Default and ORBX Hard winter textures showing during Jan & Feb (UK) regardless of weather.

[Boeing or not going 578]

25 minutes ago, DaveJM69 said:

Hi, yes I do have ORBX England, I will have to check out the custom season settings when I return home (currently working away), but thanks for your reply. Also, thanks to everyone else for your replies and input, much appreciated! 👍

You cannot change the levels, Orbx England have done it already. You might try their forums to ask if this could be adjusted.

[Paughco 6]

I fly out of Arlington Airport (KAWO) in Washington, USA.  P3Dv4.1, AS4+ASCA, ORBX, etc.  I've been having the same problem, in that I take off from Arlington and all the scenery is white, even though our lowland snow melted a few weeks ago.  That is why I checked out this thread on the forum.  Then I remembered that I had just flown my A2A Comanche down to Harvey Field and back and the scenery had the typical drab winter look, but the snow was gone.  I was flying in actual time (approx. 1300 PST and real weather for that time) and there was no snow.  One thing that may (or may not) have had an effect was that I recently deleted all the shader files in this folder: C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Local\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4\Shaders, and they were all re-generated when I started AS4 then P3D. 

Seeya
 ATB

[Mace 1,927]

The snowline is based on the seasons.bgl file.  You can make a new one, via a lengthy, arcane process best explained in the old FSX SDK.

Now.  As was mentioned, there is ONE other thing that can alter what ground texture you see (other than date) and that one thing is....whether or not the current wx is snowing or not, as 777 mentions, a few posts up.  If it is snowing, the sim will *add* the snow overlay to the local texture, if that texture is normally the soft winter texture.  The algorithm FSX/P3D uses to add this overlay is pretty sketchy -- I'm not sure about the specific requirements needed.  Probably a couple of adjoining wx stations have to report snow, or something like that.  My research into it as a scenery designer was done over 10 years ago, and it doesn't look like Lockheed-Martin has touched that code.

I agree with those of you who think the default snowline is too far south in some places.  It's right near me (KCGI) in P3D/FSX hard winter, and, quite frankly, we rarely have snow, or at least it doesn't stick around very long.  That snowline ought to be up around St. Louis or slightly north of there.

[Litmoose 90]

I've just changed the season to spring to try and avoid the same thing, seems to work ok