We can hide photogrammetry ships and boats to some degree areas using a TIN exclude but the underlying photograph texture still shows sunken boats. It would be nice if we could mask these sunken vessels entirely. This will enhance realism in docks and ports where real-time animated ships are active.
Hi CBCDES,
You can in developers mode mask them by adding an apron with the color off the surrounding water over those underlying photograph texture, that’ s what I do iff I create an SPB and wanted to get rid of those original textures. It will be at first an trial and error to see if it blends in with the surrounding water but it is possible.
This is Roche Harbor spb W39, which also had those docks and vessels on the underlying photograph texture.
Interesting idea but not practical. You have to create an airport to put an apron down.
That looks great! But it would be excellent if they could mask them out globally using Blackshark or something.
You’ re both right it should be done by Asobo to mask them out globally in a way they looks best, but as long we have it and if there is an SPB or airport in real live nearby which you wanted too create it should be possible to hide the underlying texture.
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I don’t like the sunken boats too but only masking them and replacing them with a much smaller handful of boats that happen to have their AIS turned on isn’t an elegant solution either. At least when youre at altitude you see ‘something’ down there in a marina, with masking you risk what look like a lot of empty marinas.
The whole point of this is so that the animated boats and ships that add-ons like the Gaist/AIG mod look realistic in port and are not sitting over the top of sunken vessels. Most of us want to see 3D boats in marina and ships in ports obviously, not sunken ones. If you want to see something what is wrong with modelled vessels? And why do they have to be replaced with smaller fewer boats? Seafront have done a very good job replacing the static moored craft with 3D models, it isnt difficult. Gaist 3D Ships can be seen thousands of feet up too by the way, not just down low. We dont need sunken ships in docks.
I am asking for this as an option by the way, a new exclude in the developer SDK. Something each user or developer can choose to use or not, it would not universally hide all boats in marinas or docks if you didn’t want to use it in your scenery projects or didn’t have an add-on that makes use of it.