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Hi all,

I have been looking around and it seems I am not the only one who has a problem with deserts. However before trying to fix the problem I wanted to try and understand it. Here in Central California the hills are mostly green - especially in winter and fall, they are sometimes the "golden state" color during summer but even that is rare just here, usually things are green.

The odd thing is that in the immediate vicinity of my local airport FSX has one small area that behaves as I would like it to - it remains green through all seasons, but landclass tiles next door all exhibit the dreaded yellow peril during fall and winter I have just about every type of landclass (including marsh wetland) all end up being brown/yellow.

Whats going on? is there a way to prevent seasons from changing the appearance of these tiles?

Geoff
 
Hi Geoff,

I believe that patch of green you're seeing is one of the "parks" that are placed as polygon files. I f you load your area's cvx*.bgl file into the Terrain SDK's tmfviewer utility you'll see those areas as green colored polygons. They probably use a different set of seasonal colors with the assumption that urban parks stay green (irrigation) pretty much year-round.

There are a couple of approaches to prevent unwanted ground textures from showing:

* create replacement sets with appropriate seasonal textures (very involved)

* create local "seasons" files that prevent unwanted textures from showing (fairly involved, discussed in this forum)

* overwrite the existing unwanted textures with copies of more appropriate sets from the default texture base (fairly involved; see Garett Schmidt's texture mods at Avsim)

* create a local land class file that uses classes with more appropriate seasonal textures (fairly involved; limited choices with the default texture set).

Cheers, Holger
 
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