ASK21 landing in Innsbruck (LOWI)

[D-ECHO]

Some screenshots I just took landing the K21 at the grass runway in Innsbruck, Austria:
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[erik]

The first and the last.
In the first screen-shot the tiling of the grass texture is a bit too obvious unfortunately.

Erik

[Catalanoic]

all shots looks really realistic, except the repetitive grass ground

[Thorsten]

Why aren't you using the grass effect which is supposed to largely take care of tiling?

[Catalanoic]

That texture is nice, but i think tilling isn't a good choice here, maybe random tilling is a better choice, and grass effect just hide partially the ground

[KruseOneNine]

Mountain texture looks nice in the 2nd and 3rd shot. It looks a little bit more choppy in a closer up view though. Looks good elsewhere except what others have said about the grass.

[agough]

Why aren't you using the grass effect which is supposed to largely take care of tiling?

It hasn't appeared by default for some time now - not many people probably know about fiddling with materials .xml's to turn it back on.

[Johan G]

What are the required steps to activate the grass effect?

Just out of curiosity: Why isn't the grass effect enabled by default?

[Thorsten]

Just out of curiosity: Why isn't the grass effect enabled by default?

It actually is - someone must have disabled it in a region for it to not appear.

[agough]

What are the required steps to activate the grass effect?

I followed the steps here: http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_N ... tric_Grass

I.e. I added the required lines to %fgdata%/materials/region/global-summer.xml

EDIT: I should say, this is with a recent (i.e. a few weeks back) Windows nightly build of a complete installer (includes FGDATA).

[Thorsten]

That's volumetric grass which is yet another nice touch. The grass effect is a non-tiling (or should we say low tiling?) texture composition shader you get by assigning airfield.eff to a landclass.

[agough]

That's volumetric grass which is yet another nice touch. The grass effect is a non-tiling (or should we say low tiling?) texture composition shader you get by assigning airfield.eff to a landclass.

Ooops, never heard of that, sorry for the confusion!