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Hi ! igabc,
Take a look there : http://www.fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_determine_the_season_of_the_terrain
May be I'm wrong, but there are no meteo conditions for these textures, AFAIK.
Take a look there : http://www.fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_determine_the_season_of_the_terrain
May be I'm wrong, but there are no meteo conditions for these textures, AFAIK.
Thank you for your reply but that info was not enough for me to understand WHEN/HOW FSX uses the hard winter textures.
I want to make photorealistic textures with day, night, winter/fall + spring summer and winter/hard winter. I have aerial pics of my area and I have already done all the variations. I just need to know when HW is used.
I also need to add autogen. Do I have to compile ground textures and autogen together? Any help will be kindly (I mean it!) rewarded. Just so you know... what I am doing is something never done before in the whole FS world. Not kidding! (I'll release a fsx screenshot soon)
thank everybody for helping!
G
I want to make photorealistic textures with day, night, winter/fall + spring summer and winter/hard winter. I have aerial pics of my area and I have already done all the variations. I just need to know when HW is used.
I also need to add autogen. Do I have to compile ground textures and autogen together? Any help will be kindly (I mean it!) rewarded. Just so you know... what I am doing is something never done before in the whole FS world. Not kidding! (I'll release a fsx screenshot soon)
thank everybody for helping!
G
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To answer your questions:
FSX will only use a seasonal texture if the underlying season.bgl* has that particular season. I.e. if you are in the tropics, you will never see a hardwinter texture because the season file for that area does not call it.
*Or an addon season bgl.
If you simply want to test whether your hard winter texture is working correctly, then make a new season file comprising of just hardwinter covering your area- Then it will be forced to call the hardwinter version of your texture.
Another quick check is to open the default seasons.bgl in tmfviewer and then see whether the hardwinter season exists at your particular location (you will need to choose View > Seasons/Variations from the TMFviewer menu.
Hope that helps
Autogen: You will need to add the autogen to the finished aerial texture so they are two separate steps: Aerial texture first, then autogen.
Autogen information is held in a different file and folder(FSX).
FSX will only use a seasonal texture if the underlying season.bgl* has that particular season. I.e. if you are in the tropics, you will never see a hardwinter texture because the season file for that area does not call it.
*Or an addon season bgl.
If you simply want to test whether your hard winter texture is working correctly, then make a new season file comprising of just hardwinter covering your area- Then it will be forced to call the hardwinter version of your texture.
Another quick check is to open the default seasons.bgl in tmfviewer and then see whether the hardwinter season exists at your particular location (you will need to choose View > Seasons/Variations from the TMFviewer menu.
Hope that helps
Autogen: You will need to add the autogen to the finished aerial texture so they are two separate steps: Aerial texture first, then autogen.
Autogen information is held in a different file and folder(FSX).
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Hi Folks
iagbc -
Yes FSX seasons include hard winter for Italy.
They're most obvious in northern Italy.
Please see the series of screenies at - FSX Seasons - Europe & N Africa
Probably easiest if you see the equivalent download.
Seasons Test
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A collection of FSX screenies
displaying a years worth of month-by-month
landclass changes for Europe & N Africa.
Screenies are taken at midday,
on the 21st day of each month, (covers equinoxes),
all from the same "satellite" viewpoint.
Additionally indicates the daylight/lattitude changes.
For ease of sequential viewing
screenies are named - S_YYYYMMDD_Month.jpg
e.g. S_20060121_Jan.jpg
Month is identified in bottom righthand corner.
HTH
ATB
Paul
iagbc -
Yes FSX seasons include hard winter for Italy.
They're most obvious in northern Italy.
Please see the series of screenies at - FSX Seasons - Europe & N Africa
Probably easiest if you see the equivalent download.
Seasons Test
============
A collection of FSX screenies
displaying a years worth of month-by-month
landclass changes for Europe & N Africa.
Screenies are taken at midday,
on the 21st day of each month, (covers equinoxes),
all from the same "satellite" viewpoint.
Additionally indicates the daylight/lattitude changes.
For ease of sequential viewing
screenies are named - S_YYYYMMDD_Month.jpg
e.g. S_20060121_Jan.jpg
Month is identified in bottom righthand corner.
HTH
ATB
Paul