Aha! leave it to Luis to find the neatest tricks! Thanks! <G> Bob

got my background, went and did my tif blend. compiled- went to scenery and found some buildings had bright red splotches on them. Took my bmp to my paint program and painted white over the red spots. redid all.... I made things worse! redid everything again but this time I avoided anything that loo...

I don't think so. That would be nice- wouldn't it? i would guess you are looking for fall, and winter views, or even a better summer shot. Best thing is to make sure you have at least two sat dlls running. example- choose in edit- properties... VE but have the ability to choose Google as well. This ...

Will do! all I have done was calibrate and left it at that. So- It may be that I should somehow go back to calibrate and manually change the lat and lon numbers. I'll work on that. Read how to do that somewhere....interesting post, but that was some time ago. I guess it would be a question as to whe...

OK- I did that and TMF Viewer shows my bmp just fine. I compiled after dong a blend but it was only 28 kb big, and does not show. i feel I am close but not right on with this. Purpose of all this is to be able to successfully add map from disk if I can't find a good satellite image. Just trying to c...

I could not understand why you wanted to delete your map in the first place. I will 'show background', add map from background, select all maps (probably don't have to do this but I do), draw my red square and choose te highest res. (makes a pretty big file but it is ver clear image) then I just min...

Is this with SbuilderX or Sbuilder? i.e. for fs9 or fsx? What is it you are trying to do? Are you trying to do a photoreal? Bob

I think I just got Google.dll to work. will check further but the tiles appeared nicely. Still working on why add map from disk won't show.

Luis, Roger- I noticed Roger saved his night bmp as a tif. Shouldn't that remain a bmp such as.... filename_LM.bmp. Then I think he is supposed to right click the map and choose the LM browsefor the LM filename, then compile?

This way he would have 3 sources. 1.bmp, 2. the _LM, 3. the tif.

Google = entire globe.

btw- tried auto, 17 - also tried 6,17 both were over a gig , wow! anyway neither showed up. the area I am trying is KNTU (Oceana afb).

Luis- Thank you. Will surely try thisw. BTW- I downloaded and installed the google.dlll but I still can't get any google tiles to show up when I shoose google satellite and show background regarless of what zoom level I try. Any ideas or has Google blocked this? Bob

Luis- thank you for the reply. why I was consideriing LOd changes is because I loaded this photoreal into my active scenery and nothing changed. I still see default. Usually this means the LOD is lower than the default, or scenery is ot activated. This scenery is so I figured the problem is the LOD....

If anyone reads all of this you will find I found the problem- change the name to photo. But my problem now is LOD. SbuilderX uses auto. I found out that to change the LOD do it manually. But then no one tells me HOW or WHAT to change it to. do I use auto,max - which didn't work- do I type in numbe...

Luis- thanks. Will do.

Why is it sometimes when I go to my scenery after placing a photoreal bgl there... I see an entire square instead of just the map. I did a nice blend and covered the rest of the bmp with black and feathered or smudged nicely between black, grey, and white. ----------------- Oops! I just looked at th...