Often times we include a picture of our simulator in our publications. It turned out to be an interesting problem, because if we want to show a cab - we need light; if we want to show the projected scenery - we need to have a dark room:

The obvious solution is to compose parts that we need from both images:

But we decided to take it a little further and use actual screen shots from the simulation instead of the pictures of the screen in a dark room:

Gimp has a perspective tool that is designed to do something like that and here is the result:

The extra benefit of this approach is that it’s possible to put any scenery into the picture using a template, without taking pictures, but by simply taking screen shots:

Alexander Shyrokov

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