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Autogen on photoreal textures

bpahe

bpahe

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Hi!

Real nice to have the forum back online!

Ok, so, a topic that might have been discussed before, although I did not find a clear answer on Avsim. I´ve placed photoreal textures, and now I´d like to populate them with Autogen.
Does the FS2002 Annotator work also in 2004? I did a quick test, but nothing appeared. Hopefully a 2004 Annotator will be released soon...

Also, I use Sbuilder to export the photos to FS, and then the bmps are flipped. Does Annotator take this into account, or do I have to turn the bmp´s "back" before annotating?

Any answer is most welcome! :)

Thanks!

/hans
 
Hi,

bpahe said:
Does the FS2002 Annotator work also in 2004? I did a quick test, but nothing appeared. Hopefully a 2004 Annotator will be released soon...
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Yes, it should work fine. Did you have the agn files in the correct folder and no other scenery around that could exclude your autogen?

bpahe said:
Also, I use Sbuilder to export the photos to FS, and then the bmps are flipped. Does Annotator take this into account, or do I have to turn the bmp´s "back" before annotating?
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I noticed that as well. I think you should indeed make a flipped version again, use that to make the agn files and then copy those files to the correct texture folder.

I also noticed that Luis posted on the AvSim forum a few days ago that when using the new ImageTool the flipping of the texture was no longer needed (or something like that, can't remember completely). Maybe you can do something with that?
 
arno said:
I also noticed that Luis posted on the AvSim forum a few days ago that when using the new ImageTool the flipping of the texture was no longer needed (or something like that, can't remember completely). Maybe you can do something with that?
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Hi again!

Well, I must confess that the question he asked at Avsim was raised by me, initially... Boy, do I mess things up! :)

The thing was that I had only water in one area that was to be covered by the photo-scenery - hence it did not appear in the sim. I inserted a landclass, textured by "custom textures, all seasons". Then, at the same time I changed Imagetool to a newer version. The textures appeared flipped in the sim, because I then had 2 layers of custom textures on top of each other. The version of Imagetool that you use with Sbuilder does not make any difference, custom VTP2-polys need flipped bmps.
Once I changed the landclass to a normal, forrested LC, the photoscenery appeared correctly. Of course, also Luis is informed about this by now. :o

I´ll try out the Annotator more serioulsy this weekend. I don´t have any objects in the scenery yet, and the exlude only applies to coastlines. More info later on!

/hans
 
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