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Texture Blending or Dithering

Working!!!

Hi, Holger, Scott, Timmo and all

I got the thing working!!! Moved the transition of hard winter to spring a little further south, so my textures don't need any dithering any more!!! And the dithering happens exactly as it should, further south, and FS does the dithering with its own texture just beautifully.

But I only got it working with the help trom all you fellows, and I want to thank you a lot for it. You guys know stuff that makes me wonder where you got the information (in a good way). As a friend of mine used to say, "The truth is out there... but it is not in the documentation".

I love having gone through the exercise. I leaned more about seasons, graphics, and even PhotoShop than I imagined. Lost half a night thinking about it, but I am happy today.

But I am sure I'll be back with more questions as soon as I do my next project...

Please comment.

Thanks, guys, sincerely!!!

Fern:D
 
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Glad you are making progress. Everything I know I got from Christian's original work, and help from Holger along the way. Fortunately I had experience with landclass and mesh in resample, so I had a basic idea of what needed to be done. It took me a while to develop a workflow to make it reasonably efficient.

Thanks to this thread I have dug into the latest version of my GIMP 2.4 image software, and learned more about gif format and indexed color in general. I also found there is now a raw output in GIMP which would make life easier.

FSX resample is still much easier to work with if you also have some GIS software to prepare the source data.

scott s.
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Problem solved

Hi, Scott and all

Well, I got the seasons to work just the way I wanted, and I'll close the thread.

I am writing it down, because I don't think I'll remember if I stop using it for the summer (yes, summer will come).

The effort showed me not only how little I knew about seasons - and scenery in general - but also about graphics and especially Photoshop that I have had for years. I may tackle mesh one of these days.

Thank you all much for your help and your patience.

Fern
 
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