Photographs used to make textures need to be GPL2 compatible - CC0 or CC-BY-SA 4.0 are examples. forest clearings or thinning on mountain slopes, seasonal variation etc.
Multiple layers of vegetation are possible - see Hawaii. Vegetation makes a huge difference to visuals. Thread: workflow for finding photos on Wiikimedia commons & exacting textures Where the things you see in-sim when flying come from Object It's possible to search the forum using google for better search results: put " site:" before the search term(s). See also: this list of entries not added (yet) to the table. The wiki Scenery Portal has more detailed information, and you can ask questions in the Scenery forum. The process itself can be changed and improved, though this is generally more involved. Some points require more learning than others. The process of creating what you see in various situations can be influenced and changed by people at various points. Clouds have defined 3d structure and also use textures. Volcanic activity creates different clouds and affects weather physics. Weather physics can create visible cloud structures and formations. Weather (wind) can move things like trees or grass. Terrain and land-type drive weather physics experienced by your craft. If you don't know what a mesh is, look at this mesh of terrain with objects like roads on top. Objects are also meshes that can be 'painted' with procedural textures. Objects can be placed on top of the terrain - vegetation, buildings, roads, and even ships or icebergs on the sea. It can then be optionally overlaid with additional 3d detail. It is 'painted' with colours and details down to the centimeter scale - procedural texturing. FlightGear has some extremely powerful systems that, once learned, allow a small amount of time to vastly change how large portions of the world look.įirstly, an overview of the visuals FlightGear creates: Terrain is a mesh. The huge number of points mean there are things people can improve with almost no time spent learning and little time spent on skills. These systems have a huge number of different points where someone can change the way the environment looks. The goal of this article is to identify where and how different parts of the environment you see can be changed - links are provided.įlightgear uses many ways/systems to create environment visuals.
Sometimes it's to improve systems like weather or seasons. Sometimes it's to change an area they are interested in. Sometimes it's to make the area they live in match reality more. People often see a part of the environment, and want to change or improve that part. What can I do? I'm on windows 10.This article is a stub. Now I'm here on the forums to ask for help. It's the latest version of flightgear btw. Then I completely uninstalled and deleted the folders and did a clean install a few times, and it still didn't work. That's when I deleted the terrasync folder, and tried again, and when that didn't work, I created new folders and changed the directory to those, but still nothing. I downloaded the planes today, and chose a new area I haven't downloaded scenery for yet to test the new planes, and expected Terrasync to download the scenery, but instead it just loaded water, and didn't download the scenery. I downloaded the sceneries yesterday, not sure if that's what broke it. I only downloaded a few planes and 2 sceneries from the website. I did not change any installation directories or anything like that. I re-installed the game 3 or 4 times already, and even completely deleted all flight gear folders after uninstalling it, and then I re-installed it, but still the same problem. I installed the scenery with the installer thing in the launcher, but it still didn't load the scenery. Even downloading scenery from didn't work. It is enabled, and it worked yesterday, but now it does nothing, and when I go to scenery download settings in-game, it's just a blank page. All the scenery is gone, just water everywhere, and Terrasync doesn't download anything anymore. It worked just a day ago, but now for some reason the game broke.