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Help with Ortho

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unitedkingdom
Hi all,

I'm trying to use Ortho4P3D to create photo scenery for the region of Spain. I have already done this with the Bing data source, but it had a lot of clouds and colour mismatch.

I instead tried the EUR source because the colours for Spain are really nice with no clouds, however I have an issue with the way it creates the bgls for the Scenery folder.

On the area of Spain which borders with France, it downloads in EUR from two sources, SP for the Spanish tiles and FRorth for the French ones. When it downloads these, it creates two seperate folders namely 'SP16' and 'FRorth16. and for each tile it downloads, it states it is 'For combining in EUR'.

On the final step when it creates the BGLs however, it doesn't combine the French and Spanish tiles into just one 'scenery' folder. Instead, it only generated BGLs Scenery folder for whatever region it downloaded last, for example if the last tile it downloaded was for France, it will only generate a Addon Scenery/scenery folder for the France tiles and the SPanish ones just won't be compiled into BGLs at all. This created two issues, so one is it means the Spain tiles all just don't get used. But the French ones, for the areas of the tile that contained French and Spanish areas in the one tile, if it generates the french ones for example, there is white where the Spanish area should have been. I'm guessing this is because it hasn't combined them both into just one 'Scenery' folder.

Is there anything I can do to fix this as the EUR as I say is the best quality so I really would like to be able to use it.

Many thanks,

Dan
 
It seems logical that you could combine the properly represented imagery, onto the properly formatted media, using Photoshop or similar software, thus simultaneously overcoming the compatibility issue, while creating a unique image that has no ownership conflicts.
 
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