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[Timsher]

Sorry to bump an old topic, but I'm trying to keep all the support questions I get here...

hesynergy, on ,, said:

Hey guy!...I finally got my scenery to show using your tutorial.  Well done!!....

[snipped shameless plug  :D ]

1. I noticed that you were going to do an alpha channel tutorial for the water...do you have any tips on that and creating a light map ?

Hi,

Thanks for your interest, the alpha channel is simply a seperate bitmap file
where all the water is colored black and everything else is white,  the
photo scenery generator then merges these two bitmaps (the scenery and the
bitmap) in the final product.
A lightmap is simply what the scenery will look like after dark, I usually
accomplish this by increasing the contrast of the scenery, darken it, and
then apply a yellowish tint.

Example:
Original Scenery

Watermap (alpha channel)

Lightmap

Edited by Timsher, 14 May 2005 - 03:28 PM.

[boeing_737]

A SUPERB Article Timsher!
Very Well done!

[SamGuest]

hey thats cool, if i buy some satelite images for the North East of England would some one make the scenery files for meh?  

[Greeney]

did you try google Sam?>

[Hurock]

So in fact when someone is providing a free photorealistic scenery... he paid for it ?
Sorry for the bumping.

Edited by ExTrA, 11 July 2005 - 02:54 PM.

[SamGuest]

I'm going to try and make some tonight

Is it possible to delete it if u mess it up

[Timsher]

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So in fact when someone is providing a free photorealistic scenery... he paid for it ?

Not always, the methods I show here use public domain imagery at no cost to the developer...

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Is it possible to delete it if u mess it up

Just delete the directory that you built the scenery into and the fs9 library reference to the scenery...

[wildwobby]

YOUR BACK!

[Hurock]

Timsher, on Jul 12 2005, 02:16 PM, said:

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So in fact when someone is providing a free photorealistic scenery... he paid for it ?

Not always, the methods I show here use public domain imagery at no cost to the developer...

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Is it possible to delete it if u mess it up

Just delete the directory that you built the scenery into and the fs9 library reference to the scenery...

Where can I find those public domain imagery ?

[Hurock]

No one knows ?

[Hurock]

Am I alone here ?

[Hurock]

I think I will never know where I can find a free public domain imagery.......

[Timsher]

ExTrA, on Jul 16 2005, 12:13 AM, said:

I think I will never know where I can find a free public domain imagery.......

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the methods I show here use public domain imagery

The only source I personally know of is from the usgs, which is the scenery used in this tutorial (on the first page)

Edited by Timsher, 16 July 2005 - 02:11 PM.

[Hurock]

Ok... Thank You. Maybe I will find something.

[nicoseco]

hey guys! a question ... where can i get outside usa images .... is there any site? and also wanted to know if i can get the images from google earth? THANX!

[JordanD]

I can't find the fs2000 terrain sdk. If I try to do the build BGL in photo scenery maker it says resample.exe is invalid (because I think I have the fs2004 version). Will someone help me?

[Timsher]

Um, the link is in the first post...
http://download.micr...Terrain_SDK.EXE

[JordanD]

I'ts not working though! Whenever I hit run whole process it tells me resample.exe version is invalid. What does this mean?

[Timsher]

I don't know, I just downloaded it and tried it out and it worked fine for me. Try this to see if it helps
-download and extract the terrain sdk to an empty folder
-extract the zip file to the default "C:\fs2000"
-open photo scenery maker, click options
-point the terrain sdk path to the "C:\fs2000\terrain" folder

[Pierre.]

Nice and well explained tutorial, but where can i fing BigJPEG?