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| FSX Lexington, Kentucky 1M PhotoReal Scenery, Section C?
This is high resolution, 1Meter/Pixel, terrain scenery for Lexington,
Ky. Section, C, is one of ten, that features the center of Lexington
and the University of Ky. This photoscenery is for DAY USE ONLY and
will work for any season, but shows only the USGS aerial photo data
taken in April 2002. The default FSX mesh works well with this
photoscenery and no additional mesh for the area needs to be
purchased. The 10 sections of scenery, totaling 600Mb, contains
photoreal terrain textures for Lexington, Ky, encompassing an area
bounded by 14.5 E-W and 17 N-S miles (about 245 square miles). |
Lexington, Kentucky 1M PhotoReal Version LexXP1Mc
For use with FSX
By: Jim Jones
mrjlbones==bellsouth.net
SECTIONS:
General Notes and Comments
Installation
FSX Configuration Notes
Author's System Specs
Acknowledgments
GENERAL NOTES AND COMMENTS
This is high resolution, 1Meter/Pixel, terrain scenery for Lexington, Ky for
Section C, see details below, that features the center of Lexington and the
University of Ky. Section C is the first upload, and others will follow in time.
This photoscenery is for DAY USE ONLY and will work for any season, although the
source is from USGS aerial photos taken in April 2002. The resolution of this
scenery is 1 meter/pixel. Photoscenery areas prevent autogen scenery from
appearing within the photoscenery area, but autogen will appear outside the
photoscenery area. The default FSX mesh works well with this photoscenery and no
additional mesh for the area needs to be purchased. I have no plans to create 1M
night scenery. Use my 4M night scenery instead if you intend to fly at night.
Caution, 1M and 4M scenery are incompatible and should not be active at the same
time since they conflict with one another producing unpleasing results. If the
1M scenery is active at night the default FSX night scenery terrain scenery will
not show.
The area covered by all 10 downloads is nearly rectangular, with a couple of
notches removed and represents all of that area covered in the original
photography. All downloads will require about 600Mb of disk space. The corner
locations are approximately:
NW Corner: N38 07.57, W84 37.59
NE Corner: N38 08.06, W84 22.20
SW Corner: N37 52.17, W84 37.60
SE Corner: N37 51.83, W84 21.77
The 10 downloads of scenery contains photoreal terrain textures for Lexington,
Ky, encompassing an area bounded by 14.5 E-W and 17 N-S miles (about 245 square
miles). No new objects have been added and none have been removed. So, misplaced
or misligned objects placed in the original FSX scenery remain as is.
Refer to the photo named Lexmap.jpg to see what is included in each download.
The following shows a list of the 10 downloads, a brief comment on their
contents and the storage requirements for each.
SECTION
LexXP1Ma I64, I65, Horse farms 72Mb
LexXP1Mb Keenland, Bluegrass Airport, Horse farms 57Mb
LexXP1Mc Lexington city center, University of Kentucky 93Mb
LexXP1Md I64, I75, outskirts of city 45Mb
LexXP1Me New Circle Road (Highway 4), Highway 68 and suburbs 60Mb
LexXP1Mf City south, Highway 4, Lakes 90Mb
LexXP1Mg I75, US 25, Jacobson Park 53Mb
LexXP1Mh Nicholsville 39Mb
LexXP1Mi Farmland 56Mb
LexXP1Mj Farmland, Ky River, I75 37Mb
Places of interest include the center of the City of Lexington, KY, the
University of Kentucky Campus, Bluegrass Airport, Keeneland Racetrack, horse
farms, lakes, Interstate systems, and the general terrain of Kentucky's
bluegrass region.
The textures cover the Kentucky River with the river's natural color. Only a
small portion of the river appears in the SouthEast section of the photoreal
scenery. Consequently, these textures will not show reflections or other water
effects such as wakes by float planes and boats. The lakes have not been
processed to act like water, so boats and floatplanes will not provide water
effects.
INSTALLATION:
From the unzipped LexXP1Mc.zip file move the LexXP1Mc folder into your FSXAddon
folder or a folder of your choice. The unzipped folder should contain the
structure:
LexXP1Mc
Documentation
Scenery (contains 4 BGL files)
Note: There is not a Texture folder since the BGL files contain the textures
within them.
Activate this scenery by starting FSX. In the Opening menu locate and select
from the menus in the following order:
SettingsSceneryLibraryAdd Area..
You are presented with a Select Scenery Directory Window. Here you must browse
until you locate the LexXP1Mc folder. When you have selected this folder it will
appear in the Directory box. You can optionally enter your own Scenery area
title. Press OK to exit the Select Scenery Directory Window.
You are returned to the Settings - Scenery Library Window. Here the new scenery
should appear at the top, and enabled. Press OK to exit.
You are returned to the main FSX menu where you can select Free Flight to set up
your plane, etc and at one of the Louisville airports.
FSX CONFIGURATION NOTES
Some FSX configurations are essential for getting the best detail in these
photosceneries:
Level of Detail Radius: Large
Scenery Complexity: Extremely dense
Mesh Resolution: 19 M
Texture Resolution: 1 M
Modify of add to your FSX.CFG file as follows:
FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.33
Adjust other settings to your computer capabilities and your tastes. However the
following are some starting suggestions for this scenery:
Mesh Complexity: 60
Ground Shadows: Off
Traffic Road Vehicles: 14%
Ships and Leasures boats both at 15%
FPS is a very important adjustment. If set too high the textures will not appear
sharp. Phototextures are usually presented by FSX at startup in its highest
resolution. If you go too fast, if the Target FPS is too high, or you do a lot
of panning in or out of the A/C the terrain will go to a lower blurry resolution.
In time the blurry terrain will improve ahead of your view. If not you need to
set your FPS target lower, or fly slower or stop panning your view -- or all of
these. The amount of non terrain scenery and panel also has an effect. You may
wish to view with no panel at all.
I get the best result using the Trike at low speeds, with an exterior view above
and behind, zoomed out and looking almost directly below. That is where FSX
seems to generate the highest resoution terrain first.
My computer installation is about 3 years old, slow by recent standards. I must
set my FPS to 10 FPS for best results.
AUTHOR'S SYSTEM SPECS
Micron P4 2.8GHz 533FSB 512k cache
1.2 Mb DDR SDRAM
2x120GB ATA-100 IDE Hard Drives (7200 RPM)
128 Mb DDR nVidia Geforce4 TI4600 (BIOS Aperature Set to 128 MB)
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!
Original Drivers ( 6.14.10.6177 ) plus stereo drivers
Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-104
Direct X 9.0c
Windows XP with SP1 & SP2
400Gb Seagate USB drive (where I locate my photoscenery)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Microsoft and BAO for providing the flight simulator and their continuing
improvement of the software and SDK tools.
To Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 & 9 creators that provide powerful tools for the
creation and manipulation of textures.
To Terraserver and USGS for their photoscenery data.
To Don Starr for his Terrafetcher program to extract Terraserver data for input
to USAPhotoMaps.
To Doug Cox for his USAPhotoMaps program to extract Terraserver data and produce
BIG jpeg files.
To Scott Gridley for direction to the DGWarp tool to convert from Terraserver
UTM projection bitmaps to WGS84 projection in GeoTiff format for input to the
FSX SDK Resample program.
This is freeware and is not to be distributed for any monetary gain. Copyrights
are those of this author. It would be appreciated if this scenery is installed
at other sites that I be informed.
The author of this scenery is not responsible for any problems you may encounter
with your system or other files as a result of using the programs provided here.
Enjoy.
Jim Jones
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