Select Design Textures from the main menu, the following screen will appear: Start the program and move into this scenery by selecting 'Move To Point' from the map view, this will place you inside the scenery and you will be able to design and customize it.Įach scenery is composed of a number of textures, up to eight different textures can be used.Įach texture is placed on the scenery by a set of rules which can be customized, the result can be very elaborate and forms a non repeating pattern that resembles a realistic photographic texture. hdr, these two files should be placed into an empty directory inside the scenery directory of the program. The matrix should be exported from 3DEM using 'Save Terrain Matrix' and selecting 'Binary Signed Integer' as the format. To download 3DEM and topographic data see this website This area can be obtained by downloading DEM or SRTM data from the internet and saved using a program called 3DEM
Any scenery in Virtual Sailor is based upon a digital elevation matrix of the selected area.