Hi
It seems to me that it should be possible to render a good backdrop for a diorama from MSFS scenery data but I don’t know how. My own interest is as a backscene for a model railway. A view of middle to far distance scenery that can be printed out at 72 dpi over an area of say 2400mm (8 foot) by 450mm (18 inches). All the data is there, how could you make a view of it for this purpose? I reckon it would look great, and has potential as a product if someone is clever enough to do it.
You could use the drone camera (set the zoom to a high level to avoid the typical wide angle camera distortion), shift it from one side of your planned railway scene to the other, an take screenshots at regular intervals (must overlap!).
Then stitch these screenshots together (try Image Composite Editor), and print them at a professional A0 printer.
If you want high DPI images, you could set a higher than 1 DSR (dynamic super resolution) factor in the NVidia settings.
I’ll give that a try, thanks
This techinique is looking very promising, I’m roughing in a first attempt and with a bit of tweaking I think I’ll get a very effective backscene. I found panning the drone camera worked better than shifitng it to create the panorama. Probabaly didn’t zoom in enough, and the image needed a bit of stretching and fitting to stitch them together in photoshop, didn’t use any specialised tools. With 4K screen grabs I only needed three screens to create an image around 8 foot wide at better than the resolution my home printer can print. Showed it to my model railway mates and quite a few of them are either going to try it themselves or want me to do it for them! The version in the pic at link is first trial and has an overlap error that will be easily fixed in the final version. Trial done and dusted in one day. I’ll experiment a bit more and once I’m happy with it I’ll take it to a print shop. [https://www.facebook.com/BullawarraRailway/posts/3783656125025320]
Looks great!