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P3D v4 Belgium Photoreal - Version 2

No, no night textures, this would double the file size.
A black layer is actually unnecessary, and also only increases the file size.
 
No, why?
For my Germany Project I also didn't use night textures, and in my opinion it looks very good even at night.
 
it's not bright ?
i never tested a photoreal scenery without night textures in P3D, i did that in FSX and it was horrible
 
No, of course not.
Take a look:
Near Brussels:
2019-7-7_13-3-33-282uyka6.jpg


Of course the night lighting could be improved, but that would affect the fps pretty heavy.
 
no it doesnt look bright...just when u use wrong parameters for compilation...

but why you dont try it out yourself instead of complaining before you even know how it looks?
 
MatthiasKNU said:
No, of course not.
Of course the night lighting could be improved, but that would affect the fps pretty heavy.
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Can I ask which light model you're using there? Is it a default, as I haven't been able to find one for my own work. The ag_lightpole doesn't have a night texture and doesn't seem to work as AGN, only as a BGL, which is very hard on FPS.
 
I am not using any 3d lights. What you see is default ORBX/openLC.
I tried to create 3d lighting based on the lights which are used in Digital Design Tenerife, but these are affecting the fps quite hard...
 
MatthiasKNU said:
I am not using any 3d lights. What you see is default ORBX/openLC.
I tried to create 3d lighting based on the lights which are used in Digital Design Tenerife, but these are affecting the fps quite hard...
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Ah, okay, thanks. I've created a 3D light that's low-poly and has a little light splash beneath it, got it to work with Sceneproc but I'm having a really hard time getting them to show up in the sim. If I ever get them to work, they should perform as well as ORBX's lights.

DC_Designs_Light.jpg
 
Hey @MatthiasKNU
You have to know that any photoreal scenry exclude all lights from orbx except orbx vector cus it is marked as road elements

So to get back some lights you need lib objects planced randomly on residential or commercial landus and polygons

I get very good result using scene proc and it doesnt take size at all
 
RED COOL said:
You have to know that any photoreal scenry exclude all lights from orbx except orbx vector cus it is marked as road elements

So to get back some lights you need lib objects planced randomly on residential or commercial landus and polygons

I get very good result using scene proc and it doesnt take size at all
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That's kind of what we're both looking to achieve with Sceneproc, RedCool - would you be willing to share how you pulled it off? It could save us both some serious head-scratching! :)
 
@Deano1973 and @MatthiasKNU
hello
so this is one of my old sceneries, 3D lights for entire Algeria, i used only one model as i haven't had enough time to make many models
but here it is

Code: 
ImportOGR|C:\Users\picos info\Downloads\algeria lights\gis.osm_landuse_a_free_1.shp|*|*|+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs

PlacePointsInPolygon|fclass="residential"|0.001;0.0008|0.8;0.6
PointToPolygon|FTYPE="POINT"|5;5|HDG|String;PLC|place
CreateXMLLibObj|PLC="place"|{c1aa6f3a-5880-4aa2-ab77-a5d236954878}|HDG|55|0|NOCRASH;NOAUTOGENSUPPRESSION

PlacePointsInPolygon|fclass="industrial"|0.003;0.003|0.8;0.6
PointToPolygon|FTYPE="POINT"|5;5|HDG|String;PLC|placei
CreateXMLLibObj|PLC="placei"|{c1aa6f3a-5880-4aa2-ab77-a5d236954878}|HDG|55|0|NOCRASH;NOAUTOGENSUPPRESSION

#ImportOGR|C:\Users\picos info\Downloads\algeria lights\gis.osm_roads_free_1.shp|*|*|+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs

#PlacePointsAlongLine|FROMFILE="gis.osm_roads_free_1.shp"|CONTINUOUS|200;300|0;0|5|String;PLC|road|HDG2
#PointToPolygon|PLC="road"|5;5|HDG2|String;PLC|roda
#CreateXMLLibObj|PLC="roda"|{a7e2b7af-b5fa-4390-8e32-1d6bc85f6fdc}|HDG2|80|0|NOAUTOGENSUPPRESSION;NOCRASH

ExportBGL|FSX|ALGERIA_LIGHTS|E:\BPW\Algeria lights\scenery|KEEPXML

its really good to keep backup for old files, they may help other people too :)
 
@RED COOL @MatthiasKNU Many thanks indeed for the information. My biggest issue right now is that I can get Sceneproc to write a BGL file for my entire area, but nothing shows up in the sim no matter what light model I use ( mine, ORBX or whatever ). Once again, I must be doing something wrong as Sceneproc writes everything else just fine! The joys of development, one step forwards, two steps back... :rolleyes: By the way, sorry to hijack your thread Matthias, awesome work you're doing! :)
 
Deano1973 said:
@RED COOL @MatthiasKNU Many thanks indeed for the information. My biggest issue right now is that I can get Sceneproc to write a BGL file for my entire area, but nothing shows up in the sim no matter what light model I use ( mine, ORBX or whatever ). Once again, I must be doing something wrong as Sceneproc writes everything else just fine! The joys of development, one step forwards, two steps back... :rolleyes: By the way, sorry to hijack your thread Matthias, awesome work you're doing! :)
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You need to make your own model and export the library and put it in the folder
 
RED COOL said:
You need to make your own model and export the library and put it in the folder
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Yeah, done all that. My own 3D light is a BGL, it's been added to Library Objects ( is also selectable in the annotator ) and SceneProc compiles the lights no problem. KEEP XML shows me that they're all present and correct but when I start up the sim - nothing. I've placed ag_lightpole with no issues, thousands of them, but they're low-performance and no good for modern scenery, so the scripts I have are okay now. I'm sure I'll figure it out, just very frustrating :confused:
 
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