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Ground textures based on sky condition?

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How do textures (snow, water on airport asphalt, etc) are triggered in FSX?

http://environments.flight1.net/gepro/gepro1.htm

I don't know why the overcast effect was achieved in FS9 by GEPro but not in FSX (since it's not included in GEX) but I was wondering if it's possible to load a different set of textures according to the sky condition (i.e. 8/8 overcast).

As far as the logic goes... I see only 2 ways to achieve this...
1) creating a semi-opaque texture that loads as a pattern to cover the ground in the area
OR (and?)
2) duplicating the default ground textures in Scenery/World/Texture, making all darker and have them load in FSX when sky condition is 8/8.

If this is possible, where should I start to learn how to make this happen in FSX?

thanks a lot!
 
Hi,

The snow on the terrain is triggered by the scenery engine itself, depending on the weather. But as far as I know it is hard coded, so we have no influence over it.

The water on the airport when it is raining is actually a specular map depending on the rain, like you can do in a fsx mdl file. But once again how it is triggered is hard coded.

So from within the sim I don't see a way to change textures depending on the amount of overcast or so. With an external application it might be possible between different FS sessions.
 
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