Make GeoTiffs and legends from .grd files
Pre-steps
- Open Geosoft Viewer
- Drag and drop .grd file into program
- The file should show up under Grids in the Data menu to the left
How to create geotiff file from .grd
- right click the file and select "Open in New Map"
- With the newly opened window in focus (might need to double click the .map file in the left menu) go to Export -> Map
- Default settings should be fine, select where you want to save the geotiff
How to brute force legend from .grd file
- Right click the file and select "Open in New 3d View"
- In the newly opened window, select the grid object under "Plane"
- Select the Legend tab in the bottom left
- Click "Edit Legend"
- Adjust the values to make a reasonable sized and formatted legend.
- Example values that might work:
- Font size 4
- Decimals 4 (depends on data)
- Box height 2.5 (does nothing)
- Box width 10
- Maxiumum height 150
- Post min/max True
- Screenshot legend and add it into your unity project
- Ask Chatgpt what unit this dataset would use, this will be guesswork so keep in mind it might be totally wrong.