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[Mixx]

winter forest beautiful!

[FNRennier]

That's really amazing!
Great work!
Thank you very much!

[CzechTexan]

Just discovered this mod and it looks amazing.  Thank you! 

This may be an impossible dream but...I'm wondering if it is possible to have the game automatically place these textures on the sides of all forests?
I mean, could the 3D forest (with invisible sides) be manipulated in order to show this type of side?  This way objects would not have to be manually placed.  Probably not possible though. 

[CzechTexan]

Another way to use these, as is, is by map-makers.  The map-maker could install these objects on the sides of forests around airfields, towns, or even on every side of every forest - so that a mission builder would not have to place each object.  The map-maker can use the many seasonal choices available to make maps with different seasons.

[WxTech]

I've just been experimenting...

I don't like the sudden and too obvious popping into visibility. So I did this. I created two additional versions, a middle rez one of 256 pixels and a lo rez one of 64 pixels. In the mesh I added the necessary two additional LODs, and set the visiblity to

300
600
2000

In the .mat files I set the mid rez opacity to 0.8, and the low rez opacity to 0.5. (Max res opacity is the usual 1.0.)

In all 3 .mat files I set the ambient parameter to 0.8, so as to have a smaller difference in brightness when directly sunlit vs. in shadow.

Moreover, to avoid 'shimmer' (due to undersampling of a too-detailed image for the scale it's displayed at) I enabled mipmapping for the two higher rez textures.

The effect is of a much less jarring progression into visibility.