Shrinking Images but keeping quality

[OChristie 0]

Hello,

I am trying to shrink a modified Sat Image that is in 4096x4096 pixels down to a 512X512 pixels image while keeping the resolution.

Please can somebody help me.

Regards

blackknight63

[opteryx 1562]

Your question is contradictory, you want to decrease the resolution while at the same time maintain it??

[OChristie 0]

Ah I see, so there is no way to keep the quality of the image at a smaller size.

How do you maintain such amazing quality at far out and up close?

I am also very stuck on finding high quality Satellite Imagery.

If anybody could please help me, I would be very grateful

[Thrash 0]

'far out' textures are due to the sat map and 'up close' textures are due to the actual ground textures which are dependent on the mask... sound a bit confusing? well it is until you've made an island then then it's pretty easy.

At a certain distance (which you can specify), the sat map textures begin to blend into the ground textures. So as you walk around there is a circle around you (about 50m) which is ground textures and outside that it's the sat map you're seeing.

[OChristie 0]

Thanks Thrash that cleared some stuff up