I just prepared the screenies for our next BlueSkyScenery release.LOVE transparent FSX water masks and blend channels!

That's looks awesome

Where is that?

Cool! How do you get that effect?Cheers,- jahman.

That looks killer! Great job Gottfried :)

Where is that?

Channel National Park is just south of Santa Barbara, CA.

Cool! How do you get that effect?- jahman.

It's textured FSX water combined with a blend channel (a gradient from 100% to 0%) that makes a smoothtransition from the textured water to standard FSX water.

That looks killer! Great job Gottfried :)

Yeah, thanks for the kind words, all!You can smell the fresh sea; inhale... :)

Edited February 24, 201214 yr by N330DG

People say how FS9 is "just as good" but when it comes to making scenery, the ability to take a geotiff, add a blend and mask, and pop it through resample is sooooo much easier to get a good result. And you can go down to 6cm resolution if you want.scott s..

People say how FS9 is "just as good" but when it comes to making scenery, the ability to take a geotiff, add a blend and mask, and pop it through resample is sooooo much easier to get a good result. And you can go down to 6cm resolution if you want.

I almost only fly FSX these days. However in *some* aspects FS9 was better. The textures were darker and hi-res textures placed as TexPolys were sharper than the FSX terrain textures are (at same resolution). During testing, I'm sometimes amazed how good our FS9 hi-res versions look. However the advantages of FSX (native hi-res, textured water, textures to the horizon, blend channel) outweigh this IMHO.