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Oct 23^rd, 2011 at 12:52pm

ManuelL Offline
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Couldn't resist. Wink

Calypso over Hongkong

Larger:
http://i900.photobucket.com/albums/ac207/ManuelL2/FSX/Calypso_Hongkong.jpg

Desktop size (1920 x 1200):
http://i900.photobucket.com/albums/ac207/ManuelL2/FSX/Calypso_desktopsize.jpg

Thanks for looking!
Manuel

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Reply #1 - Oct 23^rd, 2011 at 5:23pm

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That is just superb! I love it! Looks like a little planet or something!

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Reply #2 - Oct 23^rd, 2011 at 8:17pm

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gtirob01 wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2011 at 5:23pm:

That is just superb! I love it!

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Reply #3 - Oct 24^th, 2011 at 11:13am

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Interesting...well done...

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #4 - Oct 25^th, 2011 at 8:16pm

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Did I hear someone say Dragonball Z ????

hey Micro$oft....
ManuelL did a better job at recreating a REALISTIC Earth than you ever did, or ever could!!!!! Granted its a lot smaller, but sure as hell looks better.

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Reply #5 - Oct 25^th, 2011 at 10:54pm

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Awesome pic!!
Any chance you could tell me how you did this?
Having a bit of a hard time figuring out how to get this effect.
I'm assuming you used Photoshop, I have CS5, but I'm not sure of the settings in photomerge. Undecided

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Reply #6 - Oct 26^th, 2011 at 2:34am

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Thanks for the kind comments.

I used PTGui to allign the images. It is a payware program, but there are freeware programs available, that should also work fine for this purpose.

In total I had 37 images to allign. As the program is normally used for photographs, the tricky part is to tell it what lens you were using (having set FSX to 40% zoom, I got good results when saying it was a 28mm wide angle lens).

Then PTGui aligned the images just fine (I only had to set a few contact points manually - points that show the same location in an image and the image next to it).

This is what I got:

After that it was only selecting the projection mode (little planet) and fiddeling a bit, what should be the center of the image and direction. Cheesy

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Reply #7 - Oct 26^th, 2011 at 8:34am

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Ok, thanks!
Can't wait to try this!

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Reply #8 - Nov 4^th, 2011 at 1:16pm

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Crazy.

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Reply #9 - Nov 4^th, 2011 at 3:36pm

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A neat idea, great results Cool

Gary

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