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FSX Photoreal Scenery with gmax

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new to scenery design. how do you make photoreal scenery with gmax? I wanted to redo a town that is close to me (New Liskeard, ON)
I also wanted to redo the mesh for the area because I have found it to be incorect. are there any other tools involved? I have the FS2004 sdk also.
 
Photoreal scenery isn't normally created with gmax, as it's used for modeling. Photoreal is created with aerial imagery obtained from programs such as SBuilderX 3.15 or SASPlanet. Governments also sometimes provide this data as GeoTiffs, which can be further combined into bigger working areas with GlobalMapper (payware) or Qgis (freeware). A global source that can sometimes have decent imagery available is USGS EarthExplorer.

Here you can find two tutorials on photoreal creation. The first is an older tutorial, but based on the tutorial I learned from:




As far as mesh creation goes, you will need to download DEM data from a resource such as Earth Explorer or another source. I know Canada has a nice 19m data set available for download. I do not have a link handy, but a google search should turn up a result on this.

I made a tutorial on creating terrain mesh using GlobalMapper, however the same result can also be made using Qgis. The interface is just different.

 
christopherbritton said:
Photoreal scenery isn't normally created with gmax, as it's used for modeling. Photoreal is created with aerial imagery obtained from programs such as SBuilderX 3.15 or SASPlanet. Governments also sometimes provide this data as GeoTiffs, which can be further combined into bigger working areas with GlobalMapper (payware) or Qgis (freeware). A global source that can sometimes have decent imagery available is USGS EarthExplorer.

Here you can find two tutorials on photoreal creation. The first is an older tutorial, but based on the tutorial I learned from:




As far as mesh creation goes, you will need to download DEM data from a resource such as Earth Explorer or another source. I know Canada has a nice 19m data set available for download. I do not have a link handy, but a google search should turn up a result on this.

I made a tutorial on creating terrain mesh using GlobalMapper, however the same result can also be made using Qgis. The interface is just different.

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Thank you! That's a huge help!
 
christopherbritton said:
Photoreal scenery isn't normally created with gmax, as it's used for modeling. Photoreal is created with aerial imagery obtained from programs such as SBuilderX 3.15 or SASPlanet. Governments also sometimes provide this data as GeoTiffs, which can be further combined into bigger working areas with GlobalMapper (payware) or Qgis (freeware). A global source that can sometimes have decent imagery available is USGS EarthExplorer.

Here you can find two tutorials on photoreal creation. The first is an older tutorial, but based on the tutorial I learned from:




As far as mesh creation goes, you will need to download DEM data from a resource such as Earth Explorer or another source. I know Canada has a nice 19m data set available for download. I do not have a link handy, but a google search should turn up a result on this.

I made a tutorial on creating terrain mesh using GlobalMapper, however the same result can also be made using Qgis. The interface is just different.

Click to expand...










I have a BIG dude. I need manipulate the mesh and add polygons in 3d editor like blender. How I do this? Regards.
 
That's not how terrain scenery works. It's not stored as polygons, it's stored as raster data and the scenery engine creates the mesh for you. So there are not really tools to edit polygons. Of course you can edit the raster data.
 
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