Low Down Mist

[ardypilot]

I notice, whenever using the 'Koorby Clouds 1' weather theme from VOZ, I get a low down transparent 'mist' line whenever I am on the ground?

Why is this, and can I get rid of it somehow?

[Chris Donaldson]

Possibly due to the weather conditions in the Area? I think Milford Sound maybe in an area that get's low mist like you mention quite regularly due to it being in Fiordland...can't think of the actual word I'm trying to say lol.

[ardypilot]

Possibly due to the weather conditions in the Area?

I don't think so, it seems to happen everwhere, including outside of NZ too

[Codge]

I Thoroughly recommend downloading the FScene Aus-NZ spring textures (link from AVSIM) which have just become available for free. They are usually payware and are now free just to promote Ruud Fabers' excellent work.
Of course you Unvoz first,install FScene Textures. I chose to overwrite the default ones as opposed to backing them up as recommended.Having the defaults and VOZ and FScene just didn't seem logical as I'm never going to use the defaults when I have 2 superior ones to choose from am I ?
Are they better than VOZ? I think maybe they are, I have only just installed them,had a quick fly around and made this post so you'll have to decide yourself.
Either way they are well worth having as is anything that has been formally payware!

[Bandit]

How do the FScene textures compare with the RBE Landclass. I assume they both have the same purpose?

Anybody compared the two?

Trolly - may be totally unrelated and a really dumb thought. But did you get the problems with your graphics card sorted out.

[Codge]

It's claimed that that the FScene textures are drawn with a certain technique to give an almost 3D effect. Ruud Faber is one of the best. Go to the FScene website and have a look. All I can say is I am impressed and I'm hard to please. They are a 'Spring' set only and give the right sort of 'green-ness' I reckon.You know how sometimes you download something and install it only to say "what is this guy thinking" well it's not one of those. I would post it in exceptional scenery outside NZ but it is not outside nz.

[Codge]

Sorry Bandit, I've just realized I didn't answer your question at all. The RBE landclass stays as usual. The textures are what is changed. The landclass tells the the sim where to put the textures,that is it's job and nothing else.
The Mesh is the shape of the terrain just like chicken wire. Then the textures go on top of that and the Landclass tells the sim where it wants say grass here, rock there and trees and bush over there. You need all 3 of these to be good to have good scenery.
I've just spent the last 2 hours with the FScene textures which are now my default,and I can still VOZ it all any time if I want. Since it is Spring I'll stick with the FScene ones. It'll be interesting to see which ones people prefer in a given area,just make sure you compare the FScene to VOZ spring season.

[Bandit]

No worries Codge. I thought that was the case but also thought I'd read somewhere that the Landclass also had textures not just that it told the sim which textures to use. So it was worth asking to have someone clarify it.

Good to know that it will be worth the effort to download if it will make a difference.

I may wait till next week though. Should be getting my new M/B, CPU and RAM this week. Since Jimmy's left the low spec club, it's getting lonely down here.

Had another thought for Trolly (I'm just full of them today) how long has the "Fog" been down? Have you had it working right since your troubles.

Just trying to eliminate introduced factors.

[Snowman]

I totally agree with Codge. I downloaded and installed the FScene NZ & AU Spring textures, and was very impressed indeed !! They look particularly good around Mountains and Hill Country, Cities and Towns, and Airports, that are not photoreal sceneries. I also used Mike Posch's Replacement Tree Textures for FS-2004 (trees_fs2004_v1.zip from AVSIM), and the effect was really quite neat. The FScene Spring Textures and Mike's trees with all the spring blossoms showing worked well together. I personally think the Fscene textures are better than VOZ.
I think i will be shelling out the dollars for a full set of NZ FScene textures.
Everybodys taste is different, but download them, install them, and go have a fly around various places in NZ in the SPRING and see what you think.

Lawrie.

[FlyerMike]

To get back to Trolly's original observation about the clear area close to the ground, this has annoyed me for some time.
From my observations the effect occurs with all weather situations if you restrict visibility at all in the advanced options. It is almost as though the restricted visibility will not reach the ground despite trying to define it from 0 feet AGL.
To me it always starts at about 100 feet AGL.
No idea why and I have been totally unable to solve it!
Baffled
Mike