Terrain model name can not be more than 8 characters

Novapoint Noise uses some old routines to calculate terrain profiles in the terrain model. These have a limitation from the old operating system DOS, which is that file names should not have more than 8 characters, followed by a ”.” and up to 3 characters in the file extension.

By calling these routines with a longer file name, a memory error could occur. These could result in the program crashing at random sometime later in the program session.

Therefore we now block this possibility and give a warning, requiring the user to change the file name before the noise module communicates with the terrain model.

Note that the path of the file has no limitation, so that e.g.:

C:\This is quite a long directory name\And so is this\MyModel.tmg

is a valid file name, while:

C:\MyOwnModel.tmg

is not, since “MyOwnModel” is 10 characters long.

We are working on removing this limitation.