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7 Season Scenery for CFS3 ETO Expansion 1.40 released

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vonOben

Charter Member
Hi
After a years work the scenery update is finally uploaded!

Content:
- Terrain textures in 5 new seasonal sets to be used with the previous JB-Scenery seasons.
- New texture files for all 7 seasons for:
- Airfields
- Industrial facilities.
- Cities.
- Scenery sheets.
- Dover cliffs, railroads, roads and rivers.
- Long distance textures without snow for the autumn and winter seasons without snow.
- Modified Mos files where needed to get the seasonal changes to work properly.
- Updated ACC trees: 3D models and textures for all seasons.
- Seasonal changes and weather changes managed by "Winding Man's Scenery Manager".

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Installation:

A few changes to the ETO installation is needed before the Scenery udate can be used:
-Some files need to be removed from the ETO installation, so the WMScenery Manager can use them.
-Some files need to be renamed so they are not used any longer. I chose to do it this way instead of deleting them, so it’s easier if you want to go back and use the original ETO files instead. The renaming of the files are handled by batch files to make it easier.

There are however a lot of steps to do and it may look complicated but if you follow the steps carefully it should be fairly straightforward IMHO.

So please read the installation instruction in the readme and follow the steps!

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!

The download is available at the CFS3 Scenery page on my site
http://vonoben.free.fr/

Acknowledgements and credits

First of all, my thanks to Microsoft, the ETO Team and the ACC Team, without whom none of this would have been possible, especially to:
johno_UK (John Benfield) and Pat Pattle.

Programs used:
-Imagetool by Microsoft for dds conversion.
-MoseEditor by Microsoft for mos editing.

Textures and other files used:
-Terrain textures by johno_UK modified for the new seasons.
-Airfield textures by Microsoft, The ETO and the ACC Team (Frosty, Gecko & Pat Pattle).
-Industrial facility textures by Microsoft.
-City textures by Microsoft.
-Scenery sheet textures by johno_UK. Additional textures from different sources for instance FE textures by max188.
-Dover cliffs, railroads, roads and rivers textures by johno_UK and Alain DIGNOIRE.
-Long distance textures by Microsoft.
-Updated ACC tree 3D models: Original files by johno_UK converted by Pat Pattle.
-Mos files by Microsoft and the ETO and the ACC Team (Frosty, Gecko & Pat Pattle).
-Winding Man's Scenery Manager Rev4.7 by Winding Man (Mark Andrews).

If I forgot somebody please let me know and I'll add his name!


Cheers

vonOben
 
Hello VonOben,
In my case : as WMScenery 4.7 is already installed ... not yet tested and used, I need to reinstall WMScenery 4.7 in an other folder , something like WMScenery ETO?


Thanks in advance
 
This is great news Per, thanks for doing this work. I know how much time and effort you've put into this, the icing on the cake.

Have downloaded and will install this week. :)
 
Emile said:
Hello VonOben,
In my case : as WMScenery 4.7 is already installed ... not yet tested and used, I need to reinstall WMScenery 4.7 in an other folder , something like WMScenery ETO?


Thanks in advance
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Hi Emile

It depends on what you want to do.

The default WMScenery is not compatible with CFS3 ETO Expansion, so you can only use it in default CFS3.
You can have one installation of the manager and change the paths between different CFS3 installations, but that is not very convenient.
Perhaps someone else has a better solution?

You can have several copies of the WMScenery folder (the one with all dds-files) with different names for instance WMScenery ETO, WM Scenery default and the one you want to use should always be named only WMScenery.

Cheers

vonOben
 
just a big thank you

It´s been a very long time since my last post. Nevertheless I´m one of those who check SOH almost daily.
Just want to say: Thank you guys for your great work!!

greetings from bavaria
yours wolfger
 
vonOben said:
Hi Emile

It depends on what you want to do.

The default WMScenery is not compatible with CFS3 ETO Expansion, so you can only use it in default CFS3.
You can have one installation of the manager and change the paths between different CFS3 installations, but that is not very convenient.
Perhaps someone else has a better solution?

You can have several copies of the WMScenery folder (the one with all dds-files) with different names for instance WMScenery ETO, WM Scenery default and the one you want to use should always be named only WMScenery.

Cheers

vonOben
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Hello,
I was hooping to have a WMScenery for CFS3 and an other one for ETO.
 
i have win 7 64 bit and can run all 7 seasons with WM Scenery Manager 4.7 no problems
(absolutly love the updates!!)

however, WM Scenery has problems doing anything else such as generating QC weather, so i leave everything alone except for the 7 seasons bits - which work great!
 
This is good news for me because I very much want to incorporate this good man's work into my ETO installation. I just haven't had the time, plus it looks a bit complicated... I had the WM scenery Manager a few years back and have a vague recollection of problems... Gotta "man up" and try again!
 
Human Drone said:
I just haven't had the time, plus it looks a bit complicated...
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Well if you read the instruction I can understand it seems a bit complicated.....
But I tried my best to make it as easy as possible.

If you know how to copy/past files in Windows Explorer and use the search function and follow the instruction exactly - it shouldn't be a problem IMHO.
And if you have any questions please post them and I try my best to guide you!

Cheers
 
I simply have the main WMScenery folder containing all the scenery files installed straight to my C: drive (C:\WMScenery) and then there is another folder in C:\Program Files (x86)\WMScenery containg the .exe file and a text file

In the scenery manager, whenever i click "generate QC mission" i get a message saying "error copying weather files" but this does not seem to effect any of the scenery settings, so i just ignore it

the installation process does look a bit difficult at first but all you have to to is follow it step by step and the results are definatley worth it
 
I take it you have CFS3 in the C: drive (as using Win7)? It would be good to know the error messages you are getting re the weather, etc.
 
cjcz7 said:
In the scenery manager, whenever i click "generate QC mission" i get a message saying "error copying weather files" but this does not seem to effect any of the scenery settings, so i just ignore it
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Hi cjcz7

I get such error message when there are missing files in the WMScenery weather and/or sea folder.
It's off course also important that the weather folder path is set.

Did you follow this step:

3. Delete all subfolders in the WMScenery folder except the Sea and Weather folders.

Cheers
 
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