artpier wrote:I'm not sure if that would work since I use sailsim. I'm not really too concerned about single trees. Thats a rarity here. I'm more interested in forest covered terrain. Would a texture work? Can I even use a texture on the terrain?
I wonder if these guys (Stentec) realize what they have here. Microsoft Flight sim wasn't as good as this when I started using it.. Now they have virtual airlines. This could every bit as good. I've tried quite a few sailing sims and this one is by far the best.
Replies to your posts are a bit spread but I made a bitmap texture for the Conway River Scenery. so you could put a forest texture on it. I used grass and rocks combined with the basic colour bands.
Altug also used them in his sceneries I think.
See my site. then links. Inn Tutorial.
It works with m/b sim and I think it will work with sailsim.
Not much of it visible but mixed rock and grass etc.
Program Files/Common Files/Stentec Shares/Sceneries/then in textures folder
512 pixel sq bmp.
Not sure if it is supposed to be used in sailsim but think it will work?
Try one for forest texture?
Needs seamless texture. Also need to expand it out in scenery designer.
See the Gimp in Inn Tutorial.
Like yourself tried a few sail simulators and Stentec sim is quite user friendly but very much do it yourself at present.
You could make a treeline without the alpha texture by cutting out the approximate shape in Blender to any size you want in length an height. Following the approximate line of the trees.
Same as I made but without alpha texture.
Would only take a few minutes, to make and they might look OK for distant shots with a few single trees or small groups in the forground.
You would need some decent photos.
Crop them to just show the tree lines.
I can't try anything with a non working scenery designer with Vista, Have XP on the other but basic graphics as the graphics card has gone.
SS5 has been delayed a few years so hopefully Stentec are now starting to expand it to it's full
potential, and not just for racing
Barry