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Seasons

aliditalia said:
Following the suggestions received in this forum, I have realized a new file to correct the appearance of the seasons for Italy (after what I did for regions).
It is a very small package, and can be dowloaded from Avsim library, following this link:
http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=93973

Regards
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Very, Very nice and much better for Italy. I guess Italia is not all totally brown and gray in winter, except maybe Trentino area.

What tool did you use to create the modified seasons bgl(s)? All it says in the SDK is that you can use TMFViewer to view the existing bgl. Well, that is nice but I would like to modify it. :)
 
Ah I see. I was hoping there was a better method.

I have read Christian Stock's document on this.
I will attempt to create 257 x 257 .raw file as well or whatever it is.

I do not quite know how to get resample to understand my indexed colors as invierno, autumno, etc.

Nor do I know how to get a global_XXX.bgl file to load as a background image so I know what I'm changing and where I'm changing it.
 
Hi Rhett,

the great thing about the FSX resample tool is that you don't need to use the 257x257 raw format anymore. Resample.exe will take many different input formats, including tiff, bmp, and tga, and they don't have to correspond to a LOD2 or LOD5 grid either. All the source data need to be is georegistered to the FS-native lat/long WGS84 system.

In other words, you can start with a map or satellite image in Photoshop or Paintshop, draw the desired season "polygons" onto a separate layer, and then save that layer coded from 0-4 to correspond with the seasons. Ideally you'd do this for each of the twelve months but you don't even need a full set to generate a valid seasons file.

If you don't have a suitable georeferenced map of your area you can always load FS9 terrain mesh plus roads or water bodies into Jim Keir's LWMViewer v.1(provided you still have a copy of FS9) and export that as a bmp, thus creating your own quick map. That export file will be in lat/long WGS84 and you can easily determine the NW corner coordinates and the image dimensions to build the inf file.

Good luck!

Cheers, Holger
 
Hi,

Following the suggestions received in this forum, I have realized a new file to correct the appearance of the seasons for Italy (after what I did for regions).
Click to expand...

I hope that some clever ones could make the corrections for the most part of Europe, because this is not nice to look at. This is below all expectations. :confused:
I simply choose the "summer" season for now... it's the easiest way.

Greetz. José. (Belgium)
 
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