Discussion Tile making

[misha.physics]

Amazing!

Micro textures make perfect in Orbiter. By the way, KSP 1 has very nice ground textures at high graphic settings.

 

[misha.physics]

Sometimes ago I made "Surf" and "Mask" tiles up to 21 level for Block Island. Only tiles, no night lights, no base objects. Every tile is 512x512. It has a lot of water areas (big and small) that I did manually. I could release it as an add-on if someone is interested in it:

 

[LadyCroussette]

Sometimes ago I made "Surf" and "Mask" tiles up to 21 level for Block Island. Only tiles, no night lights, no base objects. Every tile is 512x512. It has a lot of water areas (big and small) that I did manually. I could release it as an add-on if someone is interested in it:

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Never hurts to have more runways to land on!

 

[misha.physics]

I doubt which map for Samedan airport (Switzerland) to choose, since each version has its pros and cons:




I could release all three versions, but I'm not sure that's a good idea.

 

[Buck Rogers]

Maybe 2 versions, otherwise I'd go for green.

 

[misha.physics]

I'll try to make the green version a little darker, since it seems to be very brightness.

 

[llarian]

I doubt which map for Samedan airport (Switzerland) to choose, since each version has its pros and cons:

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I could release all three versions, but I'm not sure that's a good idea.

Personally I like the 1i.jpg image better. The other two look like they are overwhelmed a bit by cloud shadows (like a raw Landsat image). I prefer the brightness but you could tone the brightness down a bit if you would prefer.

 

[misha.physics]

I reduced the brightness and really like how it looks now. Comparison:

 

[Matias Saibene]

Where do you get the satellite images?
The most I've managed is to take screenshots of this site:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?layers=10df2279f9684e4a9f6a7f08febac2a9

 

[misha.physics]

@Matias Saibene, I described it in the post:

Discussion - Tile making

@jarmonik , if you ever plan to update the tools, you have a small fan base here ! :hailprobe: There is an updated version as a part of the OpenOrbiter which can work with water masks and nightlights. There are simply so many things to do that I haven't had much time for this tool. But I do...

www.orbiter-forum.com

 

[misha.physics]

A strange thing happens. I didn't think that mask tiles can affects anything at day on land, but I'm noticing the vertical grey seam when mask files are used. Left - no mask tiles, right - with mask tiles:

 

[Buck Rogers]

Something with the edges? Maybe alpha or half pixel values?

 

[misha.physics]

I don't know. I meant the vertical grey seam that is to the left of the ellipse (base). Maybe that's because my surface tiles have resolution 1024 whereas mask tiles are 512, but I'm not sure.

 

[misha.physics]

Maybe alpha

I didn't think the alpha on mask tiles can affect anything at day on land.

 

[Buck Rogers]

I didn't think the alpha on mask tiles can affect anything at day on land.

Orbiter is full of suprises!

resolution 1024 whereas mask tiles are 512

This might be it.

 

[Buck Rogers]

I think the hi-res colour mismatched tiles (Baikonur) are an error in the stock surf file?
Your tiles fix this
Still getting some edge artifacts, it's the masks as you said, some are 512x512, lower level ones are 1024, I don't think I see any edges there?

 

[misha.physics]

I think the hi-res colour mismatched tiles (Baikonur) are an error in the stock surf file?

Yes, the high resolution Surf.tree archive contains several Baikonur tiles of levels 14-15 that have more grey color. I replaced them.

Still getting some edge artifacts, it's the masks as you said, some are 512x512, lower level ones are 1024, I don't think I see any edges there?

Are you using the high version? Could you attach a complete scenario with DG for the area you show above?

 

[Buck Rogers]

Are you using the high version?

Yes

 

[Buck Rogers]

Could you attach a complete scenario with DG for the area you show above?

Here's the dg right on the cross

 

[misha.physics]

@Buck Rogers, thank you! I see the issue. It's really caused by mask tiles. I'll try possible solutions.

By the way, you probably noticed that my custom tiles don't include the area with the runway, I thought about it, but it's too large area.