Is this what I get?  I selected a very small area of the harbor that had some buildings.  Duluth , MN.  Now all my other buildings are gone.

 

Ideas?  How do people get realistic textured buildings and photoscenery?  Is that a different program?

 

 

Hi Ryan !

 

OSM2XP is for:

- 3D buildings (based on their OpenStreetMap ground shape and height tag if available)

- forests (based on landuse=forest or natural=wood)

- objects (lighthouses, water towers, wind turbines, etc...)

 

In the OSM2XP options, you can select if you want to exclude default autogen or not.

 

But OSM2XP will not help you making photo sceneries. For this, you need GMaps 4 X-Plane or G2XPL, or you can find sceneries on SimHeaven.com, RealScenery.com...

 

Happy flying.

In my opinion, OSM2XP-built scenery ONLY looks good if placed above a good photo scenery, because then the 3D buildings and forests follow the shape of the houses and forests on the photo.

 

I also suggest using the OSM sceneries from SimHeaven, because Balu has optimized their look and size, and they now even look good in rural areas.

 

Getting GOOD photo scenery is a bit hard. Freeware quality is directly based on the quality of Google/Bing images. There are some really great sceneries, but also some really ugly. It's simply because the pictures have not edited after importing from Google/Bing. The scenery at simheaven is slightly better than that from zonephoto.

 

Payware quality is better, there are some good packages at X-Aviation.com (i.e. RealScenery), but still built for XP9. There's also some payware for the UK at other places.

Thanks guys.  I was able to keep the autogen.  What does it take to get custom textures?  The demo video on that OSM2XP site makes those autogen buildings look excellent.  I just get typical XP style textured buildings in my conversion.

Thanks guys.  I was able to keep the autogen.  What does it take to get custom textures?  The demo video on that OSM2XP site makes those autogen buildings look excellent.  I just get typical XP style textured buildings in my conversion.

 

This video shows a combination of OSM buildings, converted FSX scenery addons, and native XP scenery addons, all with quite high graphics settings.

 

The availabilty of addons, incl. orthophotos, depends on the area you're flying in. I guess for your area you need to create your own. The needed tools were already mentioned. I found both a bit confusing, and would appreciate if someone would write a good tutorial ...

 

For a quick and dirty solution, you can also try UrbanMAXX. It replaces many textures of the city areas, to make them look more like a city. It works well together with default autogen. http://maxx-xp.hiking-pa.com/?page_id=189