Hi there, and wishing you a very happy new year of flight simming in "ORBX world" ! B)

 

My question today is this (bear with me)

 

I am still testing South Island to check its beauties, and I have been sampling all season, with this surprise :

 

The NZ summer textures appear very much like our European winter ones (yellow/brown with a generally cold 'earthy' look) while

NZ winters textures give an appearance of extremely lush and pleasant green.

 

Is this right ? I am sure ORBX people are right, they must be ! But, for myself, I am starting to have doubts about my geography and I feel I am losing what little knowledge of climatology I thought I possessed. :wub:

 

As a final comment, I find that all seasons, except Summer, are quite green... I have never been to NZ, so cannot comment further on their seasons. I think all my FSX parameters are alright, so... Any comments, please?

 

I have attached 2 photos for each season to show the textures as they appear on my screen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What you see is what we get. :wink:

 

It's a shame the seasons in FSX are not more graduated (early/mid/late); the alpine fields here in the South Island have been ablaze with purple and golden lupines since late November.

 

Dorian

Never been to NZ but I presume it is similar to Australia. Here It is lush and green all year except summer, where the sun drys everything out to a lovely brown Which Orbx got completely right with there Australian scenery.

Thanks for your replies, and to hear from a fellow simmer from beautiful NZ. This is what I thought: hot summers burning out everything, but did not expect the rest of the time to be so lush, though. Makes me feel to want to come down under and fly it all out... in a tiger moth, perhaps, and to visit Wanaka ?