VLM users

[McCloudSpark]

I spent a little time with VLM and have a question.
I made a Litchi mission for a fly around at a friends house and when I used VLM everything looked great. The Google Earth image was 3D and it looked like a real fly-by. Next I made a mission to fly around a rural property (house and shop) and when I ran it in VLM the Google Earth render was almost completely flat. The fly-by was useless for checking for obstacles. So I thought maybe it had something to do with not having proper "street view" data. I used Google Earth to find a water tower in a small town and it had a good "street view". I created a Litchi mission to circle the tower and then used VLM to fly it. It rendered flat again. No elevation at all.
Am I missing something?

 

[desert spark]

Are you using the Google Earth Pro version??
I ran a bunch of simulations yesterday and the ones out in the desert the hills were just fine and I could simulate flyiing between them and if I hit one the video would bounce along the ground. Great for setting up flights over hills and such.

 

[McCloudSpark]

Yes - Google Earth Pro and VLM 2.3.0

 

[desert spark]

That's odd.
I downloaded my version yesterday and it was 1.0.5 Hmmmm????

 

[desert spark]

Maybe I will try the latest version however if yours wasn't working right ?????????

 

[McCloudSpark]

I followed this link Virtual Litchi Mission Viewer (VLM) that Ted Schoenfelder posted in another thread. If you go there the 1st post has a DL link to version 1.0.5 but further down in that thread (message #9) has a link to version 2.3.0 x64 (a 64 bit later version).

 

[tmtwomey]

Under Google Earth options, select the 3D View tab, go to the terrain section and set the 'Elevation Exaggeration' to 1. If this is set to .01, everthing will appear flat.

 

[McCloudSpark]

Under Google Earth options, select the 3D View tab, go to the terrain section and set the 'Elevation Exaggeration' to 1. If this is set to .01, everthing will appear flat.

Thanks for the thought - I looked and it is set to 1.
The pictures show what I'm talking about. I both cases I'm about 100' up and at about the same distance but PIC1 is way flatter looking than PIC2. Both were created in exactly the same way.
Thoughts?

 

[rhettduke]

Interesting....I used the 1. Something version and it was lacking a bit in graphics... but for price great tool.
I stumbled on the ver 2 and I can set my altitudes as normal....however Litchi app won't allow me to render a number higher than 164 in setting max altitude...I want back to Ver 1 and had no issues going between 3 to 390 feet....re installed ver 1 and I can set again...any suggestions ?

 

[McCloudSpark]

I just tried mine and no issues setting the altitude of a waypoint anywhere between -656 and +1640. I'm using IOS version 2.6.4 on an Ipad Mini-4. Maybe I misunderstand what you mean by render.