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Enabling / Activating Seasonal Effects (PRO version only)
TerraBuilder's SynthWizard is capable of enabling seasonal
version of the scenery, provided you have downloaded and properly
installed winter texture packs available from TerraBuilder's
web site. In SynthWizard, it is possible at this time to have only 2 seasonal
versions: Summer/Spring/Fall (which all look the same) and Winter.
TerraBuilder is ready also to display separate and distinct Spring and
Fall versions, but this will require colorization of the entire texture
set into spring and fall versions. As this is a major undertaking, this
project will take some time to be completed.
There are 2 different switches in TerraBuilder
that deal with seasonal textures:
View switch - This switch is located on the TerraBuilder
Properties Dialog . It is used
only to view the seasonal textures, and
work in all season modes, depending on the availability of seasonal
synthetic textures. Since only default Summer and Winter textures are
available at the moment, only winter and summer modes are available.
Season Activator - This switch is located on the Project
Properties dialog , and it
actually enables season switching in the scenery. By default, only summer mode is enabled. In the PRO version of
the TerraBuilder, user can also enable other seasonal modes: Spring, Fall
and Winter, depending on the availability of the textures. Since only
default summer and winter textures are available at present, only summer
and winter mode is available. All the seasonal modes that are NOT selected
will be defaulted to summer mode. This means that:
- If you have only Summer active, the scenery will have
summer textures no matter what season is selected in Flight Simulator
- If you have Winter and Summer active, the
scenery will have summer textures during Spring, Summer and Fall, and
Winter textures during winter.
To change a season within TerraBuilder:
- Display TerraBuilder Properties Dialog
and
click on Preferences Tab 1.
- From View Season section 2, select either Winter
or Summer 3.
- Click Apply 4. At this point all old seasonal
synthetic textures will be replaced with the new seasonal synthetic
textures. If you have any projects open, all textures will be replaced
with the new season counterparts.
To enable seasonal texture display in the scenery:
(PRO version only)
- Within an active project, display Project
Properties Dialog
.
- Select Project Properties Tab 5. In Seasonal
effects section 6, Summer mode
7 is activated by default.
- Activate Winter mode by clicking on the Winter
button 8.
- Do not click on the Fall or Spring
button, since there are no seasonal textures available for these
seasons.
- Click Apply 9.
When the scenery is compiled into a BGL file, it will
include all the necessary code to enable seasonal display according to
season set in the Flight Simulator.
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Figure 1: Season view control

Figure 2: Season activator
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