What is the current best way to get google earth tiles easily into sbuilderx, i cannot seem to get fsxget working.
I am using Win7 64Bit and FSX-Acceleration
David
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David
, Sep 20 2011 04:00 PM
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David
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Posted 20 September 2011 - 04:00 PM
i7-3930K 3.2GHz OC up to 4.8GHz, MOBO ASUS Rampage-IVE, RAM 64GB DDR3,
1 x 256GB OCZ-RevoDrive3-X2, SSD Samsung840-512GB, Nvidia GTX690, Win7-64Bit-Pro, FSX, OPUSFSX, REX, etc etc etc.
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scottharmes6
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Posted 02 January 2012 - 07:52 PM
Hi.
I'm not sure about sbuilderx, but I currently use Google Sattelite Maps Downloader, from Allallsoft, which is a payware program. Just make sure to have the latest config file, which is available from the Allallsoft website, to ensure the latest google earth images are downloaded. It downloads and combines tiles from Google earth to create BMPs which can then be opened in Irfanview to convert to 24 bit BMP, and then run through Resample (from the FSX SDK) with a simple, (or complicated) INF file. There are many tutorials on Resample at OzX, Flightsim.com and Avsim.com, as well as examples of it's use in the FSX SDK. I have just done a photoreal Melbourne area with it, even though I have ORBX Australia installed, but I'm not sure if it can be uploaded due to it being made from google images. That said it is a very easy program to use, can download up to 7cm imagery where it's available, (most is about 60cm I think), and you can create photo scenery from wherever there are google earth images.
I'm not sure about sbuilderx, but I currently use Google Sattelite Maps Downloader, from Allallsoft, which is a payware program. Just make sure to have the latest config file, which is available from the Allallsoft website, to ensure the latest google earth images are downloaded. It downloads and combines tiles from Google earth to create BMPs which can then be opened in Irfanview to convert to 24 bit BMP, and then run through Resample (from the FSX SDK) with a simple, (or complicated) INF file. There are many tutorials on Resample at OzX, Flightsim.com and Avsim.com, as well as examples of it's use in the FSX SDK. I have just done a photoreal Melbourne area with it, even though I have ORBX Australia installed, but I'm not sure if it can be uploaded due to it being made from google images. That said it is a very easy program to use, can download up to 7cm imagery where it's available, (most is about 60cm I think), and you can create photo scenery from wherever there are google earth images.
Scott
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