Background panaorama

[okh]

Doing some maintenance with the help of SH3D, I couldn't help myself trying to add some background to the model photo. As I didn't have an actual panorama, I used www.virtual-globe.info (better resolution than Google Earth, at least Norwegian data-set).

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Link to photo on Flickr

PS - Prodess: add transparency to the model photo and copy into background image (using Gimp)

[Puybaret]

Nice idea, but why did you have to add transparency to your model photo?

[okh]

I deleted the sky/ground from sh3d photo to see the background. Then I made my slanting terrain model (green at level 0) semi-transparent to blend in.

I see now that I seem to have added transparency to the chalet itself too, but that was unintended

The chalet is an "eagle's nest" and the vista is just like this. Virtual globe makes it easy, as it supports geo-co-ordinates and angle of view in a hyperlink (thinking plug-in linking from the compass in sh3d, but maybe not really useful).

[okh]

Consider a house outside Sallanches, Haute-Savoie - the link would look like this to provide a realistic backdrop.

http://www.norgei3d.no/VirtualGlobeStarter.php?dataset=http://www.norgei3d.no/norge-globe.vgml&viewpoint=6.610305892410796,45.97141019060604,869.9441833496094,133.5541002045504,-2.5000000000001243&libs=Xj3D

Or - Verbier (Chemin D'Amon)

Just as examples. But as it is probably only useful in montainous areas, it is probably not worth a plug-in...