Hello İpacs team, we're entering the winter months, and we want to feel the winter in the simulation. Because the lush green landscape would be unrealistic. Please bring a snow texture.
Winter is coming, add snow textures.
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Hello İpacs team, we're entering the winter months, and we want to feel the winter in the simulation. Because the lush green landscape would be unrealistic. Please bring a snow texture.
They wont do that, they wont add an option and they also wont make all the world look like that, even because, the southern hemisphere is summer, i don't think they will collect satellite images just for that tbh.
Hello İpacs team, we're entering the winter months, and we want to feel the winter in the simulation. Because the lush green landscape would be unrealistic. Please bring a snow texture.
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Adding real snow is really not easy at all. True snow has dynamic characteristics that change over time—for example, the snow coverage area and thickness are completely different after 20 minutes of snowfall versus 5 hours. Additionally, when aircraft tires roll over the snow, they need to leave visible tracks; during taxiing, pilots must be extra careful with speed to prevent skidding. When snow accumulates on the airframe, de-icing operations are required. During takeoff, the engine blast will blow snowflakes away. Among the four seasons' scenery simulations, realistically simulating winter is the most difficult.
Bro they don't have to add all this details bro this is a mobile game
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Adding real snow is really not easy at all. True snow has dynamic characteristics that change over time—for example, the snow coverage area and thickness are completely different after 20 minutes of snowfall versus 5 hours. Additionally, when aircraft tires roll over the snow, they need to leave visible tracks; during taxiing, pilots must be extra careful with speed to prevent skidding. When snow accumulates on the airframe, de-icing operations are required. During takeoff, the engine blast will blow snowflakes away. Among the four seasons' scenery simulations, realistically simulating winter is the most difficult.
Bro, as in "Rfs," snow texture should spontaneously form on the areas where the ground surface is exposed and the temperatures drop to minus degrees Celsius. For example, this is possible in RFS.
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Besides the snow being formed due to low temperatures, what other characteristics does the snow there have? For example, will it show tire tracks or footprints after being driven over or stepped on, will it be slippery, does the snow accumulation have a sense of thickness/depth, or is it just a purely visual white overlay effect?Ok
it's just a visual texture overlay effect
Okay, we say, that's enough. What more could we expect from a game? You're thinking so deeply.
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Snow effects can be added to places, mountains, etc. For example, mountains can be snowy in winter months, and even snowy mountains can be visually added in winter. Snow effects should definitely be added.
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Snow effects can be added to places, mountains, etc. For example, mountains can be snowy in winter months, and even snowy mountains can be visually added in winter. Snow effects should definitely be added.
I thought we had snow effects in the Swiss Alps, I'll have to check again.
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It will come as a surprise to some but snow is removed from busy runways and small airfields do not operate with snow and slush on their runways.
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If there is snow, will it be possible to build a snowman next to the runway? And on mobile, not just on PC? And maybe play snowballs?
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Who are we talking about snow, exactly? I hope we're talking about the cold, white stuff that falls from the sky and not certain illegal substances 🫣
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Antarctica does have snow/ice runways, yes, and the snow there is cleared by penguins.
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With winter upon us northerners (!) we should take seriously any yellow snow warnings.
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Well, four years ago, I created a snow texture for FS2 for a part of Switwerland based on original summer satellite images, complete with snowy special XREF trees, available on flight-sim.org: Swiss Winter Scenery (with snow trees & cultivation).
Images without the trees and roofs should also work with FS4, but only with Global Scenery Data Off and the cash "sd\scenery\images\" subfolder deleted before.
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For my first winter scenery, I colorized all satellite images by hand using the GIMP app.
Afterwards, I wrote a C# app - at that time without the helpful assistance of AI - which automatically creates winter/snow textures from summer textures.
This is what it looks like on FS4. After rainfall in FS4 with the default cultivation, there is no snow on the trees and roofs left, but even it looks quite good in my opinion:
The scenery appears to cover the whole of Switzerland, but I don't think I've published it and tested it yet.
If there is enough interest — meaning enough likes and positive comments — I still can share it on flight-sim.org in December before cloding.
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Well, four years ago, I created a snow texture for FS2 for a part of Switwerland based on original summer satellite images, complete with snowy special XREF trees, available on flight-sim.org: Swiss Winter Scenery (with snow trees & cultivation).
Thanks Christophe, I remember it very well!
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It's always a real pleasure to discover your new creations.
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Just shared my snowy winter texture covering the whole of Switzerland on flight-sim.org.
Have fun!
Christophe
Note: If you want to change back to default summer images, you don't have to deinstall the scenery completely. Simply rename the scenery folder with two underscores to deactivate the winter images (e.g." ...\__ch_swiss_wintertexture" instead of "...\ch_swiss_wintertexture"). -
Bro they don't have to add all this details bro this is a mobile game
Not only mobile. Some people want more immersion.
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To be honest, if we want snow we firstival need to get live weather.
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What do you mean by live weather?
Sorry if I'm not following you, even on MSFS, I can't find your answer.
