Classic British Flight Sim

TSR2 wrote:A few days off and we're all at it.

George, Have you ever used FSET to create the different season tiles other than just the Day / night ones?

I have done only a hard winter texture for EGNT. It is a PITA if you have more than a couple of bmps.

I don't have Photoshop but I believe it has a batch feature which allows one to change the colours of multiple files.

I might have a play. Good thing is if i keep cache safe, i wont have to download them all again. GIMP has a similar tool i think, but I've never used it. I assume there's a naming convention to the tiles so the sim knows which ones to load in each season? (I haven't checked the manual yet)

I've just had a look in Bing. For res -1, it will need about 1800 bmps (times 5 for all of the seasons)

There is no naming convention, the filenames are specified in the resample .inf file.

That will be a bit OTT I think, and this is something I'll be dipping in and out of for months (time permitting). I might have a go at a small island somewhere when it comes to trying the seasons. I like flying to Malta and Cyprus, so I'll have a look at those in the future. As it stands at the moment the cache is 15.4GB with 395428 files!

I've downloaded the Malta and Gozo tiles and I'll use that to try out the different masks etc. One thing I did notice was the remains of another airfield North West of Luga.

http://binged.it/1d6VG5B

Does anyone know what this used to be? I know there was the old RN air station (I believe) a few miles South East of Luga by the coast.

This any good to you mate..

http://www.ronaldv.nl/abandoned/airfields/MT/malta.html

ATB
DaveB

Cheers Dave, that was a great find, very interesting:)

Ben,

I remember from when I was a kid in Malta during the early sixties. There were some other (disused) airfields even then. Hal-far was the FAA field, Safi and Ta'Qali were ex-RAF fields

The problem with Malta is finding a good mesh.

I've been discovering that George.

I'm kicking off a download of Cyprus later too.