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There are two kinds of winter textures right? With and without snow? How (if its possible) can I get FSDS to do that?
 
Hi,

That is not possible with FSDS (or any other 3D object tool). The HW (snow) textures are only used on the mesh terrain. The terrain engine automatically uses them when it is snowing.

What you can do with 3D objects is tweak them so that they use seasonal textures based on the day of the year. That way you can switch between spring, summer, fall and winter. But having a special texture there when it is snowing does not work.
 
poop! I guess the idea of creating a hill object in FSDS is out of the question then... I need to learn how to make terrain mesh... not using existing elevation data either, because no existing elevation data will show the hill in question. It's more or less man-made because half of it is graded away. any ideas?
 
Creating terrain with 3D objects is not a very good idea in general indeed. The only tool I can think of at the moment that might work for you is Ground2k4, it has a remesh feature, that allows you to set the altitude of given points. All other tools I can think of use elevation data, which you don't have.

Or do you think that you could make this hill with a flatten as well? I guess that depends a bit on the shape of it.
 
Personally I don't find it easy to use, I prefer SBuilder when I make mesh scenery. But Ground2k4 is the only tool I can think of that allows you to specify the mesh altitude per vertices.
 
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