About
PhotoSceneryX
PhotoSceneryX (PSX) is an easy-to-use photorealistic scenery generator for X-Plane versions 8 and up. It takes orthophoto images that you acquire and prepare and maps them to the default X-Plane® DSF global scenery so you can Fly in the REAL world. All you have to do is get the aerial images and use some tool such as ImageToolX (see below) and/or Google Earth® to prepare them and find out the coordinates of the southwestern image of the area your images cover, or the coordinates of the entire area. Once you have prepared your images, just run PSX and it does the rest, and all in only about 2 minutes! As soon as PSX is done, you're ready to fly over your new scenery! All the hard work is done for you by PSX. All you have to do is grab that flight stick and go Fly in the REAL world!
ImageToolX
ImageToolX (ITX) is a supplimentary tool to PSX. It's designed to aid in preparing your downloaded images for use with PSX and X-Plane. It has three main functions. It will:
- take one large image of the area you want to cover and chop, convert, and name the resulting images for use with PSX and X-Plane!
- combine small image tiles (such as those downloaded from the web via specialized download tools) into larger, properly-named images more appropriate for use in X-Plane.
- convert images between various formats.
It does all the work for you! All you have to do is acquire the image(s) and find out the appropriate latitude and longitude coordinates. That's it. You're done. New photorealistic scenery is just seconds away!