I would like to hear the opinion of programmers regarding the means for automatically creating real routes. Well, at least landscapes, elements of nature.
So, my thoughts on this matter:
1. Creation of relief, basemaps - TransDEM is almost certainly ideal for this. One automation tool already exists.
2. Filling the map with the environment: here you need to implement some kind of system of object snapping to coordinates so that the right tree is in the right place. What can be in the role of anchor? Colour? For example, if you make basemaps in TransDEM, then in Photoshop, paint visually defined areas with colors corresponding to a specific class of objects (shrubs, conifers, mixed, etc.). Next, in TransDEM, select the painting of the ground according to the basemap. Then, through a script, place the object on all the places painted with this color. Rotation randomly, accuracy is ideally adjustable.
For buildings it is more difficult: the rotation angle must be taken into account. You can not take into account, rotate after placing manually. But in this case, you will need a bunch of building classes: sorting by number of storeys / newness / purpose. Therefore, it is necessary to create a kuid database, as I understand it, which will be loaded by the script.
With splines it is still more difficult, most likely only by hand. Although in the same TransDEM it is possible to export paths directly from the program to the map. Of course, without considering the track profile. To take into account the profile of the path, you need to determine a certain zero point, set its height, and then dance from this point, using the profile of the path, again, from some table (a database in which there is a distance of the section and its slope). The maximum that can be done in this way is spline embankments, roads, grass. And for splines, a classification must then be made too.
3. The ultimate dream, of course, is the creation of such things based on AI, which would analyze materials, such as video from the cockpit, and build a landscape. But this is absolutely fantastic.
So, what are the chances of doing something like that? Basically, to collect all the automation methods invented by people into something coherent. The construction of routes will accelerate, the number of abandoned and long-term routes will decrease, I think this will only make everyone better.
So, my thoughts on this matter:
1. Creation of relief, basemaps - TransDEM is almost certainly ideal for this. One automation tool already exists.
2. Filling the map with the environment: here you need to implement some kind of system of object snapping to coordinates so that the right tree is in the right place. What can be in the role of anchor? Colour? For example, if you make basemaps in TransDEM, then in Photoshop, paint visually defined areas with colors corresponding to a specific class of objects (shrubs, conifers, mixed, etc.). Next, in TransDEM, select the painting of the ground according to the basemap. Then, through a script, place the object on all the places painted with this color. Rotation randomly, accuracy is ideally adjustable.
For buildings it is more difficult: the rotation angle must be taken into account. You can not take into account, rotate after placing manually. But in this case, you will need a bunch of building classes: sorting by number of storeys / newness / purpose. Therefore, it is necessary to create a kuid database, as I understand it, which will be loaded by the script.
With splines it is still more difficult, most likely only by hand. Although in the same TransDEM it is possible to export paths directly from the program to the map. Of course, without considering the track profile. To take into account the profile of the path, you need to determine a certain zero point, set its height, and then dance from this point, using the profile of the path, again, from some table (a database in which there is a distance of the section and its slope). The maximum that can be done in this way is spline embankments, roads, grass. And for splines, a classification must then be made too.
3. The ultimate dream, of course, is the creation of such things based on AI, which would analyze materials, such as video from the cockpit, and build a landscape. But this is absolutely fantastic.
So, what are the chances of doing something like that? Basically, to collect all the automation methods invented by people into something coherent. The construction of routes will accelerate, the number of abandoned and long-term routes will decrease, I think this will only make everyone better.