A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Scenery Add-Ons

Description: New Cloud Texture Set for CFS2 by UncleTgt

This is a reworking of all the cloud textures used by CFS 2.

I've provided 3 different sets of "overcast" textures - each has limitations, due to the way CFS 2 "tiles" overcast clouds like it does with ground textures. It's really difficult to avoid these tile effects.

In the end I settled on Overcast textures that used alpha channels, so they're not "full" overcast. It just looked the most natural to me.

I found DXT3 texture format gave the best results across a variety of lighting/ times of day conditions. Other alpha channel texture formats (444-4, 888-8) seemed to give varying colour shift effects or too granular an alpha channel.

They are all provided as 1024 x 1024 bitmaps - I think today's hardware can cope with the "Hi-Def" imagery.

Installation: Simply copy these into your CFS2/TEXTURE folder.

Credits

Thanks to: Pablo Diaz for his HDEv1 & HDEv2 cloud sets for FS9. Most of the cloud alpha textures used were developed from this body of work.

UncleTgt,

JUL 2020

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit Cloud Texture Set JUL2020 UT.zip
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