Photoscenery season question

[benny1]

i was curious why summer is the only season that you can buy , I would be Megascenery Earth`s best customer if they offered other seasons ,,, snow would be neat .

[kingnorris]

They use real map data and most of the time that data is aerial photos taken in the summer time.

[benny1]

summer doesn't look good , too much green , and sometimes you get some blue mixed in then it really is looks bad

[cat]

Too much cloud cover in winter. They have to photograph large bundles at the

same time.

Peter

Sydney Australia

[cianpars]

It's perfectly possible to make scenery with 4 seasons. However, to do so, you need to have imagery from each season. It would also make the final scenery 4 times as large.

 

It is also possible to retouch summer scenery but such a huge task that nobody does it except for very small areas.

 

Night photoscenery is also possible, but few bother making it as you can't see it (I think they use a darkened version of the day scenery and add lights, etc.)

 

IAN

[annber]

Ok, I am going to contribute my 2 cents worth of experience here. You can in fact create seasons out of one photo satellite image (summer) thru Sbuilderx and Photoshop, furthermore you can very much create photoreal night scenery thru Sbuilderx as well.

I am not aware what commercial tools megasceneryearth uses to create their scenery, and if it gives them the option to create seasons or night, though I suspect they are not interested in the extra work involved or the resulting size. However, if you want to create your own, there is an excellent tutorial here at flightsim that will guide you through the steps.