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Photo-real seasonal textures problem - Resample

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Bill Gr

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Hello, I am having a hard time making my scenery to show up.

Since I have added seasonal textures, my scenery do not longer show up in-sim.

This is my .inf code for Resample:


[Source]
Type = MultiSource
NumberOfSources = 6

[Source1]
Type = BMP
Layer = Imagery
SourceDir = "."
SourceFile = "ile-des-soeurs-summer.bmp"
Season = 3
Variation = June, July, August
Channel_BlendMask = 5.0
Channel_LandWaterMask = 6.0
ulyMap = 45.4760217547587
ulxMap = -73.5630798339844
xDim = 2.68220901489258E-06
yDim = 1.88131591742887E-06

[Source2]
Type = BMP
Layer = Imagery
SourceDir = "."
SourceFile = "ile-des-soeurs-mild-winter.bmp"
Season = 0
Variation = April, May, October
Channel_BlendMask = 5.0
Channel_LandWaterMask = 6.0
ulyMap = 45.4760217547587
ulxMap = -73.5630798339844
xDim = 2.68220901489258E-06
yDim = 1.88131591742887E-06

[Source3]
Type = BMP
Layer = Imagery
SourceDir = "."
SourceFile = "ile-des-soeurs-hard-winter.bmp"
Season = 1
Variation = January, February, March, April, November, December
Channel_BlendMask = 5.0
Channel_LandWaterMask = 6.0
ulyMap = 45.4760217547587
ulxMap = -73.5630798339844
xDim = 2.68220901489258E-06
yDim = 1.88131591742887E-06

[Source4]
Type = BMP
Layer = Imagery
SourceDir = "."
SourceFile = "ile-des-soeurs-fall.bmp"
Season = 4
Variation = September
Channel_BlendMask = 5.0
Channel_LandWaterMask = 6.0
ulyMap = 45.4760217547587
ulxMap = -73.5630798339844
xDim = 2.68220901489258E-06
yDim = 1.88131591742887E-06

[Source5]
Type = TIFF
Layer = None
SourceDir = "."
SourceFile = "ile-des-soeurs-blendmask.tif"
SamplingMethod = Gaussian
ulyMap = 45.4760217547587
ulxMap = -73.5630798339844
xDim = 2.68220901489258E-06
yDim = 1.88131591742887E-06

[Source6]
Type = BMP
Layer = None
SourceDir = "."
SourceFile = "ile-des-soeurs-watermask-no-contours.bmp"
SamplingMethod = Gaussian
ulyMap = 45.4760217547587
ulxMap = -73.5630798339844
xDim = 2.68220901489258E-06
yDim = 1.88131591742887E-06

[Destination]
Destdir = "."
DestBaseFileName = "ile-des-soeurs"
DestType = BGL
LOD = Auto
UseSourceDimensions = 1
CompressionQuality = 100


The .bgl is created successfully but the scenery is not longer showing up in-sim.
If someone could help me by telling me what is wrong with this code it will be much appreciated.
 
=rk=

=rk=

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Water and blend masks should be GeoTIFF format and April should probably be only one variation.
 
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HolgerSandmann

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Hi there,

also, what does the resulting bgl look like in TMFViewer? It's a great diagnostic tool in the Terrain SDK but often overlooked by developers.

Cheers, Holger
 
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Bill Gr

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canada
@dave hoeffgen
My file is 2.40 GB and is pretty much one complete Island of Montréal in one BGL, i have compiled it many times with minor modifications in the code, but still, nothing.
Maybe because of high compression quality? Should I rather reduce it to 85?

@HolgerSandmann
In the TMFViewer it does not show anything unfortunately.
Maybe because of high compression quality? Should I rather reduce it to 85?
 
dave hoeffgen

dave hoeffgen

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Bill Gr said:
My file is 2.40 GB and is pretty much one complete Island of Montréal in one BGL, i have compiled it many times with minor modifications in the code, but still, nothing.
Maybe because of high compression quality? Should I rather reduce it to 85?
Click to expand...

I suspected a bitmap file corruption but in that case the bgl would have 0 mb size. So that's not the case. How do water and blend masks look?
 
=rk=

=rk=

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Bill Gr said:
How do I convert to GeoTIFF? Can I do that in GIMP? A .tif is not the same?
Click to expand...
You have two masks and one is in the proper format, simply convert the other to the same format and redefine the .ini file:
Bill Gr said:
[Source5]
Type = TIFF
Layer = None
SourceDir = "."
SourceFile = "ile-des-soeurs-blendmask.tif"
SamplingMethod = Gaussian
ulyMap = 45.4760217547587
ulxMap = -73.5630798339844
xDim = 2.68220901489258E-06
yDim = 1.88131591742887E-06

[Source6]
Type = BMP
Layer = None
SourceDir = "."
SourceFile = "ile-des-soeurs-watermask-no-contours.bmp"
SamplingMethod = Gaussian
ulyMap = 45.4760217547587
ulxMap = -73.5630798339844
xDim = 2.68220901489258E-06
yDim = 1.88131591742887E-06
Click to expand...
 
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Bill Gr

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Country
canada
dave hoeffgen said:
I suspected a bitmap file corruption but in that case the bgl would have 0 mb size. So that's not the case. How do water and blend masks look?
Click to expand...

Water and blend mask look just as intended, however after adding the seasons nothing shown.
I did another test, i reduced Compression to 85 and everything shown up normallu.
Now, I am completing the seasons with gimp. I will also add a Spring Imagery source and test out with the new settings.
I have corrected the Variation values based on that was shown in the TMFViewer when I selected months.

I will let you know if I see any farther problem, thanks for the help!
 
dave hoeffgen

dave hoeffgen

Resource contributor
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Bill Gr said:
Water and blend mask look just as intended, however after adding the seasons nothing shown.
I did another test, i reduced Compression to 85 and everything shown up normallu.
Now, I am completing the seasons with gimp. I will also add a Spring Imagery source and test out with the new settings.
I have corrected the Variation values based on that was shown in the TMFViewer when I selected months.

I will let you know if I see any farther problem, thanks for the help!
Click to expand...

So you are using gimp too?
I always had issues as resample didn't seem to like the bitmaps exported by gimp. It always reported they were corrupted.
So I always export to tiff and it all works.
 
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