A 60TB server sounds great. How do you like FlexRaid? I started with unRAID and like it. But always wondering if some else is better. 

 

Chopping out north and south poles are a great idea. 

Flex Raid works well.. though i havent had to do a restore for any reason yet.. knock on wood.. basically treats each drive as independent drives, then you add as many data protection drives as you want (i think i may have 7 or 8 data and 2-3 protection drives, i forget).. i looked at switching to unraid, but it seemed like flexraid did as much as i needed to do for now.. and only one drive at a time usually gets hit with transfers/usage when viewing movies/shows/home archives etc, so the single drive performance of flex raid is ok for this purpose.  even two hits at once would be ok.

I know XP11 cars can run without roads showing up. I once recorded a flight on ZL19 Ortho tiles and when I fast farwarded to the end of the replay, XP11 had to reload phostoimages and all the autogens. During that process, for quite a few seconds, I saw cars appeared before autogen roads and they ran normally on those detailed photograpic roads. The scene looks really nice and felt so real.

 

Then the autogen roads popped up and pretty much ruined it... 

 

Making autogen roads invisible may still have one problem, as XP11 seems to tend to build elevated highways everywhere it goes. By just making autogen roads invisible those cars may appear running afloat above most of the photo roads. But still I'll take that.  

Flex Raid works well.. though i havent had to do a restore for any reason yet.. knock on wood.. basically treats each drive as independent drives, then you add as many data protection drives as you want (i think i may have 7 or 8 data and 2-3 protection drives, i forget).. i looked at switching to unraid, but it seemed like flexraid did as much as i needed to do for now.. and only one drive at a time usually gets hit with transfers/usage when viewing movies/shows/home archives etc, so the single drive performance of flex raid is ok for this purpose.  even two hits at once would be ok.

 

Sounds very similar to unRAID. The thing I like most about unRAID is also that I can directly manipulate each data drives. I hate the idea that everytime I fetch a file all the disks must spin up for that operation.

I started doing some more testing and comparisons with ortho.. i did one comparison of bing and usa2.. i personally thought the bing one was better (darker, better contrast).. i guess this will vary from location to location.. i also did some comparisons in this same area (san fran) related to buildings.. default overlay vs misterx vs the import of us cities x i did (which has a few floating buildings not really visible in this comparison)..

 

How is everyone dealing with comparing two providers?  Do you just stick with one then if you think it looks off, try another and compare manually, seems tedious.. also.. how about comparing after downloading.. is it enough to just select the square and change the provider, then hit the batch build again (i assume if both are already downloaded it just swaps out the textures from one provider to the other, or would this mix it?).. i've been renaming and unlinking say the bing folder for a tile, then going to the map, changing providers.. and redoing the batch build.. then linking it back to custom scenery and comparing.. which feels tedious.

 

here are the shots (animations).. the ZL17 vs ZL18 wasnt much different, i did another ZL17 vs 16 compare before which did appear more fuzzy at 16, probably depends on source/area etc.

 

I came across this article:  http://blogs.bing.com/search/2011/06/24/bing-maps-unveils-exclusive-high-res-imagery-with-global-ortho-project/

 

Pay attention to the second to the last paragraph.  :smile:

I came across this article:  http://blogs.bing.com/search/2011/06/24/bing-maps-unveils-exclusive-high-res-imagery-with-global-ortho-project/

 

Pay attention to the second to the last paragraph.  :smile:

Nice, +1 to bing then.

 

On the subject of ZL17 or ZL18 being applied around airports automatically by changing the cfg file..

 

are these the entries for that?

 

cover_airports_with_highres=True  (changed to True)  

cover_zl=18

 

Just double checking

 

 

Making autogen roads invisible may still have one problem, as XP11 seems to tend to build elevated highways everywhere it goes. By just making autogen roads invisible those cars may appear running afloat above most of the photo roads. But still I'll take that.  

 

Yep I got this to work by making the road textures transparent, but the issue was the bridges, they are actual 3D models and the road texture ends up black.

 

For my Poland scenery I generated one road type for the entire country without bridges and the cars drive nicely on the photoscenery, but bridges don't work and they drive across the water.

Hey, I'll take that cars drive across water thing as long as I get those cars driving nicely on the photoscenery roads... 

 

 

are these the entries for that?
 
cover_airports_with_highres=True  (changed to True)  
cover_zl=18

 

Yes, and the airport polygon has to exist in OpenStreetMap, if it doesn't it's quite easy to add.

Yes, and the airport polygon has to exist in OpenStreetMap, if it doesn't it's quite easy to add.

Does that portion only download OpenStreetMap.. i take it if you have it set to say Bing, the airport part gets pulled from OSM? And how do you know if it exists?  Preview screen shows something or another place?  I guess this isnt quite one click and done then, hit or miss if you dont check before hand?

Sometimes no objects and roads are good, a was getting 70-80fps here  :smile: 

are these the entries for that?
 
cover_airports_with_highres=True  (changed to True)  
cover_zl=18

Yes, and the airport polygon has to exist in OpenStreetMap, if it doesn't it's quite easy to add.

 

 

Seems if i change this in the cfg file.. then the next open of the app, it says the cfg is corrupt and all values are reset..

 

Also.. if i try to open up global cfg in the app, change the entry in the form to True.. then click save to global config and then save all.. the setting doesnt stick after you close the app, it doesnt go to the cfg file either..  do you really have to manually set this in the global variables form every time you run the app?

No,

 

Are you running the latest version. I set it once in the global cfg and it works on any tile I make

cover_airports_with_highres = True # If set to True then a high(er) ZL square zone around each airport (found at Step 1) will be added as a custom zoomlevel
cover_extent = 1                    # extent (km) of the highres zones (added to the bbox containing each airport) 
cover_zl = 18                       # the zoomlevel used for these zones 

are these the entries for that?

 

cover_airports_with_highres=True  (changed to True)  

cover_zl=18

 

 

Seems if i change this in the cfg file.. then the next open of the app, it says the cfg is corrupt and all values are reset..

 

Also.. if i try to open up global cfg in the app, change the entry in the form to True.. then click save to global config and then save all.. the setting doesnt stick after you close the app, it doesnt go to the cfg file either..  do you really have to manually set this in the global variables form every time you run the app?

Don't use notepad to make changes, use notepad++.

Don't use notepad to make changes, use notepad++.

Thanks, i dont think it was the notepad issue so much as i figured out that i moved the text around inside the cfg thinking i had to put the settings in there the first time.. i restored a fresh copy, set everything inside the app/global config and clicked save.. it stuck this time  

 

 

And how do you know if it exists?

 

Go to openstreetmap.org and search for your airport. e.g.

 

http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/237594029#map=14/52.1631/20.9636

 

If it comes up with a boundary, it's inside OSM. If it isn't, you can add it from their website.