GT Scenery Building for Fighters Anthology

Scenery Limitations

• a limited number of palette positions are available for use. These colors are indexed from say position 92-97. Colors in this range are the base colors for France, Vlad, Egypt etc.. overlays for the ground [if you have changed .M overlay variables .. what the sim does is change and shift palettes green-tan-darkgreen for each map]
• resolution is very low, very blocky
• sea overlay can't be changed [it is too bright]

Builders tend to make the mistake of taking a satellite image or overlay from another sim [theft] and paste it into a scenery overlay image. This causes overlays that only look good at high noon because the palette positions react differently at a distance and with time of day.

Tip: To place amber night lights [streetlights] use palette index 254. Use replace or paint

Special palette to use to edit overlays.

• ULEAD graphics palette

How to use:

1. open overlay image in FA toolkit
2. open image via external editor
3. load custom palette [all hidden textures should now show instead of pink, now you can paste in [force colors into the high palette positions automatically!]
4. edit image etc..
5. refresh toolkit object [visual palette will only remain during this edit]
6. save object [next time you open image it will visualy show the default pink palette so dont freak, it is still ok]

Mistakes / traps : you can change the palette to make the overlay to look proper BUT this is only TEMPORARY. You MUST use a smart eraser [replace one palette color with another] in order to change colors !

Vlad Campaign uses the following replace palette schema

• 92 - 254 [lights at night, white snow in daytime]
• 93 - 200
• 94 - 202
• 95 - 224 [off white]
• 96 - 203
• 97 - 205 [dark rock, shadow ..]

Su39 at early dawn, notice street lights in distance

Vlad at dawn, early spring

testing of scenery up close