ANSWERED Interesting phenomenon [Season Mismatch SAK and Global due to UTXAlaska]

[olderndirt]

FSX set to 'spring' season.  This is the northerly line of demarcation between SAK (left) and GlobVect (right) - the Big Susitna river.

 

[Ian Routley]

FTXglobal does not contain custom regionalised scenery data.  As a result it uses FSX's limited dataset to switch seasons.

 

The SAK area is (I am guessing) likely to represent a closer view of the season in question, whilst FSX is still giving 'hard' winter.

 

Although interestingly, it does appear to be the vector elements that remain frozen!

[fltsimguy]

Hummm, I guess the only solution would be to advance the clock to get the FSX default out of hard winter.

[Holger Sandmann]

Hi there,

 

actually, that looks more like Ultimate Alaska X to me, which doesn't "unfreeze" waterbodies automatically. Global Vector uses a similar approach to the FTX regions meaning the water bodies are only frozen during the "hard" winter months meaning the surrounding landclass textures would have full snow cover.

 

As Ian points out though Vector doesn't include custom seasons files so the local timing of hard winter months and thus freezing water is at the mercy of the rather coarse and often inaccurate default seasons file. 

 

Cheers, Holger

[olderndirt]

Hi there,

 

actually, that looks more like Ultimate Alaska X to me

Holger you have the eye.  Had forgotten that I still had pieces of UT installed - frozen water specifically.