My latest work:

http://www.viso.at/private/filebase/49_mountain1.jpg

http://www.viso.at/private/filebase/50_mountain2.jpg

http://www.viso.at/private/filebase/51_skyline.jpg

http://www.viso.at/private/filebase/52_sunrise.jpg


As the nav unit will put the image side by side to be able to rotate the background with the map, all pics I made are fully horizontal cascadable so that there is no junction visible.

Have fun with it :thumbup:

WOW!!!!!
Great job!!!!:thumbup:

Thanks!

Just saw that I forgot the bottom fade in the 1st image.
here the correct version:

http://www.viso.at/private/filebase/53_mountain1.jpg

Just one problem!!

If you are near the sea, it could be an island.

Any way, i'll change the image tonight

Thanks!! :thumbup:

Dear Richard.

Could you do the second one without the mountains??

It could be great!!

I thought about an really awesome feature and I'm sure it could be realized, but only by BMW an not us:

Via GSM connection it checks the weather of your destination and then displays the equavalent horizon image (sunny, cloudy, raining, ...)

breme330xi, it's not that easy removing the mountains of that image still let it still look realistic.

but: have a look on this site:
http://www.cadtutor.net/download/raster/sky_01.php
there are 4 pages with different sky images.
or try http://images.google.com/ looking for a sky picture that you like.

Then, send me the link to the .jpg and I will create your personal horizon image for the BMW satnav for you.

Thank you!!

I'll take a look!!

Thank you Richard!! ;)

This is nice!!

Don't you think so??

http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/748/sky04ey9.jpg

Here you are:

http://www.viso.at/private/filebase/55_custom1.jpg


As we've got a lot of mountains around here in Austria, I just flashed my nav with the mountain image and like it a lot. It really looks like as I look out of my windshield

Oh man - I love playing around with such things !
"custom OEM" :rofl: