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Postby towerguy » Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:26 pm

does anyone know of an "easy to follow" (and english) version of how to make the photo scenery so scenery newbie like me can have a crack at some areas
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Postby creator2003 » Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:36 pm

http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=525 this should get you started ...
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Postby ZK-MAT » Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:03 pm

I've been looking at this too.

Look for maps2bgl__how_to_.zip on AVSim

Edit: The biggest tip is to have patience!
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Postby towerguy » Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:41 pm

thanks guys
I now have some reading to do
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Postby ZK-MAT » Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:59 pm

Let me know how you get on, all of mine are white...
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Postby kcgb » Fri Feb 26, 2010 4:30 pm

If you change the source to virtaul earth it works better
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Postby cowpatz » Fri Feb 26, 2010 5:50 pm

ZK-MAT wrote:
QUOTE (ZK-MAT @ Mar 3 2010, 03:59 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Let me know how you get on, all of mine are white...


A winter theme???
Remember the 50-50-90 rule. Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong!

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Postby mattyHamNZ » Sat Feb 27, 2010 7:53 am

V=53 winkyy.gif smile.gif
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Postby ZK-MAT » Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:14 am

Yep, works with virtual earth selected (ie no "#" in front of it in the .ini).

Not sure of the meaning behind v=53?

I can see me spending a fair amount of time now doing some scenery tiles lol
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Postby ZK-MAT » Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:42 am

Just did a small area over Matamata. Obviously I have work to do to edit / delete / blend the tiles with no imagery, but I am pleased with how it went for a first attempt (using virtual earth).

Matamata Town



The airport - the runways are not quite aligned...



You can see the blank squares here. I think it's because the polygon I drew encroached into a partial tile so it downloaded the whole tile to the edge of the polygon



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Postby towerguy » Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:47 am

actually looks more like waharoa than matamata
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Postby ZK-MAT » Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:50 am

tongue.gif yeah well, you get the idea
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Postby JohnM » Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:29 am

Matt,

A little trick when you get white tiles is to download the same KML file a few times. The tile already downloaded in your TilesCache will remain but some if not all of your white tiles will be over ridden with picture tiles.
Matt in some cases IE water tiles there just is no picture tile so you have to improvise.......
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Postby Ian Warren » Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:36 am

Had it been Matamata , our Cliff Tait would have been happy smile.gif
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Postby HardCorePawn » Sun Feb 28, 2010 9:11 am

ZK-MAT wrote:
QUOTE (ZK-MAT @ Feb 27 2010, 10:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The airport - the runways are not quite aligned...


be prepared for HOURS of frustration.... tongue.gif
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Postby ZK-MAT » Sun Feb 28, 2010 9:41 am

Was good for a play around but I'm not going to dabble any further. In fact I am seriously considering going back to FS9, after a medium flight last night my system was crippled when landing at WN. All texs washed out and wouldn't sharpen up. I'll wait till I can upgrade my PC, which is 5 years old now and struggling with FSX sad.gif
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