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Re: 3d volumetric airport grass

Postby Vladimir Akimov » Sun Mar 20, 2016 10:10 am

Can we get a file to simply overwrite? Please :'(
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Re: 3d volumetric airport grass

Postby Catalanoic » Sun Mar 20, 2016 10:17 am

Or a GUI selectable option, as requested before. But be free to do it possible!
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Re: 3d volumetric airport grass

Postby Thorsten » Sun Mar 20, 2016 12:29 pm

Doesn't your OS come with a text editor, or why can't you simply change the numbers in the config file?
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Re: 3d volumetric airport grass

Postby Vladimir Akimov » Sun Mar 20, 2016 12:29 pm

well, yes. I will try doing it.

EDIT: I tried and it didn't work for me :(
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Re: 3d volumetric airport grass

Postby Catalanoic » Sun Mar 20, 2016 4:20 pm

I'm not sure whats your problem but you need to follow the instructions
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Re: 3d volumetric airport grass

Postby Vladimir Akimov » Sun Mar 20, 2016 5:18 pm

I did it as in the instructions.
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Re: 3d volumetric airport grass

Postby wlbragg » Sun Mar 20, 2016 6:31 pm

In Materials/regions/global-summer top of the file (I think it is commented out by default).
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    <tree-effect>Effects/tree-grass</tree-effect>
   <wood-coverage>3.0</wood-coverage>
   <tree-texture>Grass/grass5a.png</tree-texture>
   <tree-varieties>5</tree-varieties>
   <tree-range-m>200.0</tree-range-m>
   <tree-height-m>0.4</tree-height-m>
   <tree-width-m>1.0</tree-width-m>


Make sure your line <tree-texture>Grass/grass5a.png</tree-texture> is pointing to a valid texture that resides on your computer.
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Re: 3d volumetric airport grass

Postby Thorsten » Sun Mar 20, 2016 6:37 pm

I guess we all know that 'didn't work for me' isn't an actionable statement for debugging or anything else, so I hope you're not expecting any follow up from me.
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Re: 3d volumetric airport grass

Postby Catalanoic » Sun Mar 20, 2016 8:01 pm

Sorry Vlad but i remember from your great videos you're using FG 3.0 maybe these definitions aren't defined on that old FG version.
I tested it on FG 3.4 i can remember.. but we're in 2016.1 (not tested yet). But i can say it works with the last version (from other users).

PS: Thorsten, with a selectable option by default shiped (as the incomplete Aircraft Center feature in 2016.1) we can test it faster. You talks always for a centralised way to develop this software, but its counterproductive when there are some not-centralised works like the 3d volumetric airport grass, FG photoscenery, etc, appeared in the forum..
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Re: 3d volumetric airport grass

Postby Thorsten » Mon Mar 21, 2016 7:11 am

I must have explained this a handful of times, but:

* the grass definitions are on FGData and not some backwater repository

* the reason it's not on by default is that it looks awful for Rembrandt and the default renderer, and I don't want to add something by default that makes the experience for non-ALS users worse - and that's not negotiable

* the grass is technically the same as all other random vegetation, so we can't selectively switch it on and off (just as you can't switch trees off only in urban terrain) and we can't switch it on and off per rendering framework - as far as the GUI is concerned, if you see trees, you will see grass

* the grass also causes a severe performance hit during approach, much more in fact than trees usually do

* the only viable solution is thus that those who want to see it uncomment it

I could probably spend a few hours coding C++ control for trees on a per-landclass basis and implement a GUI option and then a few hours more to convince Stuart that this is reasonable to commit (I'm not really sure), but I frankly think that removing comments from an xml file is a bearable burden.
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Re: 3d volumetric airport grass

Postby Vladimir Akimov » Mon Mar 21, 2016 1:31 pm

Okey, i think I know how to figure it. Thanks. and Yes, I use 3.2, you're right Catalonic.
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Re: 3d volumetric airport grass

Postby rafa_elds » Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:23 pm

Hi fellows!

I successfully enabled the effect editing the appropriate file, but I realised that grass isn't showing up for airports in Brazil, just in other countries.
Perhaps a different material than global is used because of regional variations? Can I enable the effect by editing some other material file, and if so, what would this file be?
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Re: 3d volumetric airport grass

Postby Thorsten » Fri Jan 20, 2017 7:25 am

Perhaps a different material than global is used because of regional variations? Can I enable the effect by editing some other material file, and if so, what would this file be?


Yes, Brazil has its own set of airport keep definitions. You can look under Materials/regions and into everything that starts with brazil_ - it's actually the most detailed regional definition in the world, because there's lots of different regions inside Brazil covered (Amazon forest, Cerrado, Mata Atlantica, Pampas, Pantanal,...) - you may have to adjust airport keep more than once to activate grass in all regions.
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Re: 3d volumetric airport grass

Postby Timi » Fri Aug 31, 2018 2:48 pm

Found a nice video showing how the grass moves under the down wash:
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Re: 3d volumetric airport grass

Postby Thorsten » Fri Aug 31, 2018 2:49 pm

We can't do such long grass with the fur shader unfortunately...
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