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MSFS Generic Textures Improvement/Fix, Any alternative to Orthoimagery?

Marc L

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Hello fellow developers ;)

I was wondering if any of you knows any alternative to Ortho to fix gaps and clouds?
I remember seeing a small island scenery on fs.to, the developer turned a default generic textures island into a beautiful and realistic island, but it looked like he did it with polygons. like a LandClass scenery. (can't find it anymore tho, if you know which one I'm taling about, please post the link)

So Anyone ever tried making a LandClass in MSFS? or any other improvement/enhancement methode to fix uncovered/cloudy areas?

Regards, Marc
 
rhumbaflappy

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Polys wouldn't allow you to blend, so that would be a problem. If the clouds were not too extensive, you could just extract the tiles from the sim, and select-stamp-blend the individual tiles in a paint program. Also labor intensive.
https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/#/home can get you Sentinal-2 imagery at 10 meters... not the best resolution, but maybe better than landclass. JP2 format can be read by QGIS, and can be saved as geotiff as maybe 1m resolution fro reworking in a paint program.
Arcgis imagery is pretty good, but there would be copyright issues if it's to be distributed.
 
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Hi Dick,
Yes, the clouds are a big problem, but there is also Huge areas without Ortho, thats for them that I wanted to know about the polys.

especially for a small airfield in the middle of the rainforest, the AI made it with the wrong "landcalss", I will have to draw the poly with the RainForest "material", if its the way is works?
 
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SVLB is on an island north of Venezuela (Blanquilla). BlackShark or Asobo must have just given up trying to make it look right. I don't know of anyone making a landclass, as worldwide aerials override everything. I thought there was a New Zealand addon that used polys.
 
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