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FSET Water Masking

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Hello,

I'm trying to remove some water from the image of FSET, does anyone know how to do this? I would the FSX water to be shown instead of the photos.

Thanks

Aaron

phototest1nr9.jpg
 
Hi,

Thanks for your help, I've had a go at making a blend mask, however was not successful. I have two files, one a bitmap which is the photoscenery, the second is a .tif file, the .tif file is the blend mask, its the same as the aerial but i've added a back and white alpha layer, is this right?

My second problem is resampling, it would not work, this is the file i tried to run.

Any Ideas

Thanks

Aaron.


[Source]
Type = MultiSource
NumberOfSources = 2

[Source1]
Type = Custom
SourceDir = G:\Program Files\FSEarthTiles\Photoreal Sydney TEST 3 Work
SourceFile = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_S033553176_S033582810_E151093472_E151114820.bmp
Lon = 151.159644126892 ;for top left and bottom right is: 151.196722984314
Lat = -33.9254862070084 ;for top left and bottom right is: -33.9744740724564
NumOfCellsPerLine = 5184 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
NumOfLines = 9132 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
CellXdimensionDeg = 7.15255737304688E-06
CellYdimensionDeg = 5.36441802978516E-06
PixelIsPoint = 0
SamplingMethod = Point
Layer = Imagery
Variation = Day
Channel_BlendMask = 2.0

[Source2]
Type =Custom
Layer = None
SourceDir = G:\Program Files\FSEarthTiles\Photoreal Sydney TEST 3 Work
SourceFile = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_S033553176_S033582810_E151093472_E151114820.tif
SamplingMethod = Gaussian


[Destination]
DestDir = G:\Program Files\FSEarthTiles\Photoreal Sydney TEST 3\scenery
DestBaseFileName = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_S033553176_S033582810_E151093472_E151114820
BuildSeasons = 0
UseSourceDimensions = 1
CompressionQuality = 100
 
Hi,

Thanks for your help, could you please tell me what to do with the setup file? I did make a black and white blend mask last night, but did not know what to do with it.

I noticed that my setup file had co-ords in it, I have not seen this elsewhere, how shall modify it to work with the source and blendmask? This was my first setup file for just the source and it works fine (screenshot above)

Note it is from a different test but same area, just different folder names.

Thanks

Aaron

[Destination]
DestDir = G:\Program Files\FSEarthTiles\Real Sydney\scenery
DestBaseFileName = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_S033553074_S033582785_E151093719_E151114697
BuildSeasons = 0
UseSourceDimensions = 1
CompressionQuality = 100

[Source]
Type = Custom
SourceDir = G:\Program Files\FSEarthTiles\Real Sydney Work
SourceFile = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_S033553074_S033582785_E151093719_E151114697.bmp
Lon = 151.160323619843 ;for top left and bottom right is: 151.196386814117
Lat = -33.9252018928528 ;for top left and bottom right is: -33.974404335022
NumOfCellsPerLine = 5042 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
NumOfLines = 9172 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
CellXdimensionDeg = 7.15255737304688E-06
CellYdimensionDeg = 5.36441802978516E-06
PixelIsPoint = 0
SamplingMethod = Point
 
Your INF file is pretty close, just a few changes required, I think.

[Source]
Type = Multisource
NumberOfSources = 2

[Source1]
Type = Custom
I would have used Type = BMP, but since this worked for you originally it is probably ok.
SourceDir = G:\Program Files\FSEarthTiles\Photoreal Sydney TEST 3 Work
SourceFile = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_S033553176_S033582810_E151093472_ E151114820.bmp
Lon = 151.159644126892 ;for top left and bottom right is: 151.196722984314
Lat = -33.9254862070084 ;for top left and bottom right is: -33.9744740724564
NumOfCellsPerLine = 5184 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
NumOfLines = 9132 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
CellXdimensionDeg = 7.15255737304688E-06
CellYdimensionDeg = 5.36441802978516E-06
PixelIsPoint = 0
SamplingMethod = Point
Layer = Imagery
Variation = Day
Channel_BlendMask = 2.0

