How to make Water Masks for FS Earth Tiles (FSET) photo scenery - video tutorial.

If you've used FS Earth Tiles (FSET) for producing photo scenery, you may be interested in how to make Water Masks. This short video tutorial takes you through the various steps to enable you to add water effects - shorelines and inland lakes - to your photo scenery:

How to make Water Masks in FS Earth Tiles photo scenery. from Dai on Vimeo.

Please post any queries...

Cheers - Dai.

Dai,

WOW! WOW!
'Kin brilliant!! extremely professional ! cant fault it, this is a definitive "how to" video
I suppose now, I have no excuse, I will have to learn how to do it from the Master
I must try to learn how to make this thread a sticky in our forum, being a thicky, any idea?

Thanks, both - appreciated!

Nigel: see - http://help.forumotion.com/t139602-pin-topics

Any use?

Cheers - Dai.

G-GMDH wrote:
Also a question for you, can you just add the RED colour to the mask file which is in pink, I know its never too clear finding the coastline but it would just save one of the steps? (In the past I just black out the pink to incorporate the water).

Also I would like to give credit to Doctor G. MAURIZIO the "inventor" of the FSET here in Italy and HB-100 and MJS for their hard work in updating and improving the software in 2012.

Cheers, M

I've looked at the pink bits on the AreaMask image but can't think of a way of using it to define the shoreline, sorry.

Dr Maurizio is an ace - didn't he do Elba recently? I'll look it up...

Cheers - Dai.

Thanks a million for making this tutorial and thanks to Admin for pinning it.
Also thank you for speaking in a way that is understandable. Lots of videomakers could learn from that.

At this very moment I´m not making photoscenery and I have no plans to do so in the near future. Mainly because its very time consuming and also because the areas where I wanted to make scenery had to poor quality satelite images and then I dont find it to be worth it.

But now that snow and frost is here and the days are short, maybe I will soon be sitting in front of the PC looking for interesting areas to use for some photo scenery. It sure has a nice feeling flying over a beautifull scenery that you´ve made yourself.

So again, thanks for the inspiring tutorial

Thanks for your kind comments, Anders - getting a plaudit makes the effort worthwhile!

Blending water masks with photoscenery and avoiding mesh incompatibilties is more demanding, as Mike and I are currently finding out. There's lots to this scenery stuff, eh?!?

Cheers - Dai.