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FSXA Seasonal textures

Henry Street

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I am trying to incorporate some seasonal textures into my scenery objects. I was looking at another scenery and saw the textures labeled with a "season" suffix.

Is this all one has to do to get seasonal texture effects? Or is there more work in the xml/bgl file?

Thanks
Henry

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arno

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Hi,

No, FS won't automatically pick up the season textures. For fsx mdl objects it's not possible at all to have seasonal textures. The way the autogen does it is have a different mdl object for each season.

For fs2004 mdl objects you can add seasonal textures in the mdl file. That requires editing the asm code or tweaking the mdl using my mdl tweaker tool. You can't assign them directly from gmax.
 
Henry Street

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In FSX, it is no problem for me to have 4 mdls. How does FSX determine which mdl to use and/or how do I specify?

Thanks for ModelXConverter btw!
 
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Hi,

It's only with autogen that FSX automatically can switch between models. So that doesn't work for objects placed with XML/BGLComp.

An alternative is to use SimConnect to place the objects. Then you can switch between them based on some logic. Some of this popular payware sceneries use this. There was some discussion a while ago about people developing a SimConnect placement module for general use, but I don't think these are available yet.
 
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So, will it be possible with this tool to place stock trees and use accordingly the stock seasonal textures?


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Not sure about stock. The module places custom SimObjects. If you have the mdl and textures of stock trees, then I suppose yes.

There is also a way to call library objects, but I will have to test that if it works correctly.
 
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