Installing Seasons in CFS

============Step 1

Get hold of Bill Potvin`s latest version of his Weather DLL. This can
be found on his site http://www.cfsops.com/ under "Modules".

Follow his installation instructions carefully and install the package.
He has provided comprehensive and straightforward instructions that
should cause no problems.

Have a play around in CFS to see the new features available on the CFO menu.

============Step 2

Get hold of the full set of Winter Texture downloads from Misho Katulic`s
Terrabuilder site at http://members.xoom.com/terrabuilder/ under Downloads
and "Extended CFS Textures".

Unzip all 8 downloads to your main CFS Texture folder.

Browse in Explorer to your main CFS Texture folder and locate the file
010101w8.bmp and rename it to 080808w1.bmp  Misho has changed the name
of this single bitmap for reasons relating to use in Terrabuilder. If 
you are a Terrabuilder user and need to keep this file with the name
set by Misho then make a copy of it and rename the copy to 080808w1.bmp

============Step 3

MAKE A BACKUP COPY OF THE CLASSLIST.BGL FILE LOCATED IN THE 
<CFS>\SCENERY\ALL\SCENERY\ FOLDER SOMEWHERE SAFE SO YOU CAN
RESTORE IT LATER IF REQUIRED

Copy the classlist.bgl file in this package to this folder
to overwrite the original file

Packages Available :-

    season1.zip    Landable Water All year
    season2.zip    Non-Landable Water All year
    season3.zip    Landable Water in Winter Only!

That`s it!

If all steps have been followed correctly then selecting
"Time & Season" from the Cfo Menu in CFS will let you change
the season and, if you change it to "Winter" the winter textures
will be used.

===========Known Limitations

The season changing will only affect the ground textures. Any addon
scenery that puts textured polygons on the ground will appear the
same in any season. "Airfield Construction Kit" sceneries should 
appear correctly in Winter as they use transparent backgrounds over 
the underlying ground textures

Parts of the CFS scenery that are really "objects" like the White
Cliffs of Dover will appear the same in all seasons (because they
don`t use any of the ground textures)

Surface Type of all textures (except Water with the non-landable
water versions of the classlist) are set to "Bumpy Grass". This
was done for simplicity but may be upgraded later.

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Martin Wright
martin@mnwright.freeserve.co.uk
http://fly.to/mwgfx/