World Wide Guide
to FS Scenery Design |
Knowledge Bank |
Textures and Tiles
World Wide Guide
to FS Scenery Design |
Knowledge Bank |
Textures and Tiles
FS5 has approximately 65 synthetic scenery textures that can be used as scenery tiles. Associated with most of these are .R8 texture files that can also be used as texture in polygons placed using other scenery building techniques. Most scenery enthusiasts use these ready-made blocks in combination with their own textures and a variety of other scenery enhancement features.
For greatest realism, some experienced designers try to avoid using these standard scenery tiles, creating custom textures instead. The default tiles are great for newcomers because they make it very easy to create scenery. Even experienced scenery designers often make use of them for at least part of a scenery file.
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One of the letter-size panels showing FS5 textures used with synthetic scenery. |
TILES.ZIP is a set of reference
sheets aimed at removing the mystery associated with these tiles and will
be especially useful for newcomers to scenery creation.
Included are three bitmap (.BMP) files, each containing a standard letter-size
page full of synthetic scenery blocks of the kind used in Sections 1 to 6
of FS5's BGL files.
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Each tile is labelled with both the hex code associated with the tile in the native FS5 language, as well as the name of the tile as used in the FSASM compiler (very similar to the name used for the associated *.R8 texture file). Labels also indicate whether the tile has seasonal variations, and whether it shows flickering night lights.
These panels of tiles print out in excellent photographic quality when printed on a colour laser printer. Many print and copy shops now provide such printing services at reasonable cost. Alternatively, these files can be viewed in Win95's Paint, Windows 3.1 Paintbrush, Neopaint or other .BMP viewer.
The documentation found in the FSASM freeware compiler provided some of the information contained in these pages.
These files may be freely distributed provided no fee is charged and they are not distributed as part of a package for which a fee is charged.
Prepared by: Gene Kraybill
of Perth, Australia
Distribution: Free, for non-commercial use only.
File size: 431 KB
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