[siffli13]

New photo scenery concept for X-Plane


Hi all,

here are some screenshots of our work about generic and photo sceneries.

About generic sceneries, we have implement real landclass, with town and villages at the right size and position, and texture depending of the style of the houses. There is also new "trees autogen" which is more accurate than Corine.

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About photo sceneries, we've implemented a full water transparency system directly into the DSF, keeping real landing water (with waves and reflects) and the picture above.
The vegetation is exactly positionned on photo texture (This part is really amazing). Coastline, lakes and rivers are very accurate due to a high precision vector data set.

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All this scenery comes with a new high resolution native mesh of 10 meters.

All this new stuff should be available soon at xpfrance website.

The DR400 announced a few month ago is also downloadable there FOR FREE !!




You can visit the forum for more information at http://forum-xpfranc...alternative.net

laurent


Posted By Siffli13 for Laurent, Manager of DBAlternative.

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[ZVV12]

This is great news, but I don't understand it fully (I'm not good in French):
Is it going to be freeware or payware? And how much disk space will it require?
The generic textures look so beautiful, I didn't even realise they are not photo textures.

[alpilotx]

Hi guys, this looks like a very interesting project, and you are obviously doing some interesting stuff (the community should love it )

siffli13, on 22 January 2010 - 08:33 PM, said:

About generic sceneries, we have implement real landclass, with town and villages at the right size and position, and texture depending of the style of the houses. There is also new "trees autogen" which is more accurate than Corine.

Thats very interesting. Am I allowed to ask a little bit about the technology you are using there? I mean, after looking at your screenshots I have some ideas about what you are doing for "generic scenery", but would love to hear about it more. Is it kind of "synthetic photoscenery" you are doing there (by creating photoscenery tiles from GIS landuse data)?

And for the forests ... do you use the standard forest system (placing forest polygons in DSF and specifying the look via .for files) or something else? I ask, because with the standard polygons I already see how overlay DSF size might explode (if used extensively).

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All this scenery comes with a new high resolution native mesh of 10 meters.

What tool do you use to create the mesh in the end? MeshTool or something you developed yourself?

But as I told in the beginning, a very interesting project! And keep up the great work!

[jetrc]

alpilotx, on 24 January 2010 - 03:35 PM, said:

Hi guys, this looks like a very interesting project, and you are obviously doing some interesting stuff (the community should love it )

Thats very interesting. Am I allowed to ask a little bit about the technology you are using there? I mean, after looking at your screenshots I have some ideas about what you are doing for "generic scenery", but would love to hear about it more. Is it kind of "synthetic photoscenery" you are doing there (by creating photoscenery tiles from GIS landuse data)?

And for the forests ... do you use the standard forest system (placing forest polygons in DSF and specifying the look via .for files) or something else? I ask, because with the standard polygons I already see how overlay DSF size might explode (if used extensively).


What tool do you use to create the mesh in the end? MeshTool or something you developed yourself?

But as I told in the beginning, a very interesting project! And keep up the great work!

hi,

for generic we use standard but optimized polys in the dsf, not a synthetic photoscenery. polys are positioned on the standard customized landclass and come from a very high resolution landclass database.
about forrest, it's also polys in the dsf, and for photoscenery polys are really more detailed.
for mesh, it's a little more complicated :-)

thank you for your interrest :-)

PS : this project is a payware project, except our "Robin DR400-200 Regent' aircraft that you can ask for free download at http://forum-xpfranc...lternative.net.

laurent

This post has been edited by jetrc: 24 January 2010 - 05:41 PM

[dpny]

My French is not so good, either, so could you give me an idea of system requirements and cost?

[jetrc]

prices are not really official because content of products is not defined yet, but it should be a good price compare FS addons :-)

about the system requirements, all is tested on a standard computer so do not worry !

could someone tell me the reason I cannot create a new topic ? it's now 4 days I've registred and I can only add a reply ?

thank's

laurent

[XDave]

jetrc, on 25 January 2010 - 03:43 PM, said:

prices are not really official because content of products is not defined yet, but it should be a good price compare FS addons :-)

about the system requirements, all is tested on a standard computer so do not worry !

could someone tell me the reason I cannot create a new topic ? it's now 4 days I've registred and I can only add a reply ?

thank's

laurent

Here's the link that explains why:
http://forums.x-plan...ouncement=3&f=1

[jetrc]

thank you very much :-)

now I can post :-)

[beber]

alpilotx, on 24 January 2010 - 10:35 PM, said:

Am I allowed to ask a little bit about the technology you are using there?

Hi Andras
Maybe you could ask Ben ?: Ben's Blog

Bertrand

[jetrc]

To continue the post titled "Dbalternative - Xpfrance " that is not really adapted, here are some new screnshots from a quick test in the French Alps. This uses very accurate vegetation data to cover the whole areas, with an optimized simplification algorythm to reduce the polys complexity without loosing too much precision. The .for files will be created and optimized later with our own trees textures.