It is for this reason that I have not divided the texture sets by seasons. As I have already said, for the most part, I have modified only the autumn and winter textures but in some cases, I have been obliged to modify whole seasonal sets. I have endeavored to modify the textures in such a way as to increase the verisimilitude of the simulated world. It might well be, therefore, that in some cases the textures do not provide an accurate representation of the landscapes they are supposed to be representations of. The satellite photographs are affected by, amongst other things, dirt in the atmosphere as well as by the way the images have been processed and colored. I relied in part on Google Earth to get some impression of the appearance of the types of various terrain but there are obvious difficulties and problems with this. I do not live in the US so I have no direct experience of what such landscapes look like. So far as the USA textures are concerned, my biggest difficulty was with a large number of non-field textures: there are, for example, textures to represent many different types of desert terrain, bare desert, semi-desert sage, semi-desert shrubs, and the list goes on.

The result is that mountainous areas now no longer look as if they are covered with sand! In addition, since I found the drab washed-out fawn color of the winter textures utterly unrealistic I modified those, too, in an attempt to make winter look more like winter!įinally, I thought that many of the autumn textures were too orange so I unsaturated them a little as well as making one or two other little changes.

With regard to the 'desert' problem, I have modified the default textures in tone and color to try, so far as is possible, to reduce or eliminate the barren brown color of the default textures. With these textures I have tried to solve three problems, in the first place, to deal with the 'desert' problem that so many people have complained of, secondly, to deal with the winter textures and thirdly and finally to deal with the autumn textures. These textures replace/upgrade the default ground textures in FSX. Modified replacement ground textures for the USA and Europe including all parts 1-8.

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