terrain textures

[jasonX 24]

Hi guysWorking on some airports I found I needed to use some pol files, mostly for rwy shoulders etc on grass/dirt/gravel rws. Well sometimes you need for other purposes also.The problem is this. Finding the suitable texture to use. There are hundreds of em so it would be very useful if there was a thumbnail dbase so you could pick what you need. Currently it is largely a process of trial and error.Any ideas anyone?

[alpilotx 505]

Use a fast image viewer like xnview (http://www.xnview.com/en/), which can show you DDS too ... Then you have your thumbnails. And they are alway up to date (because the terrain texture set is still evolving and changing).

[jasonX 24]

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm using linux and there doesn't seem to be too much around for DDS. There are some viewers etc; but nothing that would build a collection of thumbnails. xnview is very good I remember that from my windows days but it appeared it wasn't going to play nice under linux so I tried Irfanview.Irfanview runs very well under wine. It also comes with a thumbnail program and guess what! Exactly what I was looking for, the thumbnail program builds a contact sheet of all the dds files in the folder. So windows or linux it does the job, just make sure to get the plugins addon also.Regards

[alpilotx 505]

Well, I am 100% Linux too :( ... and xnview works quite well for me (there are Linux binaries!)

[jasonX 24]

hmm I must have a fresh look at that then.Thanks

[jasonX 24]

Ok I got xnview working (the linux binary).The problem was it couldn't find some fonts it wanted. I installed some xfonts, restarted and there was xnview in all its glory.Its pretty good, was playing with it for quite a while, it can certainly do a lot of things. I'll probably stay with xnview now.Thanks