[Source2]
Type =Custom
See above -- try Type = TIFF.
I don't know if you can assume that this image will inherit the co-ordinates etc from the main image, so you may have to repeat these here:
Lon = 151.159644126892 ;for top left and bottom right is: 151.196722984314
Lat = -33.9254862070084 ;for top left and bottom right is: -33.9744740724564
NumOfCellsPerLine = 5184 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
NumOfLines = 9132 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
CellXdimensionDeg = 7.15255737304688E-06
CellYdimensionDeg = 5.36441802978516E-06

Layer = None
SourceDir = G:\Program Files\FSEarthTiles\Photoreal Sydney TEST 3 Work
SourceFile = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_S033553176_S033582810_E151093472_ E151114820.tif
SamplingMethod = Gaussian


[Destination]
DestDir = G:\Program Files\FSEarthTiles\Photoreal Sydney TEST 3\scenery
DestBaseFileName = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_S033553176_S033582810_E151093472_ E151114820
BuildSeasons = 0
UseSourceDimensions = 1
CompressionQuality = 100
Once you get it working, you may want to bring the file down to a reasonable size by reducing CQ to 90.

The INF file normally required co-ordinates, if you have seen INF files without them then it probably uses a GeoTIFF, which has the co-ordinates in the TIFF file.
 
Hi,

Thanks for your help, I tried what you suggested, however when i put the inf file into the FSXresample the tool just opened and closed really quick, not the normal, resampling process.

Here is the modified inf file, anything else possibly wrong causing the problem?

Aaron.


[Source]
Type = MultiSource
NumberOfSources = 2

[Source]
Type =BMP
SourceDir = G:\Program Files\FSEarthTiles\Photoreal Sydney TEST 3 Work
SourceFile = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_S033553176_S033582810_E151093472_E151114820.bmp
Lon = 151.159644126892 ;for top left and bottom right is: 151.196722984314
Lat = -33.9254862070084 ;for top left and bottom right is: -33.9744740724564
NumOfCellsPerLine = 5184 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
NumOfLines = 9132 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
CellXdimensionDeg = 7.15255737304688E-06
CellYdimensionDeg = 5.36441802978516E-06
PixelIsPoint = 0
SamplingMethod = Point
Layer = Imagery
Variation = Day
Channel_BlendMask = 2.0

[Source1]
Type =BMP
Layer = 1
Lon = 151.159644126892 ;for top left and bottom right is: 151.196722984314
Lat = -33.9254862070084 ;for top left and bottom right is: -33.9744740724564
NumOfCellsPerLine = 5184 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
NumOfLines = 9132 ;Pixel is not used in FSX
CellXdimensionDeg = 7.15255737304688E-06
CellYdimensionDeg = 5.36441802978516E-06
SourceDir = G:\Program Files\FSEarthTiles\Photoreal Sydney TEST 3 Work
SourceFile = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_S033553176_S033582810_E151093472_E151114820A.bmp
SamplingMethod = Gaussian


[Destination]
DestDir = G:\Program Files\FSEarthTiles\Photoreal Sydney TEST 3\scenery
DestBaseFileName = Area_Lp1_SnapOff_S033553176_S033582810_E151093472_E151114820
BuildSeasons = 0
UseSourceDimensions = 1
CompressionQuality = 100
 
Here is a picture of whats happening in FSXrecomplier. I tried what you said and this is the result. The file (the blendmask) which is failing to create is saved as a 8bit greyscale bmp.

Aaron

erroruk5.png
 
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Ohh... Good progress, the compling is working, now lets hope the water is gone. I changed it to a 32bit texture (blendmask)

Aaron
 
Well it was working, the first proper blendmask worked fine, then v2 which got rid of land made this happen. Any ideas?

Aaron

UPDATE: I redrew my first blendmask and this still appear when I resampled, any ideas? The only difference was that I had a bit of greys on the first and not on the second and third, would this be an influence?

wateria7.jpg
 
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