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TobiasAhlbrecht

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Hi folks,

for a more realistic look in FSX I want to lighten the different road textures from middle grey to light grey. Therefore I have to find the appropriate road textures, but I'm unavailingly searching for some of the maps used for the different road types. :confused:

Does anyone know, which texture files in FSX are responsible for the look of the roads, hiways etc. and where those files are located?

(Notice: I'm using Flight1's "Ultimate Terrain X USA" and the maps I already found and changed successfully were all UTX-textures, as they were easy to find by the "UT"-prefix.)

Thanks for your help - I hope you will help :D

Tobi
 
Hi Toby,

open terrain.cfg, located in the FSX main folder, in Wordpad or Notepad. Use "Roads" as a search term and you'll find all the entries for the default road (as well as the UT roads, which would be attached at the bottom of the .cfg file). The Textures= line will give you the name of the seasonal (hard winter, winter, spring, summer, fall) and night variants used for each road type. All these textures are located in \Scenery\World\texture.

If you want to find out what specific road type is used in a specific location you need to load the local .cvx file (see Terrain SDK on how to find it) into TMFViewer.exe, right-click on the road vector, and then use the GUID shown to search for that same GUID in terrain.cfg.

Cheers, Holger
 
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