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AFCAD2 Textures

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Hi Everyone,I am now getting seriously into tinkering with Scenery and AFCAD2 - however, not overly impressed with the default textures.Does any clever person out there know what the actually textures are for the following AFCAD2 textures assignments.ConcreteGrassWaterUnknownAsphaltGrass2Grass3TurfSnowIceUnknown2Unknown3DirtCoralGravelOil TreadedSteelBitumusBrickMacadamPlanksSandShaleTamacI am aware that these are supposed to be default textures and the implications of changing them - however, I would really like to know which texture file is associated to the attributes above so that I can at least experiment with them.Thank you in advance.

Garry J. Smith

Aircraft Texture Tinkerer

 

Have a look in this folder C:Program FilesMicrosoft GamesFlight Simulator 2004TextureTas

Here is a small file I made a while back with the AFCAD textures laid out in a grid. The new "airport" is out in the California desert and the code is KLET.

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Thanks mate for the little layout of the grids.I tried that with one of my scenery BGL's - but my problem is/was identifying the actually texture files used to create those textures.I have found most of them now - they are in the main texture directory and start with either taxi or runway for the various textures used. So slowly working through those to see what happens when I edit them etc.Thank again for you support in resolving this problem - appreciated.

Garry J. Smith

Aircraft Texture Tinkerer

 

What did you come up with for Unknown2 & 3, Garry?If Lee had continued on with AFCAD maybe AFCAD2.3 would have allowedany texture you wanted. I have this dream where AFCAD meets EZScenery and marry! :-)FaxCap

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Hi Mate,For the unknowns mate, they remain unknown :-) - Grass Grass2 and Grass 3 all seem to be the same. Yes it is a shame that AFCAD2 just stopped - an incredible program that is dead easy to used thanks to the outstanding efforts of Lee.Mixing EZ scenery and AFCAD would indeed be a unique product :-)

Garry J. Smith

Aircraft Texture Tinkerer

 

Garry:Would it be possible for you to share a chart or table or spreadsheet matrix :-hah of the AFCAD texture file associations you discovered with the users here?Thanks.GaryGB

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Hi Gary,After some considerable tinkering and testing I have whittled down the textures that appear to be utilised by AFCAD2. There are quite a few different ones with some still a little ambiguous to me at the moment.All of the textures are in the default Texture directory.The ones that start with Taxi_ seem to cover most of the textures referred to in FSCAD - some implied different ones in AFCAD2 such as grass2 and grass3 appear to use the grass texture and I could not see any difference in selecting them.Taxiway_detail.bmp seem to be a BUMP image - used for lumps and bumps elevation of the images - still tinkering hereTaxiway_marks.bmp seems to have some of the markings such as the stop points - the edges and markings used.There are also a large volume of bmp files starting with runway that are also used by afcad in the main directory but I have not started to experiment with them yet.When I have finished tinkering then I will work out someway of sharing them all with you and making them obviously usable.For an example of what I have tinkered with so far, below is a link to a little slide show of my latest project which will show you some of my tweaked textures.http://www.gjsmith.net/private/Transload/T..._Base_YTMD.html 1.5mb slide showRegards

Garry J. Smith

Aircraft Texture Tinkerer

 

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