High resolution images for scenery

    Thanks to everyone who has been creating content for Aerofly RC! In particular, thanks to P. Dürr and JP Aria for their work.

    I had a question about scenery. Is it possible to use very high resolution images for the scenery? Many of the current scenes look fantastic, but as I fly towards to the horizon, they start to blur as the camera zooms in. This is expected of course, but I wondered whether higher resolution scenery files might help here? I know that in 2010, computers would have struggled with these images, but perhaps at 2020 computer could handle it?

    Also, can I covert scenery files for RC7 directly to RC 8/9 - or do I need the original source files for the scenery in order to make the RC8/9 files?

    hi Owllen

    Support recommends a resolution of 16384 x 8192 px. That's what my camera does natively.

    I have never tried bigger.

    For the conversion, currently, you have to go through the support by sending them your sources (image, mqo) by email.

    since the new scenery developement kit for the rc10 is not yet available:

    I tried / produced a couple of sceneries (just for my personal use) with an native image resolution of 32784x16384.
    I just set the paramters for the development-kit-Pano-converter to 16 instead of 8 (and the same in the ttx-file).

    That work perfect & it looks great with that resolution :)

    hopefully that will work the same way in the upcoming development kit

    Super, what type of camera do you use?

    my camera: sony a7rV with 61K fullframe-sensor
    I`m always making HDR pictures (-4, -2, 0, +2, +4)


    for the 32768x16384 I`m using usually a 15mm fisheye - > slight upscaling with ptgui

    or: 32768x16384 with a 20mm wideangle in 3 rows - no upscaling


    or sometimes I`m making even 65536x32768 with a 40mm (with lots lots of rows and colums and a huge amount of data & work)