Enjoying more photoreal scenery I've created using FSEarthtiles.  Some lovely scenery over Southern English countryside near London, and some scenery over the desert southwest.  My biggest completed project is the entire state of Arizona stretching into parts of California, the Las Vegas Metro area, into parts of Mexico, and the Grand Canyon.  I might try to upload it--what do you think?  England is not ready because I am still learning how to prepare coastal areas and there's not a lot of documentation on that.

 

The sim is FS2004, the sky environment (haze effect) is from my Avsim upload Soft Horizons.  Who knew photoreal could look like this in FS2004.  God bless the folks who spent time on FSEarthTiles to give me two sims to enjoy--FS2004 and FSX.

 

The trike is my Maverick trike upload, also here at Avsim.

 

Anyone who wants my FSEarthtiles.ini is welcome to drop me an email with their email address.

 

Best Regards,

 

John

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi,

 

Did anyone notice these pics?  Just curious if anyone wants me to upload the AZ Scenery.

 

John

Spectacular desert scenery!

 

HLJAMES

Looks Great. Does FSEarthtiles work with FSX? I've been waiting for Blue Sky Scenery to redo their lost Colorado files but I'm getting impatient looking at all these photosceneryscreen shots.    How long did it take you to create files for Arizona and how large is the total package?

 

Ted.

Looks Great. Does FSEarthtiles work with FSX? I've been waiting for Blue Sky Scenery to redo their lost Colorado files but I'm getting impatient looking at all these photosceneryscreen shots.    How long did it take you to create files for Arizona and how large is the total package?

 

Ted.

 

Hi,

 

I've tried to get FSEarthtiles to work with FSX but no success--I think the reason is due to the fact that I can't find my FSX dvd's (buried somewhere since I hoard things like a bear in winter, but hard to find) and the resample.exe might be the wrong one.

 

Arizona took about 24 hours to generate and the job just ran unattended.  The zipped package is 7GB.  I don't know if Avsim has a size limit on such projects.  If I can get water border handling down, Great Britain will be my next project.  I already have greater London and the English countryside to the west covered.  As you can see, texture resolution is pretty decent for FS2004--quite acceptable for VFR flight.

 

John

I've tried to get FSEarthtiles to work with FSX but no success--I think the reason is due to the fact that I can't find my FSX dvd's (buried somewhere since I hoard things like a bear in winter, but hard to find) and the resample.exe might be the wrong one.

 

You are correct. You need the correct FSX resample.exe file that's included with the SDK.

Thanks guys. I'm going to look into this and try to make Colorado Photoscenery. By the way there is a website called blueskyscenery.com that has a lot of the photoscenery for the western us, but not Colorado yet. It is free to download with a donation requested for effort and bandwith.

 

I don't know what the file library upload size limit is. If one person from every state and country did this we'd have the world covered though.

 

Ted

You are correct. You need the correct FSX resample.exe file that's included with the SDK.

 

I was able to get the correct resample.exe and create some scenery already--I did a project covering parts of Southern Oregon around Crater Lake and Klamath Falls.  It turned out well--the results were quite pleasing.  I am going to have to compress my projects though to get the best results--right now the bgls are a bit too big.  I like the way photoreal works in FSX--just a bgl and no bitmaps.  I'll next do the Glacier Park region in Montana...

 

John

Looking forward to seeing screen shots of the FSX photoscenery John when you have the time.

 

Ted

Thanks guys. I'm going to look into this and try to make Colorado Photoscenery. By the way there is a website called blueskyscenery.com that has a lot of the photoscenery for the western us, but not Colorado yet. It is free to download with a donation requested for effort and bandwith.

 

I don't know what the file library upload size limit is. If one person from every state and country did this we'd have the world covered though.

 

Ted

 

Hi Ted...

 

I am going to attempt the Colorado scenery too, but it will take several days to generate the bgl's.  I am doing Oregon now (most of it) and that job has been running over 24 hours.  Take a look at my latest screenshot post and let me know if you'd think that resolution would be acceptable for Colorado....  I can do higher, but that would probably take a bit too long.

 

Regards,

 

John

I looked at the your Portland scenery shots and they look great John. It seems that the Megascenery shots that HLJames posted are a little sharper, but it is hard to tell. What resolution are the files that you are creating for a state in 24 hours?

 

Ted

I looked at the your Portland scenery shots and they look great John. It seems that the Megascenery shots that HLJames posted are a little sharper, but it is hard to tell. What resolution are the files that you are creating for a state in 24 hours?

 

Ted

 

Mine aren't as sharp as the Megascenery.  My scenery is also not quite up to the sharpness of Bluesky--just a tad shy but pretty hard to notice once you are a couple thousand feet above the deck.  I chose to sample at a slightly lower resolution for performance reasons on my own system.  And to save space.  When my project today is done it will meet up with the Bluesky scenery I have so I will have a better idea of how it compares.  It takes a bit of time to generate the scenery, that's for sure.

 

John