Landscape Design Tutorial

[zaremba]

Hello all,

First, I would like to commend Michael for the excellent sim. I'm very impressed and excited with his work.

Second, I have assimilated Mr. Yosito Sekiai's scenery design translation from the original German. It was very helpful.

I wanted to design an area where I would be flying my heli using USGS topographical maps (for those in the US). There is a way to use 16 individual BMP files instead of the repeating pattern of four, as shown in the tutorial.

I will be posting the links to my tutorial when it is finished.

-Paul

[jon]

Hi.

YES, there is really no problem to use 16 individual maps, or divide a large map (the whole scenery) into 16 pieces.
What's really is tricky, is to get them in the right positions.
Make a printout of yuor map(s) and try it out, like laying a puzzle. Numbering the pieces according to the names in the .scn-file.

Important! Every map-piece MUST be absolutly square (256, 512 pixles and so on). Lager pieces gives more details.
To get heights in the scenery, you have to make a picture (BMP) that covers the whole scenery.
If you are using a topogragic map, try to manipulete the map so you can put gray-tones between the height markings on the map. (White is very low and black is very high) Try gradient-fill in the graytones, "air brush" and retouch. (Refferd to paintshop Pro).
I should think you would get a marvellous scenery.
P.S. Trees and buildings; just copy them from some other scenery, and change the coordinates where to put them.

This worked for me.

Good Luck

[zaremba]

Thanks!

We have arrived at a similar technique through independent means. This is really a great sim.

Here's a link to my site under construction:



I will be updating it soon.

-Paul