Longhornmaniac From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 3102 posts, RR: 47 Posted (4 years 8 months 3 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 24767 times:
Hey guys!
Has anybody else tried out Maps2Bgl, which allows you to create your own photoreal scenery using either Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth? All you have to do is create a polygon in GE, save it as a KML, and let Maps2Bgl do the rest! It's amazing! Here are some screenshots from AUS:
Continental From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 5476 posts, RR: 20 Reply 1, posted (4 years 8 months 3 weeks 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 24761 times:
That is awesome! Does it introduce a noticeable amount of lag?
Longhornmaniac From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 3102 posts, RR: 47 Reply 2, posted (4 years 8 months 3 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 24758 times:
Quoting Continental (Reply 1): That is awesome! Does it introduce a noticeable amount of lag?
No lag at all. You can see my frame rates are over 75, which is about normal for around there. If anything, it's actually a bit better.
Jetmatt777 From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2674 posts, RR: 36 Reply 3, posted (4 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 24709 times:
Hmmm....I can't get mine to work. WHen I open the program it says Service Not Configuired. Hmmm...
CPH-R From Denmark, joined May 2001, 5754 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (4 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 24690 times:
IIRC the only issue with this type of scenery, is that it takes up quite a bit of space on the harddisk.
Also, I can imagine that after flying around in the photoreal areas for a while, you realise that the surrounding area also looks a bit boring, so you convert that to photoreal as well - and before you know it, you have uploaded all of Chile as photoreal scenery on AVSIM
Longhornmaniac From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 3102 posts, RR: 47 Reply 5, posted (4 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 24686 times:
Quoting Jetmatt777 (Reply 3): Hmmm....I can't get mine to work. WHen I open the program it says Service Not Configuired
Go into the .ini file in the main Maps2Bgl file, and change the g******.**m to "google.com" and change v***********.**t to virtualearth.net. It'll work like a charm after that.
Quoting CPH-R (Reply 4): IIRC the only issue with this type of scenery, is that it takes up quite a bit of space on the harddisk.
Also, I can imagine that after flying around in the photoreal areas for a while, you realise that the surrounding area also looks a bit boring, so you convert that to photoreal as well - and before you know it, you have uploaded all of Chile as photoreal scenery on AVSIM Wink
It does take up a bit, but IMO it's worth it. That pisses me off so much!
San747 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 4936 posts, RR: 13 Reply 6, posted (4 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 24656 times:
This is the COOLEST thing I have ever seen. I'm gonna convert BOS and ALB immediately!
KPDX From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 2542 posts, RR: 3 Reply 7, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 24562 times:
Awesome! Thanks for sharing Longhorn! I am having a field day with this program. The only thing that stinks is big cities, when you photo-real them, I believe it takes out all the skyscrapers - which is noticeble if they arent 3d - from the air.
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B727-200 From Australia, joined Nov 1999, 1051 posts, RR: 3 Reply 8, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 24558 times:
Quoting CPH-R (Reply 4): Also, I can imagine that after flying around in the photoreal areas for a while, you realise that the surrounding area also looks a bit boring, so you convert that to photoreal as well - and before you know it, you have uploaded all of Chile as photoreal scenery on AVSIM
Bwaaaahahaaaaa, thank goodness it wasn't the old USSR
I will have to give this a crack, thanks for the link
Csturdiv From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 1354 posts, RR: 3 Reply 9, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 24511 times:
Longhornmaniac From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 3102 posts, RR: 47 Reply 10, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 24456 times:
Hey guys,
I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Quoting KPDX (Reply 7): The only thing that stinks is big cities, when you photo-real them, I believe it takes out all the skyscrapers - which is noticeble if they arent 3d - from the air.
If you're talking about the default buildings, then they should still show up, mine did. If you're talking about add-on scenery, then as long as you set it at a higher layer, it should show up on top of the scenery. My AUS scenery you can see at the top left corner of the 2nd picture is a freeware addon, and it shows up.
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That pisses me off so much!
The only thing that stinks is big cities, when you photo-real them, I believe it takes out all the skyscrapers - which is noticeble if they arent 3d - from the air.
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