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FSX - Photoreal blend mask help needed.

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Hi guys, trying to make a basic photoreal scenery of KGAO in Louisiana. see scenery shots for references, not sure what i am doing wrong at this point.

BMP and TIFF all in 24bit, used SBX to generate the original photo scenery. Paint.net was used to create the different mask layers. I did 3 basic mask, Day, Night and blend. the original blend mask only had the black mask. then I tried it lastly with a white outlining the area I want to keep. still ain't work still seeing black showing up on my photo scenery. so yeah. Happens for Photo scenery of SYCJ, and and the entire island of Trinidad when I tried to do the mask. one test with the black transition into white showed up with the black areas and another test nothing showed up.

Appreciate any help Thanks.


https://ibb.co/1f0n5pwj

https://ibb.co/HpfC0sLq

[Source]

Type = MultiSource

NumberOfSources = 3

[Source1]

Type = BMP

Layer = Imagery

SourceDir = "."

SourceFile = "KGAO_P.BMP"

Variation = Day

Channel_BlendMask = 6.0

NullValue =

SamplingMethod = Gaussian

ulyMap = 29.4569375618568

ulxMap = -90.2808380126953

xDim = 2.68220901489258E-06

yDim = 2.33587384816164E-06

[Source2]

Type = BMP

Layer = Imagery

SourceDir = "."

SourceFile = "KGAO_P_LM.BMP"

Variation = Night

Channel_BlendMask = 6.0

NullValue =

SamplingMethod = Gaussian

ulyMap = 29.4569375618568

ulxMap = -90.2808380126953

xDim = 2.68220901489258E-06

yDim = 2.33587384816164E-06

[Source3]

Type = TIFF

Layer = None

SourceDir = "."

SourceFile = "KGAO_P_B.TIFF"

SamplingMethod = Gaussian

ulyMap = 29.4569375618568

ulxMap = -90.2808380126953

xDim = 2.68220901489258E-06

yDim = 2.33587384816164E-06

[Destination]

DestDir = "."

DestBaseFileName = "KGAO_P_v4.2.inf"

DestFileType = BGL

LOD = Auto

UseSourceDimensions = 1

CompressionQuality = 85




Try changing the following value to "3.0" .. it's a reference to the source containing your main blend mask, it's currently referencing "6.0" which doesn't exist as you only have 3 sources right?

Channel_BlendMask = 6.0

Dean Stringer

  • Author

Hey, thank much that work. Will share results soon and upload sceneries to the library in the near future.

  • 2 months later...
  • Author

Hi guys, so some results after a while lol.


<img src="https://i.ibb.co/FqD44ZF7/Screenshot-63.png" alt="Screenshot (63)" border="0">

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Contains MAIW Libraries + default library, it supposed to not be the exact real thing 100% because I suck at 3d modeling so yeah. but what you guys think? Just to put in some static helicopters, default B206 (RLC) JYAI AW139(Chevron, Bristow Rescue), JYAI S-92 ( Chevron) and lastly the S-76C - RLC and Bristow Rescue.

Only problem I can't seem to solve is why most default objects not showing up like the cars in the car park in particular, I have adjusted the scenery from dense/normal/very dense etc., I have crossed checked the scenery cfg and the FSX\Scenery\Global is correct as well. back on Acceleration never had this issue so I not sure why they occurring in Steam Edition. Only reason why some of default objects showing is because I dumped the entire Global/scenery bgl files into my custom KGAO folder in addon scenery.

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Static added, removed changed some buildings to other models, used MAIW cars instead of default since they not showing and honestly its close to finish.

<img src="Screenshot-70.png

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