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X-Aviation Gizmo64 Licence.
tonywob replied to Tuppi's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
Thread locked. I suggest this is taken to PM. -
LR is growing further ...
tonywob replied to uwespeed's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
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New Map Enhancement tool
tonywob replied to MrBitstFlyer's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
Whilst it's great there are options, what is this doing differently or better than AutoOrtho already does, it seems pretty much an identical solution? Is it easier to use? I've not used either solution since neither work on Mac OS. -
Next-Gen Scenery first details!
tonywob replied to Inu's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
Default MFS uses rasters for some features (vegetation, water, elevation etc)... and that looks really good. I see this as a positive step, as long as we can fall back to vectors if we need to for really tight detail that rasters can't encode. -
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X-Plane 12.1.0 New Article & Features
tonywob replied to Inu's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
I'm probably one of the few who liked it and thought it got rid of the "flying on rails" experience :D -
X-Plane 12.1.0 New Article & Features
tonywob replied to Inu's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
Also doesn't work for us Apple Mac luddites... hence any graphical improvements are a bonus -
X-Plane 12.1.0 New Article & Features
tonywob replied to Inu's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
Looking forward to synthetic vision, although it appears that one is coming a bit later than this version. -
X-Plane 12.1.0 New Article & Features
tonywob replied to Inu's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
That's an impressive list of changes and it's great to see the graphics finally getting some love. -
Next-Gen Scenery first details!
tonywob replied to Inu's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
It is indeed, one of the best areas to fly in the sim Tried that, there was nothing satisfactory that could do it without needing a lot of processing per tile and if I kept the grouping as 1 metre/species, it still produced a LOT of polygons and X-Plane's point fill tree coverage in polygons was too sparse for the results to be as pleasing. I tried decreasing the grouping size to larger units, but it starts to lose the realistic and varied look. In addition, the points no longer exactly match where there are real trees. Either way, I already have the output as images for MFS as well, so once XP is updated to support rasters, I'll be able to use them as well. I did this with the TrueEarth series BTW for Orbx to keep the file sizes down, but had to sacrifice some accuracy Performance was never an issue and the legacy DSF format could handle it, it was simply the size of the files that becomes an issue. Yes, generally it works on black/white images and looks for noise and patterns using a sliding window. As long as the imagery is taken in mid summer and not blasted out by sunlight, I found it worked fine. If you also combine it with NIR imagery, it's pretty accurate. It actually failed in the Concrete area in my screenshot because the mountains are all in a dark black shadow, so I had to use other techniques to detect the trees -
Laminar is all systems go on in sim marketplace.
tonywob replied to mSparks's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
I agree. I purchased an addon a few months ago on X-Plane.org that was said it was supported on Mac OS. It didn't work unless it was emulated using Rosetta which slows the sim down. The developer has gone awol and hasn't responded to any support requests from anyone in months, and IMO the product should be removed from the store. Hopefully a properly curated store will listen to user feedback and remove products like this, or the ratings will be unbiased -
Next-Gen Scenery first details!
tonywob replied to Inu's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
In MFS, it's basically a raster image for each bing tile. Each pixel dictates the height and species of the tree, it can be efficiently stored in a grayscale image. Developers could even use photoshop filters to extract their own trees from aerial imagery, or use AI (e.g. https://github.com/martibosch/detectree) In my own projects, I have tree level accurate scenery (with each tree having a height from lidar data), and I'm storing this per point in the DSF which explodes out the size to over 100-200mb per DSF. With rasters, this would be significantly easier to store, manipulate and load (it would be attached to the base ortho texture instead of stored as point data) e.g. This shot below, each tree is stored as a single point (lon, lat, height) in the DSF. There are millions of them. If I could instead just store it as an image with the different values representing heights and species it would still give a similar realistic appearance/distribution, but would use significantly less space -
Next-Gen Scenery first details!
tonywob replied to Inu's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
This one is a good logical step. I'd requested the ability to define tree/vegetation coverage using rasters as it's much easier and space efficient to do this (it's also how MFS does it) and Ben had already mentioned he is well ahead on this. Especially in this new world of AI detection, AI could be used to classify vegetation areas on aerial imagery and then that could be fed straight to X-Plane rather than trying to store it as points or polygons. -
Ortho4XP 1.4 Alpha now on Github
tonywob replied to tonywob's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
https://github.com/oscarpilote/Ortho4XP/tree/master/src/Unused/C Marked as unused, so probably some project that was never finished -
Ortho4XP 1.4 Alpha now on Github
tonywob replied to tonywob's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
Just a warning... I tried to update a few tiles I have, but it's fairly buggy. One tile ended up trying to generate 45 million triangles and crashing X-Plane (Tile +48-124)