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How to blend

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Hello

In the attempt to create my first scenery I have come across a problem

How do i blend my photoscenery in with the normal scenery?

I have heard something about alphachanneling it? would it work or is there a better way or program for doing such things?

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Best Regards

Lukas Agerskov
 
I've never worked with photoreal tiles in FS9 but in FSX you can use shades of grey to define transparencies in your blend mask. The best method for a seamless blend is to define your blend mask using natural boundaries i.e. edges of fields, rivers, roads, etc. Then play around with the colours in your image for a while in Photoshop or GIMP and try to match the surrounding landclass tiles

Regards

Alex
 
With FS2004, what I do is to place the tiles as a VTPlayer. I can then trim the VTP poly in SBuilderFS9 to the center of roads or field edges. Then it doesn't look so abrupt.

Also, you may need to alter the coloring of the source image to more closely match the default landclass textures in the area.

Dick
 
You can edit your alpha channel with a photo editor software (like Photoshop)

In PS, you can open you alpha channel, the go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with a value between 3.0 and 6.0 to make soft your alpha channel, apply the new alpha channel to your photoscenery and you can see the difference ;)

Hope this helps
 
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