Creating Custom Panorama Flying Sites and 32K Sci-Fi Panorama
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32K Sci-Fi Panorama
The 32K sci-fi panorama, first released for FS One in March 2023, is now available for SeligSIM 2024.5 as DLC #2. The viewpoint is positioned 62 ft (18.9 m) above the deck near the wall, providing an aerial perspective of the environment. For a sense of scale, the Ultimate TOC biplane in the screenshot below is 46% scale with a wingspan of 100 in (2.54 m).
The panorama uses an ultra high-resolution 32,768 x 16,384 pixel image. It is composed of 16 tiles at 8K resolution each (see below), which taken together make up the spherical panorama image that is rendered in the simulator. The complete file is 1.57 GB in its native TGA format, though it's delivered in a compressed format (dds) for downloading and loading in the simulator. The simulator handles this resolution by dynamically loading the visible portions during flight.
For those interested, here is a smaller sized version (1,920 x 960 pixels) of the actual equirectangular panorama image that is sliced into the 16 tiles and rendered as a 360-deg spherical panorama:
Downloaded the new site for free from: https://www.seligsim.com/download.html
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Creating Custom Panoramas
I've published documentation for creating custom panorama flying sites in SeligSIM. The guide at https://www.seligsim.com/manual/documentation.html covers the process, from preparing panoramic images to configuring and installing your custom flying site. The example in the documentation uses a skidpad panorama near Johannesburg, South Africa.
Downloadable User Manual
In addition to the extensive online User Manual for SeligSIM, I created a PDF version that can be downloaded here:
https://www.seligsim.com/manual/files/SeligSIM-UserManual.pdf
The updates to this PDF version will lag the online version which is updated regularly. Also, the online version includes specific instructions for setting up some controllers, such as the InterLink simulator controllers.
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Notes:
https://www.seligsim.com/download.html
https://www.seligsim.com/manual/documentation.html
https://www.seligsim.com/manual/files/SeligSIM-UserManual.pdf