Classic British Flight Sim

Clocks forward tonight folks.......No more dreary winter textures in FSX or FS9 after tonight.....

Tony

Don't forget also that FS will rebuild it's database when you restart it after the hour move so don't panic something has let go

ATB

DaveB :tab:

AH yes....there always seems to be at least one who get's caught out by that one

Garry

Too bad you can't get seasonal Horizon GenX textures

Don't worry Jonesey.. you don't get seasonal UKPhoto textures either, well.. not on the original Getmapping ones ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

FS Database didn't re-build on start up this morning...? (FSX That is....)

I was flying at 1 to 2 switch over last night...would it have done it then....?

Tony

Doubt it mate. Wait and see what you get in October

EDIT..
Tony.. Just opened FSX in Jersey and it didn't rebuild the database. However.. it shows GMT in the 1600hrs and Jersey in the 18's
ATB

DaveB :tab:

Hi Folks

EDIT -
Following is for FSX
Just realised I hadn't explicitly said that.


For info -
Changes are month by month, (applied on last day of).

SDK info
Seasons
There are five seasons: Spring (SP), Summer (SU), Fall (FA), Winter (WI), and Hard Winter (HW). The main difference between the two winter textures, WI and HW, is the snow on the ground in Hard Winter. Seasons are different across the world at any one time, and this information is held by Flight Simulator for the 12 months of the year. Seasonal information does not vary at all in the simulation within a month, and changes on midnight at the end of the month to the new season. The following table shows the season information for four months of the year. Note that green identifies summer, yellow is spring, red is fall, grey is mild winter, and white is hard winter.

To view the season information using TmfViewer, first load up the image_globe.bgl file from Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Scenery\World\Scenery. Note that the first image loaded into this tool is always opaque. The next images loaded can be drawn transparent, so the outline of the countries/regions and continents shows through.

Next load up the seasons.bgl file from Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Scenery\Base\Scenery. Use the View menu to select the various months of the year.

HTH
ATB
Paul

Hi Paul..

That's absolutely spendifourous mate. However.. GMT was (at that point) in the 1700's not the 16's though it has to be said the CI's were reading correct, that is, local UK time or BST as it is now :think: I'll start it up again at the end of October and see what happens

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Hi Folks

Sorry Dave,
I was responding to Tony's original post. :prayer:

Here's something I'd collated during beta testing.

Seasons Test
A collection of FSX screenies
displaying a years worth of month-by-month
landclass changes for Europe & N Africa.

Screenies are taken at midday,
on the 21st day of each month, (covers equinoxes),
all from the same "satellite" viewpoint.
Additionally indicates the daylight/lattitude changes.

To view as individual shots -
please see FSX Seasons->Europe & N Africa screenies.

Or for easier/detailed inspection,
download as a zipped package from FSX - Seasons - Europe & N Africa

For ease of sequential viewing
screenies are named - S_YYYYMMDD_Month.jpg
e.g. S_20060121_Jan.jpg
Month is identified in bottom righthand corner.

Recommend XnView or similar
to view these sequentially.
Download from - XnView with plugins

HTH
ATB
Paul