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changing water texture color?

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Ingolf

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Dumb question or not, where are the images for landclass textures stored?
For example, if I would like to change the color of Hydro_Polygons_Generic_Lake_Perennial for instance.. where is it? It is referred to as to have texture : OCEAN_SEA_LARGE_LAKE in the terrain.cfg file. Is that an image that can be modified? Or does it not work that way?

In FSX\textures\ there are a few bmp's, but no water..

cheers,
Ingolf
 
Hi Ingolf.

You can easily change the color of water by using a waterclass BGL in a local "scenery" folder, then supplying new textures for it in a local "texture" folder.

The only question is what waterclass numbers correspond to whauch textures?

Waterclass is numbered 1-60 ( 254 is null ).

Waterclass textures are 301b2su1.bmp through 360b2su1.bmp

Some textures are a whole family of textures:

359b2su1.bmp, 359b2su2.bmp, 359b2su3.bmp, 359b2su4.bmp, 359b2su5.bmp, 359b2su6.bmp, 359b2su7.bmp

... and they blend together to break up repeating patterns. The older SDKs have some info on how texture patterns can be avoided, as I recall.

Pay attention to the format of the textures:

1024 x 1024 pixels, DXT1 mipped with no alpha.

Alternately, the new resample can blend a transparency over water, to color it.

Searches on "landclass" and "local" will give more info on both waterclass and landclass alteration. The local textures override the global textures.

Dick
 
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