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FSX Texture Mod - AB/BC/AK Mountians, V1.02

AB, BC, and Alaska mountain scenery gains a more natural look in Microsoft Flight Simulator X by repurposing built-in terrain textures to cut back pale desert tones, deepen rocky slopes, and add greener base layers with smoother transitions. Darker slide areas and refined snow coverage reduce blocky shadowing and reveal more mountain rock.

5 star rating 4.9/5 (4) 3.1K downloads Flight Simulator X CompatiblePrepar3D Compatible Global (World)
  • File: fsxtxmd1.zip
  • Size:279.98 KB
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  • Access:Freeware
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This file was created modify the existing textures with FSX to offer a better representation of AB, BC, AK mountain regions. No textures are included in this modification. The batch file simply copies and renames more apporprate existing textures from within FSX - to be applied for these regions. Overall it reduces the amount of light desert textures, gives you more rock where there was sand, provides a greener sub base and transitions, darker mountian slides, and reduces the plain white snow coverage in the mountains allowing more rock to be shown. Blocky shadows in snow are now minimal, due to the snow textures changes and contrast in terrain. The attached coveragemap.jpg shows the area this modification will effect.

Images & Screenshots

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A red helicopter and a blue commercial jet fly over mountainous terrain with varying amounts of snow cover and vegetation in each quadrant.A floatplane flies above a winding river in a mountainous valley with snow-covered peaks in the background.A top-down map view shows Alaska and western Canada with white snow-covered mountains and extensive purple-highlighted regions across the landscape.
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Finding the Scenery

FSX/Prepar3D Coordinates:
58.00000000,-130.00000000
Use the downloaded flight plan file by launching FSX/P3D, selecting "Load Flight Plan" in the flight planner, and choosing the .pln file. Your aircraft will be positioned directly at the add-on’s location.
Decimal Degrees (DD):
Latitude: 58.000000°
Longitude: -130.000000°
Degrees, Minutes, Seconds (DMS):
Latitude: 58° 00' 00.000" N
Longitude: 130° 00' 00.000" W

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The archive fsxtxmd1.zip has 9 files and directories contained within it.

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Filename/Directory File Date File Size
Mountains11.16.060 B
comparisonshots.jpg10.27.06131.58 kB
Coveragemap.jpg11.09.0664.17 kB
East of Kinabasket Lake.jpg10.31.0682.98 kB
fsxrockiesmod_1c.bat11.16.061.98 kB
readme.txt11.16.064.01 kB
restorerockies.bat11.16.0633 B
flyawaysimulation.txt10.29.13959 B
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url01.22.1652 B
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SamThu, 19 Mar 2015 21:05:58 GMT

What a difference! Rockies look much more...well, rocky.

pitman11Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:07:03 GMT
must have for montana :)
littlejoeTue, 06 Feb 2007 22:19:08 GMT
Really improves the mountains

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