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Hey guys, I have got myself some satellite imagery of my airport for an update (still to be released). The imagery is very detailed and split up into 27900 512x512 tiles. I have put them all together and saved with a software and it is a total of 3.5GB, Should I just make a plane and place all tiles on there one by one or is there a way to get around this without my computer stalling trying to load this huge file?

Regrda
 
Hi,

For which FS version are you working? For FSX I would let resample create a BGL from the imagery.

If you place it as a plane, you will have about 7000 textures even if you use 1024x1024 textures. I don't think any computer will be able to handle so much data.
 
arno said:
Hi,

For which FS version are you working? For FSX I would let resample create a BGL from the imagery.

If you place it as a plane, you will have about 7000 textures even if you use 1024x1024 textures. I don't think any computer will be able to handle so much data.
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Yeah gathered that LOL, I am using FS2004 for the scenery...the game engine must have a limit no matter what the texture size is.

Thanks Arno
 
Hi,

For FS2004 you would have to see which resolution you can still use. Modern PCs can maybe handle a bit more, but a few years ago I placed 15 cm imagery in a scenery for FS2004 and loading the textures completely halted my PC. So you might have to choose to use a lower resolution.
 
arno said:
Hi,

For FS2004 you would have to see which resolution you can still use. Modern PCs can maybe handle a bit more, but a few years ago I placed 15 cm imagery in a scenery for FS2004 and loading the textures completely halted my PC. So you might have to choose to use a lower resolution.
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I have it sorted now. Quick question whilst your around, doing the ASM tweak for ground polys, how do I layer them because I have the main ground poly...but when I put on the runway polys...they don't show in FS.

I believe that if my ground poly ASM read ADDCAT Object_0_Scale, 8
would my runway poly have to be ADDCAT Object_0_Scale, 12 ?

I have tryed using your MCX and the ground poly wizard but it doesnt sho wat all on my scenery.
 
UtahJazzfan said:
I thought the max FS2004 could do is about 4m per pixel?
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That's for resample, to create "photo scenery", like the default FS terrain. That limits you to if I remember correctly, to 4.5m/pixels.

If you use gMax planes, like for example to have an airport background the limit is your PC power to render. This way you can have an 1024x1024 texture represent 256x256 meters, giving you 0.25m/pixel.
 
Hi,

Yes, you would use layer 0 for the photo for example. Then you can use layer 4 for the aprons, 8 for the runways and 12 for the markings for example. The higher the layer, the more priority.

In FS2004 the resample made photo scenery indeed has a resolution of 4.8 meter pixel, which is usually not enough for nice looking airport sceneries.
 
arno said:
Hi,

Yes, you would use layer 0 for the photo for example. Then you can use layer 4 for the aprons, 8 for the runways and 12 for the markings for example. The higher the layer, the more priority.

In FS2004 the resample made photo scenery indeed has a resolution of 4.8 meter pixel, which is usually not enough for nice looking airport sceneries.
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Ok so I have no problem doing that :) but I started of from 4 8 12 ect..what is your typical order? I have the main photo at 4, taxiways and aprons at 8, runway at 12, runwaymarking at 16, taxilines at 20 and tyre marks and other dirt textures at 24. Is this a usual way?
 
Yes, that sounds fine.
 
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