As it turned out I wanted to trace my driveway using colors from the Paint program. So apparently all you have to do is add even 1 pixel of a color and it becomes a "color" photo.

Photoscenery maker worked pretty well. Actually took an area(about 3/4 mile) of aerial photo and placed it exactly where it's supposed to go. 
My own residence was in the photo as a reference. 

However, even though i used very precise Lat/Long coords, when I fly over the area, 

the aerial photo texture is surrounded by large square of blue, which sure looks like water texture(light blue)


I ran PSM several times and made sure i did processes one at a time and left out the "merge Alpha texture' part, thinkin the sim thinks there's supposed to be water there.

Don't know if it means anything, but so happens, i had traced all of the roads in the aerial with a light blue color, almost, (if not the same as) the water texture color.

The "light blue" roads end at all 4 sides of the aerial photo.

Anybody have any ideas about getting rid of the light blue border?   It's possible that my photo uses an area which is smaller than a standard "scenery cell" or something.


http://www.evenlink.com/samcb/aviation/NHBD.jpg

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Yes, it looks as though your scenery element is smaller than a LOD cell. The FS world consists of a water cylinder and the global land mass is mapped over the cylinder (I smile wrily when I see all the 'complaints' about the 'faults' in the sim from people who have no idea of the complexities involved in doing this).

Imagine an eskimo cutting a hole in the ice. I think that is how the program you are using is working from the look of it. Then the bit you are replacing is smaller than the bit you have cut out.

I don't know what's involved, but you really need to drape your photoreal element over the existing mesh rather than replace a chunk of it. Otherwise the element you are creating would need to be EXACTLY the same size as a whole or multiples of a whole LOD cell.

Does that make sense  ???

Have a look at
http://www.terrabuilder.com/

>Help
>Technical Bulletins
>Scenery Display Problems

A tutorial would be great.

That's great Tas,
However, if you look at the very last photo of the example where the satt scenery doesn't fill any of the LOD cells,  that is the same as the screen shot that i just posted.  It didn't fill any one cell, but scenery was created.  So what does that mean?

I got the same result when i edited the inf file to force a LOD = 13, so simply doing that won't solve the problem and leaving it out didn't make it any worse.

What i will do though is go back to the same USGS site,pan north, south east and west, getting sreens of each,  expand the original photo canvas to exact LOD cell size and copy in the pans.

Is  there an easier way to use any sizeaerial photo and just drape it on top of the mesh, like mentioned above, without all the copy/paste etc.?

That was why my scenery wasn't working!!

Hi again Brittair,

Gotta prob; when I make a flat area that is elevated above the ground and put a polygon there it shows up as patches of sand, not a large area of sand!!??? ??? ??? ??? Can you help me out? ???

Can anyone answer my question?

Is  there an easier way to use any size aerial photo and just drape it on top of the mesh, like mentioned above, without all the copy/paste etc.?

ie, if you use a photo that is smaller than a LOD cell how can you make it drape over the existing scenery as opposed to replacing it?

Sorry about the lack of info Brittair. Now I've created a flat area in FSSC and then I do a polygon on the flat area and choose a sand texture for the polygon. When I go into CFS2 it isn't one big polygon, it looks like a sand checkerboard ??? Might help to say the flat area is actualy elevated. ???