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Can you mask a 4.8m photo texture...

Clutch Cargo

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Can you mask a 4.8m photo texture to have the default FS9 land texture show through in certain areas? (not talking watermasking here). Thought I read ions ago where you could or in fact have it blend into your lo-res 4.8m texture? (DXT5?)

If you can I sure haven't found the right combo of masking color and alpha color. Any ideas be appreciated.

thx,

Clutch
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Hello,

SBuilder creates the photo scenery as VTP squares. If the original images have an alpha mask, the phto tiles can blend to the default (alpha = white means full opaque and alpha = black means full transparent). The Help file has more details on this,

Kind Regards, Luis
 
That's what I thought but then I thought maybe that is only for water. I will try it again to see if I can get it to blend. At least now I know you can - so it must be "User Error"! :p
 
I did this a couple years ago on a scenery I did of Washington DC mall area. I'm a little foggy now on exactly what I had to do. The hard part was getting the textures in the right format. Looking at some notes, I see that the texture bitmaps had to be run through imagetool with the -8 option, 8 bit palletized with alpha. I'm not sure if sbuilder did that for me, or I had to do it myself.

scott s.
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Hi Scott,

I remember you and your scenery. If my memory serves me correct I was trying to pry from you on how you were able to use SBuilder with Hi-Res WITHOUT blurries or edgelines? I never could solve that issue. Sadly, that is the one thing I wish I could fix before release but oh well....

But as for the lo-res 4.8m I thought I would take a last minute 2nd look to see if I could blend in my photoreal into the FS9 default to smooth out some edge lines. I tired saving the files a lot of different ways using SBuilder but I don't think I tried the 888 type which I think you are referring to. Will give a quick go at it tonight again.
 
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