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Bulk Process Night light Ground Splash Texture

changes may be subtle but they are there,
i feathered the edges to the best of my ability,
you may not realize i am working with a single pixel splash
it translates to little more than one pixel; but still not much real-estate to work with

these results feel good to me and prob be my final iCVFR NightMap










Chris
 
I saw some amazing pics here so i decided to try to do a night ground splash textures for my project,,, here some pics. :)







 
Chris that's looking quite good and closer to reality than soaking the roads in light as some mistakenly do. What you had in Post #45 is probably the most true to life rendering.

I've spent the last 7 years travelling frequently and what you're doing is much closer to what you see with your eyes in the real world. Brightly soaked roads drenched in light while it might look pretty from an art perspective, is not what is seen in real life. Some make the mistake of looking at long exposure photography of lights on roads and think that's what you see in real life. Long exposure photography causes the roads to look bathed in light, and then use that as a basis for their night lighting efforts, but this is just the result of the photons hitting the camera sensor over a long period of time. A camera is a lot more sensitive to photon absorption on a long exposure, meaning the photons are able to travel from the places that are normally dark to our eyes but make the final photo image show light where the natural eye cannot normally see.

In terms of allegedly not being able to see lights at night from up high I refer to http://www.panoramio.com/photo/65605686 . It really depends on the design of the light, again photos from cameras pick up photons we don't normally see to the naked eye, enhancing the effect and in those situations the perspective has to be down at a certain altitude before the lights really become visible to the eye, but this only happens with certain styles of lights. Not all lights are created equal ;) Some like the one below are not directional lights and are completely visible from the air.

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In terms of lights on highways they do exist in real life. Top picture is Australia, bottom picture is United States.

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