Mountains And Tropical Land Class

Willing Testers?

Hi All,
Bet you thought I skipped town on this project. :running: Actually me was slewing all over Hades and High water looking for those bizarre land class anomalies CFS2 is known for and swapping those out for something more appropriate. Grabbing some stock FSX textures and trying my hand at making custom ones where there were none to be had. FSX's use of autogen for trees and such make for many bland world/textures...with the autogen bringing the depth of color to the textures in that sim.
I was using photos off of web pages (see screenie) for ideas on the color aspect. Google earth is a very good application, but the hues of pictures taken from outside the atmosphere...well they're going to be off.

Anywho, I've put together a set of tex's (Pacific Only) and was wondering if any one here would be able to do a little Beta test/run with them. See if I missed something or an odd thing showing up where you fly. Somewhere I possibly have not visited for awhile.

If you are interested, just drop me a pm with an email address. Another set of eyes is always good for stuff like this. :ernae:
Dave
 
wonderful

I am poking at some of the older things developed for FS family of sims including some of the denser foliage methods people have tried to make jungle look like jungle... there is a method i am going to look at in FS9 to see if it can be ported over...so if the CFS2 engine will tolerate it, we might be able to get actual masses of trees, not sure yet, but will see. with these textures we might have actual jungle to crash into and get lost in. It was really nice of him to give you permissoin, this really does look great.
 
Slats, i am testing now, comparing with original, and then with PAC texture packs, and yours, will take some time... but will report soon...

test1henderson.jpg


Oscar's Land Class CFS2 Pacific (OPTO v1) + Stiz Tex v3 For FS Texture Water

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Stiz PAC Tex 2 + Stiz Tex v4 for Blue Water and Greener Jungle

SBDs_over_Henderson_Field.jpg


The Actual

henderson2.jpg


Looks like we need bluer water and a intermediate light green grass texture for the dirt areas as a transition, i am going to compare with FS9 also.

It does look like the natural tree colour is closer to your new texture set....i will keep looking at reference pics.
 
CrisGer said:
Looks like we need bluer water and a intermediate light green grass texture for the dirt areas as a transition.
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Good point there CrisGer. Something along the line of a not quite ripe banana.
The one issue is getting them to show up where you needs them. CFS2's land class seems unique since it does not fall in line with any of the FS Sdks as far as the pacific is concerned.

EZ-Landclass would work well for this. Large area coverage. Once we're past this stage I'm going to take a stab at that. Especially around the custom airstrip scenery.

I have a fairly good cache of land class textures now so finding something to fit the bill shouldn't be too hard to find.

With you, oldwheat, and several other fine members here finding things pretty much Ok, a Christmas or shortly there after upload seems possible.

Thanks to all of you for taking the time to help. :santahat:
 
Yes, like Oldwheat, no texture tears or errors found yet.... i am searching..searching...searching....

Zulu Tango Bravo to base.......

lost somewhere over the jungle lol :):ernae:

and ys, that transition light green idea came to me as i was studying some of the refernce photos of the actual areas, if you look at that one of Henderson posted above, there is grass growing, in the area between the jungle and the developments...it helps make the bare areas not so ...bare looking. I know we cant get a lot of detail into this the senior sim, due to the engine limitations but maybe we can do some stuff with the textures that will help ....
 
I too, am lost. And where the heck are all these imperfections I am supposed to find? Who's paying for all this fuel? Looks dang fine to me! .....................Somewhere over New Britain.
 
mariereid said:
I too, am lost. And where the heck are all these imperfections I am supposed to find? Who's paying for all this fuel? Looks dang fine to me! .....................Somewhere over New Britain.
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Hmmmm...must but be something at my end. Maybe that Roth virus. Just let me get his cleared up and it's packaging time. :d
 
Ys i would say it is a go, no tears or seams or jaggies that i can find, and i have looked both at default install and layers of sceneries by various people, and it looks tight. It creates what i believe is a more accurate dense jungle look, it is dark compared to the vanilla and some others, and people can always add and mix or lighten, but i think this is a strong step forward to realism, for the actual jungle veg if you study photos from WWII and since is very very dense, indeed a major part of the landscape and the war ..... like a sea of trees on the land... and this will help with that, for the towns and urban areas i have found that Stiz's v4 is a good add on with v3 for the towns and cities it helped pearl a lot by adding more of the urban area.... but that is all tweaking. Good to go i would vote. and thanks for giving us a peek and for doing the hard work on this.:medals::medals::ernae:
 
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