GE5 Tours, Camera relativeToGround and Terrain

[Nymor]

Hi,

I have a number of Tours for GE5 in which I move a Camera every 0.1
secs along path 1m above the ground (relativeToGround).

This is fine if I have Terrain turned off but I seem to spend alot of
time flying, rather than driving, when Terrain is on.

Am I doing simething wrong? Any ideas how I can keep my wheels
grounded. Here's a sample Tour.
http://TheKMZ.co.uk/ge/kmlfiles/f1_2009/LapTour_Australia.kmz

Thanks in advance

Regards
Nymor

[Roman N]

Hi Nymor,

I just spoke with our KML tour 'master', and (a) he loved this tour,
and so did I and (b) he mentioned that it's a known bug without a
clear workaround, unfortunately. I'll keep thinking about this and
will let you know if any ideas come up.

- Roman

On Mar 28, 1:34 am, Nymor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a number of Tours for GE5 in which I move a Camera every 0.1
> secs along path 1m above the ground (relativeToGround).
>
> This is fine if I have Terrain turned off but I seem to spend alot of
> time flying, rather than driving, when Terrain is on.
>
> Am I doing simething wrong? Any ideas how I can keep my wheels

> grounded. Here's a sample Tour.http://TheKMZ.co.uk/ge/kmlfiles/f1_2009/LapTour_Australia.kmz

[Nymor]

Hi Roman,

Thanks for the reply. Shame there isn't a workaround :(. I guess for
now I'll just recommend that people take the tours with terrain off.
Please do keep thinking on it though as a solution would be greatly
appreciated.

Also chuffed you and your tour 'master' like it :)

Regards
Nymor

ps. For anyone interested the file in which these tours exist can be
found in the Sports and Hobbies forum at
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1208042#Post1208042
Hopefully a Mod over there will like the whole collection enough to
move it to the Moderated forum so it doesn't drop too far down the
list too soon. I intend adding the remaining tours as soon as I get
time - maybe this w/e could be when I get them done.

[monte]

Who would be for hire to customize google tours?

Todd

On Mar 28, 3:34 am, Nymor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a number of Tours for GE5 in which I move a Camera every 0.1
> secs along path 1m above the ground (relativeToGround).
>
> This is fine if I have Terrain turned off but I seem to spend alot of
> time flying, rather than driving, when Terrain is on.
>
> Am I doing simething wrong? Any ideas how I can keep my wheels

> grounded. Here's a sample Tour.http://TheKMZ.co.uk/ge/kmlfiles/f1_2009/LapTour_Australia.kmz

[Nymor]

Hi monte,

Feel free to contact me via the link in my profile and I'll see what I
can do to help you out.

Regards
Nymor

(currently umemployed.. ;) )

[Nymor]

Hi Roman,

Did you have any ideas on how to solve this bug?

It would be really cool to be able to get this working properly.

TIA
Nymor

[Roman N]

Hi Nymor,

Sorry for the delay; can you verify that this still occurs in the new
version of Google Earth 5 (5.0.11733.9347)?

Also, I forgot... did you file a public bug for this? If not, go ahead
and do that, I'll look for the bug internally and link them up so I
can notify you as soon as it's fixed.

Thanks,
Roman

[Nymor]

Hi Roman,

Still there unfortunately :(

another example is the Spanish GP - as it's terrain is more
exaggerated than the Australian one in the 1st post
http://TheKMZ.co.uk/ge/kmlfiles/f1_2009/LapTour_Australia.kmz

Set the Touring options to 10m and 80 tilt with terrain on and it
bounces all over the place when terrain is on.

I didn't make a report - will try and do so now but having not done
one before I'm not 100% sure of where/what to do.

Regards
Nymor

[Roman N]

Ah, just fill out this form: http://code.google.com/p/kml-samples/issues/entry?template=Bug

Thanks!
Roman

On Jun 8, 8:09 am, Nymor wrote:
> Hi Roman,
>
> Still there unfortunately :(
>
> another example is the Spanish GP - as it's terrain is more

> exaggerated than the Australian one in the 1st posthttp://TheKMZ.co.uk/ge/kmlfiles/f1_2009/LapTour_Australia.kmz