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Not sure I have the time to begin this project but I've been thinking about the dynamics of it recently. My current scenery has over 5,000 photoreal tiles for just the summer textures and the idea of hand-creating over 5,000 night tiles is really daunting. Do you think it's possible to create a program that goes through all your summer textures, looks for roads and/or bright areas and automatically creates light map tiles?

Anyone know of good VB graphic libraries or algorithms that will do something like edge detection for finding roads? Sounds like it could be a daunting task but if it even through some random bright spots and streaks where roads and houses existed, it'd probably be worth it. You probably could also use the .agn files for input to determine where houses and buildings existed.

Any ideas would be great. What would even be better is someone offering to do this.

Art
 
Hi Art,

Good idea. I have been thinking about something similar for AGN files. With some proper shape recognition, it ishould also be possible to automatically find forest on an image for example and place trees there.

But as I have no real experience with that kind of algorithms and currently no time to investigate in the subject, don't expect me to make such a tool soon :).
 
There was a guy on the British VFR forums that proposed automatic vegetation creation. Think that would be more difficult since the only thing to cue it would be color. Heck, here in Arizona you know the trees more by their shadows than their color.

Art
 
In a way I automate the process, but only by running a series of steps on the original full-sized image in Photoshop Elements. I haven't got around to creating a macro, but I suppose I could. Of course I only use the whole image, rather than all those little tiles.
Of course I do spend a bit of time brushing out obvious anomolies, such as lights in rivers...
artmartin said:
There was a guy on the British VFR forums that proposed automatic vegetation creation. Think that would be more difficult since the only thing to cue it would be color. Heck, here in Arizona you know the trees more by their shadows than their color.

Art
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This should be relatively easy (ahem, easy for me to say, I mean) as I use the Detect Forests tool in AGenT to great effect, and it requires very little input on my part. This needs some setting up for each image, but it saves me weeks of work. 120,000 trees in two days makes a bit more sense than a month of planting.
Of course I use Art's editor for the serious work:)
-Robin
 
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