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One more :-)

Postby ManuelL » Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:52 am

Couldn't resist. ;)

Calypso over Hongkong

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Larger:
http://i900.photobucket.com/albums/ac20 ... ngkong.jpg

Desktop size (1920 x 1200):
http://i900.photobucket.com/albums/ac20 ... opsize.jpg

Thanks for looking!
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Re: One more :-)

Postby gtirob01 » Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:23 pm

That is just superb! I love it! Looks like a little planet or something!
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Re: One more :-)

Postby FoxThree » Sun Oct 23, 2011 7:17 pm

That is just superb! I love it!

+1 8-)
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Re: One more :-)

Postby Flying Trucker » Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:13 am

Interesting...well done... :)
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Re: One more :-)

Postby Capt.Propwash » Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:16 pm

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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Re: One more :-)

Postby RaptorF22 » Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:54 pm

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. :-/
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Re: One more :-)

Postby ManuelL » Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:34 am

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:

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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.  :D
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Re: One more :-)

Postby RaptorF22 » Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:34 am

Ok, thanks!
Can't wait to try this!
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Re: One more :-)

Postby FuturePilot » Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:16 pm

Crazy.  :o
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Re: One more :-)

Postby G.K. » Fri Nov 04, 2011 2:36 pm

A neat idea, great results 8-)
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