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How to make "brown river"

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Hi, i would like to change the color of "Rio de la Plata" (you know, the big river between Argentina and Uruguay)

change for "not realistic", and horrible, "blue ocean", to the true brown river

but for the moment i can't achieve it

when i choose in polygon "water", the different kind of water, seems only to indicate the kind of "watermask" that MSFS
apply to the polygon, but, not change the color of the river

i am searching something like "landclass or better waterclass" from FS2004 or FSX/P3D,

how i can do that in MSFS?

thanks in advance
 
It is not supported in this version. The closest you can come currently, is to declare the polygon "ocean" and that will allow any photo imagery to project, it will also depress the surface and invite default grass. In this case, the problem was minimal, because the only navigable channel through this reef, was simply left as default water polygon, so the AI vessels pass right through.

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However, in the region of this particular polygon and not visible in the photo, is an entire grid section, where the polygon shows only white. I already know from other areas, that this white area ia a glitch with the sim, so rather than try to do some funky workaround, like make grass on water to have it be the right color, I decided to wait and see if one of the frequent updates fixes it.
 
I can think of 2 ways to recolor water.
One is to use a polygons with a sand (?) material, and colorize it.
The other is to make aerial imagery. You can use Bing imagery. Make all non-river area transparent. Then fill all the river with an appropriate brown color. Now you can tile the image and you'll have brown water... not sure what this does to surrounding default vegetation...

Much easier to do the first, I think.

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Thanks, for for your answers.
I try with an aerial, but when i put "ocean", not show the "ground"

but for the moment i'm not master aerial on sdk, so maybe i make something wrong

strange, that MSFS, not make "waterclasses", for brown rivers... or other couleurs rivers

(this exist also in the old fs2004)... i suppose is because, there are not "landclasses" thing on MSFS
 
rhumbaflappy said:
I can think of 2 ways to recolor water.
One is to use a polygons with a sand (?) material, and colorize it.

Much easier to do the first, I think.
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To be clear, that colors the surface, but does not define it to be water? Or it is navigable for ships and landable for floatplanes?
 
You need another polygon to define water. The OP just wanted to color the already existing water, I think. You can use river-type just fine for a river. Then duplicate the poly, and change it to a colored material polygon.
 
Ok, thanks. What about in the case of already existing water? For example, in the case above, the reef area can be defined as river and then covered with another polygon set as water? Or it’s good enough to leave it ocean and add the water poly maybe.
 
I would leave it as ocean, and add a non-water colorized material polygon.
 
Won't the colored polygon hide the photo polygon? Because "ocean" has grass, so no water there.
 
rhumbaflappy said:
You need another polygon to define water. The OP just wanted to color the already existing water, I think. You can use river-type just fine for a river. Then duplicate the poly, and change it to a colored material polygon.
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ok, i will try this to see
 
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