Just a small piece of advise for 3rd party creators. Photogrammetry building of airports simply not going to work. I downloaded 2 airports which the terminal buildings was taken from Google maps photogrammetry (most likely) and its simply looks terrible. Any photogrammetry object will be good from some distance but not from parking stand 10 meters away from it. I guess not even from 50 meters.

I hate the way the trees look. I'm testing MSFS with the feature off.

Edited October 9, 20205 yr by DJJose

1 hour ago, roi1862 said:

Just a small piece of advise for 3rd party creators. Photogrammetry building of airports simply not going to work. I downloaded 2 airports which the terminal buildings was taken from Google maps photogrammetry (most likely) and its simply looks terrible. Any photogrammetry object will be good from some distance but not from parking stand 10 meters away from it. I guess not even from 50 meters.

100% agreed. The grass airstrip near Venice (Italy) happens to be in the photogrametry zone of the city itself, and that looks awful. 

Yes, I also agree. Photogrammetry is not made to substitute the 3D modeled objects that populate the detailed airports and in no way should be employed for developing airports.

I've also hand placed 3D objects in regions on which no photogrammetry exists in the simulator yet (like Paris and London), and nothing compares to the look of these 3D objects if compared to their photogrammetry counterparts (from Google, for instance).

To me, photogrammetry is an efficient solution for representing locations as seen from the distance, to avoid the need to employ a massive amount of 3D objects that would render the sim unusable. If you take a close look at the photogrammetry objects they'd look terrible. For that same reason I avoid the use of photogrammetry objects to place them as POI in scenery due to their low-resolution quality.

Cheers, Ed

Edited October 9, 20205 yr by edpatino

3 hours ago, roi1862 said:

Just a small piece of advise for 3rd party creators. Photogrammetry building of airports simply not going to work. I downloaded 2 airports which the terminal buildings was taken from Google maps photogrammetry (most likely) and its simply looks terrible. Any photogrammetry object will be good from some distance but not from parking stand 10 meters away from it. I guess not even from 50 meters.

Thanks for the caveat.  I was about to embark on a learning curve to do just that to my local airport, which is one missing it's hangars and buildings.  Only flat globs of color on the ground where the buildings are supposed to be.  So I will take the other direction to use Developer mode and place existing scenery objects from MFS.  Just wish there was a set of thumbnails of those objects to work from instead of playing hunt and peck looking for best matches.

38 minutes ago, edpatino said:

For that same reason I avoid the use of photogrammetry objects to place them as POI in scenery due to their low-resolution quality.

I don't. Because I rather have a correct representation of a POI in shape and textures than have nothing. You are not supposed to fly low over a city anyway. So having the correct church towers as orientation showing up from 1000 feet is more than enough. I don't need to see every gargoyle up close. 😉

Yhh for POI ill take photogrammetry over some AI any day.

1 hour ago, Farlis said:

You are not supposed to fly low over a city anyway

I do 😄

Cheers, Ed