Kevin Firth 114 Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 Does anyone have any info on where this product is up to or even if it has been abandoned? :s It was supposed to be imminent about 6 months ago and seems to have completely dropped off the radar Cheers K Is the UK in the pipeline do you know Dean? I have Gen X but would definitely consider a megascenery replacement. Not too interested in Americas and Belgium though unfortunately - my main course of flights are within UK airspace and Ireland. Cheers Jim Jim, Yes we have a UK and Wales package coming very soon. I have test flown some of it, and I can tell you, for the most part, the imagery is really good. There are a few bugs relating to photoscenery (that are not new - i.e. some watermasking and colour issues) in the source imagery, but for the most part, this will be a big improvement in resolution and visual quality over existing photoscenery for England/Wales. Here's an exclusive just for Mutleys forums - the first MSE England/Wales screenshot to be release anywhere! No release date on this as yet, but likley to be weeks rather than several months! Link to post Share on other sites
rob16584 42 Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 I've been wondering the same Kevin. My credit card is ready and waiting! Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 ditto btw Kevin I like the more up to date self portrait Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted April 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 Thanks Nigel I suppose as a dad I need to project a more mature and respectable image now Link to post Share on other sites
jaydor 345 Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 Kevin, the last update from Dean was that the quality of the sourced material was not good enough (to much cloud) and were awaiting better image quality.. Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted April 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 Ah thanks James, I must have missed that update Did Dean give any idea as to expected timescales as well please? Cheers k Link to post Share on other sites
jaydor 345 Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 Ah thanks James, I must have missed that update Did Dean give any idea as to expected timescales as well please? Cheers k No, not known.. Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,498 Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 Hopefully if we wait long enough Dean will chip in! Link to post Share on other sites
ddavid 149 Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 Glad you're back to normal, Kevin! But, tell me, does the FSX Map work with MSE E+W? Thanks... Cheers - Dai. Link to post Share on other sites
PCAviator 30 Posted April 7, 2014 Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 The issue with England and Wales was a combo of source imagery inconsistency (difficult or impossible to fix unless better source data becomes available), although this was not really a major problem. The issue was the watermasking in some parts of the English and Welsh coasts, although again, these may be difficult to fix as the underlying default FSX scenery is way off in some locations. I'll see if I can get an update of where the developer is at in regard to England and Wales. Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted April 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 Hi Dean, The watermasking shouldn't be difficult to do, but to do properly I can imagine it might take some time. Thanks for chipping in and hope it's coming soon... K Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted April 7, 2014 Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 The issue was the watermasking in some parts of the English and Welsh coasts, what seem to be the issue there, complex convex? Link to post Share on other sites
PCAviator 30 Posted April 7, 2014 Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 Chris, I'm not the developer, but my understanding is that when areas are watermasked with transparency, the default scenery underneath, which is not as accurately placed or as well defined as photoreal data, shows through the photoreal textures. This occurs mostly all the time around coastlines and water bodies. It could be fixed if you hand trace and check every square inch of scenery, but on the scales of MSE, this is extremely time consuming and fifficult to do. So much so that it would likely quadruple development time and costs which would have to be recovered in much higher prices for the products, something which is not viable. Hence, this is the tradeoff that is being made in this case. (I think I have the explanation right - from a non-dev point of view anyway). Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted April 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 Creating correct watermasking is possible simply by drawing a Kml file in google earth, converting into a shp file and using that in SBX to create correct vector water - I did it for the coastlines of my Jersey project.. See http://www.flightsimscenery.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/watermask-in-progress.html?m=1 Obviously the trade off here is accuracy v development time. It took me about a solid day of clicking in Google Earth to do the entire Jersey coast but I did try to do every last rock! Depending on how many places there are errors (ie how many QMID11 grids have to have their masks updates) a group of people should be able to create some halfway decent water masks in reasonable time? Cheers K Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Dean i have run into the same issue your describing there is a very simple solution for it don’t work off correcting the coastline in small areas, exclude all default coastline poly and redraw all of it you don’t really need to trace the line by hand its already been done for you find your country administrative boundaries polygon file, and convert it to usable format if you look at my recent pic i posted for NE British-Isles you will notice that i used blend and water masks for the entire project this is done to save space in my case; same methodology can be used to help your issue Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted April 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Chris, when you say use the country admin boundaries polygon, where do you mean from please? And is it really accurate enough for photoreal coastlines? K Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 not sure i understand you question there where do you mean from please? the accuracy depands on the data you were provided in most cases is pretty accurate provided youre useing a recent file the problem with coast lines they are never static from one image set to another a poly line made for one image set; may not fit perfectly on another Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted April 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Exactly, unless it's hand drawn for the specific photo set being used to create the scenery, it's unlikely to give the best results in terms of a good and accurate looking shoreline Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 Kevin; you’re better off importing an existing poly file for your coastline than visually verify it against your imagery set, repairing small section in an existing polyline will save you days if not weeks; than creating it from scratch. one could also use buffers to simplify bulk processing and skip visual verification all together Link to post Share on other sites
Marbasan 0 Posted October 25, 2014 Report Share Posted October 25, 2014 Hi there!!! I have several issues to post about MegaSceneryEarths´ sceneries but I cannot do it without attaching an image. Please, how can I do it? TY!!!! Marbasan. Link to post Share on other sites
ddavid 149 Posted October 26, 2014 Report Share Posted October 26, 2014 Hi Marbasan - good to meet you! Best way to show images is to have a PhotoBucket (or similar) account, upload images and link to them. There's a 'how to' post, here: http://forum.mutleyshangar.com/index.php/topic/7419-post-images-in-the-forum/ If you have problems, I'm sure we can help. Cheers - Dai. Link to post Share on other sites
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