I am kinda new to the whole scenery thing, all I have done before is the custom mesh. Well i recently got this idea to try create some custom Photoreal scenery (with no luck) I have read through any online tutorial I could get my hands on as well as all of the documentation with the programs being used. If anyone has any know-how or experience in the photoreal stuff please help me!

Bob

Thanks for the input. I am more concerned with the Photo Terrain. I have read through microsofts terrain sdk and have gotten almost to the end. I am just stucka t one point (like the last step).

The below is from the microsft Custom Terrain Textures SDK:



[b]Converting .tga Files to .mip Files[/b]
The resampler creates standard .tga files that you can correct and modify in most imaging software packages. Once you have adjusted the images to your satisfaction, they will need to be converted to the custom format used by Flight Simulator. Use Imagetool with the –terrainphoto flag for the conversion. This will tell Imagetool to create mipmaps, compress the texture using DXT1, and set terrain-related flags in the image header.
Run imagetool.exe with the following command line format:
imagetool -terrainphoto [inputfiles]
Imagetool will process the bitmaps and produce .mip files (one for each bitmap file you named as an input file on the command line). Before they can be used, you must copy the .mip files into the correct texture directory (as defined below) and rename them so that they have a .bmp extension.



If anyone can help me with the converting it would allow me to finish my project. I just can't figure out what I am suppossed to do and how. I have experimented alot and still can't figure it out.

Bob