Replacement Grass Runway Textures
Author: Christopher Klimczewski
Modified: July 27th, 2006

These grass runway textures were created to make grass runways a little easier to find.  In Bill Lyons excellent Silver Wings package, finding grass strips was very difficult as they were just the same color as what was underneath them.  Aerial pictures show that there is usually a pattern of wear and discolored grass down the centerline of a grass runway where planes wheels have bent and worn away the grass.  

These textures are a combination of the default FS9 grass textures, which I found too glaring, and the Silver Wings grass textures, which I found too subtle.  They should give a nice strip of lightened grass during the Spring, Summer, and Fall.  A more subtle discoloration during the Fall, and a hint of churned up mud during the Winter.

These textures have only been tested in a Silver Wings installation, and I cannot say what the effect in any other install will be.  I think that it should still provide a fairly satisfactory grass runway effect, but I cannot be sure.


Installation Instructions:

First, make backups of runway13.bmp, runway13_fa.bmp, runway13_hw.bmp, runway13_sp.bmp, runway13_su.bmp, and runway13_wi.bmp which is found in the main Texture folder within your main FS9 directory.

Then, copy the runway13.bmp, runway13_fa.bmp, runway13_hw.bmp, runway13_sp.bmp, runway13_su.bmp, and runway13_wi.bmp into the main Texture folder within your main FS9 directory.


Bugs:

At the moment there is a strange lighter square near the beginning and end of the runway.  I believe that this is where the runway numbers would be painted on the runway.  However, I don't know how to get rid of this.  Please contact me at acehyflyer@klimki.net with any other problems. 


Legal Information:

This package is free for use by anyone on two conditions.  1) Please credit myself and Bill and Lynn Lyons and 2) Please don't upload this to any site which requires a price to download or include in any payware package.


Developer Information:

The runwayAlpha.bmp is the alpha texture for the Spring, Summer, and Fall, the runway_wiAlpha.bmp is the alpha texture for the Winter texture, and the runway_hwAlpha.bmp is the alpha texture for the Hard Winter texture.


Credits:

Many thanks to Bill and Lynn Lyons who have allowed me to use modified textures from their wonderful Silver Wings freeware package.