Wesel - City building issues

[Ben Fest]

Hi Girls and Guys!

Well, I've created my hometown for FSX.
I am using SBuilderX to create photoreal textures , Blend and Watermask created with Photoshop and I am using resample to create my bgl files.
After edeting Background image, blend and watermask for better results... old scenery returned as you can see in Problem2.jpg. How to get back a nice waterline?

The other big issue is the elevation data as you can see in Problem3.jpg. I've just made a Flattern for the local Airfield. What do you recommend for projects like mine?

I hope you can help. If there are questions, just ask.

Thanks,
Ben

 

[Shaun]

Sorry for no reply yet....

Problem 1: You ChannelWatermask should be greyscale.

Draw around the water body and SELECT>FEATHER (Choose about 20 pix depending on resolution) and fill the area in near black. It will make a gradient around your selection area.

Then put a layer in underneath and make it white.

Don't make it completely black, use some of the imagery to make the water look great.

2: Use ADE to make a graded flatten polygon. You can change the altitudes of each vertex. It is f***ing amaing!

 

[Ben Fest]

Hey Shaun, thanks for relpy!

1. It was kind of funny. With my first edit with resample all worked fine... but during my changes on my photoscenery .bmp files things getting bad.
At least the watermask should be a 24bit greyscale. Actually it is true black and true white. Maybe Problem.jpg is a bit confusing (sorry for that) ... watermsk is true black and true white and blendmask has a little bit of fade at the edges.

2. Oh no, I've made a flattern poly for the airport with Sbuilder. It was kind of hard work, I have to do it for the whole river and scenery?

Thank you, Ben

 

[Shaun]

You can slope them in SBuilder, but I prefer ADE.

I don't understand what you're saying. I would have white and faded to dark grey for the water mask.

If the problem is the default terrain sticking through it, put a water polygon there. But this is quite hard to do if I remember correctly...

 

[Ben Fest]

I will try with ADE, thank you!

My Blendmask looks like this:

And my Watermask like this:

I did them as explained in this tutorial : http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?250762-How-to-create-photoreal-scenery-for-FSX
My problem is the thing you've mentoined. The default terrain sticks through it.

 

[Shaun]

AH! There's your problem! Don't black over the water with the channel_blendmask! Leave all the water white in the blendmask and let the watermask handle it!

Then you wont see the default terrain peeping out by the shoreline!

 

[Ben Fest]

Yes that's it! Got my shorleines back und need to paint above the photoscenery to paint away things in the water.
After that I will create some flattern with ADE.
Thank you very much Shaun!

 

[Shaun]

My pleasure. This looks utterly fantastic btw!

 

[Ben Fest]

Thanks! It my very first scenery ... still having probs with gmax modeling and stuff like that. But I think creating realistic mesh for the whole City area will be a bigger problem and much more work.

 

[Shaun]

Creating a mesh? What do you mean? You can just get geotiff elevation data and resample it.

I wouldn't try to do more than a few problematic areas with the ground polygons.

 

[Ben Fest]

Because there is no free high definition elevation data for germany, I have to do it with ADE and sloped flattern. A lot of boring work...
Still need to fix some edges. Or is there any chance to connect Polygon Vertex?