Now can repaint scenery too,....

[frogbmth]

As soon as I get some improved source photos for my club field scenery I will post the v3 version on here, right now its still fairly ropey

[DominicD]

How did you take the photos and how did you get them to line up ?

[frogbmth]

A little crude, I just put my camera and a decent tripod and panned round, then aligned the pics with Ulead Cool 360 plus a little help from photoshop.

Andy

[DominicD]

What resolution was each of the 6 images ??

[frogbmth]

I made the 360x180 pano at 8160 x 4080 and converted this with Pano2QTVR to tiles 2048x2048.

The source photos were the main issue, only taken with a 3mp powershot digital camera, about 40 photos in all.

[DominicD]

WOW sounds like alot of work, but it is probably easier to get a alot of smaller photos to line up then a few larger ones.

[frogbmth]

Yep indeed was quite a task, but thanks to the guide in this thread I worked it out. Also a problem was that my camera's auto exposure mode meant I had to adjust the balance of each photo to try and get them all the same in the pano.

Another member of my club has a great digital camera and I'm hoping to convince him to do me a load of high res shots to make a real good version. Now I have done it a couple of times, it feels like an easier process.

Andy

[dna001]

Originally Posted by frogbmth

I made the 360x180 pano at 8160 x 4080 and converted this with Pano2QTVR to tiles 2048x2048.

The source photos were the main issue, only taken with a 3mp powershot digital camera, about 40 photos in all.

This might be a better way of doing it...not that I have tryed it my self but the results look good

http://wiki.panotools.org/ChristmasB...all_reflection

[devindh]

ttt

[T/Aguy]

hey guys, I dont mean to beat a dead horse but I dont have a "Scenery" folder or anything like that to load the awsome .zip files into...all I have is
Downloaded updates
Recordings
Schemes
Screenshots
Settings
Variants
In any of those I dont see any scenery files what-so-ever? any help is grateful!!

[devindh]

Read this post in this thread, http://www.helifreak.com/showpost.ph...8&postcount=15.

[T/Aguy]

wow...if only I had followed what i'd read many times last night... my bad

[pablo_cg]

Originally Posted by CyCrow

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Advanced:
- The light direction will probably be wrong. It's possible to shift/wrap the original to reorient it, matching the arcticTundra sun direction with the scenery.

- Phoenix works with 4096x4096 highres textures, at least on my graphics cards. I haven't found any very high resolution sceneries (16384x8192) on the net. Loading times also go up, but framerate seems unaffected.
- Previews are simple, just crop/scale and compress to dds. 1024x1024 for full, 64x64 for small.

// CyCrow

Hi All !
First of all, I'd like to thank you all, this Thread is terrific. It helped me a lot using XTR scenaries in Phoenix.
But I have a little problem with Previews. I tried different things but did not manage to get a working preview.
Which file do I have to convert to DSS ? The original Reflex jpg file ? One of the 6 tiles ?
Thank you ,

Pablo

[DominicD]

This thread is out of date, just use the Phoenix Creator now.

[AcidDrink]

Doh, wrong thread, sorry.