MSE 2.0 Wisconsin

[Mazo 40]

I have contacted MegaScenery Earth through their "contact us" link several days ago but have had no response so thought I would ask the question here. I have SimSavvy's Photoreal America HD and am quite pleased with it except for the water features being brown. I was looking at buying the new version from MSE but have concerns as to what is the real color of the water. http://www.megasceneryearth.com/store/cart.php?target=product&product_id=745  The still shots on their website show the water as blue but the video has the water green, not blue. Simple question - what is the color of water for Wisconsin? Anyone here familiar with this state from MSE?

 

Thanks for any and all responses.

 

Lyn

[Jim Young 2,356]

 

I have contacted MegaScenery Earth through their "contact us" link several days ago but have had no response so thought I would ask the question here.
Simple question - what is the color of water for Wisconsin? Anyone here familiar with this state from MSE?

 

This is the reason why we set up this forum here so that others with photoscenery could help out others. Developers are busy. It is my understanding that MegaScenery took over SimSavvy's photoreal project so you should not be seeing anything different.  I own most of the USA and all of the rivers at least have brown water.  I have seen very little blue.  Lake Michigan is blue.  Is there a particular spot where you would like checked?

 

Best regards,

[Mazo 40]

Jim,

Thanks for the response. If you could check out Madison, WI area for the color of the lakes and rivers, I would appreciate it. I thought that MSE was going to attempt to mask the water areas to make them blue but perhaps I was mistaken.

 

Thanks again!

 

Lyn

[VeryBumpy 272]

I'm from WI and water color depends on the lake or body of water. Blue, green, brown and mixtures there of are all possible.

[doudou 20]

[Mazo 40]

OK! Madison over Picnic Point with blue water! Thanks for the screen shots, Edouard. I was born and raised in Wisconsin near Madison and it is my home airport in FSX and P3D so these screen shots are very, very familiar to me.

 

Thanks everybody - my question has been answered!

 

Lyn

[phoenixphire 50]

Doesn't MSE show the default textures or whatever texture set that you have installed via a third party texture program like REX? I thought that for bigger bodies of water this is how they do it.

[gizmosellsbunnys 106]

Never understood why some ponds are blue and others clear brown, green, blue, guess its where geese hangout in Minnesota.

[Jim Young 2,356]

Believe it all comes down to watermasking.  Was it?  PC Aviator has already stated that not all of the lakes and rivers will be watermasked and maybe some will be watermasked later on.  If that happens then you will have some brown and some ugly textures for "water" as you can land on them with your 747 if you want.  I found this in the Potomac River around DC.  Landed right on the "water" next to KDCA.  Hard as a rock!

 

Best regards,

[PCAviator 37]

The larger bodies of water should be watermasked, and hence can be subject to certain third party water textures you have loaded into your sim appearing, rather than the colour of the water as captured when the source image was taken. Usually small streams or very small ponds/dams or narrow water bodies will not be masked (since it would be difficult to land any fixed wing aircraft in/on) so these appear the same colour as captured in the source photos.

[gizmosellsbunnys 106]

Do understand can't mask every lake or pond, but be nice remask certain lakes to mitigate visual eyesores. Like to see Canada ahh tons of water in Ontario to land on.