My photoscenery project has moved into Northern Oregon.....  Also throwing in a screenshot above Teton Natl. Park for good measure.  Enjoy.

 

The small two seater is Iris's Jabiru, a fun little aircraft to fly.

 

John

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flying over the real world....priceless!

 

HLJAMES

Great shots! 

Is it your project? You mean you're doing the photoscenery? Amazing!

Man I wish I had the knowledge to do that. All I want is good quality Photoreal for Georgia. MSE has way too many color issues for my taste. 

I use FSEarthTiles for creating photoreal scenery.  If you want to sample what I've done with it, the state of Colorado is avail in Avsim's library.  For size and bandwidth reasons, the scenery is 2M/Pixel, but I think it looks fine at altitude and there's no negative impact on fps or performance.  So far my scenery is bounded by most of Oregon, down to parts of Texas in the  southwest.  I've finished all of Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona and most of California and Wyoming.  I also have done all of the alps north to the Ruhr and all of the Hawaiian Island chain.

 

It took a while to figure out how to optimize FSEarthtiles, but now I just define the area I want and it does the rest. 

 

John

I use FSEarthTiles for creating photoreal scenery.  If you want to sample what I've done with it, the state of Colorado is avail in Avsim's library.  For size and bandwidth reasons, the scenery is 2M/Pixel, but I think it looks fine at altitude and there's no negative impact on fps or performance.  So far my scenery is bounded by most of Oregon, down to parts of Texas in the  southwest.  I've finished all of Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona and most of California and Wyoming.  I also have done all of the alps north to the Ruhr and all of the Hawaiian Island chain.

 

It took a while to figure out how to optimize FSEarthtiles, but now I just define the area I want and it does the rest. 

 

John

 

That's awesome. I'm going to take a look at this. There's certainly some remote areas in which I fly that could use some photoreal scenery...

Anyway, congratulations for your results! Your scenery is great.

That's awesome. I'm going to take a look at this. There's certainly some remote areas in which I fly that could use some photoreal scenery...

Anyway, congratulations for your results! Your scenery is great.

 

If you choose to use FSEarthTiles let me know.  I will send you my .ini file which is a must if you want to get started with zero pain.  The default settings work very well and the service I use is very reliable and fairly consistent at least in the US and Europe.

To me, nuthin' beats real like "photoreal". 

If you choose to use FSEarthTiles let me know.  I will send you my .ini file which is a must if you want to get started with zero pain.  The default settings work very well and the service I use is very reliable and fairly consistent at least in the US and Europe.

Would you mind sharing it with us?

I've been looking for some good information on how to use FSEarthTiles but everything I found so far is quite old and doesn't seem to work anymore.

Looking at your pictures it really looks fantastic so any tips to get started would be greatly appreciated.

I use FSEarthTiles too.  It is actually pretty easy to use once you get the sources in the ini right.  Unfortunately I don't think we can post them publicly due to legal issues with using them in this way.

 

Anyway, once that is done, use Google Earth to define your area that you want to create photo scenery for and then just save that area as a kml.  Then launch FSEarthTiles and drag that kml onto FSEarthTiles.  Select the params you want(i.e. 1m resolution, etc) and go.  This is just one way to do it but it's the way that I use and seems to work quite well as you can then use Google Earth to keep track of areas you've already done.

 

It gets harder if you want to alter the default processes already being used in FSEarthTiles to say "touch up" the images and/or create different seasons and stuff like that.  That's where PhotoShop or similar comes into play and you start looking at water masks, day/night textures, etc.