I have downloaded a few tiles around my airport VABB , could any one suggest which map server should be used as I have noticed a difference in quality between google and yahoo. Yahoo somehow has much sharper res than google , google looks dark. But I get a problem when using yahoo cannot go below resolution 1 . Should the fs earth tiles be below all scenery under Scenery Library. As objects do disappear after activating the scenery.

My FSET is at the top of the library. Auto-gen is going to disappear no matter what. I do prefer the Y textures in most cases.

My FSET is at the top of the library. Auto-gen is going to disappear no matter what. I do prefer the Y textures in most cases.

What are Y textures ?

Yahoo.

Yahoo.

Agree but Yahoo does not contain anything below 2 and 1M I can download the 2M well but when downloading 1M at certain points it YAHOOO's and says sorry this resolution is not available.

Hi, It is what it is. Some services cover some areas better than others. It's all a trade off.

Hi, It is what it is. Some services cover some areas better than others. It's all a trade off.

Oh k, A mix & match. trying out the G textures at 0 hope they turn out good.

<div><font size="2">JS Korna or Any one out there...</font></div><div> </div><div><font size="2">Hi... I have a quick question on FS Earth Tiles... I've been making scenery for years and did it for a while commercially but that was back in 2004... I got pretty heavy back into FSX Scenery design a year ago but just as a hobbyist now and have been creating Photo Scenery's for my local area which is Portland, Oregon... I recently spent several months completing Sat Scenery for the NW corner of Oregon roughly 130 miles East to West and 160 miles North to South... This package I built from SBuilderX and Photoshop CS4, as well as all the other associated design tools we have all used... I ended up with 6.5gb of scenery files as well as many 3D models for several of our large and small airport sceneries I built and fly to all the time... Just wanted to share a bit of background here... Also this last large Sat Scenery package I just mentioned has all water masks, blend masks, and night tiffs which were hand built and then compiled in SBuilderX... I had never worked with water and blend masks and they make for some very long compiling times and my SBuilder\Tools\Work directory now has over 66.5gb of bmp's and tiffs I had to create for this 1/4 state project...</font></div><div> </div><div><font size="2">Anyway I had never used Tile Proxy or FS Earth Tiles before and tried them out the last few days and I was very impressed with both of them really... I ended up uninstalling the Tile Proxy program because it just took too long to download and update the scenery and I'm using a 50mb download Comcast cable service so it's fast but still things were blurry too often for me even with my quad core server so I dumped Tile Proxy... Now I really have enjoyed FS Earth Tiles and created some great scenery the last couple days even though I haven't compiled water masks using the Google KML Coast and Deepwater files I made... I'm not sure they can provide all the tiny creeks and streams I had built on my earlier hand built scenery project...</font></div><div> </div><div><font size="2">Ok so finally here is my question... Using FS Earth Tiles I created a nice coverage area of the general Portland, Oregon area maybe 45 miles square which created 30 bgl's which had a #1 resolution setting in the FS Earth Tile program... When finished they looked good in FSX and matched the resolution I had compiled my own earlier project at in SBuilderX in which I used an 80% compression to help with file sizes... Ok so I wanted to also create 3 additional areas ‘within’ this new 45x45 mile Portland area which would have the much higher #0 resolution setting and this was for our main KPDX airport maybe 2x2 miles area, as well as my own neighborhood which was maybe 1x1 mile, and another small airport near home KTTD which I compiled in FS Earth Tile's at around 1x1 miles in size... I let FS Earth Tile's just put the additional hi res bgl's in the same Scenery directory I had used for my first large 45x45 mile FS Earth Tile's Portland project which had used the #1 lower res files... The new high res bgls of the 3 smaller areas looked super sharp in FSX and they are seemingly taking priority over the lower res FS Earth Tile bgls beneath them, even though they are all in the same Scenery folder... My question is this... Is this efficient and correct to have these small area hi-res bgls sitting in the same Scenery directory as the low res bgls which cover the larger area beneath them...? Do they conflict or use more ram or cause lower FPS being of the same FSX land area at the same time...? I'm seeing great FPS with both the low and hi res bgls mixed together, and the hi res shows in ever case above the low res bgls which is great... So I'm wondering am I doing it like others are doing it, or am I making big mistakes here mixing low and hi res bgls that exist in the same geo locations...? With my own hand built Scenery I was able to Alpha mask ever waterway from tiny creeks to large rivers as well as have a beautiful 1 mile blend from my land sat imagery to the default FSX scenery where once again Autogen begins to grow... I was amazed with how cool the blend masks can be not only for the oceans but also for land where it all meets default FSX scenery... The transition lines from my Sat Scenery cannot even be seen but wow the work and hours it took...</font></div><div> </div><div><font size="2">Sorry this was so long but I wanted to ask about mixing these lo res\hi res bgls and whether I'm putting a big load on FSX doing it this way...</font></div><div> </div><div><font size="2">Thanks...</font></div><div><font size="2">bnick</font></div><div> </div><div><font color="#a5a5a5" size="1">AMD Opteron Quad Cores, EVGA Nvidia 570GTX, 4.5tb WD Hard Drives, 27” Samsung 1920x1080, FSX,SP1, SP2</font></div>

Hi, That will be fine!

Sorry about my post looking so bad with all the formatting characters my cutting and pasting from Windows Live mail wasn't the way to go, ha... Live and learn... This FS Earth Tiles is sweet for sure...bnick