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Pattern for ground texture

Hi,

Can you explain a bit more what you mean with a pattern for ground textures?
 
Hi Arno!

What I mean is to have an image repeating itself over a certain ground area.

Like if I have a 256x256 geotiff and I wanted to spread all over a certain piece of ground.

thanks!
G
 
Hi,

With the terrain photo scenery you can't do repeating. As the name says a GeoTIFF image also contains a geo location, so that means it has a fixed position.

You will probably have to use a terrain vector polygon to get what you want. Those can have their texture repeated. Although I must say I never tried to use them with a custom texture in FSX.

Another option, depending on how many time it needs to be repeated, is to just repeat it in a paint program and then make a new GeoTIFF for this combined texture. Then you can process it with resample. But that will take more harddisk space of course.
 
can terrain vector polygon have transparency?

If yes, than I will be interested in moving forward in learning how to produce terrain vector polygon. If not, then I drop the idea right now. :)

If yes, could you point me to the tools I need to use to make these vector polygons?

thanks a lot!
G
 
Last time I tried it was for FS2004, then it was quite easy to make them with custom textures using SBuilder. But I don't think you can use your own custom textures as easily in FSX when using shp2vec to make the polygons. SBuilderX would be the tool to try.

But maybe we should go one step back, what are you trying to achieve with those (transparent) polygons on the terrain?
 
Hello

it's quite possible to have transparencies with ground polygons : only need to create a alpha picture and include it in a dds texture.
 
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