I am going to try RenderFarm , thanks to Andras and Tony for pointing it out to me, I never knew LR tools were opensource. Now the big problem is I haven't used linux in almost 2 years, don't want to install Mingw to compile the source on Windows , I am comfortable ONLY WITH COMPILING BUT NO PROGRAMMING AS I AM NIL IN PROGRAMMING but have have setup many Qmail / Ipsec / Squid and other servers which were Linux based.

 

So let's see how it goes, I will install Virtualbox and then install Lubuntu and go from there , how long it will take me to get it setup I don't know. But I really want to bake those forests in the mesh.  But the most important as Tony pointed is to get good GIS data better if it is  government based , but searching for it has done nothing. There is a site for India GIS but the data is rubbish.  Even the mesh from them is rubbish.

Even if you do manage to compile the tools under Linux which I'm sure you find 1 or 2 problems with, RenderFarm is undocumented and I'm guessing almost impossible to get up and running without knowing the steps needed. I guess it requires certain types of data and the you'd have to read through the source code to try and work it out. 

 

That being said, never say never, if you do get it working, please do share how you did it :-)

Even if you do manage to compile the tools under Linux which I'm sure you find 1 or 2 problems with, RenderFarm is undocumented and I'm guessing almost impossible to get up and running without knowing the steps needed. I guess it requires certain types of data and the you'd have to read through the source code to try and work it out. 

 

That being said, never say never, if you do get it working, please do share how you did it :-)

 

Why do have to scare me always with the source code thing :Nail Biting: 

 

Of course I will post my findings, but this is a long walk and in the dark

In short: just plain forget about it ... honestly. As Tony already pointed it out, it is undocumented and you need a lot of additional stuff (scripts, data in the right format in the right place, configs etc.) to make it run ... You also need a deep understanding of what RenderFarm can do for you (and what not!) and the entire scenery system to understand what / where / how / why is happening, and if it does not work, then why. So, your chances of getting halfway serious and usable results are below 0,1%

 

And NO, do not even try to ask me to guide you, as I will definitely not do that (because I do not have the time nor the patience ... and believe me, you will have more than 100 questions)!

 

PS: just for forests .... you do not need RenderFarm for that (especially as it will NOT create forests based on vector data, but is doing that based on raster Landclass data!!!). You could rather try a world2xplane style approach (and use some different data than OSM) and add them in an overlay (there is no problem with that approach). I have done that a long time ago for XP8 and XP9 with own code (mostly using GRASS GIS for the processing, then writing own TXT files and converting them with DSFTool to DSFs):

• http://www.alpilotx.net/documents/

 

In short: just plain forget about it ... honestly. As Tony already pointed it out, it is undocumented and you need a lot of additional stuff (scripts, data in the right format in the right place, configs etc.) to make it run ... You also need a deep understanding of what RenderFarm can do for you (and what not!) and the entire scenery system to understand what / where / how / why is happening, and if it does not work, then why. So, your chances of getting halfway serious and usable results are below 0,1%

 

And NO, do not even try to ask me to guide you, as I will definitely not do that (because I do not have the time nor the patience ... and believe me, you will have more than 100 questions)!

 

PS: just for forests .... you do not need RenderFarm for that (especially as it will NOT create forests based on vector data, but is doing that based on raster Landclass data!!!). You could rather try a world2xplane style approach (and use some different data than OSM) and add them in an overlay (there is no problem with that approach). I have done that a long time ago for XP8 and XP9 with own code (mostly using GRASS GIS for the processing, then writing own TXT files and converting them with DSFTool to DSFs):

• http://www.alpilotx.net/documents/

 

 

Awright, dropping it.

 

Haha yea the questions would have been there.

 

I will try the GRASS GIS method.

 

Thanks for the link.

Awright, dropping it.

 

Haha yea the questions would have been there.

 

I will try the GRASS GIS method.

 

Thanks for the link.

Well, my documentation is very old already, but at least the basic principles would be the same if you wanted to create overlay forests nowadays.

Well, my documentation is very old already, but at least the basic principles would be the same if you wanted to create overlay forests nowadays.

 

Let me go through them and let me try at least one tile and then I will move forward, I have seen a youtube video describing how to go about the forest thing.

 

Thanks again Andras.

No RenderFarm , let's see how it goes with maual adding of the forest areas.

REX for XP10 is here

???

Confused, where is REX for XP10?

Confused, where is REX for XP10?

 

 Just for fun , but here it is

 

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/33443-lua-default-cloud-enhancer/

 

I use it and it looks good , never had such nice looking clouds b4 in XPX

 

I took this shot with NOAA , I have cranked up the clouds to 50% and still very much flyable.

 

Going through Andras  document , it looks like maths :( .