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by **Ian Warren** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 2:07 pm

Jeez , Thanks Rob

, the Sunshine town , the photo is so good to work with , not sure how to autogen those bikini clad babe,s in there backyards

by **SgtPepper** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 3:30 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jul 13 2011,2:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Jeez , Thanks Rob , the Sunshine town , the photo is so good to work with , not sure how to autogen those bikini clad babe,s in there backyards

Easy, just leave the bikinis out.

Looking good alright, can't wait to get myself a new computer so I can make the most of all of this fantastic scenery that you guys are clever enough to create!

by **scaber** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:01 pm

most impressive, I can almost see my daughter's house and I can definitely recognise places I've walked and cycled round. Really good work chaps.

by **AlisterC** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:26 pm

Freakin awesome!! Well done

by **Ian Warren** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:04 pm

Alister , you return to hometown only to get it really done over , Nelsonites will be full off Sprites with this one , due to the excellent quality off the area photo , its as real as you can get , now for the babe's on the beach,s

by **AndrewJamez** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:46 pm

Totaly awsome. On a hot day you'l feel like jumping out of the plane to get to that beach in a hurry

by **AdrianPetford** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 5:59 am

That looks absolutely amazing!

Not an area I know at all in the real world, but I think I'll soon be becoming very familiar with its virtual equivalent.

Great work Rob and Ian.

I have a credit card and I want to use it!

Ade

by **Olderndirt** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:55 am

Great stuff - don't suppose there's an easy way to adjust the MS fresh painted look of the runway?

by **GlennAV8R** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:41 am

Olderndirt wrote:
QUOTE (Olderndirt @ Jul 22 2011,3:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Great stuff - don't suppose there's an easy way to adjust the MS fresh painted look of the runway?

The runway texture in the July 13 screenshots looks heaps better, very realistic.

by **toprob** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:48 pm

by **Ian Warren** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:31 pm

Looking Sweet Matey

by **robmw** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 5:17 am

That looks stunning. Credit card ready

by **Dontcopy** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:37 am

Looks FANTASTIC, keep it up I can't wait

by **Nzeddy** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:10 am

Will the airport photoreal surrounds include color for different season? Like green grass in the wet season and brown grass in summer?

I kind of get annoyed with the Tauranga airport imagery as it's always brown in all the seasons, IMHO. Wheres the green?

by **toprob** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:29 am

Nzeddy wrote:
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Will the airport photoreal surrounds include color for different season? Like green grass in the wet season and brown grass in summer?

Although it is an accepted term in flightsim, and I call it that, my scenery isn't 'photoreal' in the real sense of the word, it is photographic. Photoreal implies making an image to appear photographic, which is the way the default textures are made. Photographic replaces photoreal textures with an actual photograph of the scenery area.

Normally aerial images are taken in the height of summer, and there is usually no other choice anyway, there's only one aerial image available for any particular area. So the aerial is always going to be summery -- you can adjust it a bit of course, but you can't rebuild it. Well, some people do, but you end up with an overly bright repainted unnatural look.

The problem really is the lack of real colour information in the aerial image -- even if the aerial mapper starts with a set of beautiful photos equivalent to 40 bits (which they don't very often), these need to be colour-matched to thousands of other images, so they have to discard half the real colour which reduces the apparent colour depth to probably less that 20 bits. So any further adjustment will only reduce it further, which damages it further and moves it further away from reality.

With Nelson, I started with a great 50 cm image of the city, and a very 'burnt' 12 cm image of the airport, which needed to be colour-matched to the larger image. I needed to take real care that this wasn't over-done, otherwise it just starts to look bad.

As I said, some people do it, but it still means that only one season looks natural, the rest don't, while it increases the distribution size hugely.

If I could source a winter aerial image, I'd love to use that, but they just don't exist here in NZ.

by **Nzeddy** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:28 pm

Ok, thanks for that Robin.

by **Link148** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:32 pm

Robin.
I work on the ramp in Nelson and looking at those screen shots makes me feel at work. Awesome work. If you need anymore photo's let me know. I have access to a sissorlift if you need looking down shots. Keep up the great work and I will be waiting to crank the credit card out.

Nick.

by **toprob** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:25 am

Link148 wrote:
QUOTE (Link148 @ Aug 17 2011,10:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Robin.
I work on the ramp in Nelson and looking at those screen shots makes me feel at work.
...

Sorry about that:)
I do need to get back to Nelson for a few touch-up photos, so there's nothing I really need at the moment. The awkward bits are the rescue centre and test bay, as they don't like people wandering around there...

by **Link148** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 8:20 pm

toprob wrote:
QUOTE (toprob @ Aug 19 2011,11:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Sorry about that:)
I do need to get back to Nelson for a few touch-up photos, so there's nothing I really need at the moment. The awkward bits are the rescue centre and test bay, as they don't like people wandering around there...

No worries. Let me know when you are coming and I will arrange Airside access for you. I will talk to the airport manager and escort you or get you out there with the airport Fire service.

Nick.

by **toprob** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 12:54 pm

Thanks, Nick, I'll do that. Last visit Alasdair took me airside, he was very helpful.

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