Night lights

[Dvir Shany]

I love it! wonder when it will be available...

[Chris Bell]

didn't like what i had going so far; this is my new direction for Israel light map

(this is just a small test area)
 















 

[Chris Bell]

[Joel Strikovsky]

Looks amazing.

Question?

are those light are autogen lights or fixed Light polygons?

[Chris Bell]

TY Joel

these are fixed poly's from custom asm code

its going to brutal to get these all over

 

im trying to script this somehow; not sure yet how to go about it

but i am happy  somewhat with the general effect now

still need to tweak the asm code

[Mike Ackermann]

Hi Chris,

What's your method of generating the night textures? There are several ways to go about it e.g:

 

1. make black layer over your photo, set opacity to about 25%
2. pick dark orange colour (best way is to pick this colour from the original FSX night texture), set brush hardness to 0, brush size compatible with your streets on the photo
3. paint along the streets and around the buildings (you don't have to be precise because it will be scattered light)
4. set opacity to 100%
5. Layer -> Layer style -> Blending options -> MULTIPLY (in GENERAL BLENDING)
6. Image -> Adjustments -> Selective Color Choose RED and play with MAGNTEA bar to achieve the best result.
 

[Chris Bell]

TY Mike

in my first attempt; i adopted a C# script targeting gray areas in the image; then dialed in the colors o be replaced

ive used transparency to the source image below

i wasn't very impressed with my final results; felt cheep

 

although i run the whole country already

i ditched the coloring technique

 

the last attempt is custom asm code

[Chris Bell]

just a heads up
i hope many of you are reading this
 
to get my latest lights effect to cover Israel
i will need the community's help to bring this to fruition
 
with the latest attempt; each light ball is hand placed
!i cannot hand place all the country by myself
 
but if we all come together in small groups
each covers a small segment
we can have this completed in matter of just few weeks
 
ill need the poly lines placed on google earth map
then exported to a kml file; which i will convert to usable data to place the lights
 
the lines don't need to be in ay order and can crisscross each other
we just need the dots placed in the right place on the map
as each dot becomes an active light
(like such (see image
 

!the cards are on the table vatil community, its your turn