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Re: fgphotoscenery

Postby saltrix » Tue Dec 04, 2012 3:46 pm

Hi, I'm attempting to follow the directions on your site to add scenery for my local area. I am curious, is it important that the photoscenery occupy the entire tile? Or could I just do my county for starters, to make sure I have all the kinks worked out? Thanks!
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Re: fgphotoscenery

Postby fgphotoscenery » Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:42 pm

Hi Saltrix,

yes, you need to create an image covering a whole tile. For a test, of course, you can make your county and leave the rest of the region black. If by any chance that county was in the US, just drop me a line with the exact center coordinates and I'll make some tiles for you.

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Re: fgphotoscenery

Postby Gijs » Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:47 pm

Must admit that I didn't try it yet, but cannot you add transparent parts to your textures? If they are true overlays, the underlying terrain should show up. The texture still needs to cover the entire tile, but the photo would only be visible on non-translucent parts...

Would be nice if it works, because most orthoimagery doesn't include lots of ocean. (and it would also help to make a relatively smooth transition from photo- to normal scenery)
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Re: fgphotoscenery

Postby saltrix » Tue Dec 04, 2012 8:28 pm

Peter,

Thanks for the quick response! The county does happen to be in the US. And it would be great if it is easy for you to make a tile. (I have learned a lot in starting the process myself though.) I'll send you a pm with the coordinates.

Thanks again.
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Re: fgphotoscenery

Postby fgphotoscenery » Wed Dec 05, 2012 8:40 am

saltrix, you have got mail. Peter
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Re: fgphotoscenery

Postby fgphotoscenery » Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:51 am

Gijs,

I have not tried it either, but reading through the DDS specifications, I think you are perfectly right. DDS should support transparency. Apparently the GIMP DDS plugin can be used for that purpose.

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Re: fgphotoscenery

Postby sgb110 » Wed Sep 18, 2013 3:37 pm

How to load images with higher quality
for tiles
??? :?:
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Re: fgphotoscenery

Postby f-ojac » Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:34 pm

Have you read the wiki? :?: :?:
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Re: fgphotoscenery

Postby fgphotoscenery » Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:54 pm

Hi sgb110,

as far as I know, the overlay technique that is used by Benoît's patch does not allow to add photo scenery with higher resolution.

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Re: fgphotoscenery

Postby Gijs » Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:53 pm

The overlay patch certainly allows higher resolutions. You're limited by your hardware though, as well as your photo source (it makes no sense to generate textures with a larger resolution than your source has). I'm using 16384*16384 textures in a project, but not all GPUs will support that. We also had to use the 64 bits version, because 32 ran out of memory after three tiles.

It's as simple as placing a larger resolution DDS file in the terrain directory.

The question is, what technique is sgb110 using?
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