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FS2004 5B2 - Saratoga County

Runway texture update... Fiddling with an overlay from actual 5B2 images... Some things look nice, others need more tweeking....

Thanks for looking.

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EdGeneer said:
im also still working on the grass grainer... i tried the peek-through method, but couldnt get any degree of contrast with this method. plus the edges was a pain to lineup completely, i spent hours trying to hand paint the masks, and it still looked like junk mixed with crap....
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Hello,
I am impressed by your work!! I see a lot of interesting details on your ground :). I was asking myself how did you do your "grass grainer"? I searched on the web and could not find any tutorial. Could you explain me your method ? (I do my textures with photoshop)
PM me if you prefer!
 
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The grass grainer is an idea i stole from the flytampa folks, but they do it with a transparent mask of the photo layer letting the grainer come up through from behind.... I tried this but could not get enough contrast in the sat layer unless i hard contrasted the sat layer and it still didn't look right... the grainer texture i made looked nice, but it never looked right when i tried their technique... i just wasn't getting the mix right, and it was alot of work to mask the sat texture with a detiled alpha channel and still not get it to look good at all...

So what I did was put the satellite layer first, then layed the grainer over the top, using an alpha mask to let it 'texture' the smooth satellite layer below it. Very sloppy, but it kept the contrast and color of the sat ground texture, and detailed it with a grassy grain to give it some detail.... i cheated, it was easier to get it to look better...

What DOES happen, is it graines everything its above... not a problem for most things, it doesnt show through the slightly transparent taxiway textures, so there is no issue there, and the runways are fully textures, with no bleedthrough, so no problem there either...

I dont want to get into process here in the showroom, as these techniques should be outlined in the gmax rooms, and not here... there may be some techniques in the gmax room already to explain how to do this, it IS quite easy... its all in the way you prepare the grainer texture. and its alpha.

I appreciate your kind comments to my work, thank you :)
 
I'd love to know how you did that Ed in more detail - would you be willing to let me know via a PM please?
 
Southwest said:
I'd love to know how you did that Ed in more detail - would you be willing to let me know via a PM please?
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The grainer layer? If your looking for that, so was Tibo... I could make a post in gmax forum outlining the process.... If there is one already, Ill edit this and link it...
 
Thanks... Not many marking on the 5B2 runways, so not alot of white paint.... but I AM going to redo the numbers and some text that it painted on the main ramp...

tweeking, tweeking tweeking.... :)
 
That is one beautiful photograph, Ed!

Now, what's the sim scenery look like? :rotfl:
 
More screenies... some night shots... none of the light mapping is done for the ground yet, but something to show the progress.... its getting close...

Thanks for looking...

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Another night shot... Making taxiway lines, tedious tedious tedious!!!!

Thanks for looking...

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Thanks, the bushes were made in Photoshop... easy to make the shapes.... then they are applied to x-shaped planes and placed as *.mdl's accordingly...

I am having a problem with landing lights showing them as black at night, so... not a big deal, but its doing similar with the taxilight blooms....

frustrating....
 
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