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FS2004 Gmax Terrain Tutorial Tools

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Hello, i am trying to create some photoreal scenery for fs2004 for the first time. And I'm already a little confused not even the 2nd page into the tutorial haha.
It says i will need Global Mapper,Mesh data (GeoTIFF), and Aerial/Satellite Imagery (GeoTIFF). For Globalmapper, do i need the paid version, or will the trial version work? And the Mesh data and Satellite imagery. Do i get those from GeoTIFF, or is that the format i need them in? It seems like the tutorial starts after you have all your imagery and elevation data and such. I have no previous knowledge of how to do anything with gmax, geoTiff, seamless server or any of this. Is there a tutorial for the lowest level of beginner? haha
Thanks,
 
I don't think anyone has a clue what tutorial you are writing about. Post a link, if you can.

Also, why would you use gmax to create either terrain or photoscenery? The end result might look like the default Mt. Rushmore.

Dick
 
Perhaps you want a tutorial to write a tutorial?:D

Global mapper is free to use but it does not have any plugins in the free version to convert to something useful in FS, I believe. That is where the paid version comes in.
If you find a site (and I think Dick, in some other thread, gave a number of options) from which you can download Geotiffs (with elevation data), you simply use an inf file and use the resample.exe you find in the sdk, to convert it into a mesh bgl.
If you want satellite imagery, then you can use e.g. SbuilderX or FSEarthTiles (maybe FSXKML?) to download it from the various servers that have it.
Satellite imagery is most of the time a BMP that you can convert, once again, using an inf file and the resample.exe that comes with the SDK, into a bgl.
The difference with a normal bmp is that it also contains coordinates and some more info if you use one of those programs, to explain it rather simply.

PS And, oh, do not worry, I have only started to learn this as well during the last couple of months and there is still a lot to learn.
 
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