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FSX Terrain Image vs Polygon Images

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Hi,

I've been working on my first terrain project for several days and I've begun to realize that using a real terrain image can look pretty bad, even/especially when you put buildings and vegetation on it.

Do I edit the image, pasting grass and soil over the top in each section?
If I lay landclass polygons and roads everywhere instead...
  • Will those poly's show seasonal variation?
  • And how do I add night lighting (street lights, house lights etc)?
Would a mix of real and poly look bad?
Is there another way I can do this?

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Cheers,
Andrew
 
Hi,

Whether to use aerial imagery or not depends a bit on what imagery you can find for your area. Is the resolution high enough for the scenery you want to create for example? And often you will have to edit the color balance of the imagery to make sure it looks good in the sim. So it's quite normal you have to do some editing on it.

How did you create your imagery? Which sources did you use?
 
Thanks Arno.. I used SBuilderX at LOD16, images from Google tile server.

I'm also experimenting with placing individual trees via ADE and poly regions via Annotator.
 
Place your individual trees with annotator as well, otherwise they will not change with the seasons.
 
I hope you are aware you can use the Google images only for personal usage and not distribute them.

The quality differs per area (resolution and colours). But I think with sbuilderx it's harder to edit the colours. That's easier when using resample directly.
 
Arno,
Does that mean I can't share on upload, like to the flightsim.com library? If not, is there a tile server that allows free sharing?
Thanks for the heads up.
 
Indeed you can't upload google images to sites like flightsim.com.

What area are you working on? It really differs per country if free sources are available or not.
 
I havent found any good freely distributable imagery for Australia unfortunately. Its a shame as I would really like to develop some scenery closer to home. If you find anything please let me know.

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