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Landclass Texture borders

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Hi,

i am creating a new landclass set for the european region (screenshots soon available), but there's something i do not understand.
Some textures use a mask or border black-white texture with the "m"-letter naming .Always they have 2048x32 pixels and seem to be divided in 8 sections. :confused:

Does anybody know where i can find some informations in the sdk or anywhere else about it and how they work ?

Regards
Stefan :)
 
Hello:

IMHO, possibly Dick was referring to the info in this excellent tutorial by Holger: ;)

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/82155-fsx-terrain-texture-placement-method/



BTW: While you're 'studying-up', a few other "Holger Must-Have's": :idea:

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/80908-land-class-configuration/


http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3336


http://forum.simflight.com/topic/44307-fsx-landclass-table-and-visual-catalog/


http://forum.avsim.net/topic/82088-custom-ground-textures-for-sbuilderx-problem/


http://www.newsite.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?p=30530


http://www.wiki.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11729



Kudos as well to Arnaud Clere for this contribution to the FS Community knowledge base regarding customizing land class: :wizard:

http://translate.google.com/transla...nes-pour-fsx&hl=en&biw=1045&bih=666&prmd=ivns


http://www.ww.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4236


http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3404



Oh, also my own caveat with regard to implementing Arnaud's slope-texture mods via his lc_lookup.bgl: :p

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...n-for-changing-the-mountain-rendering-!/page2

...as well as Stan's kind clarification on my hasty post (sort of a "Heads up on my Heads Up") !:


http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...in-rendering-!&p=334652&viewfull=1#post334652



PS: And one of Dick's many practical ideas: default texture as "custom" land class (with some 'caveats'): :teacher:

http://www.wiki.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showpost.php?p=77869&postcount=3


Hope this helps ! :)

GaryGB
 
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Gary,

Could you please provide a link for these tutorials you mention?

:p
 
hcornea said:
Gary,

Could you please provide a link for these tutorials you mention?

:p
Click to expand...
Hi Ian:

You mean my numerous and voluminous posts over the past few years here are missing visible and click-able links ? :confused:


Hopefully I've not been goofing up by failing to use the "link Icon / dialog" some other forums require for links to be both visible and 'click-able'. :eek:


I use FireFox 3.x wherever possible to browse and compose posts in forum threads, and on my Windows XP Pro SP2[+] system, my post above has links which are both visible and click-able.


Hmmm... just viewed the page in Internet Explorer 6.x, and it has the same general appearance as in FireFox... with links which are both visible and click-able.


So I guess you were just indulging in a friendly tease about my "info buffet" posting style... and the OP's seemingly incongruous reply. :p


Allowing for the fact that this is a forum frequented by folks for whom English is a second language, I guess that the OP meant that he should be able to gain some additional insights from the info posted via the 'plethora' of links in this thread. :D


< Ahem > Maybe instead of referring to some of my posts as a "info-buffet", I should use the term "link-fest" in honor of Holger's term "click-fest" when describing some scenery development work ! :rolleyes:


Hey, as MS seems to no longer honor 'MS-MVPs' for FS endeavors, maybe I'll at least stand a chance of becoming known by the FS Community as... "Duke of URL" ! :rotfl:


Have a great day ! :cool:

GaryGB
 
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My early model Samsung mobile phone (using "Opera Mini") does a remarkably good job of accurately (or at least functionally) rendering the various FS forums and most other web sites including FS Developer... with both visible and click-able links. ;)

http://www.opera.com/mobile/

http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/


If I hadn't grilled the kid at the phone store about a way to browse the web on "my" terms, I'd still be limited to content AT+T wanted me to see via their 'MediaNet' GUI.

The phone geek said "just between you and me, your phone can run Java apps, so go download 'Opera Mini' for the cell phone from the folks who've made the desktop version for many years".

Oh, did I mention Opera Mini is FREE ? :p


< Cough > Well, now my 'end-user configurable web browser' keeps me from becoming overwhelmingly bored while sitting in the car (waiting for 'her ladyship' to finally leave the current store when we are out spending "quality time" together driving her around between shopping plazas... that don't have computer and bookstores catering to my usual shopping interests) ! :banghead:


Hmmm... I gotta' get a decent laptop so I can keep getting some FS Development work done in "idle" moments ! :rolleyes:

PS: I got a kick out of the TapaTalk web page catch phrase: "Tapatalk Forum App - Empowering Forum Junkies on-the-go " :D

GaryGB
 
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