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FSX water options

robystar

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Hi,

I would like to know whether and if so how, I can change the aspect of a water body (a lake) to reflect the photoreal water in a better way.
In ADE I can choose AFAIK between ocean, lake, harbor and river but nothing else.
Have a look at the attached screenshots to show you what I mean.
Thanks,

Roby
 

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SBuilderX is the only tool I know which enables you to change the default waterclass (look of the water). Let me know if I can help you.
 
Hi,

Thanks but I would not know if or how you could help.
The scenery consists of:
- An ADE airport with a lot of custom made objects, flattens, excludes and an 'ocean flatten' to keep the lake water from overflowing:);
- FSX KML excludes and other polygons.
The photoreal is for personal use (because I am not sure I can use the photoreal ground, although US territory) and I am therefore trying to adapt the non-photoreal as much as possible to the photoreal. One of the problems is the water color (some others are the night textures and the right landclasses and the blending of them).
How would I be able to add a special water polygon to those two ponds with SbuilderX and merge it with the airport.bgl?
 
Modifications of the waterclass in SBuilderX affect selected cells. If we are lucky, these cells would only change the water color of the ponds but it is very likely that the water color of the ocean will be affected too. There are too possibilities: testing or taking a look at the area in TmfViewer.
 
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