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P3D v5 Selecting a color for water. Possible?

Clutch Cargo

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Arno (or anyone else you might know), I use scenProc to create my water polys ( I will have to show you some superb results after your latest updates to TFE). In SbuilderX you can also create a water poly but you can select the color of water you desire, I believe by choosing a texture number for water. Is that possible or could it be possible to do this in scenProc?
 
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Is that done per polygon in SBuilderX? I thought water selection was done with waterclass files. At the moment scenproc does not make waterclass (or landclass).
 
Hi Arno:

IIUC, the OP plans to make CVX Vector Water Polygons, which can include a Water Class Color Attribute within the Polygon area by GUID ?

IIRC, Terrain.Cfg definition of mapped "Texture" for each such CVX water Polygon object by GUID may not require underlying water class ?

AFAIK, even if one does not overlap a "Hole" in local PR terrain, a CVX water Polygon object by GUID may still require underlying water class 'color'.

Otherwise one may get local Land Class with a "Hydro" overlay rendered from available terrain textures underneath CVX Water Polygons.


What about this option in ScenProc ?

"10.5.11 CreateTVecWaterPoly

Purpose

Create water terrain vectors. The vertices of the water polygons need to have a valid elevation set.

Arguments

1. The filter to select the polygon features that should be used to create the water polygons from.

2. The GUID of the water polygon type to use."


I'm curious about this too, while planning to convert / edit CVX Vector streams / make or edit water Polys ...outside KBHM PR aerial imagery.

Most FS2Kx users have performance to spare (100 -> 300 FPS) on modern computers, so we can now indulge in specular reflection and full Hydro features with all water bodies ...including what used to be lifeless textured lines / polygons for "Streams" / small Rivers.

GaryGB
 
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With the GUID in the CreateTVecWaterPoly step you can indeed select different water types already. See the screenshot below for the different types that are in the default terrain.cfg file.

But I assumed @Clutch Cargo already tried these different GUIDs. Maybe that's a wrong assumption.

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