FSX location of default apron textures

[cattz]

Can anyone say where the location of the default apron textures are please? ie: grass, cement, brick, clay, shale etc.

(better still, the file names!)

 

[tylerpilot]

Hi,

Textures are located in the <FSX main directory>\Texture. You can then use the search bar at the top-right corner to find the concrete,grass,etc

EDIT: there are more than one concrete, grass... textures.

 

[cattz]

Thanks,
I thought that at first - however, I deleted one of the r8 files - grass.r8 and it still showed up in the sim. So it must be loading from somewhere else

 

[tylerpilot]

Thanks,
I thought that at first - however, I deleted one of the r8 files - grass.r8 and it still showed up in the sim. So it must be loading from somewhere else

Maybe the sim is using one of the other grass files in your location.
There appears to be four grass textures, named grass.r8, grassF.r8, grassS.r8, grassW.r8.

grassF.r8, the "F" probably means for "fall", for the fall texture, grassW.r8, the "W" must mean "winter" texture etc......

 

[cattz]

Changed each season to try - nothing changed. So I looked in DXTBMP to check and they are not the same set of textures.
Next I looked at Scenery\world\textures and found there are more than 8,000 of those Nuff said.
As ADEX uses these textures should I ask Jon?

 

[rfields]

I believe Chris Arrington said the textures used on aprons and taxiways are the same textures. That's how he did his Airport Environment Upgrades.

They are in the main texture folder and start with taxi_

For grass, there are textures for the five seasons of FS.

ADE doesn't use any textures. It calls the textures using the coding from the SDK to have FSX display its regular textures.

 

[cattz]

Spot on Reggie, thank you