Is the 4 season "mod" worth it?

[Victoroos 205]

Hi all,

I have seen quite a few people mentioning the BIJAN HABASHI - 4 SEASON pack.

Is it worth it to buy?  I mean, the price isn't high but is it worth it?

 

Cheers

Victor

[BostonJeremy77 519]

It's absolutely GREAT. Been using it for months and it gets better and better. 

[Bobsk8 12,489]

What is it?

[piperarrow41 4]

How do you install it?  Is it pretty easy to install?

[Ixoye 1,812]

7 minutes ago, piperarrow41 said:

How do you install it?  Is it pretty easy to install?

You dump it in the community folder, or use add-on linker.

[piperarrow41 4]

I can handle that, thanks!  Does it create new seasons and trees if you use Photogrammetry?  

[rayharris108 259]

Totally worth it…

[rayharris108 259]

Yes it does. 
Photogrammetry doesn’t affect this.

You have activate the correct season manually at the moment.

[pstrub 997]

It's absolutely worth it. To be honest, my biggest motivation wasn't even to get seasons, but the improved look of the trees. Anyway, the seasons are really nice too, with lots of colourful trees in full blossom in spring and Indian summer in autumn 😉 

It adjusts the sizes of the trees, provides a more varied mix of tree types (e.g. more palm trees where you'd expect them to be), a better range of tree colours (well, more hues of green in summer) which makes forests look so much more natural.

 

Edited June 11, 2021 by pstrub

[Espana Pete 357]

YouTube has a good video posted by the SOLE author (developer). Worth a look: Four Season Pack V5 - For Microsoft Flight Simulator - YouTube 

[Dominique_K 10,133]

5 minutes ago, pstrub said:

It's absolutely worth it.  

 

I've procrastinated a little to buy it but it looks really good. Is there anything to tune (sizes, varieties, viewing distance) because I am not very fond of that ? I understand that one must at least change manually the season file ?

Edited June 11, 2021 by Dominique_K

[piperarrow41 4]

Are the season's regional?  Meaning, if I take off in the northern US during winter and fly south to a warmer climate will the warmer climate look like winter or will it look tropical?  Or do I have to manually change the season from winter to summer enroute so it looks tropical when I arrive in the tropics?

[pstrub 997]

7 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

I've procrastinated a little to buy it but it looks really good. Is there anything to tune (sizes, varieties, viewing distance) because I am not very fond of that ? I understand that one must at least change manually the season file ?

hehe I was about to ask whether you already bought it 😉 but to be honest, I've never looked into tuning it. To me it was a quick decision to buy (maybe after having a beer too much) because all  the default forests looked weirdly regular and with all trees having almost the same colour. This looks a lot better now, and I enjoy the seasons. Never did a detailed comparison though, but I think Bijan's videos on youtube reflect the improvements quite well.

Edit: I'd say you don't have to tune anything to get the improvements. It's not hard to manage the seasons manually, you just have to copy one of the 4 folders to the Community folder in MSFS.

 

Edited June 11, 2021 by pstrub

[CarlosF 1,234]

6 minutes ago, piperarrow41 said:

Are the season's regional?  Meaning, if I take off in the northern US during winter and fly south to a warmer climate will the warmer climate look like winter or will it look tropical?  Or do I have to manually change the season from winter to summer enroute so it looks tropical when I arrive in the tropics?

Good question!

Can anybody chime in?

Edited June 11, 2021 by CarlosF

[Dominique_K 10,133]

You guys gave me the final push. Bought and installed it 😃.