scenes.
The consequences range from simple objects without texture (white) to blue screens, or error messages (such as "Airport not installed").
So I decided to create a tool for use by scenery developers "SceneryCheck" to verify whether the scenery they develop contains or not known anomalies.
This tool was initialy provided months ago for the French community , but as I have also implemented an English version I wanted to make it available for the international community by posting in this forum.

This is a Windows program , no installation needed.
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The main features of SceneryCheck are:
- 2 modes:
* "Basic":
Verify if the scenery installation seems correct
- List of scenery directories (inluding the number of files)
- Check of the basic Condor files (.ini, .apt, ..)
- Check if airports defined in .apt file are present in the scene
- Check for anomaly in the directory structure (incorrect extract of muti-archives sceneries may be detect at this stage)
- Check if all the texture files required by the scenery.bmp file are present

* "Developper": performs more advanced on the existence of textures referenced tests.
- Ability to display the results in a tree format with icons indicating the type of anomaly encountered
- Multiple levels of detail (minimum, standard, Maximum)
- Possibility to check only certain areas of:
* The definition of airports (scenery.apt analysis)
* Defining objects (scenery.obj analysis)
* All file objects in the tree view of the scenery
- Counters can be reset to zero
- Memorizing the options checked and registers
- Possible resizing the main window of the application (with backup at the exit of the program).
- Establishment of "hints" (help message when hovering the mouse buttons)
- Multilanguage (French + English)

Main indications identified by SceneryCheck:
- Missing or present texture
- Texture referenced outside the selected scenery or Condor public directories.
- Textures reporting errors found (wrong file extension, wrong syntax)
- The name of airports with a " " in 16th position (=> "Airport not installed" error)

Objects utilization:
Each object found in the scenery directory is checked and a summary (if "generate tree" enabled) is available with two main parts:
- one for all the textures files present in the scenery but not referenced in any texture files from the scenery
- one with the textures referenced (including how many times they have been referenced).


Although this program is particularly intended to scenery designers, it can be run without risk by any user of Condor.
No changes to the system is performed by SceneryCheck (only one file "SceneryCheck.ini) will be created in the current directory to store the options and window position.

Version 1.4.3 is available here

I hope this tool will help the International Scenery developper community .

If you find bugs or incorrect translation (non zero probability :wink: ) , please let me know .

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PDS - Lemontois

" Never fly lower or faster than your guardian angel"
My Tools for Condor2: CondorCheck2[FR/EN] - SceneryCheck2[FR/EN] - CondorRacesRefly2[FR]
CondorCheck2 & SceneryCheck2 also available at Soaring Tools

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Re: SceneryCheck: tool to validate scenery design

Post by OXO » Sun Jan 25, 2015 7:25 am

What a fantastic thing to do for the community. We thank you!
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Re: SceneryCheck: tool to validate scenery design

Post by lemontois » Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:57 pm

OXO wrote:What a fantastic thing to do for the community. We thank you!
Thank you OXO , the GUI is not very sexy but i hope it will be useful.
I also developed a program before this one named "CondorCheck" .
CondorCheck is focusing on the Condor configuration , disk usage, registry export, basic scenery check, access to VirtualStore data .
But still in French ...Maybe it could be also a candidate to the translation (?)
PDS - Lemontois

" Never fly lower or faster than your guardian angel"
My Tools for Condor2: CondorCheck2[FR/EN] - SceneryCheck2[FR/EN] - CondorRacesRefly2[FR]
CondorCheck2 & SceneryCheck2 also available at Soaring Tools

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Re: SceneryCheck: tool to validate scenery design

Post by tberry » Wed Feb 11, 2015 5:21 pm

Thank you very much for sharing this tool with the scenery design community!

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Re: SceneryCheck: tool to validate scenery design

Post by finnk » Wed Apr 04, 2018 12:59 pm

Any chance to get these tools? and are they working with Condor 2?

Thanks in advance! :)

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Re: SceneryCheck: tool to validate scenery design

Post by JBr » Wed Apr 04, 2018 1:26 pm

This tool won't work with V2.

Basically, V2 tools for analysis and batch changes of paths in C3D, batch material changes in C3D, texture analysis (missing textures referenced in C3D files, finding unused textures in landscape folders), OBJ analysis (finding objects not used in the landscape, finiding overlaping objects in the landscape) already exist, as I did them for Cadfael. Unfortunately they are all just prototypes and cannot be released in this form, but I will release them one by one once I find some time to finish them.
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Re: SceneryCheck: tool to validate scenery design

Post by finnk » Wed Apr 04, 2018 5:55 pm

Awesome! Thanks :D

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Re: SceneryCheck: tool to validate scenery design

Post by lemontois » Tue Apr 17, 2018 7:22 pm

finnk wrote:
Wed Apr 04, 2018 12:59 pm
Any chance to get these tools? and are they working with Condor 2?

Thanks in advance! :)
Yes , could be easily adapted for Condor2 (and enhanced) if I get the specifications of the new file formats.
A big part of this tool needs only very slight adaption for Condor2.
PDS - Lemontois

" Never fly lower or faster than your guardian angel"
My Tools for Condor2: CondorCheck2[FR/EN] - SceneryCheck2[FR/EN] - CondorRacesRefly2[FR]
CondorCheck2 & SceneryCheck2 also available at Soaring Tools

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