September 19, 201510 yr I found another program in development for photoscenery: ortho4xp, but documentation is in French for now, and it is not complete. The author is working on a GUI front end, from what I read. It would allow to mix different zoomlevels in the same tile (so for example ZL18 in and around airports, ZL17 on approaches and ZL16 elsewhere). The results I found on youtube are impressive (gletschers in ZL18 are impressive to fly over) . Example ZL19 of the Mont Blanc, France
September 19, 201510 yr Moderator Ortho4xp is very impressive. It also creates a full mesh, and uses OpenStreetMap to add water. It also has water blending. This one is definitely worth watching.
September 19, 201510 yr I found another program in development for photoscenery: ortho4xp, but documentation is in French for now, and it is not complete.The author is working on a GUI front end, from what I read. It would allow to mix different zoomlevels in the same tile (so for example ZL18 in and around airports, ZL17 on approaches and ZL16 elsewhere). The results I found on youtube are impressive (gletschers in ZL18 are impressive to fly over) . Example ZL19 of the Mont Blanc, France Very impressive!
September 20, 201510 yr Commercial Member Example ZL19 of the Mont Blanc, France Wow... Now if only there was usable imagery to achieve that result everywhere! Although, I'd likely need a room full of hard drives if that were the case, but still... Jim Stewart Milviz Person.
September 20, 201510 yr Wow... Now if only there was usable imagery to achieve that result everywhere! Although, I'd likely need a room full of hard drives if that were the case, but still... Here you go...
September 21, 201510 yr Commercial Member Here you go... That'll be nice in a few years when they're affordable... The best part is that it would save on heat & power consumption. I've been a photographer for many years, and I shudder to think at how many TB of hard drives I have both installed and as duplicated off-line storage. Jim Stewart Milviz Person.
September 22, 201510 yr Moderator Even on ZL17, I was able to fill a 1TB quite easily (I was able to cover UK, France and parts of Germany and Poland). The problem I had was the awful loading times and pauses it caused, and this was due to it being a slow external drive. I've now accepted that ZL16 is actually decent enough, and it loads much faster, uses less memory and disk space, and as a plus, I can now install/generate 4 times the tiles.
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