Photo Real

[LMerraine]

Ok, I may be stupid, in fact I know I am - but I'm trying to test the water with making photreal ground for a small airport near home (testing testing). Every tutorial that I've found is insanely confusing for a thicko like me.

I've done pretty well on a couple of Godzone tutorials, but do you think I can do anything with the ground?

I remember Terrabuilder (haven't used it since Adam built his zx81) , but if I'm using a cobbled together picture from mumblegoogleearthmumble I'm not sure how to go about it.

Now I've read a little on sbuilder, but it seems more aimed at fsx.

I'm still wanting to design for fs9.

Any help for a thicko like me would be greatly appreciated.

[Timmo]

Join the club! (The Fs9 SDK Thicko club that is)....I tried making photoscenery for FS9 and ended up failing miserably and giving up.

The FSX SDK method is a heap better

[LMerraine]

Yeah, but I don't FSX works as well on my machine, so I can't really use the better scenery.

Catch 22.

Sigh is all I can say

[Christian]

I think SBuilder should be able to do FS9 scenery - SBuilder has been around for ages. The tutorials may be for FSX but should also work for FS9. In fact evert 3rd party program calls the resample.exe from the FS SDK. SBuilder simply automates the whole thing for you. The resample.exe are different for FS9 and FSX. In FSX everything gets compiled into one big bgl, in previous versions the images are standalone and the bgl only does the placement.

What you need to do:

1) Do the tutorial
2) Configure SBuilder to use the FS9 resample.exe (should be similar to FSX)
3) When you compile an area you don't just get a bgl, but also lots of bmp files. Copy the bgl into the scenery folder and the bmp files into the image folder.

If you run into a problem, ask here and I or someone else may be able to help. The thing with scenery design is it takes hours and hours to fine tune stuff and get it working correctly. This is normal...

Christian