Perforce JViews Maps for Defense Sample: Custom Terrain Analysis

Description

This sample shows how to use the terrain analysis API and overwrite standard algorithms.

How to Use the Sample

Line of sight: this line of sight has been changed to display its points as visible if the terrain is above the altitude at which the line of sight starts. The terrain cut chart is also changed to reflect this fact, by drawing a horizontal line.
You can change the altitude of the point of view in the layer styling sheet.
Terrain analysis: the terrain analysis creates an image where each point has the altitude multiplied by a ratio.
You can change the ratio in the layer styling sheet.

How to Run the Sample as an Application

This sample can be run as an application. The installation directory contains an executable JAR file, terrain.jar, that allows you to execute the sample with a double click from a file browser. Note that if you are using Internet Explorer, you can open the installation directory and execute the JAR file from the browser. This technique may not work in other Web browsers.

Alternatively, you can run the sample application from the command line. First check that the Ant utility is properly configured. If not, see the instructions on how to configure Ant for Perforce JViews.

Then, go to the installation directory of the sample and type:

ant run

Topics Covered

JViews Map API.
DTED reader.
Terrain Analysis.

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