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How to make snow!

miamieagle

Charter Member
How to make it snow in CFS2. If you like to fly over the Eastern Front or over Western Europe in the Winter you would like to see snow. All you got to do is go to where your CFS2 is Install in your Computer. Usually you open the program folder. Go to Microsoft games folder and look for the Combat flight Simulator 2 folder. Open it and look for the folder call Texture.

Look for the Item call Raindrop. Back it up by making a new folder. Name it the original Raindrop. Place the Raindrop texture in it. Go to the Original Raindrop texture in the Texture folder and left click on it and paint it white. Back it up the same way you did the original Raindrop. Use the one you want to use at the time. Now you can make it snow or rain depending what time of the year you want to fly in.


Now can fly Over the Eastern Front in January with snow falling over your plane. Do not forget to change you texture to Winter available right here in Sim-Outhouse.
 
Alternatively, you can add snow to any single mission by doing this:

In the weather section of your mis file look at the first cloud line, example: cloud.0=9,1499.62,2565.81,99.67,7,0,0,1 ,0.00,3,2

Note the number highlighted in red. This character represents the type of precipitation inthe mission, 0 is none, 1 is rain, and 2 is snow. Change this number to a “2” and you’ll have snow.

The “snow” appears as white blobs, similar to rain only less distinct. No matter how heavy you set the precipitation you’ll onlyget a small amount of snow falling. The snow won’t stick to yourplane and it won’t accumulate on the ground. Still, if you have winter textures installed it is better than nothing.

 
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