MSFS [GUIDE] How to create custom aerial scenery

[xr219]

Fantastic guide, thank you so much.

I’ve just one question. The airport I’m attempting to make is missing due to cloud cover on the Bing imagery causing the automatic creation of synthetic textures/polygons to cover them. Inserting my custom imagery works correctly, but the vegetation from these synthetic polygons remains. Do I need an exclude rectangle to remove these, and will they prevent the automatic vegetation from being applied to my imagery? If so, is there a better way to handle this?

Norman, in the ground poly with the excludes, select vegetation and then adjust the slider that appears to zero.

 

[Oleh Shevchenko]

this fixed my problem.
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Thanks. Z20 now works. But I found a new bug. Two airports (between 100 miles) with custom image can't work together. Sim won't load any of this scenery. They create the same *cgl file. Can someone check it, please?

 

[Tufve]

Nice work! Will try it out asap

 

[Chrillew]

Follow the guide, dunno why i looks like this in the game..

 

[bar_rodoy]

Thanks. Z20 now works. But I found a new bug. Two airports (between 100 miles) with custom image can't work together. Sim won't load any of this scenery. They create the same *cgl file. Can someone check it, please?

Same case here.

 

[Oleh Shevchenko]

Same case here.

Already sent a bug report to Asobo. But thank you, anyway!

 

[MisiekLi]

Guys, help me. Everything made according to the tutorial. What am I doing wrong? It's about the white border of the edited tiles.

 

[Augustin Winther]

Guys, help me. Everything made according to the tutorial. What am I doing wrong? It's about the white border of the edited tiles.

If you made everything according to the tutorial as you say, then my best guess is that your edited .png file is the source of the problem

 

[jdiegel]

Hi Augustin, hi Devinci,

I'm still not that familiar whith the MSFS SDK, I just succeeded in creating a simple new airport with a single runway and without an aerial scenery.

Augustin, I appreciate your comprehensive workout. However, Devinci, I also like the shortcut you proposed via SBuilderX and GIMP.
In old FSX and P3Dv4 times I didn't use SBuilderX but FSEarthTiles. Finally it creates a .bgl for direct use in FSX or P3D which cannot be used for MSFS.
In an intermediate step FSEarthTiles also creates, as SBuilderX does, a rectangular .bmp and a text file containing the exact corner coordinates of the rectangle.
Now my question: Is with the existance of the .bmp and the corner coordinates geo-referencing done already? At which step of Augustin's tutorial I have to step into it and continue with it?

Thanks for your help in advance, and best regards,

Joachim

 

[Chrillew]

Succesfully added scenery where the airport is but when i try again over the city i just dont seem do get it to work. thoose errors what do they mean.

Nvm it does work if i zoom out i can see it ... hm have set the max and min zoom levels to 20

 

[Chrillew]

Seems like the 2 scenery packages interfere with eachother somehow. it only works if i have 1 of them active in The community folder.

 

[Chrillew]

Not sure if its a bug or not made quite a big file, the cgl aerial imagery folder is 4,67gb. Left it overnight and now the Package size is around 280gb and not even completed. is there a size limit of this and it just flips out ?

 

[Oleh Shevchenko]

Not sure if its a bug or not made quite a big file, the cgl aerial imagery folder is 4,67gb. Left it overnight and now the Package size is around 280gb and not even completed. is there a size limit of this and it just flips out ?

If you create a big area (for example 5x5 km) with z22 then you should rent a personal server for storing this data) Of course you should understand what size you will get at the end and choose an area and zoom carefully.

 

[Devinci]

Hi Augustin, hi Devinci,

I'm still not that familiar whith the MSFS SDK, I just succeeded in creating a simple new airport with a single runway and without an aerial scenery.

Augustin, I appreciate your comprehensive workout. However, Devinci, I also like the shortcut you proposed via SBuilderX and GIMP.
In old FSX and P3Dv4 times I didn't use SBuilderX but FSEarthTiles. Finally it creates a .bgl for direct use in FSX or P3D which cannot be used for MSFS.
In an intermediate step FSEarthTiles also creates, as SBuilderX does, a rectangular .bmp and a text file containing the exact corner coordinates of the rectangle.
Now my question: Is with the existance of the .bmp and the corner coordinates geo-referencing done already? At which step of Augustin's tutorial I have to step into it and continue with it?

Thanks for your help in advance, and best regards,

Joachim

Sorry I just noticed your message since I wasn't quoted. Basically you use SbuilderX to just get a singular image instead of the many tiles you get from Ortho4xp. it's easier that way you don't have to stich all the images together in gimp and it can save you time. So I'd say about page 20 (4 – Importing, georeferencing and exporting in QGIS) you can continue.

 

[Jannomag]

How can I do this with 4 complete Ortho4XP tiles? When I hit "Make Geotiffs" after I've selected the area with the point tool, Ortho4XP just creates one tif file. Selecting every square of the whole area is extremely handy, especially on ZL 19, to do but this works (tried it with ~100 marked areas).
Is there a way to do this more easily? Or is there a way to use generated Orthophotos to create MSFS scenery? I'm having 500-1000 Orthophots with 4096x4096 resolution, do I need to combine them manually or is there a tool for this?

Reason: I want to create the forgotten Faroe islands.

 

[piotrkol]

Just what I was looking for! Thanks so much, really well written, no problems to follow at all Managed to replace some scenery with no trouble

Now I want to create a couple smaller seperate areas and place them into one FS project. Should I just place everything into "aerial_images" and mix the png's or should I start creating some folder structure inside to keep the png's organized?

 

[Airplain]

Great tutorial, thank you. I can't seem to make it work in South Beach, Miami, could I be doing something wrong or is there some trick to it?

 

[Davide Ferrara]

Hi any idea why my Arieal Image is not referenced correctly for some reason?
I've used the same of p3d and xplane and here is working as it should.

 

[Augustin Winther]

Hi any idea why my Arieal Image is not referenced correctly for some reason?

The default airports that are in-game is based on Bing Aerial imagery, which tends to not be that accurate. Or, your georefrencing is not good enough

 

[Davide Ferrara]

The default airports that are in-game is based on Bing Aerial imagery, which tends to not be that accurate. Or, your georefrencing is not good enough

That's weird. Never had problem with p3d and xplane, also the buildings are in offset so it must be the photo real. I'm trying to use it the TIF image instead of the PNG.
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With the GeoTiff is working fine.

the problem is that I've lost my blend mask, any help?