Creating photofield scenery

[nono1928]

Hello,

I am new to Realflight and intend to create a photofield scenery of my local airfield. I have a few questions that I could'nt find answered in the forum, nor in the manual.

What kind of panorama projection is to be used (Cylindrical, Spherical, ...) to generate the panorama ?
Is there a limitation in terms of maximum resolution supported by RF ?

I understood that the center of the panorama should be aligned with the horizon. Are there any other points to be considered ?
I intend to use Hugin parnorama photo stitcher for that purpose.

Thanks for your advice

 

[legoman]

Flying Field

I have a question. How do you do the custom photo flying fields i want to do mine aswell how do you do it?

forums.realflight.com

 

[nono1928]

Well, in the meantime I did some tests and proceeded by trial and errors. I think I now understand how it works.
Here are my findings for anyone interested.

The panorama picture should be set according to this :



with height/width = 1/2 (180° / 360°)

I loaded this panorama into the game and this seems to work perfectly :



I then tested the alignment in X & Y to understand how it works.

X is a tilt of the panorama along an axis defined at 45° heading
Y is a tilt along an axis defined at -45° heading

This is confirmed here :

Test of -20° in X



Test of -20° in Y :




There is also an option to define the north


which results in -60° in heading as expected :


Finally I looked down at -90° :





We see that the tail of the plane is approximately at -50° which is what I would expect.

Hopefully it clarifies how the panorama should be projected before importing into realflight.

Arnaud

 

[Nodd RC]

This is really helpful information nono. Thank you for posting this. I'm also trying to setup a photofield. I had some success many years back using RF 4.5 but I've forgotten just about everything I knew back then. So I'm trying to get back up to speed on the work-flow process.

I used to use Photoshop to stitch my photosphere together but I noticed my Android Pixel 5 phone will create a really nice photosphere all on its own. That said though I'm also interested in figuring out what resolution these 2:1 files should be. My phone produces a file that's 8000 x 4000 pixels which looked fairly good in the sim. However my old RF 4.5 raw photosphere images were much higher at 20000 x 10000 pixels. Not sure if that gets upscaled/downscaled when importing into RF?

 

[tridge]

Has anyone tried to use one of the 360 photo apps on android to create the image? I'm thinking something like this with google street view app

 

[Nodd RC]

I've not used the Google Street View app but that looks almost identical to my Android Pixel 5's built in Photo Sphere mode for its camera. As stated above, that produces a 2:1 8000x4000 pixel JPEG that imports into Real Flight no problem.

 

[bmsweb]

Great info here guys, will have a go at this tomorrow with Realflight Evolution Hope it works