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Lake creation help needed

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Dear friends,
I am building the photo-scenery of Cyprus with the use of the virtual earth plugin.
I have create all the island plus the coastlines with success. About the coastlines i turned the bmp file to tiff and i have make all the land white and all the sea black and i have saved this with as "name of the file_B".tiff.
The result is perfect. Now the problem begins. Cyprus has some lakes i tried to create them. I used the corresponding .bmp's and then i paint the lake black and the land white and then i saved this as "name of the file_W".tiff. I recompiled the scenery and the result is a fine land but with a full transparent lake sawing the default scenery. What i am doing wrong? can someone please help me with an example? Many thanks in advance.
 
First you resample the ..._W.tif as the blend mask (not water mask) and then you still have to put in water (not with a hose but with a water class poly:)). If you would like to have some ripples and such, then you also need a water mask.
 
Dear Roby,
Thank you very much for your reply, As i understand i must create a polygone over the water and then to go to properties of the polygon then to vector tab and select from the list a typical lake preset and then i can compile the project?
 
sxa1376 said:
Dear Roby,
Thank you very much for your reply, As i understand i must create a polygone over the water and then to go to properties of the polygon then to vector tab and select from the list a typical lake preset and then i can compile the project?
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You could do it this way, yes, but you can also do it the way you were thinking. (Turning the photo real water texture into FSX/P3D water)
If you would, please post the .inf that you are using to compile your photo real.
 
Here is an example:

[Destination]
DestDir = "D:\temp\FSET\FSX\Addon Scenery\FSEarthTiles\LacLola FSX\scenery"
DestBaseFileName = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_N045444092_N045435607_W076111395_W076095856_seasons_Blendstest2
BuildSeasons = 0
UseSourceDimensions = 1
CompressionQuality = 100

[Source]
Type = MultiSource
NumberOfSources = 6

[Source1]
Type = BMP
Layer = Imagery
SourceDir = D:\FSZIP\utilities\FSEarthTiles\work\LacLola
SourceFile = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_N045444092_N045435607_W076111395_W076095856HIWIW.bmp
Lon = -76.1872100830078 ;for top left and bottom right is: -76.1662530899048
Lat = 45.7447099685669 ;for top left and bottom right is: 45.7322323322296
NumOfCellsPerLine = 1465 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
NumOfLines = 1163 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
CellXdimensionDeg = 1.43051147460938E-05
CellYdimensionDeg = 1.07288360595703E-05
PixelIsPoint = 0
SamplingMethod = Gaussian
Variation = January,February,March,November,December
Channel_Blendmask = 6.0


[Source2]
Type = BMP
Layer = Imagery
SourceDir = D:\FSZIP\utilities\FSEarthTiles\work\LacLola
SourceFile = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_N045444092_N045435607_W076111395_W076095856coladj.bmp
Lon = -76.1872100830078 ;for top left and bottom right is: -76.1662530899048
Lat = 45.7447099685669 ;for top left and bottom right is: 45.7322323322296
NumOfCellsPerLine = 1465 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
NumOfLines = 1163 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
CellXdimensionDeg = 1.43051147460938E-05
CellYdimensionDeg = 1.07288360595703E-05
PixelIsPoint = 0
SamplingMethod = Gaussian
Variation = April,May,June,July,August,September,October
Channel_Blendmask = 4.0
Channel_LandWaterMask = 5.0

[Source3]
Type = BMP
Layer = Imagery
SourceDir = D:\FSZIP\utilities\FSEarthTiles\work\LacLola
SourceFile = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_N045444092_N045435607_W076111395_W076095856coladjnight.bmp
Lon = -76.1872100830078 ;for top left and bottom right is: -76.1662530899048
Lat = 45.7447099685669 ;for top left and bottom right is: 45.7322323322296
NumOfCellsPerLine = 1465 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
NumOfLines = 1163 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
CellXdimensionDeg = 1.43051147460938E-05
CellYdimensionDeg = 1.07288360595703E-05
PixelIsPoint = 0
SamplingMethod = Gaussian
Variation = Night
Channel_Blendmask = 4.0
Channel_LandWaterMask = 5.0

[Source4]
Type = TIFF
Layer = None
SourceDir = D:\FSZIP\utilities\FSEarthTiles\work\LacLola
SourceFile = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_N045444092_N045435607_W076111395_W076095856blendtest.tif
Lon = -76.1872100830078 ;for top left and bottom right is: -76.1662530899048
Lat = 45.7447099685669 ;for top left and bottom right is: 45.7322323322296
NumOfCellsPerLine = 1465 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
NumOfLines = 1163 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
CellXdimensionDeg = 1.43051147460938E-05
CellYdimensionDeg = 1.07288360595703E-05
PixelIsPoint = 0
SamplingMethod = Gaussian
Variation = April,May,June,July,August,September,October

[Source5]
Type = TIFF
Layer = None
SourceDir = D:\FSZIP\utilities\FSEarthTiles\work\LacLola
SourceFile = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_N045444092_N045435607_W076111395_W076095856water2.tif
Lon = -76.1872100830078 ;for top left and bottom right is: -76.1662530899048
Lat = 45.7447099685669 ;for top left and bottom right is: 45.7322323322296
NumOfCellsPerLine = 1465 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
NumOfLines = 1163 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
CellXdimensionDeg = 1.43051147460938E-05
CellYdimensionDeg = 1.07288360595703E-05
PixelIsPoint = 0
SamplingMethod = Gaussian

[Source6]
Type = TIFF
Layer = None
SourceDir = D:\FSZIP\utilities\FSEarthTiles\work\LacLola
SourceFile = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_N045444092_N045435607_W076111395_W076095856blend2.tif
Lon = -76.1872100830078 ;for top left and bottom right is: -76.1662530899048
Lat = 45.7447099685669 ;for top left and bottom right is: 45.7322323322296
NumOfCellsPerLine = 1465 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
NumOfLines = 1163 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
CellXdimensionDeg = 1.43051147460938E-05
CellYdimensionDeg = 1.07288360595703E-05
PixelIsPoint = 0
SamplingMethod = Gaussian
Variation = January,February,March,November,December
 
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