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Winter Textures

scubakobe

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When adding winter seasonal textures to my object I made them appear from December to February.

However, in FS when you go there during the winter there is no snow on the ground but the object is snowed in so it doesn't match up well. This is for ground polygons so you can see how very white polygon wont match up with the green around it.

Is there anyway to make it change so it is only "snowed in" when its snowing, just like how the terrain textures work?

Thanks,
Kobbe
 
Hi,

That is not really easy, as there is no variable that the scenery can easily use to tell you it is snowing.

If there is always snow in the winter it might help to set the seasonal condition to these specific range of days.

If you only want this effect when it is actually snowing, the only solution I can think of is the use of a special module to tell you if it is snowing. I have done something similar in my ActiGate modules, it can also tell you if it is snowing or not. But such a module makes the scenery a lot more complex, so I would only recommend it if the snow effect is really important :).

PS. Talking about Fs2004 techniques here, not sure if this all works in FsX as well (probably not).
 
I haven't found snow on the ground at all during any of the months until I switch snow on in the weather.

It does snow a lot, though, so seeing an area untouched by snow surrounded by an area covered in it would not really work out that well.

Vice versa as well.

Maybe I should go with the Actigate thing, not sure.

Is it hard to figure out?


Thanks arno
 
It's hard to say it if it is hard to figure out :). Personally I would say no it is not hard. But to get it working would require some hand editing of your ASM source files. So if you are not familiar with that, it could be quite some challenge.
 
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