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Without photoreal?

robystar

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Hi Arno,

A stupid question but if I do not ask it, I will probably keep wondering:).
Scenproc and the ACMT only work on photoreal, right?
Now you know that outside the USA we all have the problem that we are not supposed to use photoreal satellite images when we want to distribute our sceneries (be it payware or freeware).
Is there a chance you could find a way to use the autogen (based on the photoreal) but without using the photoreal afterwards (like making it completely transparent or completely white afterwards) so that the autogen buildings and vegetation still show up?
Probably just a crazy idea of mine but nevertheless????
I hope I made myself clear if not, here is an example of what I would like:
This is the photoreal I can not use (and it is not good enough anyway):

Zadar PR.jpg


And this is the poor result without the photoreal using landclass to the best of my abilities:

Zadar no PR.jpg


I guess that now you can imagine why I ask this:(.
Because if I were able to use your two tools to replace the photoreal, that would make things a thousand times more real-life like.
 
I do not know, I always thought that when you make the PR transparent you are still using it and that when it is less then 50% transparent, no autogen would show up?
If I blend out the photoreal (with a blend mask), I will still have the photoreal behind that you can look at in the annotator!
 
Hi Roby,

You are right that the autogen scenproc makes needs some photoreal scenery.

I have also heard that people just put the building footprints in the photoreal and left everything else transparent.

At the moment scenproc doesn't make photoreal scenery yet, but that's on the wishlist.
 
You know you can paint landclasses onto a geotiff and resample it.

Just call the type=landclass in the .inf.
 
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