FSX / P3D

FSX Modified Water Environment

Modified daytime water environment textures deliver a more natural, less intense blue tone on 1X Mid and 1X High water settings, improving low-sun and midday reflections without changing 2X effects. Designed for Microsoft Flight Simulator X, the env_highnoon, env_midsun, and env_lowsun bitmaps refine overall water shading for a calmer, more realistic look.

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I modified the daytime water environment files that affect the appearance of water when using the 1X mid and 1X high settings, as I find the defaults result in a too bright and intense blue water colour. These will tone it down to what I feel is a more realistic shade. These will not alter the effects when using 2X water settings, but if you find your system will not handle the 2X settings or you prefer the 1X settings, you may prefer these.

Screenshot showing the modifiied effects of a 'low sun' on the water.

Screenshot showing the modifiied effects of a 'low sun' on the water.

Please backup the env_highnoon.bmp, env_lowsun.bmp, and env_midsun.bmp files located in your FSX\Scenery\World\Texture folder in case you wish to revert back to the defaults.

To install just copy the files in the Modified 1X Water Environment folder into your FSX\Scenery\World\Texture folder and overwrite.

By Martin Oldridge.

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Filename
alt1xday.zip
File size
3.12 MB
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What’s inside this archive

The archive alt1xday.zip has 14 files and directories contained within it.

File Contents

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Filename/Directory File Date File Size
default highnoon.jpg01.03.07277.07 kB
default lowsun.jpg01.03.07258.87 kB
default midsun.jpg01.03.07276.19 kB
Modified 1X Water Environment01.08.070 B
env_highnoon.bmp01.02.071.33 MB
env_lowsun.bmp01.02.071.33 MB
env_midsun.bmp01.02.071.33 MB
modified highnoon.jpg01.03.07273.58 kB
modified lowsun.jpg01.03.07258.42 kB
modified midsun.jpg01.03.07271.69 kB
readme.txt01.09.07843 B
Alternate 1X daytime water environment01.09.070 B
flyawaysimulation.txt10.29.13959 B
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url01.22.1652 B

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