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Is it possible to make seasonal textures for a textured line?
If not, could seasonal textures be applied to a textured polygon?
 
Hi,

Do you mean the terrain vector lines and polygons you can make with SBuilderX?
 
Yes.
I specifically have in mind shorelines. I have used (with SBuilderX) one with custom texture, but normally I would need seasonal variants.
 
I'm an sbuilderx noob, I don't know if any of these ideas are valid, but thought I would chip in:

- SbuilderX textured lines/polys are made using SCASM, but in the GUI there's no provision for seasons. You could probably grab the SCASM code generated in the Work folder and tweak it for seasonal textures

or,

- You might try adding a terrain.cfg entry and call that GUID for your shoreline. The terrain.cfg entries allow for seasonal textures. If you want to distribute your scenery though, adding a custom terrain.cfg entry is a pain.

or,

- You could convert your shorelines to landclass polygons and then use a custom landclass texture in your scenery. Landclass texture calls allow for seasonal variants AFAIK

Good luck! :)

Barry
 
bdf369,
thanks for your feedback:
(1) I wouldn't know how to do it, (2) is as you say rather awkward even for a "personal" addon, so this leaves us with (3).
I don't think that the standard SBuilderX GUI let's you specify the seasonal variants, in case of landclass. Is there anything more implied in this solution (like editing an xml file) ?
 
I think FSX is supposed to search for a texture tile according to the naming convention here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc707102.aspx#AppendixII

However the true mapping of landclass, season and region to a texture file is done by lclookup.bgl and this mapping is documented here:

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=133

So I think that by looking in the spreadsheet in the above download, you can choose a landclass that has seasonal variants along with the filenames that FSX would use, then you can put custom textures with those same filenames in your scenery's textures folder and FSX should use them. So if you use a landclass polygon I would expect FSX to use the custom textures in your polygon.

I have not tried this myself so not sure if it would work.
 
Clever idea, and sounds promising also.
Is there any tutorial or older post about tweaking the SCASM code (as you suggested in your previous message) accordingly?
 
Never wrote a line of SCASM, but my guess is you tweak the LoadBitmap() line according to doc here:

http://www.scasm.de/doc/sca_cmd5.htm#ldbm

eg LoadBitmap(0 WSFH5 EF 0 0 0 "shore.bmp")

0 is always first argument
WSFH are the seasons, 5 is ground type
EF 0 0 0 is the RGB Color

Then your textures should be shore_FA.bmp etc.
 
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